Yesterday, a Tea Party rally at the N.C. General Assembly in Raleigh was a roaring success. For humorists, that is. Twenty different Tea Party groups agreed to gather outside the General Assembly to pressure lawmakers to repeal the recently passed health care reform bill. I mean, God knows you don’t want to forcibly keep insurance companies from denying coverage to sick people. The Tea Partiers’ goal was to link hands and surround the legislative building, demonstrating what a huge number of North Carolinians oppose the new law. Well, things didn’t turn out too well for the tea-baggin’ daddies who organized the event. It seems that the 20 groups only managed to round up about 50 people for the rally, so that whole “surrounding the building” thing had to be scrapped. Below is a video of the fabulous rally. As a BlueNC blogger put it, “If only these 50 people had really, really long arms” …
This article appears in May 11-17, 2010.
I wonder how many of the 50 support the other mandated universal healthcare programs medicare and medicaid?
Yeah, just keep making fun of us… it is very motivating.
Remember November.
So much for the silent majority.
Hurting your feelings is a hate crime?
Yes, they ARE MANDATED (as in: “I can’t stop paying for them even though I’m not poverty stricken and I’m only 26 so I’ll never collect a dime”), but what the hell is ‘universal’ about Medicare or Medicaid? These are targeted programs for very specific groups. Got any other glaringly stupid questions, lukeNC?
Gawd, you silly-socialist progressives are a hoot!
Tea Baggers are walking contradictions anyway.
Guess they were all at southpark or driving their devils around to a soccer match in Ballentyne.
Hilarious as hell.