With a name like 'Baron' the guy shouldn't be pushing the class warfare motif too much. He's one of those stinking Blue Dogs, too. A pox upon his house.
I couldn't hear the audio in that you tube clip, but I'm assuming the thread title says it all. No worse than the other recent town halls—McCains and McConnel's are by invitation only, so strangely enough, no dissenters, but this is my favorite example of how some repubs just don't understand what it's all about for people who don't have insurance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPrYviZtVrs
Rep Jenkins first tells the woman to go on Medicaid(one of those awful government programs), which of course she can't since she makes too much money, then says twice "I want the government to
give you the money to buy your own insurance in a free market." ( Presumably she means in the form of some kind of tax credit. ) She then sneers at the woman's ignorance when the women says she doesn't *want* the government to give her money, she works and wants to pay for her own insurance, just something she can afford, so what's the problem with having a public plan, whereupon Jenkins tells the woman to " be a grown up" and buy her own insurance. The woman's a waitress, for chrissake. A private policy would cost her and her son thousands of dollars a year—probably up to one third of her income. To me, it's classic 'let them eat cake' rhetoric.
It's an exercise in futility trying to untangle Jenkins logic, so I may be underestimating her grasp of the issues, but her attitude toward someone asking a serious question is dismissive and contemptuous because the asker doesn't share her ideology. To me it underlines the knee-jerk quality of even the less wingnut opposition to reform.