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Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., and a handful of conservative activists and other members of Congress found themselves drown out by loud chants from pro-Obamacare demonstrators at a Supreme Court rally sponsored by the Tea Party Patriots Tuesday morning.
The pro-Obamacare demonstrators drowned out Bachmann’s effort to make her case against the law with loud chants of: “Obamacare works for you. Obamacare works for me. Obamacare works for every American family” and “We love Obamacare.”
The Tea Partiers and speakers strained to keep the left-wing demonstrators at bay. The pro-Obamacare demonstrators became aggressive pushing their “Protect Women’s Health Care” and “Protect the Law” signs in front of those held by the Tea Party members.
There were several hundred pro-Obamacare demonstrators compared with between 20-30 for the Tea Party.
Bachmann’s comments about division in America and her suggestion that the government could force Americans to “buy vegetables” if Obamacare is found unconstitutional was barely audible against the loud chanting.
“Our people have jobs and have to work,” said Tea Party Patriots National Coordinator Diana Reimer, explaining the light Tea Party turnout. “One of the main reasons was that a lot of our people came down on Saturday.
“They had their press conference yesterday, but we left them alone,” Reimer continued. “But they did not have the same respect.”
The Tea Partiers fired back with chants of “We love the Constitution” and “Pay for your own birth control.”
“We should gather into a chant that they will be too oblivious to understand what we are saying,” said Phil Kerpen, vice president for policy with Americans for Prosperity. “We are the 99 percent!.”
The Tea Partiers then launched into a refrain of the now famous or infamous Occupy Wall Street chant in response.
Obamacare opponent and rally speaker Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, told Red Alert Politics that it was obvious to him that the sea of purple shirts meant SEIU, which he said had carved an exemption for itself from Obamacare.
“Some of these people are paid to be here,” King said. “The signs are pretty glossy and slick, and it means that it isn’t a grass-roots effort. They have a right to be here too.
“But they have a whole different view of America, and I would just ask people to listen to their agenda,” King continued. “If America went down the path that they are advocating, what kind of a country would we be? Our personal responsibility would be gone. There would be favoratisms … and the people that are the favorite groups would have special rights.”
