Photo Op with Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker
See also: 14 Health Care Provisions that won’t take effect immediately if our republican senators have their way.
The Advocacy Journalism Award of the Week goes not to Lou Dobbs but Molly Secour, whose Tennesseean article went national to the Huffington Post this week:
The long table had two chairs at the head with enough space for the five of us to talk comfortably with the senators. So far so good.
Within the next 20 minutes, the seven-person meeting doubled, then almost tripled in numbers. Affable aides and assistants chatted about all things Southern, including Mule Day in Columbia.
And then came the six little words that summed up our growing suspicion: “C’mon, everybody, let’s take some photos.” This was not a meeting, this was an “Okeedoke.”
The doctor never got to tell the senators about her practice or her patient who died almost two weeks ago now; the man who may be forced to close his family business didn’t get to talk, either.
For those in D.C. threatening to filibuster, obstruct and vote along party lines against real change, you will be remembered and rewarded in the next election And when you wonder why you weren’t re-elected, just remember you work for us. Okeedoke?
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