August 11, 2009 03:33 AM UTC

Junction Republicans (Unofficially) Promise Obama "Warm" Welcome

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• by: Colorado Pols

From today’s Grand Junction Sentinel:

Flags and protest signs may well be equally abundant when President Barack Obama visits Grand Junction on Saturday.

As Obama returns to a Republican-dominated area, amid political turmoil over health care reform – his top domestic priority – what kind of a reception might the president expect?

A poll follows. For your reading pleasure, we’ll leave you with the Sentinel positively shoveling the red meat they call “journalism.”

“The Republican Party of Mesa County is not putting out a call to action,” [Mesa County Republican Duncan McArthur] said. “What you see is not orchestrated. These people are genuinely concerned.”

The White House has said Obama will preside over town hall meeting Saturday, but the topic or topics haven’t been decided.

As Democrats try to push health care reform through Congress, they have been greeted at their own town hall meetings by boisterous protests, particularly about government-run health care… [note lack of quotes, Pols emphasis]

Red-faced protesters were not so much of a concern during the previous visit to Grand Junction by a president…

“Maybe the fear (of Obama’s policies) has created this because that was not a concern when President Bush came,” [former Mesa County commissioner Kathy] Hall said of the politically charged atmosphere around the country. “Maybe the administration has made people feel like they can’t be calm and accepting, I don’t know.”

It’s just ridiculous, isn’t it? Why can’t these nuts get it through their heads that ‘death panels’ are the only sure way to bring down the cost of care, and the economy would be better off if we euthanized everyone–except loyal Democrats of course–at age sixty?

You’re right, not helpful.

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