It won't stop the whining and they have something. So they're not complete liars. Just nearly so.

the repugnants, in a weak moment...ah, but these days they are all weak -- promised a bill. but they lie daily and in multitudes... so who is supposed to care about it?

tomorrow or later today, it will be a fascination with some other outrageous bogosity of the repugnant party. who cares? that's their job these days.lies,hate, fear, racism, no no no obstruct obstruct obstruct -- just nihilism.

they are damned good at it.

if they keep it up they'll wait out the blithering idiotic wimps of the Dim party and 'magically' be back in power...

gee? how did that happen?

If Americans play Charlie Brown to the Republicans' Lucy, we deserve to have them complete their destruction of our economy. No country can succeed and no country deserves to succeed by going for the quick and easy, lazy, selfish solutions that the Republicans offer. They are confidence men. Many of them ought to be in jail, but they are not. Do we excuse ourselves when we vote for these people? How?

Magic had nothing to do with it , to paraphrase , "It was good old American _______" . I like procrastination personally , the Movie Version has 'American steel and innovation' .
How the perpetually motivated by the allure of the lowest common denominator culture are going to actually choose door three remains a bit of sleep inducing mystery .
While we wait for some pulse activating consensus concerning the obvious , the Kassandra lure of perpetual disinterest remains as it ever was .
Me , myself , and I have drunk from the spring of naiveté , believing it a simple matter of choosing a ship of state with the future at least definable , as in it may be possible . The need to c y a being more important than the incinerating world does make for truly epic myopia .

The Republicans do have a plan. Their plan is to scrap everything and start over from scratch. Repeat ad nauseum. We have always been at war with healthcare.

If HR3400 is the only piece of paper designed to give GOP cover, then the Dems need to treat it as THE GOP health plan and feature/attack it as such. When the GOP leadership distances themselves from it, this affords another talking point for the Dems - the GOP is the party of NO, even when it comes to their own damn bill!

I'm not seeing anything in the media that takes advantage of the very strong progressive position and takes the fight to the opposition. Is there a lack of funds for media spots? I suggest the Dems construct an ad clearing site where those who feel passionate about this/these issues can review ads and donate specifically towards ads they want to see on TeeVee or hear on the radio. I know personally that voting by contribution to a specific message works for me. In fact, I kind of like the idea of the ad credit saying "this message paid for by contributions from citizens who care enough to fund it".

Here's a question: If they want this to be their play, why not accept that it is there plan? Doing it accomplishes two things 1) it lets Dems say that even Republicans know the system is broken and 2) gives us a clear target to swing away at. I say if this is what they've got, take 'em at face value, say it's their alternative, and then make sure people understand how much better the Dem's deal is.

I'd just settle for them getting called out on their foppery. Let Price go on all the Sunday shows and be asked to explain what's in the bill and who has signed on. Is this the GOP health care plan?

Let a few newspapers run a page one story: "GOP Presents Opposing Plan". It would be hard to "balance" blatant tomfoolery, though the WaPo would try mighty hard.

I agree, treating this as the "Republican alternative" would be better strategy than claiming they don't have one. Sure, none of the leadership supports it, but in the words of LBJ, "Let's make the sonafabitch deny it!"

We have a plan but you're so busy threatening the minority you won't listen to us, so why waste our time telling you?

ACORN going down. Secrets of Obama birth coming out. Dems hiding BO's true citizenship statis probably going to be tried for treason. Healtch care scare is just scare to distract from dem problems