Last night in Denver, Colorado’s appointed Senator Michael “Senator Who?” Bennett attended (briefly and at the last minute) a “townhall forum” on “comprehensive healthcare reform” put on by the self-parodyingly-named Metro Organization of People. 

As with all such townhalls, this one was strictly formatted and the questions for Back-and-Forth Bennett were given to him in advance to reduce the possibility of unfortunate gaffes and/or departures from the Obama machine’s coordinated message.  Naturally, this meant (as they reminded us several times as we waited and waited for Michael Bennett’s not-so-fashionably late arrival) that questions from the audience were not welcome and would not be addressed.

Well, I guess the closed agenda didn’t sit too well with a Ralph Nader supporter, who wore a “Nader’s Raiders” T-shirt and had clearly waited paitently for Both-Ways Bennett’s to show up to at last interrupt him on the third scripted question with his own impressively-bellowed commentary/question on “single-payer” (ie: fully socialized healthcare):

How amusing to see a juvenile tactic developed by the radical left now being turned against their one-time allies.  As Obama and the Democrats continue to disappoint the more radical members of their base, expect to see more of this sort of thing.

We’ll have a few more clips from the “comprehensive healthcare reform” forum up later today, including Senator Michael Bennett’s much-delayed and ultimately lackluster, Keanu-Reeves-style performance.  It was an interesting event, just not in the way the organizers might have intended…