Twitter Echos With The Moaning and Gnashing Of Conservative Teeth As Healthcare Bill Passes
President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and senior staff, react in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, as the House passes the health care reform bill, March 21, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
The conservatives are in deep mourning over the passage of the healthcare reform bill. I have some empathy (not sympathy) for how bad they feel, considering how many things the Bush administration did (starting with the bombing of Iraq civilians) made me sick to my stomach.
And like most liberals, I'm well aware of the bill's many weaknesses. But I know how craven politicians are, and I'm convinced they will react to constituent concerns. (Because they do like to keep their jobs.) That's why I predict the 2020 version of this bill will be a lot better than this one. Now the real fight begins.
In the meantime, here are some representative comments on Twitter:
The DEMS have brought shame on America Abort the DEMS NOW
PLEASE #killthebill for my 12 year old who wants 2b a doctor! With Obamacare she might choose 2b a vet instead!
Paul Ryan just gave the best speech of the night. The guy is a freaking rockstar
Re: pelosi... Is this bitch for real? I bet she groups herself with Lincoln, MLK, Jesus
healthcare is not a right Nazi Pelozi!!
PIMP NANCY IS PASSING THIS BILL BY COMMITING BRIBES THAT SHE FINANCED WITH MY MONEY!!!! WTF!!!
And no, I don't thank @BarackObama. Except for RUINING my country.
We are selling our heritage for the lies and empty promises of a handful of radical liberals.
I have one word to describe this legislation "tyranny".
Monday take your money out of the banks
N. PigLosi looks like a "babbling idiot" who uses random Hand Gestures like a swinging monkey
Nancy milking the pre-existing conditions issue. Extend competition across state lines and watch pre existing conditions go away.
You are witnessing the death of the Democratic party
Good Job Nancy, Chairman Mao would be proud.
NOT MY PRESIDENT! NOT MY CONGRESS! NOT MY GOVERNMENT!!!
I'm not sympathetic to Pelosi's old guy in Michigan 2embarrassed 2ask his kids 4help. He doesn't mind stealing from mine!
March 21. Happy dependence day!
Listening to Pelosi live makes me want to puke. How could anybody of right mind believe a single word? Wicked witch.
This vote tonight is nothing short of a declaration of war by Dems & their freeloader base against responsible self-reliant Americans.
And crazy ass Bachmann........ pack your bags. Get the hell out!
What is your conceptual, continuity?
The only people crazier than Bachmann are the people that vote for her.
AMEN!
NOBODY 2012
So, you're expecting right-wingers to stand by their previously given word? I can appreciate optimism, but I think your case may be a worse condition than that.
Why wouldn't I ?
They always say what they mean and mean what they say.
They're pillars of truth and honesty.
They define the meaning of integrity.
I mean, who are we kiddin? Hehe, just because they said it, doesn't mean they won't do it. Hehe. C'mon... who do you think they are?
What is your conceptual, continuity?
crai more n00bs
i bet all those teabagger whinners
are on welfare, unemployment we all
are paying for. a bunch of white self-entitled
assholes who live off others and complain when
they don't get it all----like the gop
gop/teabaggers = our way or you better watch behind you now.
... these teabagging sorts have nothing left in their bags but violence. That's the only line they haven't crossed, and I won't count on civility or rational discourse winning the day.
Glen Beck and Party Boss Limbaugh will be fanning the flames of domestic terrorism over this.
to stop them. Yes, there is freedom of speech, but we all recognize that you cannot shout FIRE in a crowded movie theater if there is no fire.
Unless you're a Republican.
The nutters are livid! It makes victory taste all the better:) I can hardly wait to see Limpballs and Nutty Professor Beck flopping around on the floor in a froathy apocalyptic rage. Oh, this is toooo sweet!!
It was their Waterloo and they lost! Lol!
and I hope he takes his dittofuckheads with him when he leaves the USA..
(Laughing to myself that that pig will go anywhere, not)
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
Right on! This bill really sucks but since they are so insanely pissed off the bill makes me deliriously happy.
that is just mean. you meanie head. Also
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fola80rQop4
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
The idiocy surrounding the health care "debate" is a really sad spectacle. There has never been a conversation in American politics that contained less substance than this. There are very few people on either side that can give a coherent argument about their position, and anyone that has a point that involves FACTS is totally drowned out. What is left is a swill of misleading TV commercials, stupid statements that claim that Obama is Communist and a Nazi AT THE SAME TIME, and outright race baiting from the Tea Party dolts. Even though we finally got something through that will at least help SOME people, this is really a sad day for the U.S. We have gone from being a rational democracy to becoming a country is being run but platitude and ideological nutcases.
