Republican Hypocrisy - STAGGERING!

It should have been required television viewing for all citizens today: to watch house Republicans, one after another, taking their place in front of the microphones and cameras, and BLATANTLY MOUTHING UNTRUTHFUL TALKING POINTS, carefully crafted to sound "patriotic".

But none of their cynical platitudes or exhortations to "start over" can answer one important question:

IF REPUBLICANS REALLY WANTED TO ENACT HEALTH CARE REFORM, WHY DIDN'T THEY DO SOMETHING WHILE YOU WERE IN POWER?

The sad answer is that they were too busy lining their pockets with campaign contributions, and protecting the interests of their wealthy contributors, who FEAR the truth - that health care reform will severely limit the ability of Big Med and Big Pharma to financially bleed ordinary Americans.

Republicans be advised:

We, the People, have met our enemy, and we KNOW it is YOU

Do Republicans REALLY think AMERICANS are THIS STUPID?

Apparently, they do!

Judging by the nonstop propaganda onslaught that has been unleashed in the past few weeks in a desperate attempt to stop President Obama's agenda to FIX what the Republicans have screwed up in this nation ever since Regan was elected, there is NO DEPTH to which the Republicans will not stoop.

Every day, the mantra is the same - "Americans do not want the health insurance reform bill", even though we have made it abundantly clear that we DO want it.

"Reconciliation has never been used before - it's a trick - a gimmick". History tells us this statement is A LIE.

Reconciliation and "Deem and Pass" are NOT tricks or gimmicks, they were used by THE REPUBLICANS many times to pass things THEY wanted to pass.

So, no; that lie won't work this time.

Lies abound from Conservative mouths everywhere - especially from those Congresscritters with (R) after their names. The unified Republican voices calling for us to "Kill The Bill", are disguising their REAL reason for doing so: they want their fat cat insurance and pharma contributors to CONTINUE TO BLEED AMERICANS through ever-increasing insurance premiums, with ever-decreasing benefits.

If you live in California, good luck getting an individual policy from Anthem-Blue Cross.
Similar red-lining and recission policies abound in other states as well.

The Republicans have succeeded in creating an environment where big businesses prosper and thrive, with unprecedented profits, at the expense of the middle class which is being treated as a giant checkbook to be siphoned dry by these predatory corporations.

TIME FOR YOU TO TAKE A STAND - DEMAND THAT YOUR ELECTED CONGRESSPEOPLE SUPPORT HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM TODAY -

it's the FIRST step in holding America's companies more resposible to the needs of Americans.

Once again, Republican Bullsh*t bamboozles America

The election of Senator-elect Brown is an indication of just how far the Democratic party has fallen from the perception of grace, BASED MOSTLY UPON THE REPUBLICANS NON-STOP "NAY-SAYING".

By continually gumming up the works in Washington, the GOP has created a "Washington can't get anything done" scenario that they can rail against, EVEN WHEN IT IS OF ONE THEIR ONE CREATION!

Running against a lukewarm, at best, Democratic candidate in Martha Coakley, the Republicans seized on Democratic themes, positioning themselves (disingenuously) as the "solution" to big government, when they are, in fact the CAUSE of the problem they are running and claim they can solved.

Truly, this is Bizarro land.

In another sad note, the Supreme Court's ruling this morning to allow endless corporate money to be spent in influencing Federal elections is a BAD OMEN for America. If you thought the damage done to America by Bush & Co. ended with the inauguration of President Obama, think again. The conservatives embedded into the government and not yet rooted out by the Obama administration have succeeded in suborning Democracy, and the conservative justices appointed to the Supreme by George W. Bush are continuing their mission to undermine small-d democracy by enhancing the power of BIG CORPORATIONS - which is the LAST THING WE NEED IN THIS NATION!

It's time for everyone in the middle class to MAKE THEIR VOICES HEARD to their elected representatives - and tell them, in no uncertain terms, "IF YOU DO NOT SUPPORT THE MIDDLE CLASS, YOU WILL BE VOTED OUT AT THE NEXT ELECTION".

It's time for a peaceful voter-driven revolution in America - we're in GREAT DANGER of the CORPORATIONS RUNNING THE PLACE, which will be the death of the American Dream.

