'Buried In The Archives,' The Original Town-Hall Battle

Washington Unplugged examines a report from 1989 in which Former Illinois Congressman Dan Rostenkowski is booed and even chased at a town-hall event in our new series, 'Buried In The Archives.'

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[RonValli]

Go old folks! I'd forgotten all about "Catastrophic Healthcare" legislation (1989)

Chairmen of the House Ways & Means Committe: "I don't think they understand what the government's trying to do them. ...I don't think they understand what's going on."

[ginaswo]

were gonna have to go rostenkowski on our critters! obama to go nuclear today

[StarAdder92]

Oh, he's a Democrat. No surprise about that.

[EdM021]

Can't do that today, the seniors would all be tazed.

[3martijns]

FLUSH obammieCare DOWN the TOILET, because IT IS CRAP!!!

[zepproxx]

Many people want to do this to obozo. Too bad he is too much of a coward to face a tough interviewer or townhall. 

[herbs814]

typical left-wing moron: "I don't think they understand what the government is trying to do."

They understand perfectly well and they REJECT it.

[Sakamachi25]

I can only hope that when I'm that age, I'm not that retarded.

[camprunamok]

Another SSDD story in which a narcissistic, self-important Politico just cannot wrap his head around the word "no". This could have taken place yesterday with the current class of critters.

[gffish]

Unfortunately, this is too typical of senior citizens who already have government-funded health care, but don't want to pay taxes so that younger people can have affordable health care as well.