Which is more than Congress did for Bush's illegal wars.
My best reply to the goons so far has been:
I paid for your illegal wars, your war criminals' profiteering, and the Bush administration's unprecedented spending and government expansion... so yes, you are paying for my health care.
Ooh, good one. Can I use that? I've got a wingnut blog I fight on.
I hope you do!
Be prepared for the "no proof of war crimes" response.
To that I say: Thanks, but luckily Dennis Kucinich entered all of Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld's crimes as Articles of Impeachment into the permanent Congressional record. Have a nice day.
I didn't know that. I wonder if a republican congress will be able to make a rule for themselves to expunge those records. ???
Kucinich read the Articles of Impeachment aloud (it took hours!) and though the Articles were "referred to committee" they are a permanent record... He recorded Cheney's first so as not to end up with him as President. I don't know if those kinds of records can be expunged.
110th Congress:
- HR 333 (Cheney)
- HR 799 (Cheney)
- HR 1345 (George W. Bush)
Rep. Cynthia McKinney also filed articles of impeachment during the 109th Congress, HR 1106.
All of these measures are still viewable at the thomas.loc.gov site.
McKinney was not so fortunate with hers.... I imagine Dennis' constituents are a bit smarter than to fall for the ridicule that got McKinney un-elected.
Probably not but they can make their own rules which is more than we can do.
... if you want the articles expunged, then you're simply assuring that they must be examined for their veracity.
You can't declare them to be without merit without talking about them.
I came back to post the articles but you had already done it!!!
That's what I call fast thinking! xoxoxo
Fuck them. Nuff said.
You can't just flip a switch and turn off the crazy. I'm concerned somebody is going to do something incredibly stupid.
A lot of them have already done something incredibly stupid, I just fear the next thing they do will be incredibly dangerous.
Has anyone heard for sure yet which of the republicans called Stupak a baby killer in the House last night?
First we had the "you lie" then we had tea baggers calling democratic reps the n word and the f word, now the baby killer phrase. When people feel free to say things like that there is something ugly boiling up from beneath.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
it won't be until after the Presidential election that they can get their crazy covered.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Progressives really need to make a viral effort to inundate Rush Limbaugh's show/website/phones with demands that he make good on his promise and leave the country.
"I'm a comedian! I was making a joke!"
That just gives him power. Better is to just bring it up whenever Limbaugh is brought up. "Has he gone to Costa Rica yet?"
If we flood him then he just thinks everyone listens to him and he's important enough for the "bad guys" to want to do something about.
But you're probably right. Better to let Jon Stewart handle it.
... will put it in his tagline, like he did 'X days since Mission Accomplished.'
"X days since Rush Limbaugh has failed to move to Costa Rica. Good Night, and Good Luck."
The good parts take years before they become effective.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Didn't rush say in four years after the bill passed if things weren't better he would leave the country.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
In 1869 the primary education for both sexes was declared obligatory and free of cost, defrayed by the State. In 1882 the death sentence was abolished. In the year 1949 the armed forces were abolished and in 1983 a Perpetual Neutrality was proclaimed. Prestigious international human rights organizations have their headquarters in Costa Rica..
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Having roads is not a right either. I don't think the government should use my tax dollars to pay for them. I'll build my own roads if I need them and if I can't afford them then that's my problem.
Our government needs to get rid of ALL un-Constutional social programs.
The government's only responsibility is to not deny anything to anyone and to pay for an army.
We will all prosper under the whips of our benign and saintly captains of industry! We'll breath in the beautiful, black air of freedom, and drink the freely-tainted water of capitalism!
Shackle me to your machinery with your chains of liberation!
Captain Industry? Have you seen him? Where is he?!?
... the newest member of the Evil League of Evil? Alongside Socialism Man and The Secret Muslim?
Umm... not that I know of.
See: Defendor!
Because if you're serious, I want to talk to the person in charge of your meds. If not, great parody, even the crappy spelling is spot on.
