It’s getting to the point where we rely on these townhall meetings for advance warning on the latest anti-heath care conspiracy theory being ginned up out of the conservative freak-o-sphere. And this morning, during that crazy Arlen Specter town hall meeting, there were a number of questioners angry at Specter because the health care reform bill would allow the government to access at will, surveil and withdraw money from everyone’s bank account.

Sounded a bit loopy so we had Zack Roth run this one to ground.

Just listening to the Obama Town Hall in New Hampshire, and I just remembered that this is about health care and not Logan’s Run or a Soviet-Cuban invasion of America.

We hear the House Judiciary Committee is about to release the transcripts of the depositions of Karl Rove and Harriet Miers in the U.S. attorneys firing investigation.

The committee website has this:

PRESS RELEASE: 8/11/2009

House Judiciary Committee Releases Rove and Miers Interview Transcripts and Over 5,400 Pages of Bush White House Documents

Conyers: White House “Driving Force” Behind US Attorney Firings

But, frustratingly, the link seems to be broken. Stay tuned.

The House Judicary Committee has released the transcripts of committee investigators’ interviews with former White House staffers Karl Rove and Harriet Miers about the 2006 firings of U.S. attorneys.

The Rove transcripts here. The Miers transcripts here.

And Teabaggers ask, How high?

TPMMuckraker’s Zack Roth looks at who’s calling the shots in the tawdry FreedomWorks/Teabag love affair … watch out for astroturf burns.

The House Judiciary Committee has also released more than 5,400 pages of Bush White House and Republican National Committee e-mails on the U.S. attorney firings.

The White House emails are here. The RNC emails here.

At TPMmuckraker, we’re combing through the House Judiciary Committee’s document dump. Please join in.

You can leave comments regarding the Rove and Miers interview transcripts here and comments regarding the White House and RNC emails here.

Our reporters will be going through your comments, so if you find juicy parts before we do, flag it for us.

TPM Reader DM:

It really is amazing to watch a fringe right-wing movement completely dominate the narrative surrounding the health care debate. The Democratic Party has the strongest governing coalition we have seen in years, and yet, they are being run over by misinformation campaign that includes lies so bold and outrageous that one actually grows to gain begrudging respect for the Machiavellian mindset that allows otherwise seemingly rational people to perpetuate this stuff on a public whose gullibility should never again be underestimated.

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Karl Rove directly tied to the firing of US Attorney David Iglesias.

Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, has issued a statement:

“Let’s be clear: it is dangerous to allow the carrying of loaded handguns to the ‘town hall’ meetings hosting heated discussions about health care and other issues around the country. Except for trained law enforcement, it is unthinkable to allow people with loaded guns near the President of the United States.

“We should decide contentious public issues with ballots, not bullets. The ‘any gun, any where, any time’ mentality of a few must give way to common sense before innocent people get hurt.”