Right-Wingers’ Much-Hyped “Die-In” Health-Care Protest in Washington Never Materializes
OPS_admin | Dec 17, 2009 | Comments 0
A promised protest on Capitol Hill by right-wingers opposed to health-care reform doesn’t happen; Dick Armey’s speech at National Press Club canceled.
It was supposed to be day of great drama in our nation’s capital. Right-wing activists promised a captivating protest taken from a left-wing playbook, with Tea Party activists acting out the part of dying patients in the halls of Senate office buildings. And one of their stalwart leaders was to address a luncheon at the National Press Club — an event that would have heralded the arrival of the Tea Party movement into the mainstream. Neither event came off.
The Tea Party Patriots’ Senate event promised to be strangely reminiscent of Code Pink’s guerrilla-theater “die-ins.” The Tea Partiers even named their event “Code Red.” Alas, with limited enthusiasm for such artistic tactics among the anti-Obama crowd, the plug was pulled on the die-in, and the activists simply lobbied their senators.
Dick Armey, chairman of the lobbying group FreedomWorks, which has been instrumental in the ginning up of right-wing protests against health-care reform, planned to announce the formation of a new political action committee at a luncheon meeting at the National Press Club. But Armey’s speech to reporters was canceled for apparent lack of interest, allowing him time to get to address a Capitol Hill rally staged by Americans for Prosperity that looked small compared to last month’s protest on the eve of the House health-care vote.
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