Are the town hall protests against health care reform appropriate?

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Henry Rollins
	The town hall protests against health care reform are not appropriate. "You hide behind the First Amendment and you just make it up as you go along"
	9/16/2009 2:19:24 PM

James P. Carroll
	The town hall protests against health care reform are appropriate. The health care forums are a good idea, and no doubt much learning and frank exchange are occurring in them
	8/21/2009 9:29:01 AM

Jonathan Alter
	The town hall protests against health care reform are not appropriate. The Fox Party, which shows up en masse to harass politicians, is noisy and practiced in the art of simplistic obstruction
	8/18/2009 10:51:32 PM

Peggy Noonan
	The town hall protests against health care reform are appropriate. "People are not automatons. They show up only if they care."
	8/18/2009 10:49:33 PM

Dick Armey
	The town hall protests against health care reform are appropriate. People should come up. They go to a town hall meeting because they have something that's a matter of concern to them.
	8/18/2009 10:46:31 PM

Jonah Goldberg
	The town hall protests against health care reform are appropriate. If I went to a Democratic town hall, I'd probably boo, too
	8/18/2009 10:44:14 PM

Andrew Breitbart
	The town hall protests against health care reform are appropriate. In plain language, we see how normal, decent and even private citizens become nationally vilified symbols overnight
	8/18/2009 10:42:37 PM

Ana Marie Cox
	The town hall protests against health care reform are appropriate. "I think that it's a wonderful expression of democracy"
	8/18/2009 9:21:49 PM

Paul Krugman
	The town hall protests against health care reform are not appropriate. And I can’t find any counterpart to the death threats at least one congressman has received.
	8/18/2009 9:20:08 PM

Eugene Robinson
	The town hall protests against health care reform are appropriate. But the nut jobs and carpetbaggers are outnumbered by confused and concerned Americans who seem genuinely convinced they're not being told the whole truth about health care reform.
	8/18/2009 9:19:23 PM

Kathleen Parker
	The town hall protests against health care reform are appropriate. The town hall protests may be orchestrated, but nobody had to manufacture the anger on display. With unemployment at 9.4 percent, the dog days are beginning to feel like the dogs of war.
	8/18/2009 9:17:44 PM

Michael S. Steele
	The town hall protests against health care reform are appropriate. "But instead of focusing on the fact that people are genuinely concerned about what is going on, this administration has the arrogance, the arrogance to look down at my mother, to look down at my co-worker."
	8/18/2009 9:16:49 PM

Robert Gibbs
	The town hall protests against health care reform are not appropriate. "In fact, I think you've had groups today, Conservatives for Patients Rights, that have bragged about organizing and manufacturing that anger,"
	8/18/2009 9:16:06 PM

John Boehner
	The town hall protests against health care reform are appropriate. "Instead of acknowledging the widespread anger millions of Americans are feeling this summer toward Democrat-controlled Washington, Washington Democrats are trying to dismiss it as a fabrication,"
	8/18/2009 9:15:25 PM

John Cornyn
	The town hall protests against health care reform are appropriate. he thinks the latest charge of being "un-American" is a "pretty harsh statement" about Americans who have serious concerns about the health care legislation.
	8/18/2009 9:14:48 PM

Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
	The town hall protests against health care reform are not appropriate. “When you’ve got people shouting and hanging Members of Congress in effigy, most people are going to react badly to that. I think most people want to have a civil discussion,”
	8/18/2009 9:13:55 PM

Gerry Connolly (D-VA)
	The town hall protests against health care reform are not appropriate. “When you look at the fervor of some of these people who are all being whipped up by the right-wing talking heads on Fox, to me, you’re crossing a line,”
	8/18/2009 9:13:16 PM

Thomas M. Davis (R-VA)
	The town hall protests against health care reform are appropriate. “Democrats are used to having the wind at their backs,”
	8/18/2009 9:11:50 PM

Andrew Sullivan
	The town hall protests against health care reform are not appropriate. the vicious anger seems totally out of proportion to these reforms.
	8/18/2009 9:11:02 PM

Michael Gerson
	The town hall protests against health care reform are not appropriate. The burning of the Reichstag and Kristallnacht are not arguments against a single-payer health plan or against the Patriot Act.
	8/18/2009 9:09:40 PM