Typically the attention span for this sort of legislation would be short, as with the medicare drug benefit a few tears back, and the crazy would die off. But you just know that the right-wing press (especially a couple certain individuals) will keep railing about it incessantly through the elections. I hope it bites them in the ass.
What? No Armageddon? The sky's not falling?
No rampant liberals going ape shit crazy in the streets demanding abortions?
No Karl Marx marching into Washington? No Putin taking over the GOP?
No Hitler? No Jihadists taking over the Christians?
No Qurans replacing all the bibles?
The Constitution is still intact?
The Bill of Rights is still intact?
Oh man, I dunno what to do..... Guess I'll just have to have another cup of coffee and go see if I can get some hrs in.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
my face sanded, my wrinkles tucked, my lippo sucked and demand coverage for my mental condition. That and my brackets repaired.
Do I get frequent operator miles when my rates go down?
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
On his arsehole. Oh, wait. This bill doesn't cover dentistry .
What is your conceptual, continuity?
I was planning to get a full federal funded abortion today but then it hit, I'm not pregnant. Damn, that would have been such a, stick it to the man, thing to do.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
you can thaw and experiment on just for spite?
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
down; no cost controls whatsoever in this bill.
After watching the House proceedings all day yesterday, the analogy that comes to mind is that of a bunch of young children whining and crying because they don't want to take their medicine. Rep. Isso was an especially bratty one virtually the entire afternoon. I'm sure his constituents were even cringing at his behavior.
They're pissed because the insurance companies wasted a lot of money buying the votes of the losers. So next time they get paid less until they produce results.
Make no mistake... The insurance companies got a lot, and I mean a lot of concessions. They have nothing to whine about. The problem with them is they wanted it all.
I know that. But even so, why should the insurance companies pay the losers? The only reason is one day they'll be winners so they can't cut them off completely.
But I would assume that being companies that know how to make money they also know you can cut back your payments to the losers. So the republicans are pissed because they know they're about to take a pay cut.
(now where did I stash that violin......???)
by the people. Some people are just dumb.
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
http://www.akfiles.com/forums/showthread.php?...
Zoiks...
My fave post from that crazy place: "Remember this is how Rome fell."
Really? Rome fell after trying to ease health care worries? It appears I've been misinformed about the role of the Visigoths and Vandals.
I thought Rome fell when some Christian fundy nut took control.
buried deep in my subconscious.
They did have a Senate as well, I recall.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Cornyn was on morning joe this morning and he seemed to feel pretty positive that the repubs in the senate can muck up the bill enought so that it has to go back to the House for another vote. I hope to hell that he's wrong because I don't think anyone wants to do that all over again.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Those words are 'tough shit'
Susie, were all those comments taken from Glenn Beck's Twitter page or are some of them from Bachmann's page as well?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Rush said he's leaving the country. We need to start pooling money to hire a moving van and movers to show up at his residence. That'd be a hoot.
I am nervous that some of the right-wing wackos (I don't think all conservatives are wackos) will cross the line into violence. The GOP needs to calm people down.
The entire concept of congressional debate is almost an oxymoron. Not one vote changes because of something persuasive that these people say. The rules of the House and Senate ought to be changed.
I still have not seen any signs of marauding death panels this morning, but I'm on the lookout.
That was the only remaining part of the Senate bill I liked. And here I was, planning to don my black hood and scythe and travel with the first wave of death panels to the Palin household.
I thought I saw a marauding death panel this morning but it was just the little kids down the street walking to the school bus stop. Whew!
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
The SCOTUS is stacked with GOp'rs.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Booked your one way ticket to Costa Rica?
http://www.paradisus-playa-conchal.com/
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
The local right wing radio blowhard is claiming that Pres Obama never once reached accross the aisle when creating this health plan- Are they blind?? Thats all Obama did, he constantly tried to appeal to the Republicans.....I'm glad it passed- it could have been MUCH better (and it could hae been worse)- but this plan is better than nothing
No tom, they aren't blind, they really do live in an alternate reality, they live in a world that never ventures outside what is allowable inside the fox nation. They are typical authoritarian(followers)s.
How sweet it is!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/22/heal...
But understand if they do anything it will be as a group. They are republicans bush supporters that believe in torture, which means they are cowards like their leaders. They are shamefully stupid and rude.
