Does it make any sense at all?

Ask that a single payer advocate testify before the Senate Finance Committee, and the chair, Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana), has you handcuffed, arrested, hauled off in a paddy wagon, and charged with criminal “disruption of Congress.”

Ask that a single payer advocate testify before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and the chair — Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) — invites you to testify.

No, it doesn’t make any sense.

But that’s what happened to Dr. Margaret Flowers.

Flowers is one of the Baucus 13 — thirteen doctors, lawyers, and other activists — who asked that Baucus seat a single payer advocate at the witness table over three days of Senate Finance Committee hearings last month on health care reform.

Baucus refused and called in the police.

Flowers asked that a single payer advocate be seated at Senator Kennedy’s June 11 hearing on health care reform.

Kennedy said — sure, pull up a seat.

Flowers is scheduled to testify with a group of yet to be identified other witnesses.