VIDEO: Bedlam Erupts At Town Hall...As GOP Rep. Defends Ending Medicare, Tax Breaks For Rich

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VIDEO: Bedlam Erupts At Town Hall In Orlando As GOP Rep. Defends Ending Medicare, Tax Breaks For Rich

During a town hall in Orlando earlier today, Rep. Daniel Webster (R-FL) faced a barrage of questions from outraged constituents about the Republican budget. The Orlando Sentinel accurately described the scene as “bedlam.”

For nearly an hour, Webster was peppered with one question after another about his support for ending Medicare, his desire to see tax breaks for the wealthy extended, and his vote to repeal health care reform, including its protections for people with preexisting conditions. For his part, Webster didn’t just avoid the questions by resorting to talking points, as most politicians commonly do. On numerous occasions, Webster simply declined to give an answer to contentious questions altogether, moving on to take a new question instead.

Questions critical of the Ryan budget were met by applause from nearly the entire audience. Watch highlights from the town hall:

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Following today’s Orlando town hall, ThinkProgress spoke with some of the attendees to get their reaction. One constituent, Tamecka Pierce, asked Webster about what would happen to people like her with major preexisting conditions under the Republican budget. Pierce had to undergo months of chemotherapy to deal with systemic lupus and the resulting kidney damage. Pierce expressed disappointment in Webster. “I don’t think I really got a response,” she told ThinkProgress in an interview. She expressed major concern about the Republican budget, noting that “had it not been for Medicaid, I would be dead.” Watch it:

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UPDATE Orlando Sentinel posted additional video of the "bedlam." See it here.

[Peacetrain]

1. Karma, just Karma K&R

[monmouth]

2. I watched that video in an earlier post and "bedlam" is exactly right..Whew!..n/t

[young but wise]

3. K&R!

[FrenchieCat]

4. Will this be shown on anything other than Rachel Maddow's show?

Will Fox show it?

Will the Town Hall erruptions of 2011 ever be promoted like the tea party town halls.

Sad to say that I doubt it.

Some folks should not only be asking themselves why not,
but also if there's something we can do about this unfair
treatment of Town Hall coverage.

[Tarheel_Dem]

5. I love it! Tea-Klanners can't hold a candle to a bunch of pissed off seniors!

:rofl:

[bahrbearian]

6. Dupe

[Lint Head]

7. Truth is breaking out all over.

[quaker bill]

8. He is my representative, and he needed this

Thanks to all who could make it and say their piece.

[quaker bill]

10. K&R

[Mimosa]

9. Best news in weeks! n/t

[jenmito]

11. Cenk is going to show video right now of the same thing happening to Ryan. n/t

[flamingdem]

12. SO enjoyable to see teabagger tactics backfire on them nt

[craigmatic]

13. That was fucking epic. I love it. Maybe Grayson will run again and beat this fool.

[elleng]

14. FABULOUS! Please highlight, re-post with Headline re: Grayson's district???