i personally wouldn't have given an inch

to the close-minded wind-bagged fool hearted two faced giant dip shites. it's ok for their government to be ALL the fuck over illegal wiretapping of it's own citizens and WORSE but it's NOT ok for their own government to REALLY take care of it's own people? what the fuck??????????? when will those teabaggedy brainless americans wake up and see most of those stalling about health care reform ONLY CARE ABOUT THEMSELVES AND WHAT GOES IN THEIR OWN POCKETS? when will those teabaggedy brainless americans wake up and see if their kid gets some kind of horrible illness (or their parent or their spouse) and needs long term medical care, it will WIPE THEM THE FUCK OUT? (and no i am in no way shape or form wishing ill will to them or their families, i'm making a point)

they're lemmings. stupid ones at that


The Republicans' Deaf Ear Is a Preexisting Condition

By Dana Milbank

The Senate Finance Committee was barely an hour into its consideration of health-care reform on Tuesday morning, but Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) already knew where he stood.

"I do not support a government takeover of the health-care system," he railed. The proposal "confiscates more money from the taxpayers," he went on. "It tramples on American freedom and liberties."

After this vigorous display of open-mindedness, Bunning was spent. About an hour later, spectators noticed that the senator, who had been resting his chin in his hand, had fallen fast asleep. As giggles rippled through the chamber, an aide shook Bunning, who woke with a start.

Bunning's nap was a fitting comment on how he and his Republican colleagues had received the efforts of the committee's chairman, Max Baucus (D-Mont.), to craft a bipartisan compromise on the mammoth legislation. Baucus made major concessions to Republicans: He dropped the "public option" for a government-run health plan; he tossed aside the mandate that employers provide health coverage; he cut the bill's cost and made sure it was all funded by revenue from within the health-care system; he stipulated that government funds would not go for abortion or to illegal immigrants; and he included efforts to curtail medical malpractice awards...........

'Obama was, quite literally, their nightmare.'

that's a sentence from this story. it is EXACTLY EXACTLY EXACTLY right on the mark (the sentence that is)

the article also hits on why the birthers are so important to the republican party (yes, everyone including the republicans KNOW the birthers are not playing with a full deck)

it's long but it sure is quite interesting indeed. i highly recommend you read it

Who Is Barack Obama?

And why do people say such loopy, ugly things about him? The enduring rot in American politics.

By Philip Weiss
All around were satanic representations of President Barack Obama in whiteface, as a Nazi, an African witch doctor, a Marxist, a Muslim, and Che Guevara’s best friend—but Kathy Golya had never felt so good about the new administration as she did right now. It was a day after Representative Joe Wilson’s outburst in Congress, and the South Carolina congressman had given voice to Golya’s inner heart. He hadn’t just said it on the Internet, he had said it to the president himself.

No, it was not the appropriate place, Golya said, but still she glowed with the memory. “It was the first time in my life I felt good, since he got into office. Someone had called him a liar.”

A prim, slender homemaker in her fifties from northeastern Pennsylvania, Golya had come out to a tea party in Scranton with her friend Donna Biscontini to have solidarity with everyone else with strong criticisms of the president. Not really criticisms, actually, but feelings—anger, upset, a sense of dispossession. There had been a kind of revolution in the country with Obama’s election, the women felt. They talked about the president’s “czars.” One of the czars believed that animals should have lawyers to sue their owners. “Animals have more rights than people,” Biscontini said. Another was for forced sterilization. “Who’s that sound like? Hitler,” Golya said. The president was putting himself at a godly level, was her point; he was saying that man controls his destiny, not God. She saw that as arrogance. She mentioned that the president’s wife wore $600 shoes when she was helping the poor.............

my new hero is;

rep. pete stark (well for the rest of the week he is. he's done some things in the past i didn't care for, LIKE APOLOGIZE for something he NEVER DID THAT WAS WRONG). he won't listen to shite and neither should anyone with a brain. our health care system MUST be changed. our nation MUST change. we MUST NOT let ourselves be bullied simply because someone has a louder voice.

sure, i want to hear ALL sides AS LONG AS IT'S THE TRUTH

you go pete!

Rep. Stark: ‘I wouldn’t dignify you by peeing on your leg’

By David Edwards

Town halls are starting to look less like literal representations of democracy and more like so-ridiculous-it-has-to-be-scripted reality shows.

Congressman Pete Stark (D-CA) told a constituent at a recent town hall meeting that he wouldn’t “waste the urine” to pee on the man’s leg.

As the San Francisco Chronicle reports, and a video confirms, the man stood near the congressman and listed off what he felt were “smoke and mirrors” promises in the Obama administration’s healthcare reform proposal. At the close of his remarks, which he delivered in a civil tone, the constituent said: “Mr. Congressman, don’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s raining.”............

if you use your mind, your brain, perhaps people WILL listen

Using reason and facts, Franken beats back teabaggers
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"Let me suggest you take some tips from your fellow Minnesota congressional delegate, Rep. Michelle Bachmann," Cox said ironically. "She knows how to do this. Just say things like 'we have to slit our wrists, be blood brothers to defeat health care,' or that 'I will not seek higher office if God is not calling me to do it.'".............

-- Daniel Tencer...