I thought the comment by Matt Yglesias about Sunday's Washington 'Tea Party' was right on target. It was, in fact, not about health care reform at all, but a gathering of far-right ideologues with a whole melange of complaints and causes.
As was the case with the bulk of the protesters, there was very little
sense that anyone had any actual specific complaint with Obama’s health care
proposals. That one woman loves the confederacy. This guy thinks guns are great
and diversity is stupid. Many protesters feel that abortion is murder and/or
that Barack Obama is in league with terrorists. But nobody had a sign urging the
president to adopt more stringent cost control measures, or slamming the concept
of regulations to require insurers to cover people with pre-existing medical
conditions.
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