“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 ^[1], Tuesday)

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

FEE Timely Classic
“So You Want Government-Supplied Health Care?” ^[2] by Donald J. Boudreaux