Rochelle Riley: Haters couldn't stop historic day

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POSTED: 11:54 A.M. MARCH 22, 2010

Rochelle Riley: Haters couldn't stop historic day
BY ROCHELLE RILEY
FREE PRESS COLUMNIST


John Boehner did the Democratic Party a big, fat favor.

On the night of an historic health care vote, the Ohio congressman and House minority leader stood up and had a televised tantrum in the hallowed chambers of the People’s House just before a majority of Congress decided to help America.

Boehner and many of his supporters — as well as some extremists the party hasn’t decided how to handle — faced off against the American people and lost.

In response, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reminded Boehner why: All politics is local, and all politics is personal. And when families are dying, the American people don’t have time for tantrums.

A tough pursuit

The Congress, as Pelosi said, honored “the vows of our founders, that every American is endowed with certain unalienable rights: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

Hard to pursue happiness when you’re dying from a lack of medical care because you’re not privileged.

Hard to pursue happiness when you’ve lost your health insurance along with your job and can see only emergency room doctors and only when you’re in dire straits.

Hard to pursue happiness when you watch angry Tea Party activists yell “nigger” at Rep. John Lewis, spit on Rep. Emanuel Cleaver and call Rep. Barney Frank a “faggot.” Lewis recalled ‘60s racists and Cleaver, in the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., declined to press charges.

Hard to pursue happiness when you’re an 11-year-old boy being vilified by conservative blowhards because you talked about your dead mother to a politician.

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1. It was amazing to see people that have the best Health Insurance

complain that some Americans will be served and have a better quality of life.

I say,every one of them that voted BO should turn in their INSUURANCE now and also turn in their families insurance, now!