August 24, 2007 (LPAC)--Rep. Tom Davis' (R-Va.) appearance at a Town Hall Meeting on the Iraq War yesterday with Rand Beers, an Iraq War opponent and former aide to the Bush National Security Council, demonstrated again that the Cheney-Bush policy is destroying the Republican Party at all levels, and any association with it is proving highly toxic.

Rep. Davis undoubtedly accepted the invitation to address an afternoon meeting yesterday on the Iraq War organized by opponents of it in a Burke, Virginia Unitarian church in his district, because Sen. James Webb trounced his conservative GOP opponent, George Allen, in that area in 2006. Screening the questions; faint praise of the moderate Republican Davis; nothing worked to soothe the audience. Davis was, for example, laughed at when he said he expected that the White House "will probably tweak" Gen. David Petraeus' report to Congress in September.

The questions, even screened, pounded Davis on his support for the failed war. Finally, when the meeting's organizers moved to end it after one hour, the politeness broke down, with people shouting, "We haven't gotten to anything we should be talking about!" Davis, according to the Washington Post, hurried out, insisting, "I didn't set the rules."

The Davis Town Meeting is the third report this week of Congressmen being booed and verbally attacked in public meetings with constituents, in addition to Sen. Arlen Specter (R) and Rep. Joe Sestak(D) of Pennsylvania.