The latest schtick from right wing activists is an organized effort to disrupt town hall presentations from members of Congress who are in their home districts during the August recess. According to Robert MacGuffie, who runs the website rightprinciples.com:
Tea partiers should “pack the hall… spread out” to make their numbers seem more significant, and to “rock-the-boat early in the Rep’s presentation…to yell out and challenge the Rep’s statements early…. to rattle him, get him off his prepared script and agenda…stand up and shout and sit right back down.”
Lovely. But Mark Kleiman has the same idea as me:
If I were a Member of Congress threatened by this nonsense, I wouldn’t stop holding town meetings; I’d start out each meeting by welcoming my constituents and warning them that there’s an organized group in the hall planning to disrupt the proceedings. Never pass up an opportunity to portray your opponents as extremists, especially when they are.
I might be careful about doing this in states with concealed carry laws, but otherwise it sounds like a pretty good idea.
