I never thought I would say this, Max, but the current GOP has me longing for Nixon. Bad as he was, he gave us the EPA (hard not to do since the Cuyahoga River was literally burning) and tried to work with Kennedy on health care reform. They pay lip service to the American and christian ideal, and yet according to them, we on the left are the nihilists and cynics who will destroy the country.

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Any luck in locating the original town hall video? Might be instructive.

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If we don't get out enough folks to vote against Womack, then they (and we) deserve him.

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Here is some video of the 4029 segment in question. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucy6zmiDl3s…

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>>Any luck in locating the original town hall video? Might be instructive.

Silverback from my limited contacts looks like 40/29 is going to protect Herr Womack on this one. No release. Wish the Aden campaign had money for cams at Womack's events.

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"An instructive incident in Fayetteville
--by Mister Brummett
January 6th, 2012, 8:32 am

An incident Wednesday evening at a town hall meeting in Fayetteville conducted by U.S. Rep. Steve Womack became a trending topic in the state liberal blogosphere, by which I mean two blogs.

As best as I have been able to reconstruct, what happened proved instructive on the dire failings of our contemporary politics.
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A young woman named Kelly Eubanks, identifying herself as a mother who worked two jobs and attended college, rose to inquire of her freshman Republican congressman. She wanted to know why Womack favored continued subsidies for oil companies but voted, on at least one occasion, to cut Pell grants so vital to her pursuit of higher education.

It was a perfectly fair question. It represented the very kind of interaction that a congressman’s town hall meeting with constituents ought to produce.

There may be a good explanation for the congressman’s choice to favor continued levels of oil company subsidies but not to favor continued levels of constituent subsidies for education. But this young woman was not going to get that answer from this congressman.

Womack did not respond in full context. He did not wish to engage on the young woman’s terms. Politicians prefer to engage only on their own terms.

The oil company subsidy side of the query was a political loser for him, you see, so he simply proceeded as if it had not been broached.

But then he blew the part of the question that he deigned to address.

He said we need to decide in this country amid this debt and deficit what it is that we must and can pay for.

No kidding. That is precisely what the young woman was asking.

He said he worked at jobs and entered the military to pay for his own college education.

Good for him. But he essentially was saying the government paid for his college education and that his good fortune somehow justified his not wanting the federal government to help pay for someone else’s.

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I wish Mr. Womack would come here to ATblog to defend and explain himself. We could put Mr. Womack through his paces, hold his feet to the fire, and slice and dice his troglodyte views and spit them back at him.

I have a facebook account (my kids signed me up)---can't remember my password, and never use it. I guess this old gal is going to have to be dragged all the way into the 21st Century with this social media stuff. I do love the internet for it's instant access to information and communication. My first love will always be pencil and paper, though. I will never TWEET (at least I don't think I will).

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Hey, Steve. If you're out there, I double dog dare you to join us.

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outlier, Womack is too much of a chickenshit to come to a forum such as this for precisely the reasons you've stated. He's a mental midget who can't stand the heat.

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Surely, HHW, when a harmless old lady like me throws down the gauntlet, he has to respond. Doesn't he?

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>>I have a facebook account (my kids signed me up)---can't remember my password, and never use it. I guess this old gal is going to have to be dragged all the way into the 21st Century with this social media stuff.<,

Well, Herr Womack puts something on FB almost daily, well, at least his staff puts stuff on FB. You get to comment. It's easy to sign up for his FB account and for that I must say good job SteveO.
Now if I could just get into that first tier of his newsletters....

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I'm thankful that Mr. Alden could provide us with just a snippet of the diatribe unleashed by Herr Womack. Those few seconds are all you need to know how the rest of his spew was going to go. I can't look at the guy without involuntarily screaming BASTARD! This goosestepping mongoloid has got to go and if we don't have a recall option already on the books, we need one...by oh say tomorrow!

I wasn't raised up to be ground under the heel of some razor-sharp toothed hatemonger like Womack or Tim Griffin. Their lectures about how we ought to lick the boots of their rich masters makes me violent when I look around Fort Baptist and see all the suffering people.

The best job my oldest daughter has been able to find in Fayetteville is a 3 day per week job at a laundry. I guess the kid has finally grown up because I've been amazed at her tenacity to do everything possible to find any job. And since she is in Fayetteville in order to try to enroll someday to finish up her degree and since paying for that degree will be damn near impossible without Pell Grants, Adolph Womack's spew is taken very personally by me.

I'm very sorry my kid doesn't have a daddy who owns 2 Hate Radio stations. I'm sorry I didn't join the military at 18 so I could suck off the government tit until I was white headed so I could then spend my time yelling at a 2 job working mother of 2, telling her that her greedy desire for an education was killing America for the Fortune 500.

I won't be at Womacks meeting in Fort Baptist today because I can't trust myself to not go after him with a folding chair. But I hope calmer people do show up and give him another opportunity to be caught on video tape acting like Arkansas's biggest Nazi asshole. And one more thing....Stay out of my yard you son of a bitch!

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I wonder if the general public is allowed to video record these Womack town hall meetings - from what I hear, his campaign staff are HYPER protective of the man, and signal police to watch certain people when they are there...

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DBI, the problem with Womack is that your neighbors elected him and will probably re-elect him until videotape of him sodomizing a goat or toe tapping in the men's room is released. Them fundypublicans don't like it when you can't control them urges!

Now, all assholes who crave power have a weak point they're compensating for, so what's Womack's Achilles heel? Where and what is the skeleton? Find it and he's history.

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here's a FEC report on who owns the guy, if his opponent can't rally and build a small donor base to offset the corporate donors, it will be an almost vertical hill to climb, stories like this have to be kept alive, records have to be crammed down peoples throats, for any opponent to position himself as a viable candidate against any incumbent requires a long term substantial paid media investment, people need to put some cash into this race, even if it's not won in 2012 it's a great investment for 2014 with a good candidate that plans to not back down or go away any time soon http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/can_give/…

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Thanks for sharing Doc.

The contributors list reads like a Who's Who list of Corporate America.

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Gonzo, my understanding is that Aden will be back in 2014 if need be. He's not putting 2012 on any of his campaign stuff like yard signs so if he loses, he can used them next time.

It's a long march. That list you just linked is scary awful!

I love a good fight. Ken is up for the fight. At some point the people will wake up and realize that Womack is the sock puppet of his corporate overlords---if not now, then in 2014. There aren't THAT many 1%ers in the 3rd district. We out number them.

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Outlier credits Nixon with creating the USEPA. NOT! The 1972 Clean Water Act was passed over Nixon's veto.

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Right on the Clean Water Act.

Legislative history

* Introduced in the Senate as S. 2770 by Edmund Muskie on October 28, 1971
* Committee consideration by: Senate Public Works Committee
* Passed the Senate on November 2, 1971 ()
* Passed the House on March 29, 1972 ()
* Reported by the joint conference committee on October 4, 1972; agreed to by the House on October 4, 1972 () and by the Senate on October 4, 1972 ()
* Vetoed by President Richard Nixon on October 17, 1972
* Overridden by the Senate on October 18, 1972 ()
* Overridden by the House and became law on October 18, 1972 ()

Wrong on the EPA.

The EPA was proposed by President Richard Nixon and began operation on December 2, 1970, after Nixon submitted a reorganization plan to Congress and it was ratified by committee hearings in the House and Senate.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States…

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