I'm saying the Republicans lost it in the manner of losing face. Now Palin can take the Tea Party and form it into a political party since the Republicans wont have their faith. Oh this can be just the thing to make the cons all topple like dominoes (that's the risk you take when you walk in lock step).

If the Republicans wont identify the "Baby killer!" shouter, doesn't that make them all responsible?

Kind of a reverse Spartacus phenomenon in my point of view.

The Health Care Hindenburg Has Landed
by Chris Hedges
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/22-1

[...]
The claims made by the proponents of the bill are the usual deceptive corporate advertising. The bill will not expand coverage to 30 million uninsured, especially since government subsidies will not take effect until 2014. Families who cannot pay the high premiums, deductibles and co-payments, estimated to be between 15 and 18 percent of most family incomes, will have to default, increasing the number of uninsured. Insurance companies can unilaterally raise prices without ceilings or caps and monopolize local markets to shut out competitors. The $1.055 trillion spent over the next decade will add new layers of bureaucratic red tape to what is an unmanageable and ultimately unsustainable system.

Both major parties are of the corporate coin, heads the corporations profit, tails the people lose. Flip a coin, we get flipped off.

Meanwhile, the wars go on...

Today on Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/22/arundhati_roy_on_obamas_wars_india

ARUNDHATI ROY: Well, I think the—you know, the saddest thing is that when the American elections happened and you had all the rhetoric of, you know, change you can believe in, and even the most cynical of us watched Obama win the elections and did feel moved, you know, watching how happy people were, especially people who had lived through the civil rights movement and so on, and, you know, in fact what has happened is that he has come in and expanded the war. He won the Nobel Peace Prize and took an opportunity to justify the war. It was as though those tears of the black people who watched, you know, a black man come to power were now cut and paste into the eyes of the world’s elite watching him justify war.

And from where I come from, it’s almost—you know, you think that they probably don’t even understand what they’re doing, the American government. They don’t understand what kind of ground they stand on. When you say things like “We have to wipe out the Taliban,” what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.

Iraq, the war is going on. Afghanistan, obviously, is rising up in revolt. It’s spilled into Pakistan, and from Pakistan into Kashmir and into India. So we’re seeing this superpower, in a way, caught in quicksand with a conceptual inability to understand what it’s doing, how to get out or how to stay in. It’s going to take this country down with it, for sure, you know, and I think it’s a real pity that, in a way, at least George Bush was so almost obscene in his stupidity about it, whereas here it’s smoke and mirrors, and people find it more difficult to decipher what’s going on. But, in fact, the war has expanded.

@harry, agreed.

To me its (almost) a good day to be a progressive. Its a bad day to be a con(ned). As in being a Tea Bagger who held the sign "Keep your hands of my Medicare".

In the black and white world they live in, we won, they lost. I 'spect Muckers to be out and about soon.

China maintains dual currency, one pegged to the value of the USD for exports, to create a hidden tariff on our products. They also impose direct tariffs on our products that price our products out of their markets. Hardly seems fair from a favored-trade nation.

@Nels..yeah, but they still have years of litigation to look forward to...and if it goes to the SCROTUS, whos to say they won't favor the insurance companies over "states rights"?

"After Sting dies, will we call him Stung? "-harry ashburn

Now that we have exported most of our consumer goods manufacturing base to China, what goods will we have to export when the USD is devalued?

@Richard L. Adlof (aka Mysterious Floating Head, apparently?)

Forgive my ignorance, but whoinallhellis Brandon Voice?

From Twitter: @toddgillman Rep. Randy Neugebauer, R-Lubbock, has admitted shouting "Baby Killer" on House floor last night. Says he has apologized to Rep. Bart Stupak

Randy Neugebauer - the anti-Sparticus....

@Nels, well, I'm fresh outta metaphors, so I concede to you.

"Support mental health or I'll kill you." - MAD magazine

Brandon is Brandon, my grandma does want Medicare and doesn't use it;
Brandon is Brandon, I’m an entrepenuer;
Brandon is Brandon, I am good American not an Republican;
Brandon is Brandon, I am a libertarian;
Brandon is Brandon, I’m young and don’t NEED healthcare;
Brandon is Brandon, my two employees don’t want health insurance
Brandon is Brandon, I pay my employees well:
Brandon is Brandon, yada-yada . . . Depending of group of talking points he is floating for bucks this month.

VOICE is part of Voice-SPAMS . . .

In my personal experience, when paying cash I receive a discounted rate. I have seen this for office visits, x-rays and blood work. I am told that the discount is because cash allows them to forgo the clerical cost associated with dealing with the insurance companies.

@Ed in Redondo Beach -

GOOD CALL!

(...now about this dancing bear thing ...) :D

@nels, no thanx. I dont' have any wounds right now, but if that changes, I'll let you know.

So does anyone know any good travel agents so we get Mr. Limbaugh a Costa Rica ticket ASAP?

@Nels, Rush doesnt need airline tickets...he can float there as long as the wind is right., and right now it is.

The problem with Mr King's statement is not that what he said was false. The problem lies in the fact that the behavior took place on the steps of Congress. He's all but declaring Representatives and Senators are open game to physical attack. Does he accept that his position applies to him also.

@Ed, even better, I'd like to hear a caller(s) call in with a donated ticket. :-)

But then I'd have to listen to his show :-( I don't know if I could do that

Senor Senate Run On Tap
By Elizabeth Benjamin
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2010/03/senor-senate-run-...

Dan Senor, a Bush II advisor and husband of CNN's Campbell Brown, is poised to announce his challenge to Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand before the week is out, according to multiple sources familiar with his plans.

GOP and Conservative leaders have been encouraging Senor to throw his hat into the ring. His announcement will likely come Wednesday or Thursday.

Remember the mouthpiece for the L. Paul Bremer, literally in bed with a media mouthpiece...

@Ed!!! you wild and crazy guy, is it bravery or foolishness that brought you to listen to that hippo-critical ass munch?

@ Nels

Sadly, I must confess I was just pulling the collective leg with my "Heard on the radio" - travel agent gag. My innocent ears could never endure the long term harm that would result from listening to an undiluted dose of the grand pooh-ba of double-ditto-talk.

Ed

@ ZeroG -

NO!

Ya buzz killer.

:)

(Holy Cow! Am I sarcastic today, or WHAT??!!)

I wish that we had demanded the head of Rahm Emanuel in exchange for Health Care. This would have both given us health care and would have flexed some liberal muscle and made Obama a little more progressive.