Republicans on Health Care Reform’s Day of Reckoning
I didn’t do much with Republicans. It just wasn’t their day.
But…
I had heard a rumor that since the world was coming to an end if health care passed, Republicans were going to try to avoid all the drama by holding a mass-suicide event immediately after the vote. I asked Jason Chaffetz about that.
A while later, I was standing near the tunnel that leads from Cannon to the Capitol when Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver, a very liberal Democrat and (former?) pastor, walked by. He ran into Rep. Hensarling, a conservative’s conservative. I witnessed them speak for about 3-4 minutes and wondered if they were talking about the spitting incident (Cleaver had been spat upon by a tea-partier the day before). I decided to ask about it:
