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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts) Mon Sep 25, 2017, 01:18 PM Sep 2017

McConnell had protesters in wheelchairs arrested on live tv Monday. [View all]

That's how sickeningly obsessed they are with taking healthcare away from tens of millions of people.

(edited thread title to reflect that the event described is no longer in progress).

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McConnell had protesters in wheelchairs arrested on live tv Monday. [View all] Ken Burch Sep 2017 OP

Horrible LyndaG Sep 2017 #1

Looks really really bad Sugarcoated Sep 2017 #2

I hope Daryl "Chill" Mitchell of NCIS:NOLA has a twitter feed Ken Burch Sep 2017 #7

Wait. What? DK504 Sep 2017 #16

He's the computer guy in the wheelchair on the show...he's in a chair in real life. Ken Burch Sep 2017 #18

I'll bet there is nary a mention of it on Fox. n/t n2doc Sep 2017 #21

This is the reason ACA must be protected Skidmore Sep 2017 #3

This the facist government hard at work. The_Casual_Observer Sep 2017 #4

NOT the first time. elleng Sep 2017 #5

Again?!! elehhhhna Sep 2017 #6

I had the same reaction - 3 months ago, McConnell .... Jarqui Sep 2017 #8

What have the Kochs offered them? BadgerMom Sep 2017 #9

I do believe the offer was Volaris Sep 2017 #20

I share your warm regard for the senator from Kentucky. /s BadgerMom Sep 2017 #30

2 heads because they forced their 3rd brother to sell them his share of the family business... Volaris Sep 2017 #31

Like-minded with Trump BadgerMom Sep 2017 #33

Oh he didn't just disinherit him, he canceled the kids health insurance he was paying for, Volaris Sep 2017 #34

McConnell is such a Ilsa Sep 2017 #10

You should hear my mouth these days. BigmanPigman Sep 2017 #12

My German grandmother used to call murielm99 Sep 2017 #25

Married to a thoro Swede. They got a word for sprinkleeninow Sep 2017 #35

Calling him a horse's ass is an insult to horse's asses. Initech Sep 2017 #14

I agree. Horses' derrieres are like fragrant perfume sprinkleeninow Sep 2017 #32

What footage I saw it seemed as if the police were trying to OldHippieChick Sep 2017 #11

I have no issue with the cops themselves in this case. Ken Burch Sep 2017 #23

Thank you, Ken saidsimplesimon Sep 2017 #13

For the love of all that's Holy Rural_Progressive Sep 2017 #22

Again?? ananda Sep 2017 #15

He is a cold heart-ed son of a bitch. A real sadist DK504 Sep 2017 #17

As for everything else In life, the Golden Rule applies: Volaris Sep 2017 #26

Well, that's gonna be a PR nightmare for them. Are they idiots? OTOH,.... Honeycombe8 Sep 2017 #19

It's nonviolent civil disobedience. Ken Burch Sep 2017 #24

No, I don't think so. The Civil Rights Act involved protests. Honeycombe8 Sep 2017 #27

It involved sit-ins, and it involved disobeying orders from police and being arrested and beaten. Ken Burch Sep 2017 #28

The deplorables will love this n/t hibbing Sep 2017 #29