Bum didn't get the bund meeting he was looking for last night.

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The Democrats didn't let him turn the Dubuque meeting into a bund meeting;

An Iowa congressman walked out of a television interview on Monday, declining to explain why his staff is prescreening constituents who plan to attend his town hall meetings this week.

A few hours later, Rep. Rod Blum (R-Iowa) showed up at his town hall meeting where most of the prescreened audience screamed at him.

It was a rough start to a recess week for Blum, a second-term lawmaker representing a swing district that voted narrowly for President Trump last year after supporting Barack Obama in 2012. Blum is a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus who initially declined to support the Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act but ultimately voted last week for the American Health Care Act.

The way Blum struggled Monday night to explain his vote — through the loud boos of rowdy, impolite and infuriated constituents — is just a narrow sampling of the the growing concern and confusion caused by Republican plans to revamp the nation’s health-care system. But it indicates the difficult balancing act many Republican lawmakers from swing districts will need to strike as the complex debate continues in Washington.

Of course the Branch Trumpvidians are whining about how mean we were to der Führer's Iowa clone.

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1. It is nice to see that even pre-screen town halls are not safe places for GOP congresscritters

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2. But of course they'll blame

it on all the attendees being democrats.

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4. Looking at the Trump Herald this morning

He went to the favorite standby of conservative idiots here in Iowa. Namely Chicago.

The Trump Herald article is paywalled, but here's a small excerpt.

“We didn’t know how many people we would end up with, and we wanted to make sure – we just think it’s common sense – that people who are here are from our district,” Blum said. “We would hate to have someone not be able to come tonight because someone from Chicago, for example, was here instead.”

It wouldn't surprise me if Bum said to Faux Spews and his GOP buddies that the hostile crowd was all activists from Chicago with fake or borrowed IDs.

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3. We get a crack at him in Cedar Falls on Wednesday

The interview was simply a disaster for him. Money has more representation than U.S. citizens outside of his district.

I am going to ask him, if given a chance, which is better for the economy. The tax break given to the wealthy or the 1M healthcare jobs that will be sacrificed. He has several large nursing schools in his district. I am also going to try to ask him if they should significantly reduce enrollment and lay off staff because, even with the need, the jobs are going away.

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5. Assuming he doesn't chicken out and cancel.