Their next group activity will be a circular firing squad. They aren't good losers and their first instinct will be to hunt down traitors in their own ranks. It's all good.
Did anyone see Morning Joe this morning? He had a black man on who was a professor. The professor said to him this bill was in ways like the civil rights bill. Joe went batshit crazy and yelled at him that there was no way this bill would have the impact that bill did. This was a white guy telling a black guy how the black guy should feel about the civil rights bill. Bizarre!
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
"...because I'm obligated now to act like I would have supported the civil rights bill!"
The professor just looked at Joe and you could see the disbelief in his eyes as Joe ranted on. Lawrence O'Donnell was on and he asked Joe to name one thing the republicans have ever proposed that would help the common man. Again, Joe went all batshit and blubbered but he couldn't come up with squat. I think Joe was on the verge of a hissy fit through out his whole show today.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
What are the odds that on tonight's Glenn Beck show, the nutcase Howard Beale wannabe will start crying, and claim the health plan is part of a communist/fascist/Marxist/Maoist/Anarchist plan to take away out freedoms?
Beck will probably show up wearing an American Revolution-style military uniform, or worse, in a Confederate one. All bets are on.
I think this might really push him over the edge
He is already over the edge.
My money says he'll stage a funeral for the USA. Don't want to miss this one.
Yes! This has to be the winner!
All black in mourning for mah country.
ha ha ha suckers ... is it wrong to enjoy drinking in their sweet sweet tears of defeat?
All black! You probably win this one!
We can only hope. I'm sure he's been practicing his role for weeks. Perhaps he'll have Bachmann on with him just to spice up the scene.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Or, maybe Becky will finally strip away those final onion peels and reveal that communist/fascist/Marxist/Maoist/Anarchist is just his code word for...
He's gone so close so many times.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Total joy! I watched Joe Scarborough's head explode at 5:00 a.m.! They know Americans will realized they have been fed a pack of lies once they find out the help available in the bill including the reconciliation.
Joe was so freakin' defensive this morning. The only claim to fame he could come up with was how he helped Clinton do something back when. That and the fact that he predicted last week that the bill would pass. Otherwise, his nerves were on edge.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Oh, he predicted last week that it would pass? I thought I beat him when I predicted last night it would pass. /snark
Way to go out on a limb there Joke.
The reason joe and so many other republicans seem to be coming apart at the seems is that they are seeing that their media manipulation is coming back on them. They are seeing that the lies did not work as well as they hoped they would.
These republinazis are about to fold like a cheap suit.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness. They have killed the economy and god only knows how many people!
I had to read your comment twice to find the tag line. Don't go hiding it in the body of text again. Some of us stayed up late and have fuzzy headed liberal thinking precondition.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
on suicide watch? The one and only reason she was put on Earth has disappeared.
on your question.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Thank the good people of America for Health Care reform.
Only a sick *sshole would be against affordable Health Care for ALL.
Reason #5 zillion why Christianity is a dried up pile of horseshit.. "Gawd help us", in deeds.
That's right, when the corporations express those concerns, the politicians will listen.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
, the Democrats listen. The craven Democratic politicians reacted to the 85% of their constituents that wanted the public option by killing it months ago. They reacted to the majority of the consituents who wanted single payer by shutting them out of the national healthcare dialogue. The White House reacted so well to progressives that they organized a spin campaign against them, engaging some of the bloggers on this very site. Looks like Democrats will be required to "stay on message" during the Obama Administration.
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Btw, some of us don't have the luxury of waiting 10 years in the the vague hope that the politicians will decide to listen to their constituents rather than their corporate donors.
At least one Republic see the writing on the wall. David Frum:
Ok McGrampa are you going to tell all those "retirees" in your state that you are going to charge seniors more for prescription drugs? (see above) Are you going to re-allow insurers to rescind policies when they discover a pre-existing condition? (See Above) Are you going to banish 25 year olds from their parents’ insurance coverage? (See above)
The Arizona Republican declared that Republicans "will challenge it every place we can," and called the measure, approved on a 219-212 vote, "terribly wrong for America." He said he was repulsed by "all this euphoria going on" and argued that "outside the Beltway, the American people are very angry. They don't like it and we're going to repeal this."
"To our seniors, I have a message for you: you're going to die sooner," if the health care bill passes, Sen. Tom Coburn (R- Okla.) said on the floor of the Senate in December.
