undermine Grayson and throw him under the bus.

contributed to his campaign? For single payer, there never was and never will be a "get go" unless people do more than bitch about its demise.

Use abuse and then discard the people who get you raised to a higher office, common in companies, common in politics.

Also known as 'pulling up the ladder'

And CNN stinks too!!!!!

Yes, "cajones" means boxes in Spanish. "Cojones" is the correct spelling. Do you not see the difference?

Here's my letter to Mr. Grayson, in hopes he will continue to advocate for universal health care:

Mr. Grayson:
I want to be the change I hope to see in the world, because I am a 'fix-it' kinda gal After seeing you take on Blitzer and his simpering panel of sycophants, I suspect that you are a kindred spirit, with the courage to undertake true advocacy for your constituents and for our entire nation.

Let me be among the first to suggest the real way that the Angry Group is killing off old people ('Angry Group' is Dana Gould's apt, descriptive phrase for the increasingly vociferous, predominantly right-wing obstructionists being manipulated by the Corporate Megalomaniacs determined to maintain their political power):

I am 53 years old. Because I vehemently refused to sell subprime loans, I had to leave the mortgage industry three years ago. My niece encouraged me to teach (something I'd avoided most of my life, because a) the pay sucks, and b) public education is completely F**D up--and NOT just because of NCLB!). Thus, I found an affordable accelerated program to become a certified teacher.

I have now learned that I chose an accelerated certification program in a district that is so bad, almost every participant in the program leaves the district as soon as they've gotten their certification and/or paid for their program! The big reason for this? Well, most of this district's power positions belong to members of the Angry Group, and their vitriol is sublimely corrosive, as I suspect you already know.

Now, it's a grim fact that this district offers marginal insurance options, requiring high co-pays and deductibles. Thus, in order to get the MRI I need to find out what's causing my chronic back pain, I'd have to scrounge up almost $800 (I daren't even consider what the specialist would charge to 'authorize' such a test--and that's after I pay for the office visit to the doctor who recommends the specialist!). So, I've learned to 'live' with chronic back pain over the past two years, and to avoid any activity that might exacerbate my injury. Do you suspect, as do I, that the Angry Group would assert that I am personally responsible for this situation, and that I should just find a way to pay for the MRI?!?

The principal at my very first post forced me to resign (I was given an amalgamation of reasons, including "you're too intelligent to teach these kids"), and I've not gotten a single positive response to the myriad applications I've submitted over the summer. The people who run the accelerated program have provided almost no support, and now seem complicit in forcing me out of the program (perhaps because I'm a progressive--gasp, choke, shudder!--in the great state of Texas?!). Thus, because I cannot afford to COBRA, I have no health insurance at all. Could this be a part of the Angry Group's agenda?

Now, Mr. Grayson, consider that I'm sitting here blogging because

1) I don't have a new teaching position, or the hope of one. Thus, I've joined the growing crowd of the unemployed/underemployed.

2) I have no means of addressing my chronic back pain so that I can resume power walking to regain my physical fitness. Thus, I've joined the growing crowd of the unhealthily overweight.

3) I can no longer afford to buy the organic foods I used to eat when I was more physically fit, not to mention that I've just learned that Whole Foods will never get my business again (Mr. 'everyone needs to take personal responsibility for their own health' Mackey can kiss my broadening white hiney, and he can look for me in a local picket line in front of one of his stores). Thus, I'm even more definitively a member of the hoi polloi Mr. Mackey so blithely denigrated when he spoke out against health insurance reform.

4) Suicides are up 28% among the chronically out-of-work people who compete in the thousands for every single job opportunity posted (and, I have friends who've articulated this same, horrific level of hopelessness!). Thus, I have the dubious honor of potentially being a member of this particularly scary group.

Have I accurately described the insidious agenda of the Angry Group and their Corporate Puppetmasters? Am I fated to become one of the grannies they hope will succumb to their dastardly plan?

Yes, I struggle daily with ennui and despair, Mr. Grayson. I can most assuredly identify with those poor souls who thought offing themselves was preferable to facing an uncertain future of no employment and almost sure homelessness. And, I can understand the fear and resentment that drives the Angry Group, as misdirected as I think they are.

In view of all that I've posted herein above, I thank the Creator every morning for giving me the strength and joie de vivre that keeps me from joining those poor departed individuals for whom suicide was the only option, or the poor deluded Angry Group whose pathetic wee members eagerly gorge on the bipartisan red herrings promulgated by a handful of corporatists bent on maintaining their exclusive economic hegemony.

Please, Mr. Grayson, offer up a prayer of hope for those of us who are sliding down into the abyss of joblessness, AND PLEASE continue your courageous work on our behalf. Despite what Michelle Malkin asserts, we desperately want to work, and not just because it puts a roof over our heads and food on the table. We The People WANT UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE!!

As for me, I will not go quietly into the night. I walk when I can, I refuse to let this district deter me from getting my teaching certificate, and I will pack up my belongings and live on the streets before I give up! Oh, and I'll continue to advocate for universal health care for all, because We The People can afford this option and We The People deserve it!

I thank you from the bottom of my heart for advocating for universal health care, Mr. Grayson. You give me hope that there are some people in positions of power who want to be the change we hope to see in the world.

Warm regards,

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calling for the extermination of liberals by firing squads.

So things are improving I guess. For such a "liberal bias" in our so-called mass media, they sure have a knack for giving conservatives free range while muffling anyone remotely liberal.

Can't we just get along and sing cumbaya! Mr. Obama's "Change" slogan is so much bipartisanshippy and all. Let's all get together, and hold hands... and lest ask for Mr. Grayson to give a big apology to the poor conservatives, whose feelings are so hurt at this moment.

And they're nobody unimportant - losers who lost their jobs in a layoff, junkies, winos, bag ladies, illegal aliens and their kids, and so on. Who cares about people like that? Jesus, Gandhi, the Dali Lama, a few saints and bleeding heart liberals, maybe, but nobody important - nobody who drives a Mercedes, nobody who's houses are cleaned by 'staff,' nobody who jets various places at various times of the year to visit their vacation homes, depending on whether its time for Vale, or Cannes, or Maui.

What I admire, Mr. Grayson is working on that issue as well... the best he can, IMO.