But the part that many libertarians who love Fox News and Glenn Beck miss is the emphasis on the value placed on “politeness.” The garbage tactics that they are using in town halls to shout down debate are neither rational nor admirable, and Heinlein would have been disgusted by them. Had any of you actually read his book advocating how to achieve political power, you would have found nothing of the typical tactics being used by the astroturf movement.

Nor do I see anything in his books advocating letting Children lack health care. Equality of Opportunity not Equality of Result does not mean voting against SCHIP because it ‘might lead to socialized medicine.’

I trust your fishing expedition was successful and whatever you caught will be able to grow in length and girth as time passes.

We have to admit the current outbreaks of civil disbelief and naughtiness at Town Hall’s around the country have caught us flat footed over here at the secret underground Libertarian Command Center (LCC). We had considered holding a small “Tail Gate for Liberty” Party in the parking lot over at Georgia Perimeter College to help celebrate Rep. Johnson’s town hall tonight, but it seems that a permit is required and that costs money and you have to fill out forms and stuff like that.

Then one of our media sleuths pointed out the post over at Blog for Democracy that you mentioned and we were taken aback by the deviousness of some of our democratic brothers in their suggestions of methods to control the event, intimidate the citizens and deny the people their voice. The bit about turning off the AC was classic. Nothing like a couple of hundred hot, sweaty, thirsty constituents crowded into a stifling auditorium to listen to a member of the US House drone on endlessly to promote good feelings all around.

So we have decided to dispatch a micro mobile polling group to the event tonight to try to get a feel for the mood over there in the 4th district. We’ll ask a couple of yes/no questions, get a gauge of the feelings of the crowd, do an informal nose count of citizens denied entry to the steaming hot auditorium and get some cell phone vids of anything interesting. If any of your readership plans on attending as an agitator for either side, please talk to the guys wearing Joker Facepaint to be sure your story gets told.

All of this would be unnecessary if Georgia’s 1934 Jim Crow ballot access laws were revoked/rescinded/repealed or if the current Secretary of State bothered to read Title 10 and Title 21 of the Official Code of Georgia. As long as the Republicans and Democrats have a lock on ballot access, they will continue to treat all Georgians with disdain and disrespect.

So, see you at the Town Hall parking lot tonight! Support the Constitution, Defend the Republic, Vote Libertarian!

Require people who are offered work health insurance to buy it (appx 12 million of the 47 million without healthcare)

Require insurance companies to allow interstate policies. (lowers cost)

Stop pre-existing condition clauses in insurance (allows for competition when you can change cos)

Have catastrophic insurance available for people who don’t want full coverage: young adults, immigrants, people just starting out. (it’s economical and the best choice for many healthy individuals)

Require legal immigrants buy catastrophic ins when they come into the country (appx 8 million of the 47 million that don’t have insurance)

Deport illegal immigrants. (appx 11 million of the 47 millison that don’t have insurance)

Change the laws that allow any baby born in the US automatic citizenship (TX,CA, AZ are overrun with illegals giving birth in border towns)

Update our health care databases and make it more efficient.

Stop giving everyone on medicare/medicaid motorized scooters. (I doubt it’s a huge expense, but the commercial that says “if the gov won’t buy you one, we’ll give you one for free” makes my blood boil. And it’s indicative of how wasteful our nationalized programs are now.)

Increase Medicare for those that are the working poor. (the last 16 million that don’t have insurance today)

And those are just a few I’ve heard that make sense to me.

And for those talking about rising health care costs – one reason health care has gone up is because it’s better today than it was 10, 20, 40 years ago. 40 years ago we had no effective cancer treatments. We didn’t have MRI scans. We didn’t have life saving surgeries, better lenses for cataract patients, and on and on. We’re not just paying more due to inefficiencies. We’re paying more for technologically advanced health care.

We need health care reform and it’s not just democrats who think so. But why do we have to change an entire system because 15% of the population is under-insured? What about the other 85%? What a waste of resources to scrap an entire system when 85% have health insurance. It’s inefficient and expensive to scrap a huge system, to change laws,to require companies to add more paperwork, etc.

Health care reform is good. But it should be done in increments so we can see what works and what doesn’t work. How about trying some small test groups (states, for example) to see what works and how to create efficiencies? There are lots of good ideas out there. I’m tired of hearing that the only idea is this one HUGE plan that has to be done NOW. Bullocks.

Democrats dismiss Republicans by saying there are no other ideas and by insinuating everyone who’s disagreeing at the town hall meetings are agitators and not ‘real’ citizens. I think this dismissive attitude is going to come back to haunt the democratic congress and the left bloggers. Because while it might make democrats feel good to be dismissive, it’s not smart to under estimate your opponents.