“Senator Arlen Specter and the health and human services secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, were heckled and booed in Philadelphia on Sunday. In Austin on Saturday, a throng of protesters enveloped Representative Lloyd Doggett, Democrat of Texas, at a supermarket where he was trying to meet constituents. They carried signs that said ‘No Socialized Health Care’ and chanted ‘Just say no!’ And in Morrisville, Pa., Representative Patrick J. Murphy, a Democrat, expected 25 people at a ‘Congressman on Your Corner’ event on Saturday. Instead he was met by a boisterous crowd of about 150 and a barrage of questions on health care. The protests, organized by loose-knit coalition of conservative voters and advocacy groups, were a raucous start to what is expected to be weeks of political and ideological clashes over the health care overhaul President Obama is trying to push through Congress.” (New York Times, Tuesday)

That’s why they wanted the vote before the recess.

FEE Timely Classic
“So You Want Government-Supplied Health Care?” by Donald J. Boudreaux