About 100 anti-Obamacare protesters gathered at Democratic congressman Heath Shuler’s Asheville office yesterday. Most of them, according to reports, were senior citizens. A Shuler spokesman came out at one point and and read a prepared statement:

One of Rep. Shuler’s employees received our petitions and read a prepared statement saying that he was not in favor of a “robust public option”. There was murmuring about what “robust” meant.