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At Least 5 Need Government-Run Health-Care at Bachmann's Angry Protests Against Government-Run Health-Care

Posted by Joshua Holland, AlterNet at 1:27 PM on November 6, 2009.


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Joshua Holland is an editor and senior writer with AlterNet.

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I find Dana Milbank annoying. Actually, I think he's the living, breathing incarnation of everything wrong with the Beltway media.

Today's column is just as cynical, superficial and snarky as the rest. The argument he makes is typically obtuse.

BUT, it's directed at those annoying Tea-Baggers, so it amuses me!

Technically, Thursday's GOP-sponsored rally at the Capitol was a "press conference" (a Capitol Police spokeswoman explained that the lawmakers didn't have a permit for a demonstration). The speakers took no questions at this news conference, instead calling, at least a dozen times, for the Pelosi bill's death.

"Remember some of the other battles: Lexington and Concord, Hamburger Hill, Pork Chop Hill?" said Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa). "We're not going to leave this hill until we kill this bill!"

[...]

But, as with a similar rally by Democrats a week before, unpredictable things tend to happen in the wide-open spaces of the Capitol's West Front. Minutes into the rally, a breeze toppled the American flag from the stage.

More ominously, a man standing just beyond the TV cameras apparently suffered a heart attack 20 minutes after event began. Medical personnel from the Capitol physician's office -- an entity that could, quite accurately, be labeled government-run health care -- rushed over, attaching electrodes to his chest and giving him oxygen and an IV drip.

This turned into an unwanted visual for the speakers, as a D.C. ambulance and firetruck, lights flashing, pulled in just behind the lawmakers. A path was made through the media section, and the patient, attended to by about 10 government medical personnel, was being wheeled away on a stretcher just as House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) stepped to the microphone. "Join us in defeating Pelosi care!" he exhorted. A few members stole a glance at the stretcher. Boehner may have been distracted as well. He told the crowd he would read from the Constitution, then read the "we hold these truths" bit from the Declaration of Independence.

[...]

By the time it was over, medics had administered government-run health care to at least five people in the crowd who were stricken as they denounced government-run health care. But Bachmann overlooked this irony as she said farewell to her recruits.

Read the whole thing. Might amuse you too.

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Joshua Holland is an editor and senior writer at AlterNet.


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Priceless -- I guess I turned the channel too quickly.
Posted by: LightningJoe on Nov 6, 2009 3:34 PM   
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All I saw on C-SPAN were Republican lies and misrepresentation. Since the teevee was at the place I work, I changed the channel, so as not to pollute the minds of the sometimes-simple customers we get.

Seems I missed all of the fun. Maybe they'll air this again.

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A Prescription For Principles!!!!
Posted by: peridot on Nov 6, 2009 9:02 PM   
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Since these republican loons find government health care the work of the devil, should they not RENOUNCE their own participation in these evil schemes? These congressional leading lights MUST do more than just bad mouth public health , They need to go out and buy, with their own money, some health care! Hopefully, the plans they choose will give some access to mental health care as well.

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Dying to Kill the Bill
Posted by: kettleblack on Nov 6, 2009 9:42 PM   
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Do these people support Boner's Republican Bill?
Would they have received care without proof of insurance and/or citizenship?
What would Darwin say?

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» RE: Dying to Kill the Bill Posted by: JSquercia