Protest if you must, but do it on your own time

Rush shared a story today...and actually it's been debated throughout the weekend, of teachers who are getting signed doctor's statements saying they are sick psychologically sick - so that they can go out and protest. And this protesting is part of their cure, apparently!

And I'm thinking...if you want to protest - you take an unpaid day and you protest. What right do you have to be paid for a day on which you're not working and not sick? Either take a vacation day or an unpaid absence.

Here's the soundbytes:

UNIDENTIFIED DOCTOR: This is saying I saw and evaluated you and that I'm excusing you due to a medical condition. Nausea, sick of the whole thing, feeling stressed.

UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Yeah.

UNIDENTIFIED DOCTOR: Yeah, so sometimes people need to kind of get out of that bad situation, and the -- the beneficial effects of being around other people, the support of community, that's very helpful.

RUSH: Here's a doctor telling them how to lie. I'm gonna lie for you so you can lie. This is fraud against the taxpayers. I'm gonna lie so you can lie. Now, when the patient, the protester asks if he can get in trouble, the doctor says, "No, no way."

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Am I gonna get in trouble for this?

UNIDENTIFIED DOCTOR: No, no, no, no. No. No. Well, if you missed work and you didn't have a work excuse, depending on what your contract is, you might have problems, if that.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Okay.

UNIDENTIFIED DOCTOR: But if you miss work and you have a medical excuse, at least as far as I understand, most contracts would say you need a medical excuse if you're gonna miss work.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Okay.

UNIDENTIFIED DOCTOR: You've got a medical excuse. I'm a licensed physician in the state, and I say that you should be having that time off work to recuperate from this terrible condition.

RUSH: The terrible condition that you joined willingly. It's a condition that you did not have to participate in. So the strike is his horrible medical condition. Now, last October ABC's Christiane Amanpour characterized the Tea Party as extreme. She said that people are looking at the Tea Party and saying this is not conservatism as we know it, but it is extreme. What the hell is this? What in the world? This is outright fraud. We don't even know if these are real doctors. Some of them are. Some of them have been tracked down, but maybe some of them aren't. So much of what happens on the left, so much of the Democrat Party is fakery. Now, let's look at how Fox and CNN cover the fraudulent doctor story. First on Fox, even from Geraldo you get the truth, that it is fraud.

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