The House of Representatives is in a rare Saturday session, where it is poised--or not poised--to vote on its health care reform bill that will see federal government eventually take over one-sixth of our economy.Meanwhile, in the heart of the district represented by Dan Lipinski (D-IL), an anti ObamaCare rally will be held at 12pm today.
Location: Wentworth Park, 5700 S. Narraganset, Chicago. (Near Midway Airport)
Time: Noon-2:00pm
Subject: HANDS OFF OUR BODIES AND WALLETS!
The Tea Party is targeting Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Chicago), who has yet to commit on the ObamaCare bill. Chicago Tea Party Patriots is organizing the rally, and is promising a great group of speakers.
Tom Mannis of the Chicago News Bench and I will be in attendance.
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Another convention of angry and clueless white people stormed into Washington, DC the other day, determined to destroy the type of health care reform that - if it goes into effect - will surely save the lives of most of the protesters who were in attendance (or their loved ones). It was the sort of weird, indescribable spectacle that makes the train-wreck of American politics (not to mention the got-busting stupidity of so many Americans) such a perverse delight to behold these days. Let's face it: crazy people are always loads of fun to watch - and the knuckleheads who showed up in Washington last week didn't disappoint.
ReplyDeleteAt least one person held up a huge sign that showed a pile of bodies, victims of the European holocaust of the thirties and forties. Above this gruesome reminder of humanity's capacity for evil were the words:
NATIONAL SOCIALIST HEALTH CARE - DACHAU, GERMANY, 1945
Isn't that sweet? That seems to be quite a popular thing to do these days - equating anything connected with this administration and this president to Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. It kind of makes you wonder, doesn't it? But the highlight of the day (for my money anyway) was Congressman John Boehner. He held up a copy of what he claimed was his own personal copy of the Constitution and proceeded to quote from "it":
"We hold these truths to be self-evident - that all men are created equal."
That's not from the Constitution, Johnny. That's from the Declaration of Independence - which was written thirteen years earlier! Were we able to go back in time to 1966 - when I was in the third grade - I could have told you that then, too. When we've gotten to a point where our elected representatives can't even get basic American history right, we're in, as Harry Truman liked to say, "one hell of a fix."
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