When people feel they're about to lose, they begin talking of "giving comfort to the enemy" and of "being stabbed in the back."

Cheney is complaining of being stabbed in the back by Obama; and AHIP is trying to rally the remnants of the GOP into a last push against the encroaching enemy.

Where are we now? Final days of the Third Reich?

plus the basic unreality of this assertion: "The GOP have gone from a party that got killed 11 months ago to a party that is rising today. And they are rising up on the turmoil of health care."

i suppose it's possible that the party's numbers are rising among some white men, but i see no evidence that they are rising with any group that elected democrats last fall

The dying, sick, bankrupt American people are "the enemy" to insurers and the GOP.

Can we get an ad here, pronto?

AHIP needs to learn how to read polls--it ain't the Dems, or the public option that's "down".
Not by a long shot.

Can't wait to see them take away the anti-trust exemption.

Did I just fall asleep and wake up in 2002, where it was considered normal to apply Constitional language on treason to Democrats? Is Morning Joe going to invite Jonah Goldberg on to laugh about this?

Our discourse can be awfully frustrating sometimes.

Only when the MSM decides to back the wrong side.Health Care reform is a no brainer. The corporations responsable for mining our population have , for all intent and purpose, been exposed for what they are and what it is they plan to do. If America ,once again, votes against their own best self interests, why should that be of a surprise to any clear thinker? Nauseating....

Wow, so the insurance lobby is outright telling Republicans to continue to oppose the bill for political reasons? Have they gone freaking insane?? First that joke of a report which only fueled Democratic support for healthcare reform, and now they're explicitly exposing the Republican Party as the partisan sock-puppets we always knew they were. It's like they're not even trying anymore.

Right and how about the CNN 'analyst' , the repiglican called Alex Constalatos .. or something like that ... whose 'media company' that he owns and makes the commercials for this group .... what is CNN going to do about this ? who is going to call them out ?

It's too goddamn bad we have so many Democrats who are bought and paid for by these criminals. We ought to be putting them out of business once and for all.

Speaking of NPR, I can't wait to see how they play this. Morning Edition loves them some poor, unappreciated, maligned insurance companies.

May I suggest this website just created by Rep. Alan Grayson: Names of the Dead
It will keep track of the people who have died as a result of not being covered by insurance.

If you have a loved one or someone you know who has suffered from the heartless Insurance Companies, please register them.

OOPS! the website is: www.namesofthedead.com Still learning how to offer links.

Cool. Can I be AHIP's enemy too? Every time I hear some right-winger complaining that a public option will put private insurance companies out of business, I wonder why I'm supposed to think that's a bad thing.

Names of the
Dead
Here it is!

so the american people are the enemies of the private medical insurance companies, and the environment is the enemy of the oil and energy companies, and customers are the enemies of the financial companies, and ... and ... and ...

it is so nice, when they get their backs to the wall, to hear the corporations lay out the truth amidst their squeals for more profits...

we are at war with the cannibal corporations that are destroying us.

SteinL: Where are we now? Final days of the Third Reich?

I think you mean final days of the Weimar Republic (after Germany lost World War I, when 'stabbed in the back' gained currency as an explanation for the loss).

Which would make where we are now all the more dangerous (we all know what happened next).

Note: I am not suggesting a comparison between the current administration and Hitler's regime; only that in disturbed times, dissatisfied people tend to turn truly radical.

I'll say it again. No public option than let the reform bill die and then have the DNC run an add listing all the candidates, including pseudo-dems, that did not support the public option as obstructionists to reform.

No public option and I am calling my Senators and asking them to vote against the bill and telling them if they don't I won't be voting for them.

No public option and I am writing Obama and telling him to veto the bill or I won't be voting for him in 2012.

It is best to let the bill die rather than make the existing system more complicated and increasing profits for the unInsurance industry. Then after a few hundred thousand more people die, and a few million more go bankrupt in 3 years we'll give it another try...

Good to know the health insurance companies have self-identified themselves with the republican party.

Now I won't lose a second of sleep when we shrink them and then drown them in the proverbial bathtub.

Assholes.

Almost sounds like a setup for post-reform arguments:
1. I need extra bonus payments because I fought reform real hard
2. Profits are down, but don't blame me--now I need an even bigger bonus
3. I didn't want to layoff people--reform made me do it.
4. Of course reform brought us more business, but some of those people are sick--now you'll have to triple my bonus
... anything to add? (yeah, I'm feeling a little snarky today)

These bloviating asshats watch too many stupid movies. Really bad movies at that.

AHIP seems bound and determined to kill off a lot of Americans based on their company goals, actions and statements. Since they can not even perform, nor ask for a proper finanical analysis, I'm not surprised they consider those that want to live out from under their homicidal greedy boots are considered the enemy.

What an era of homicidal asshats we have these days.

Notice how he's reduced the entire thing to a question of political one-upsmanship, one which is fueled by a fairly delusional understanding of where the two parties are in the polls. But the idea that Republicans might actually want to vote on a policy issue because of, well, the policy, is irrelevant - it's only about power. He would refuse to fill a bucket with water to put out a burning house, because it would make the bucket brigade look good.