America to Republicans - You're unnecessary

Since the GOP has taken on the mission of "determined opposition" to everything that the new administration is trying to do to fix the mess that the GOP got this country into, it's pretty clear that they do NOT want to participate in any meaningful bi-partisan way, unless that means Democrats doing what Republicans want them do (which isn't going to happen).

so here's a message to the GOP: elections have consequences.

You have screwed this nation into the ground for 30 years, pushing it to the brink of financial anniliation, yet you STILL oppose ANY meaningful reform of our fractured health care system, or our broken financial system.

If you can't/won't participate in the government, then please shut up and step aside and let the Democrats get us out of the hole you dug us into.

Your pitiful public wailings (lies) about how health reform will drive up premiums are past being believeable, as is, frankly, ANYTHING you say these days.

Please... just STEP ASIDE, and let the country heal itself.

JOE LIEBERMAN - TRAITOR TO AMERICA and AMERICANS

Dear Senator Lieberman

Should you make good on your THREAT to join the Rethuglicans in opposing meaningful health care reform with a public option, sir, you would be a DISGRACE to your seat, to the Senate, and would be the ULTIMATE QUISLING.

You are SO FAR in the pocket of the Insurance industry that you have LOST SIGHT of the fact that YOU WORK FOR US - THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, NOT BIG MEDICINE, or BIG PHARMA.

Any attempt by you to blockade the vote should be met with the HARSHEST POSSIBLE PUNISHMENTS - you should be IMMEDIATELY STRIPPED of the Senate perks and positions that President Obama let you keep, even AFTER the DESPICABLE performance you gave at the RNC convention, ENDORSING JOHN McCAIN instead of Barack Obama or Hilary Clinton.

We guarantee that your blockade of health reform will INSURE that you will NEVER AGAIN HOLD ELECTED OFFICE, and might possibly even rise to an impeachable offense.

Chickens coming home to roost

It appears that the pendulum can only swing so far one way before everyone realizes that it has gone WAY TOO FAR.

The health insurance industry has made a major miscalculation in how the nation (and Congress) would react to their ill-advised and untrue "pushback" report of a week or so ago, indicating (erroneously) how premiums would rise if a robust public option were enacted into law. It was a blatant shot across the bow of Congress, and Congress was NOT intimidated.

It seems the health insurance chickens have come home to roost. The House today reported that it will pass out a measure to strip the anti-trust exemption, and it's about damn time. The Senate has also indicated it will pass a similar measure, effectively putting the health insurance industry BACK into the sphere of regulated industries, and DRAMATICALLY changing the way in which they will be able to do business going forward.

All I can say is - IT'S ABOUT TIME, and a STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.

The next step is to pass a robust public option, "Medicare Part E (for everyone)" and restore competition into the monopolistic fiasco that is called "health insurance" in this nation. Also - policy recission must end, as must redlining for pre-existing conditions.

The Health Insurance industry has been lunching at the public trough to the tune of BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, and it's about time that this stops.

The GOP-ocrisy escalates

OK conservatives - are you having fun?

Celebrating the failure of the USA to secure the Olympics for Chicago?
Trying to blame this on the President, despite his last minute trip to Copenhagen?

Aren't you even the least bit ASHAMED about lying about health care reform? Claiming Obamacare will "kill Americans", and will bankrupt the country, when the simple fact is, Obamacare will SERIOUSLY REFORM the diabolical system of health insurance that currently KILLS 45 THOUSAND AMERICANS EACH YEAR!

Today Rush Limbaugh CELEBRATES our defeat, framing it as a "blow against Obama".

WRONG, RUSH - the loss today was for America - jobs, infrastructure development for Chicago, and lots of construction work. But YOU don't see that, because YOU are blinded bvy the fact that our President ISN'T JOHN McCAIN!

And it's also clear that you don't give a FLYING FIG about ordinary Americans who suffer, and die, and get foreclosed on, and abused by their banks, because YOU ARE LIVING HIGH ON THE HOG, SLICING HUGE HELPINGS OF FAT off the CLEAR CHANNEL HOG.

And, of course, Glenn Beck and the other Faux Noise troglodytes jumped on the bandwagon, once again creating the "Giant Reciprocating Right Wing Propaganda Echo Chamber", where falsehoods are repeated over and over until magically the 'become the truth" in the malleable minds of low-information viewers. In other words, MORONS.

Where has MY America gone? Where is the common sense? Where is the civil discourse?