This is why i no longer have TV

[titaniumjunky]

Thousands rally to protest health care bill

"This bill is the greatest threat to freedom that I have seen," House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio told the crowd gathered on the lawn near the West Front of the Capitol.

Said Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa: "We're not going to leave this Hill until we kill this bill."

Among the signs in the crowd was one reading, "Waterboard Congress," and another saying, "Vote no to government-run health care." The crowd included a significant number of older Americans.

Some conservatives oppose increased government involvement as the first step on a slippery slope to "socialized" medicine, a term they use to denigrate other countries' health care systems, and insist on rugged American individualism, in which people should be responsible for their own health care.

Anyone, ANYONE! Who opposes a government run healthcare option should voluntarily forfeit their rights to Medicare/Medicaid! Where the fuck do they think those magic benefits come from? And if anyone has a problem with “Socialized” medicine I will gladly give them my mothers contact information in the United Kingdom and you are free to call her in her private hospital room where she is currently recovering from hip replacement surgery that she got at no out of pocket cost and that SHE WOULD NEVER HAVE GOTTEN IN THIS COUNTRY. She is 55 and unable to work due to her disabilities and would most likely be uninsurable. Without this surgery, and the ones she will be getting after it the rest of her life would have been lived out in excruciating pain even with medicine. So fuck you Steve King.

 /angry red ranty text