Through tears, Tea Party activists vow to keep fighting health care reform

[Joanne98]

The Tea Party activists huddled on the south lawn of the Capitol got the news of health care reform’s passage in the cruelest way. As their enthusiasm had flagged, a small group of pro-health care reform activists had nestled into space right next to the Capitol wall. Outnumbered ten to one, none of them looking a day under thirty, they learned via Twitter when the House crossed the 216 vote mark to pass the Senate version’s of health care reform. Bouncing up and down, waving faded and crumpled signs, they mugged for TV cameras. That prompted a few Tea Party activists to lower a massive American flag between the pro-”Obamacare” forces and the lights and lenses. The liberals cried foul. Park police broke the tension. And the Tea Partiers looked back at the Capitol and chanted “Na na na, hey hey, goodbye.” Just because the bill had passed didn’t mean they couldn’t kill it.

“The most important thing to remember,” said Jenny Beth Martin of Tea Party Patriots, throwing her hoarse voice into a megaphone, “is that the fight for freedom, it never ends! In the next days, you’re going to find out what you can do to stop it in the Senate. If it becomes law, we’re going to fight to repeal it in the next Congress!”

The roughly 250 activists, some of them wiping away tears, cheered for Martin, then belted out “The Star-Spangled Banner,” then recited the pledge of allegiance. Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) slipped through their ranks unnoticed, then politely took the megaphone for himself.

“The American people lost today,” said Hoekstra, “but we’ve got some opportunities. We’ll fight this in the courts. We’ll fight this at the ballot box. Hopefully, in January, we’ll have enough votes to begin the process of repealing this bill.” The crowd cheered as Hoekstra — who is leaving Congress to run for governor of Michigan — walked out and Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) walked in.

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http://minnesotaindependent.com/56647/through-tears-tea-party-activists-vow-to-keep-fighting-health-care-reform

[Xipe Totec]

1. ...

[Siwsan]

2. Is there an "Opt Out" form for Medicare??

If so, I'd print up a bunch and hand them out at the next tea party rally.

I used to carry enlistment forms and offer them to pro-war people who showed up to harass our peace demonstrations. It shut them up, and most of them just walked away while we laughed.

[Caretha]

9. Who says you can't make up one :)

Make the form give their SS#, street address etc.

Just for shits & giggles, right?

PS...make sure the top of the form says "I'm against the socialist Health care bill and I want to prove it by signing my rights away as a present/future Social Security recipient.

[yellowcanine]

13. Yes, if you are Old Order Amish. Good luck with that teabaggers.

Maybe you could make up "applications" to join the Amish to hand out to the teabaggers.

[sellitman]

3. The American people lost today.

WTF? 30 Million Americans got the chance for Health Insurance and they lost?

These Republicans are stark raving mad. Total loony tunes.

[XanaDUer]

5. Remember Bizarro world?

Up is down, down is up, right is wrong...yadda yadda

[msongs]

4. they are REPUBLICAN PARTY activists not some independent group for crap sake nt

[PurpleChez]

6. Right on!

In spite of what happened in upstate new york a few months back, the idea that if push came to shove the baggers wouldn't fall in line behind whatever hate mongering repiglican promised to stop health care and gay marriage and flag burning and enforce mandatory prayer at high school football games, etc., etc.

[Joe Chi Minh]

7. I thought they stopped making Monty Python episodes long ago.

[awoke_in_2003]

8. ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2kxlZDOHeQ

[Zoeisright]

10. FOAD, you repuke assholes.

I hate their fucking guts. The party of cruelty, indeed.

[The Hope Mobile]

11. Hoekstra is one of the worst. No respect for that guy nt

[yellowcanine]

12. Yepper. They will repeal HCR just like they repealed SS, Medicaid and Medicare.

Bring it on, dipshits.

[salguine]

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