MANCHESTER, N.H. - If the experience of this state's two Democratic House members is any indication, the raw emotion and mistrust emanating from last summer's congressional town halls never really went away.Well, maybe things will go the way Colorado Democrat Betsy Markey thinks it will go (from Campaign Spot):
Instead, the unrest simmered over the ensuing months only to return to a boil when Rep. Carol Shea-Porter and Rep. Paul Hodes, who is running for U.S. Senate, returned home to meet with their constituents here during the first week of the Easter recess.
Their public events provided a bracing reminder to Democrats that the political pivot from health care to economic and financial issues is going to be much more arduous than they expected.
At a senior center in Manchester Wednesday, one woman turned away when Hodes offered his outstretched hand for an introduction.
"I don't want to shake your hand. You voted for health care, so just go," snapped Carmen Guimond, as she refocused on her lunch of roast beef and mashed potatoes and waved him on.
When Hodes decided to stay at the table and launch a defense of what's considered to be one of the more popular provisions of the law -- closing the "donut hole," a gap in prescription drug coverage for Medicare recipients -- she challenged whether he had read the entire bill and dismissed his explanation.
"Two hundred and forty dollars in the first year. That's all it is," she said, referring to the initial subsidy. "That's not much."
"And over time, by 2020, it closes the donut hole," Hodes explained.
"We'll all be dead by then," she deadpanned.
A jaw-dropping statement from one of the members of Pelosi's Suicide Squad, Betsy Markey of Colorado:No, Miss Markey, it's not going away.Markey, 53, said she does not think the vote [for health care] puts her in any greater jeopardy and said the issue could fade by November.
I'm tempted to unleash a John McEnroe-esque "You can not be serious!" tantrum.
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