Frank (D), the US Representative from the Fourth Congressional District of Massachusetts, held a two-hour town hall meeting Tuesday night in Dartmouth, Massachusetts.
As in the case of previously held meetings around the country, some in Frank’s town hall meeting were supporters, some were there with legitimate questions and concern, while others were hateful and deliberately ignorant detractors shouting questions and disruptively challenging Frank throughout the meeting.
In one instant, a woman asked Rep. Frank the following questions:
I think the administration is missing something in these town hall meetings, which is that it’s not just one group. The economy is collapsing. We have 30 percent real unemployment. Forty-eight states cannot balance their budgets. And they are cutting programs to the bone. This is the context under which the Obama administration has said we need health care reform.
(Crown Applause)
I’m not done. The reason why is because they say we need to limit Medicare expenditures in order to do that, in order to reduce the deficit. That’s the origin of this policy This is the T4 policy of the Hitler, of a Hitler policy in 1939, where he said certain lives are not worth living.
(Crowd noise, including boos and a cry of “Shame on you!”)
Certain people we should not spend the money to keep them alive, which is exactly what Ezekiel Emanuel has said. So my question to you, one, is, this policy is already on its way out, it’s already been defeated by LaRouche. So my question to you is why do you still support this Nazi policy?
Rep. Frank’s responded to the woman by saying:
"When you ask me that question, I’m going to revert to my ethnic heritage and ask you a question: On what planet do you spend most of your time?" Frank asked.
"You stand there with a picture of the president defaced to look like Hitler and compare the effort to increase health care to the Nazis," he said, adding such behavior demonstrated the strength of First Amendment guarantees of what he called "contemptible" free speech.
"Trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table," Frank said to the woman. "I have no interest in doing it."
Despite the booing, shouting and disruptions, Frank’s town hall meeting covered many of the real issues of the health care debate.
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