This was a health care press conference led by Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, Lamar Alexander and Bruce Josten, EVP of Gov’t Affairs for the Chamber of Commerce. They were joined by seventy Chamber members from across the country that had converged on the Hill to ask the Senate to kill health care reform. I was wondering how many of those members were Democrats. I also wanted to know if it was fair for the American people to think of the Chamber as an appendage of the Republican Party.

For some reason, Bruce Josten found the questions very funny.

Odd that. I don’t think rape victims that saw the Chamber spend $300,000/day on lobbying to ask Republican Senators to oppose giving these women their day in court found any of my questions very funny at all.

By the way, the next day, Senator’s Reid, Schumer, Murray and Durbin held a presser with a bunch of doctors that were (of course) supportive of the health care bill. I asked if any of the doctors were Republican. Dr. Tu stepped up for an interview: