It's all the fun of a tea party rally.
"Real women buy their own birth control!" - tea party heckle yelled at pro-HCR demonstrators outside #SCOTUS
— @evanmc_s via Twitter for Android
According to POLITICO, the
early crowd was solidly in the camp of thinking more access to affordable health care is a good thing than the SOCIALISM!!!! crowd. But the latter, as the tweet above shows, certainly are
making themselves heard.
Supporters of the law, who had a small brass band marching in circles with them, embraced the term “Obamacare.” [...]
“We love Obamacare!” they called out.
Opponents countered with, “We love the Constitution!” [...]
Marlys Cox, a substitute teacher from St. Petersburg, Fla., stood before the crowd with a microphone to share how through a freak accident — she’d been bitten by a barracuda as a teenager — she’d contracted hepatitis C. She went on from there to describe a divorce that left her without health insurance, $40,000 annual in medication costs, a breast cancer diagnosis, and no way to pay for her care.
“President Obama was throwing me a lifeline,” she said.
Or throwing out the Constitution, according to opponents who kept up their “We love the Constitution!” while Cox spoke.
Compassion
has never been a feature of the Republican mentality, full on display today. Of course, neither has rationality. To wit: