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MICHAEL BARONE: Democrats Flummoxed By Health Care Protests. In the diner where we had breakfast, ?

By Glenn Reynolds

MICHAEL BARONE: Democrats Flummoxed By Health Care Protests. In the diner where we had breakfast, CNN was showing Arlen Specter at a town hall meeting in Pennsylvania. The best part was Specter’s body language — defensive, jaw set, clearly unhappy at having to listen to criticism from the Great Unwashed. Criticism that, as best I could tell from the CNN captions, was citing health bill page numbers and CBO estimates. Hey, it’s not fair to expect him to have actually read the bill — he’s just a Senator.

Here’s some Specter video where he cops an attitude. It’s not the bit I was watching, but it captures the flavor.

Hey, better send some more goons to the houses of people who speak out!

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on August 11, 2009 (boomark / email).