Okay, I don't often link to Dana Milbank, but today, he has some of the color from the teabagger rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. I found this particularly interesting: 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. "Join us in defeating Pelosi care!" he exhorted. A few members stole a glance at the stretcher. Boehner may have been distracted as well. He told the crowd he would read from the Constitution, then read the "we hold these truths" bit from the Declaration of Independence.And, this was just disgusting: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. Then, there's Rep. Todd Akin's performance. Akin wanted to drive liberals crazy by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. But, as Paul Constant noted at the SLOG, "it does drive us crazy when somebody gets all smug about owning the Pledge of Allegiance and then he can't f*#$@ing say it without screwing it up":
In one of those rare moments of seemingly divine providence which almost seem like a bit of justice in response to an outlandish statement Rep. Todd Akin messes up the Pledge of Allegiance after making the absurd claim that doing so "drives liberals crazy."
Rpe. Akins led the Pledge during terrorist Representative Michelle "wait til you see how crazy I am tomorrow" Bachmann's "scare your congressperson into voting against you" march on Capitol Hill this Thursday. At the march, thousands of confused Americans showed up to fight against their own best interests at the behest of a few congresspeople doing their best to keep Insurance lobbyists happy.