On this beautiful sunny day in Washington, I was heading from my fourth event of the day, the Americans for Prosperity Hands Off My Healthcare rally, to the fifth event, the House Dems’ Trayvon Martin hearing. Cutting from the upper Senate park to the Rayburn House Office Building meant a straight shortcut across the front of the Capitol.
A motorcade had arrived moments earlier, though, perhaps carrying Joe Biden to chat healthcare mandates with Harry Reid as President Obama had only reached Alaska en route from South Korea by that time. Capitol Police blocked off the area where those cars were parked to pedestrians, therefore turning the shortcut into a bit more circuitous route around the fountain.
As I began to take that route, a cop cautioned me to watch out for the truck behind me. I turned around and saw the vehicle driving on the walk, and as the cop joked, “It’s gonna be like that scene from ‘Back to the Future,’” I noticed it was carrying a heaping load of manure. Starting at the Senate side, it slowly took the path around the fountain to the House side, eventually stopping at some landscaping work on the south lawn.
It just seemed terribly… poetic.
Silly me, I thought Congress was more than capable of producing all they needed WITHOUT trucking it in…
“…Americans for Prosperity Hands Off My Healthcare rally…”
Truly Orwellian. Just how is it possible for one private citizen to prevent another citizen from getting “healthcare”? Any person in our country has full access to and is free to get any medical care they want, as long as they are willing to pay for it. And if you’re not willing to pay for it yourself, how does it become “your healthcare”?
How about “Hands Off MY Constitutional Rights”?
Coals to Newcastle, Shirley!
I see the Obama campaign received its load of talking points.
Goodness evening! Communication describing my at liberty is literally completed, proceed to out of tune with implementation.