“We were able to stop an inevitability.”

That was the message on health care from Laura Ingraham at the Americans for Prosperity Summit on Friday night in Washington, D.C.

Ingraham told the producers on her radio show staff at the beginning of the summer that the singular goal of her show from that point on was to stop health care legislation. Exactly how that goal was achieved was explained earlier by Rep. Patrick McHenry, (R-S.C.), a speaker at AFP’s Capitol Hill rally earlier in the day.

“[The health care bill] was supposed to go for a vote in July. Then September. Then October,” he told a rowdy crowd. “Last night, Steny Hoyer said it would be two more weeks. What they’re trying to do now is twist arms.”

AFP’s 2000-person summit was more than receptive to both the Congressman’s and Ingraham’s remarks. Sarah Cadwell, 36, traveled to the Summit from Ann Arbor, Michigan, despite not really having the money to do so.

“The 9-12 [March on Washington] was the beginning of it for me,” she said. “My understanding of the government is that it’s supposed to function from the bottom up, not the top-down.”

She complained that when she contacted her legislator, she was given the run-around as to why he was not holding a town hall meeting in her district. She was unable to voice her opinion to her Representative, so she hoped to make her voice heard at the AFP conference, which included a session where participants visited their Congressmens' offices. Continued...