Well, fortunately (sort of) I was able to make it to the fabulous Romulus Athletic Center, in the shadow of Metro Airport.

As you can see, there was a great turnout at Thursday Night's meeting.

Unfortunately, local democrats got there first (from several people I spoke with in line, WAY before 5:30) and were led into the conference room through a side door and not through the front entrance that the rest of us waited to enter through. The local democrats  took up nearly 6-7 rows out of the 9 rows that I could see through a side window.

The rest of them moseyed outside to try to engage the crowd in an argument about HR 3200.

They tried to antagonize those in line by telling us that we didn't know what we were talking about (even after several people pulled out hard copied of sections of the bill and offered to pull it up on the PDA's...but according to them, it wasn't the REAL bill).

My personal favorite was the campaign volunteer trying to act like a concerned resident handing out literature on health care without ANY listing as to who wrote it or where it came from (I can post this later in case anyone is interested).

Now, in their defense, they did allow a group in for a second town hall meeting, but due to the ridiculously small size of the room that they had rented (approx 175 seats), to say nothing about stacking the audience (gee, I wonder what Ed Shultz or Rachel Maddow would say about THAT), in the end though the majority of the people in line were eventually turned away.

Mrs. John Dingell had something to say about being turned away here:

(Holy Joe Biden, Batman! Did she just forget her husband's website address???)

So my observations on the democrats new tactics regarding town halls:

• Schedule smaller venues to control crowds.

• Quietly invite as many supporters (union members, ACORN, BAMN, etc) as you can to try to sway popular opinion of the few who are able to get inside to your side of the issue. Unfortunately, it failed on the majority who spoke amongst themselves outside and greatly outnumbered supporters of health care "reform".

• Dispatch a small number of your sycophants to intermingle with the crowd in order to provoke a reaction. Giving them conflicting information works to promote the above. This also works best when the local media finally get off of their sorry duff and appear at event.

• Have your spouse (or other family member) intermingle with the crowd. They should act evasive to direct questions from the audience. And certainly, don't let them know your position on the issue. Having them act sympathetic and apologetic to those in attendance in order to engender a favorable response to your side is a nice finishing touch.

No brown-shirt, swastika wearing Nazi's that I could see.

Well maybe there was one exception...