They intend to vote on the Sabbath, during Lent, to take away the liberty that we have right from God," Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) told Glenn Beck on Thursday. "This is an affront to God," Beck replied, echoing the Iowa congressman's criticism of the day the Democrats plan to vote on the health care bill.
Is Beck now god's spokesman?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
He's the son of god now. No one knew it until yesterday.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
As opposed to Rove 1000 year Reich that he predicted when Bush took over and destroyed the country.
I thought these people didn't like Jefferson. Isn't Texas trying to take Jefferson out of the textbooks? I would like to question Bachmann about Chavez. I wonder how much she actually knows about him.
While he liked that "blood of tyrants" tree food, unfortunately he got separating churches and state versus slave and master backassward.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
I'm sure they'll repeal this the same way they've gone about repealing abortion rights: Indirectly, incrementally, endlessly.
It's red meat for the red state base -- but the other 2/3 of the country will never buy it.
insurance coverage."
Does this mean I have to buy automobile insurance for my 14 year old son until he turns 27?
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
In your case your son will be trying to stay on your insurance until he is 57 if he is anything like my son. ;^)
checks he is forging for the stiff he has frozen in the meat locker.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
It took him until now to figure that out? Didn't they see their course could become a problem? So how smart is Frum, et al.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Isn't Rush supposed to leave the country now?
http://www.ocotalresort.com/testimonials/gues...
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
I did shift change with a co-worker this morning and I was saying how good it was that health care reform, as flawed as the bill and spineless Dem efforts are, had started. She replied that she is against it because the government can't run anything. I reminded her about the military, NASA, Interstate road system, etc., etc.
She said the Dems would not listen to any Republican ideas. I asked what ideas. I told her that one of their big ideas was tort reform, and explained what the term meant (she had no clue). She agreed that there were great downsides to tort reform. I asked her about what other idea they had--she had no response.
I explained that this would all be great for HER, a lowly paid ($10.75 hr) health care worker.
So this is how it is, they get their talking points from right wing hate radio, but don't know a damn thing, like my co-worker, who isn't exactly the sharpest spoon in the drawer. Right, not knife, spoon.
The Rethugs rely on their ability to manipulate ignorant and biased people, who HCR would benefit the most.
They are forever using people like your co-worker and for whatever reason they never figure out how they are being used. Haven't they noticed they have not gained a damned thing from republican politicans?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
That's the thing POP. They don't know what they don't know. That is why they are so manipulativeable.
...if you have to do it yourself. It's much easier to let someone else think and just agree.
like "government run healthcare." and "we have the best system in the world."
"death panels," " no one can be seen by a doctor under Medicaid." The lies piled up so deep it was difficult to watch.
And, yes, the GOP does an amazing job of getting the people who would benefit most from these changes to oppose it.
On this Monday morning, health insurance and hospital stocks are UP!!! http://www.marketwatch.com/story/health-care-...
And here in my home state, Blue Cross is raising its rates 25%... but don't worry, it can't happen where you are, right?
Stocks should be up. That should tell you all you need to know. It is a very corporate friendly bill.
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the bonuses?
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
To those twitterers:
I hope you read this. You are the most mean-spirited, soulless, uncivilized, backward, bitter human beings that have ever walked this planet, and you had better hope that karma was looking the other way when those wretched, putrid words fell out of your septic, twisted minds and through your withered, venomous fingers.
You hate healthcare so much? Go ahead and boycott it. Let's see you stand up to the evil communist socialist fascist healthcare by not using it.
Suck it.
Two things stand out: Mind-blowing ignorance; these people actually believe they're the majority. They can thank the bobble-heads for that.
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it's downright wilfull ignorance. They actively choose to be stupid, and encourage themselves to remain dumb & uneducated by mocking the "liberal elite" - you know, people who can spell and stuff.
Please have the uneducated, bedwetting Reslug losers all line up, in lock step, behind Lard-Ass Limp-Dick and leave the country asap.
Can anyone tell me where all the hatred for Pelosi comes from? I don't love her or anything, but it seems that people I know, even ones who don't watch much Fox or any, still really don't like her, and I don't understand it.
..scare the Jezus out of your average straight white dipshit.
the fact that she is from the Bay Area, is straight, has a successful career and family life and lives the values she preaches. If she's all these things and more, then she obviously must be a subversive somehow.
