'On what planet do you spend most of your time?'

Do you mean, for example, people at a rally holding a sign that says:
"Keep government out of my Medicare"

True story.

I can watch this video all day, Barney Frank is just hilarious.

"Trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table... I have no interest in doing it"

Having been called a Facist myself by the La'Rouche people, one two occasions, I was very happy to see someone put one (or more?) of them in their place.

I think these protests are going to backfire as the sane opponents of the proposals get drowned out by the anti-government crazy statement group.

Finally someone has the guts to publicly call-out these nuts who insult the millions murdered at the hands of Nazis by likening a plan to improve access to healthcare to the Third Reich. There are a lot of legitimate concerns about health care reform that need to be addressed, and the president's plan isn't perfect, but this neo-Nazi nonsense is crowding out intelligent debate.

...when the Mass legislature was debating the Commonwealth's health care bill? You know, the one that's at least as radical as what's likely to come out of Congress?

The absolute madness of this was captured sharply in the last graf of that blog post:

I knew that poor and working class Americans were surfacing in droves to rival their best interests, but it’s especially sad to see them up close. They’re clearly blinded by ignorance and fear; why else would they fight on behalf of greedy insurance companies? Why else would they oppose tax cuts for people making more than $325,000 a year? Judging by their clothes, jewelry, and cars, it’s unlikely that many people there have ever earned substantial six-figure salaries. Come to think of it, of course big bank jerkoffs who benefit from healthcare inaction didn’t show to battle Barney. After all, they have an army of white trash circus clowns, ideologues, and talk radio wannabes who are glad and willing to execute their dirty work.

Look, we don't tolerate the behavior we're seeing from these shills from our 7th graders in a classroom. We shouldn't tolerate it from these disruptive morons acting like petulant little children at these town hall meetings either.

I'd love to see the next politician to hold one of these things begin by saying essentially what every middle school classroom teacher worth a damn says at the start of every school year:

"If you can't discuss this issue in a rational and polite manner, then you will be thrown out so that the adults in the room who would like to learn and discuss this issue can do so without your interruptions. If you are not at a microphone and you have not been called upon yet, then you are not allowed to speak. I will respect you as long as it is clear that you are respecting everyone else here. There will be no warnings because this is your one and only warning."

Children who stomp their feet and think that a tantrum of nonsense is going to accomplish their goal are those children who haven't been taught that its not an effective means of communication. They've been acquiesced towards far too often as soon as they begin to scream and turn red. The only answer is to cut off the behavior until they realize that it's ineffectual. Simple as that. If these people want to act like little children, then it's pretty clear they should be treated as such.