Carol Shea-Porter: "Teabaggers"

Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter of New Hampshire, no stranger to making questionable remarks, has stepped in it again.

During a contentious town hall meeting on health care, held in Portsmouth, Shea-Porter wouldn't directly address the issue of Obama's army of czars nor would she acknowledge the far Leftist ideology of some in Washington.

Watch Shea-Porter dance around the fact that Obama appointed a self-proclaimed communist, Van Jones, to serve as his "green jobs" czar.



In addition to these remarks, Gateway Pundit reports that Shea-Porter referred to the opposition as "teabaggers."

From Fosters.com:

Before Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter arrived at a backyard picnic-styled health care rally Thursday night, she stopped at a downtown hotel where her staff is staying and found herself face-to-face with those who say she's promoting a government takeover of the nation's health care system.

"Find those tea-baggers who don't like the idea of this and talk to them. You won't get all of them, but I think when they realize we're still going to be an employer-based insurance system in this country, and that it is a choice — one choice among many choices — it takes away that sense of fear, that sense that they're losing control over their lives. They're not. What's happening is we're giving some people who haven't had any choice, a choice."

...Speaking to reporters, Shea-Porter didn't say why her staff was at the hotel, but she's holding a public town-hall meeting in the city Saturday. She said the "tea-baggers" were quizzing her on the logistics.

Good grief.

Has Shea-Porter been hanging around with Anderson Cooper, Keith Olbermann, and Janeane Garofalo?

Granted, Shea-Porter has had problems with the Tea Party Movement, but I don't think it's appropriate for a member of Congress to adopt such a crass term as "teabaggers" to refer to Americans who disagree with her views.