Five Sick Teabaggers receive Government Health Care in Rally against Government Healthcare

[sabrina 1]

Last Friday night, Rep. Michelle Bachmann, in a Television appearance urged Teabaggers, Birthers, Deathers and GOPers to go to Washington to tell Nancy Pelosi what they thought of Government-run Health Care.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/05/AR2009110504566.html

No one said freedom was pretty

They came as directed, about 5,000 tea-party regulars and antiabortion activists, to the West Lawn of the Capitol on Thursday for what Bachmann called a "Super Bowl of Freedom," sponsored by Republican members of Congress

It was quite a hate-fest by all accounts as we have come to expect from these gatherings. This one however, had a stamp of approval from the GOP with several Republican members of Congress present and anxious to make their presence known.

Many of the demonstrators chanted "Weasel Queen," their pet name for the speaker of the House. Others wore masks of Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.); they were covered in fake blood and carrying dolls representing aborted fetuses, as the Grim Reaper led them in chains to hell.

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But the best of Bachmann's recruits were a few rows into the crowd, holding aloft a pair of 5-by-8-foot banners proclaiming "National Socialist Healthcare, Dachau, Germany, 1945." Both banners showed close-up photographs of Holocaust victims, many of them children.

Photo above is from Think Progress ~

Health Care = Dachau?? Republican Members of Congress approved this message as you can see below!

Immediately in front of this colorful scenery, various House Republicans signed autographs and shook hands with the demonstrators. Rep. Virginia Foxx (N.C.), who recently said the health-care bill is more dangerous than terrorists, gave out stickers saying "Govt Run Healthcare Makes Me Sick!"
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"Who knew a casual comment on TV could generate this?" Rep. Jeb Hensarling (Tex.) exulted as he stood in front of the Dachau banner.

Who knew indeed. As Dana Millbank asks, protesting the Health care bill is one thing, but doesn't it send the wrong message for House Republicans to hold an event on the Capitol grounds full of hateful and gruesome words and images?

They also approved this anti-Semitic message, which has already been condemned by the National Jewish Democratic Council:



But back to the original subject of this OP. Again from the Washington Post article linked above:

unpredictable things tend to happen in the wide-open spaces of the Capitol's West Front. Minutes into the rally, a breeze toppled the American flag from the stage.

More ominously, a man standing just beyond the TV cameras apparently suffered a heart attack 20 minutes after event began. Medical personnel from the Capitol physician's office -- an entity that could, quite accurately, be labeled government-run health care -- rushed over, attaching electrodes to his chest and giving him oxygen and an IV drip.

This turned into an unwanted visual for the speakers, as a D.C. ambulance and firetruck, lights flashing, pulled in just behind the lawmakers. A path was made through the media section, and the patient, attended to by about 10 government medical personnel, was being wheeled away on a stretcher just as House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) stepped to the microphone.

Boehner, perhaps distracted by the sudden appearance of Government Funded Health Care at the rally, made his now legendary mistake of reading a clause, ironically the one about having the the right 'LIFE, LIBERTY and the PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS' from the Declaration of Independence while declaring himself to be quoting from the Constitution. And despite the cries of 'Tyranny, Socialism, Communism' ~

By the time it was over, medics had administered government-run health care to at least five people in the crowd who were stricken as they denounced government-run health care. But Bachmann overlooked this irony as she said farewell to her recruits.

All in all, it was a comedy of errors ~ as far as denouncing what they were there to denounce. Not one of those five stricken tea-baggers refused their Government Funded Healthcare, not was it even suggested by any of the gawking tea-baggers on the side-lines or by the Republican Members of Congress.

P.S. The linked article from the Washington Post is worth reading in full.

[HopeOverFear]

1. lord have mercy *smh*

[Cha]

2. Thanks,

sabrina.

[salguine]

3. It certainly isn't too late to present them with a full bill for all services.

[Kablooie]

4. They were treated exactly as if they were prisoners in a Nazi concetration camp, weren't they?

[vaberella]

5. These nutbags and their republican (some Dem) overlords are a special case of madness. n/t

[Historic NY]

6. Teabaggers accept socialist government run health care...that they don't want...

wouldn't it been cheaper to send in some wooden boxes

[sabrina 1]

7. You just reminded me of another teabagger rally

where the Billionaires for Wealthcare showed up. One teabaggeress began to yell 'let them DIE'! when she thought people weren't getting her point that she 'WORKED HARD' and 'WHY SHOULD I HAVE TO PAY FOR THEIR STUPID HEALTH CARE??? LET THEM DIIIIIEEEEE! LET. THEM. DIIIIIEEEEE!' she screamed and eventually had to be escorted away from the area by a calmer teabagger.

She would gladly allow her fellow Americans to be buried in wooden boxes rather than contribute one cent to help them.

If we were organized enough, as they are, we could have bills printed up and deliverd to them for their Government Health Care costs. Sort of like the Yellow Elephant project which definitely helped shut up a few of the keyboard commandos who until then, at every opportunity were screaming their support for the war they definitely had no intention of fighting. Hypocrite is too good a word for these people.