Cornyn booed at health care event

National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn (R-Texas) last week said the town hall anger across the country made his job easier, but for at least the second time in recent weeks, Cornyn himself was on the receiving end of some of that anger.

The end of this local report on Cornyn touring a health care facility in central Texas shows a crowd booing and states that the jeers were directed at Cornyn as he departed.

This comes just a month after a different kind of crowd at an Independence Day tea party event booed Cornyn and called him a traitor for supporting the federal bailout last year.

One of the best things Democrats can do to fight back against their perceived town hall vulnerabilities is to show that Republicans are getting hit as well. Democrats have still been on the receiving end of more of the hostility, but look for them to point to episodes like the Cornyn one as proof that this is really the right’s fringe acting out and, in some cases, eating its own.