Teabagger "die-in" fails

[ck4829]

The Teabagging crowd came up with another protest idea recently: a "die-in" protest.

As Tea Party organizer Mark Meckler put it, "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. As the day goes on some of us will pretend to die from our untreated illnesses and collapse on the floor."

Now, as a substantive matter, this is unusually dumb. The only "government-controlled medical facilities" in the country are V.A. hospitals, and they offer some of the best medical care in the country. Health care reform doesn't create "government-controlled medical facilities" where people will suffer from "untreated illnesses"; it will address the problem that tens of thousands of Americans die every year because they lack insurance.

But reality has never been part of the Tea Party agenda, so the right-wing crowd organized its "die-in" anyway, and hit the Capitol yesterday. How'd it go?

The participants visited Senate offices, but no one "pretended to die from our untreated illnesses and collapsed on the floor."

Confused, ill-informed Teabaggers can only organize so many Capitol Hill events before diminishing returns kick in.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_12/021478.php

Oh, and before you laugh, I know it is tempting, remember that recent poll that had a hypothetical party composed of tea baggers beating the Republicans in an election.

[Unrepentant Fenian]

1. They forgot to include the Official Death Panels!

[leftstreet]

2. They'd be right if they'd change it from 'Govt Run' to 'Insurance Run'

When will they figure that out?

[Rick Myers]

3. Damn Chinese Zyklon B canisters...

The congress can't get anything right...