Tea Party protesters plan ‘die-ins’ at Senate offices

[RamboLiberal]

In an effort to scuttle health reform legislation, the Tea Party movement is planning to storm Senate offices next week and launch a sit-in where protesters will pretend to be patients waiting for treatment at a government-run hospital.

"The intention is to go inside the Senate offices and hallways, and play out the role of patients waiting for treatment in government controlled medical facilities," states an announcement on the Tax Day Tea Party Web site. "As the day goes on some of us will pretend to die from our untreated illnesses and collapse on the floor. Many of us plan to stay there until they force us to leave."

Organizers made it clear the point of the protest is to demonstrate that the will of health care reform opponents isn't weakening as the Senate inches forward on a compromise on health care.

"Some are under the false impression that we’ve given up and gone away just because they haven’t heard much from us in the past few days," the rally announcement reads. "And those senators who have not made a final decision on how to vote are in danger of leaning in the wrong direction. We must remind them that our steadfast opposition to a government takeover of health care is as strong now as it has been all along."

http://rawstory.com/2009/12/tea-party-senate-diein/

Liberals should counter by doing a "die-in" from lack of health care due to lack of health insurance!

[bluestateguy]

1. They're getting nuttier than Code Pink and the Fred Phelps crowd

nt

[FiveGoodMen]

2. Hope they're into realism

[ck4829]

3. So, I guess they're saying that people never die in private hospitals or something

Are they really that detached from reality?

[tanyev]

4. Liberals don't even need to do a counter die-in.

Just have signs ready to slap on the "dead" ones saying that they died due to lack of health insurance. They'll come back to life real quick.

[gratuitous]

5. We'll see how many they can muster to "storm" the Senate

I'm guessing that once the port-a-potty guards are out of the mix, we'll be looking at fewer than a dozen.

[HillWilliam]

13. If wingnuts and porta-potties are headed to DC

better help them out and print REAL BIG SIGNS warning them not to eat the big free mint inside. They'll need that medical care sooner than they thought.

Then again, never mind. Wingnuts can't read anyway and they'll be lots of fun to watch.

[anigbrowl]

15. 8-x

:spray:

[Edweird]

6. Where's Jim Jones when you need him? Maybe we could help them with a Heaven's Gate/teabagger merger.

They're already conditioned to 'drink the koolaid', all that's missing is that special ingredient.....

[KansDem]

7. So are they maintaining more Americans will die in a "government" hospital than a private one?

What are their statistics?

How do they reconcile the beliefs with this video?

[Cleita]

8. I agree and we should join them instead of counter them except that

we will have the bios of people who had died at the hands of the insurance companies or because they had no insurance. We have the facts. They only have astroturf about what could happen, not actual case histories. Join their protests and then counter their BS like the Billionaires for Wealthcare do very effectively. I wish I lived close to DC. I would do it.

[LeftinOH]

9. 'Government-run hospitals' were not (& still are not) a proposal; they still don't get it.

[BurtWorm]

10. From their mouths to God's ear!

And I don't even believe in God.

[lamp_shade]

11. I just hope somebody is there with a camera.

[Marr]

12. "A government-run hospital".

No doubt they'll get plenty of media coverage, and no doubt the media will completely ignore the fact that their little play has zero connection to reality.

These people should be universally mocked for shouting about something for months and remaining completely ignorant of the facts the entire time.

[Bitwit1234]

14. For Real

What method are they using.