But that's the thing. Some of the people I'm talking about are relatively liberal, who don't hate San Fransisco or smart women (since some are themselves). So I'm not sure if there's something else about her that people like them just don't agree with.
This bill, even if after Reconciliation, will need some Major fixing. (Hopefully, Grayson's bill will get the ball rolling again.)
The Demos will be beaten with the Ugly Stick with the (4) year Implementation Gap (needed to get it under the $1 Trillion/10 year OCB numbers right), no restrictions on Insurance Monopolies, and the Individual Mandatory Purchase of Corporate Health Plans with the IRS playing the heavy.
The Repubs are just begrudging the Demos, because the Demos beat the Repubs to the Corporate trough.
This bill is a shiny new apple with a happy worm inside it. The voters will notice it when they start to bite.
Here's a video on ObamaRahmaCare -
http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWo-vDVajns
"This vote tonight is nothing short of a declaration of war by Dems & their freeloader base against responsible self-reliant Americans."
Yeah, cause none of us liberals have jobs or own businesses...
I'm not all that happy with the Bill itself. There were a few strides, but the Dems 'compromised' with the Republicans so much that the bill we got isn't the bill we were promised. So over all I'm a bit disappointed. I'm also aggravated that the Democrats didn't wake up sooner and realize that no matter what they were going to succeed or fail entirely on their own because the Republicans were going to gain more by obstruction than they would by helping their constituents.
I'm also not one of those people who say "Well at least it's something." yeah it is, but the bill still amounts to a trillion dollar handjob to the insurance companies rather than actual reform. The Dems reacted to political pressure from lobbyists and from their Republican 'colleagues' rather than responding to the needs and wants of their own constituency. There is one reason why HCR passed and it wasn't Ted Kennedy and it wasn't for Joe Public - it was because of Scot Brown. They saw their cushy government jobs in jeopardy and they knew they had to pass something - anything - or they were going to tank in the fall.
We could have and should have done better and I don't trust them enough to fix it in successive bills.
The question now is, what happens now? Are the Democrats going to be emboldened by their 'victory' and start growing spines? Are the Republicans going to be emboldened by the Democratic 'victory' and start ratcheting up the rhetoric to a fever pitch - hoping that if they rile up the whackadoos enough they'll win?
and of course you have the Teabagger crowd, waving their little pistols and ar-15's around screaming about socialism and other such nonsense. Are they gonna throw down and if they do, is Big Government's boot gonna break off in their asses (sorry rebels your little ar-15 and Red Dawn delusions aint' gonna so shit when the US Army Shows up at your door with a tank and air cav support)? Are the liberals going to wake up and start their own series of protests to counter the teabagger propaganda machine? And if they do, is the 'liberal' media even going to notice? A hundred thousand people marched on the capitol for immigration reform and the only place I heard about it was blogs.
So what did we really win and when do I get my Change-I-can-Believe-in prize? Personally I'd like to see a Democratic majority that actual acts like a majority instead of trying to appease people who aren't ever going to vote for them anyway over their actual voters.
but then I guess I'm just a dreamer.
There's this:
http://coffeepartyusa.com/
They have over 177,000 fans on Facebook already.
Hmmm...not sure if that's good
Dentistry's not included.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
That is alot of bitching and whinning, I dont go on twitter, I have no use for it myself. Now I can see that there really is no reason to go on twitter.
I just love how these poor deluded idiots are crying about how their country has been taken from them, as if any of them knew a damn thing about the country to begin with.
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
My favorite LOLs:
"Monday take your money out of the banks": Good idea. Not sure what this has to do with HCR, but good idea.
"PLEASE #killthebill for my 12 year old who wants 2b a doctor! With Obamacare she might choose 2b a vet instead!" 1. if your 12yo is half as crazy as you, she'll never be a doctor in this country. 2. its more difficult to get into vet school, so good luck with that.
"Good Job Nancy, Chairman Mao would be proud." No he wouldn't...this bill closer to something GW Bush would do than Chairman Mao.
"And no, I don't thank @BarackObama. Except for RUINING my country." Sorry, Bush already did that. Give credit where credit is due.
What a bunch of fuck-wits with their ignorant twitting and their Glenn-Beck-approved crapola.
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