The whole of Pennsylvania Avenue from 15th Street to 17th Street was closed off yesterday.

Obama and leaders of the two corporate parties were meeting at the Blair House across the street from the White House to hatch a plan to protect insurance industry profits.

Obama had made sure that not one advocate for a single payer Medicare for All system was in the room.

They were all left outside in the cold.

Teabaggers had gathered on 17th Steet to protest against what they saw as an inside job.

Single payer activists gathered on the North Side of Lafayette Park to protest what they saw as an inside job.

After a number of speeches from the leaders of the single payer movement – Katie Robbins, Dr. Margaret Flowers, Dr. Carol Paris, Donna Smith, Andrea Miller and Kevin Zeese among others – the group of about 50 activists marched around the corner to where the teabaggers had gathered.

As we approached, the more aggressive of the teabaggers began shouting at us – Kill the Bill.

By which they meant — kill the Democratic bill that Obama is seeking to ram through the Congress.

They were a bit taken aback when we started chanting back – Kill the Bill – Medicare for All.

We would defeat Obamacare.

And then get rid of not only the insurance industry’s bill, but defeat the politicians they control.

And in fact, we would get rid of the insurance industry itself altogether.

The teabaggers didn’t quite understand it.

This is one instance where we believe in the death penalty and the teabaggers don’t.

Get rid of the the insurance industry’s bill.

And get rid of the insurance industry.

Replace it with one public insurance pool.

Everybody in.

Nobody out.

Free choice of doctors and hospitals.

Onward to single payer.