Slate is the first to report on how small the protest really was. In Washington, if you get only 10,000 demonstrators, you are practically talking to yourself. Which these people were.

Since most of them are elderly, let them REALLY demonstrate their opposition to national health care by tearing up their own Medicare cards and then trying to find an insurance company that would take them. And never mind how they earned the benefit by working hard all their lives: in the first place, Medicare is an entitlement that need not be earned by any work at all...and in the second, the younger people are STILL working hard to pay for the Medicare program.