Thrasher
Wheeee!
"Dying because you lack health insurance is apparently a laughing matter to some — especially tea party members and supporters."
“Last night we got a disturbing view into the tea party’s extreme right-wing position on healthcare when members of the audience clapped and cheered the idea of letting someone without health insurance die,” Eddie Vale, communications director for the group Protect Your Care said in an e-mail. “Even worse, none of the Republican candidates on stage expressed a word of disapproval as the tea party audience literally clapped for blood. This was a spectacle one would have expected back in the gladiatorial combat of ancient Rome, not at a presidential debate.”
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-ron-paul-gop-debate-20110913,0,3161863.story
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/41981
“Last night we got a disturbing view into the tea party’s extreme right-wing position on healthcare when members of the audience clapped and cheered the idea of letting someone without health insurance die,” Eddie Vale, communications director for the group Protect Your Care said in an e-mail. “Even worse, none of the Republican candidates on stage expressed a word of disapproval as the tea party audience literally clapped for blood. This was a spectacle one would have expected back in the gladiatorial combat of ancient Rome, not at a presidential debate.”
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-ron-paul-gop-debate-20110913,0,3161863.story
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/41981