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On a Friday Night

by: Zandra Rice Hawkins

Fri Nov 13, 2009 at 19:55:40 PM EST


( - promoted by Dean Barker)

Tonight I headed out to join other health care advocates in "welcoming" curiously tanned U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner to a NH GOP fundraiser in downtown Concord.

Papa Sununu, in hopes of picking up seats that New Hampshire voters have firmly signaled should NOT be under Republican control, thought bringing in one of the henchmen trying to kill real health care reform would somehow be a shot in the arm for his party.

It won't work, of course. The party elite might like the message he's peddling, but conservatives are ultimately going to lose the battle over health care reform for one simple reason: they just don't get it.

Of course, we still have our work to do. But what I'm saying is - they sure are making it easier these days. Republican leaders are projecting absolute cluelessness about why people want health care reform, and need it now, a point made excellently in this op-ed.

Case in point: take this line from tonight by former Ron Paul staffer and Free Stater Andy Demers, who was bothered by the large pro-health care crowds rallying outside as he entered the fundraiser - "Ah, come on. On a Friday night, really?!"

Well, yes, Andy - really.

Because when you don't have health care coverage or your family budget is drained by high health care costs - those are things that continue to worry you over the weekend. Even on a Friday night.

So, yes - we came out to remind people like Boehner that when he's busy applying fake tanning lotion (or whatever it is), other people are fighting for their lives. It's not fun, and it's not what we want to be doing on a Friday night, but it's the fight we will continue until the Republican Party finally understands that families want and need health care reform, now.

Zandra Rice Hawkins :: On a Friday Night
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Billionaires for Wealthcare thank GOP (2.67 / 3)

A few "billionaires for wealthcare" welcomed guests to the GOP fundraiser - until management made them leave since they had tapped out on campaign contributions.

Lots of others were rallying outside, wish I had snapped a few other photos.

Zandra Rice Hawkins (Granite State Progress)


My Saturday offering. (0.00 / 0)
http://www.dailykos.com/storyo...

A night well spent (0.00 / 0)
Great diary, Zandra.  I too was in that crowd of activists.  I don't think people like Boehner and Sununu will ever get it.  But, I hope that maybe some of the well-heeled donors that attended might start to think about how working people and small businesses are hurt by the present system.  

Maybe they will realize that politicians like Boehner and Sununu and Gregg are more interested in supporting a failed ideology and building up their own power than helping get this country back on track.  Maybe they will think twice before writing that check.

Tim McKernan
Chairperson
Goffstown Democratic Committee


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