A random thought on the health care debate!
Gregg says if we worked for the government we could have the same health care that he has.
Now the repubs have an amendment to get the public option for all members of congress, we can get that passed and soon we will have single payer health ins
by way of the public option.

Hatch doesn't live in the United States society...He is a registered foreign agent from New Zion Beulahland in the southwestern sector of the country... a nice 19th century patriarchy in the desert. His other residence is a nearly-adult-life-long member of the Village.

I doubt Orrin Hatch has seen America in over 30-40 years.

Hatch has always been insane -- bat shit. We are now seeing the layers of "you kids git off my lawn" and "old guy yelling at clouds" maturing aspects take 'control' of his personality.

Orrin's just another of the many stars in the Clown Car SEnate...and he's pure-T hell in their barbershop quartet!

Hatch has always been a nutjob. I wonder how it is Senators like Kennedy managed to keep straight faces when they worked with him on legislation.

Sad thing is, Hatch is just one of so many Senators that have lost their minds.

"...get this country under control." I have no doubt that's exactly what he and many other Republicans want to do.

Orrin: get thee back to your Booby Hatch.

It is really sad that people who are exhibiting signs of dementia are forced to continue serving. There should be some test for cognitive behavior associated with the responsibility of running the country and affecting MY future. They test pilots and old drivers don't they?

Despite his infrequent moments of clarity, Hatch is one of the biggest whiners/weenies in the senate and always has been. Many of us wish he had stayed in Pittsburgh instead of carpetbagging his way to Washington via Utah.

Good thing those liberals couldn't force the GOP Senate to get rid of the filibuster years ago! They tried to!

I agree with John-these are typical early Alzheimers' symptoms. Layered on top of a typical rightwing, paranois style of theocratic politics, they are the icing on a doody cake!

BWAHAHAHAHA...

Come on! Give the guy some credit. HE'S 75 and still walkin. Hell they had to carry Byrd in in a bucket to vote, lolol!

They prove the rule and illuminate the prime directive of every member of congress...get elected and then KEEP GETTIN elected, till they pry ur cold fingers from your hotline to God.

And the young'ens newly elected dream the dream of life long "service" to the nation in the ONLY gov't building that allows a smoking room. (Do as we say, not as we do.)

And shut up about their hair plugs! Their gurlfriends LIKE'EM even if their wives don't!

Yah...when voters get serious enough to INFORM themselves, providing they can down enough cans of RED BULL to get through one bill, then MAYBE we'll get a decent congress. But I'm not holding my breath. Like the Taliban, these guys think in terms of decades, not years.

Meanwhile it's high comedy. Pull up a chair, make popcorn, open a brewskie, tune in Cspan and enjoy watchin the Ringling Bingling Barnum and Whozits Clowns rearrange deck chairs on the Titanic.

Speaking of which, is it just me, or have McCain's arms gotten shorter....bwahahahaha

Hatch's intellect has always been a bit too myopic! -Kevo

Sen. Hatch was just speaking a truth that is happening right now. You people claim hes a nutjob but you all have been baited little by little until your going to find yourself trapped under a totalitarian system and then what are you going to do...

Do not kid yourselves, we live in a world of euphemisms and whats going on now is no different from Kaiser, Hilter, Stalin, Mao.

As I've said here before: old guys, who get a job more or less for life because of incumbency, are, well, old. The possibility of what we used to call "forgetfulness," a.k.a Altzheimer's or "early onset dementia" is real. I'm old enough to have watched my father slip into maybe not so early onset. Not every old person has it; Daily Kos has a wonderfully sharp and articulate diarist in her mid-90s. Sen. Kennedy, even afflicted with a brain tumor, showed no signs of cognitive loss; Sen. Byrd, though fragile physically, seems to have his wits about him. And wisdom, which does come with age, is a good thing. Still: we need to find a way to retire those -- of either or any party --who have lost the capacity to think straight. Meanwhile we can only be grateful that given the comfort and luxury senators enjoy, Sens. Hatch, McCain, Baucus, Specter, perhaps (given his pathetic bleatings on health care) Lieberman, and others of similarly diminished intellectual capacity, are not likely to be behind the wheel, driving a car.

The willingness to embrace cognitive dissonanance as an asset appears to be a very common trait in the GOP, hell, it might even be the very glue that binds them all together.

Do not kid yourselves, we live in a world of euphemisms and whats going on now is no different from Kaiser, Hilter, Stalin, Mao.

Yep, you've got to watch out for that Mr. Hilter.

By the way, what was the Kaiser's first name? I'm sure you can tell me since you're so very knowledgeable about history.

Betty @ 10:47

Here it is hours later and I'm still wet eyed. Keep 'em coming!

have McCain's arms gotten shorter...
naw, but contrasted against his inflated head...

"I think we would finally have the total responsibility to get this country under control and I believe we would."

It's difficult to fully understand the right-wing agenda for this country. It seems to be a conglomeration; our country subdivided into little theocratic and corporate empires and public funding only to support massive police/military systems to control a restive public. No taxes for the wealthy elites, no public education, no public health, and no infrastructure support appear to be major goals. Unrestrained and unregulated business practices would be governed by unresponsive after-the-fact 'market forces.' Class would be defined, in part, by skin color and gender, not just wealth. It seems we'd have a population of slave waged workers, hostile and desperately bickering over any advantage to simply make it through the day.

Is that the goal, third-world system for America?

Sez Tim--
"Sen. Hatch was just speaking a truth that is happening right now. You people claim hes a nutjob but you all have been baited little by little until your going to find yourself trapped under a totalitarian system and then what are you going to do..."

"Sen. Hatch was just speaking a truth that is happening right now."

Where in the world have you been for the last 8 years? It seems as if you're saying this began happening only since January 20, 2009.

A totalitatian system exists when a government controls all aspects of its' citizens lives.

The government currently does not own the media outlets, the corporations, the means of production, etc.

Only when the U.S. government controls everything can it really be called a totalitarian government.

America has a mixed economy.

Alzheimer's disease wouldn't cause these kinds of rants ... If he was raving about liberals giving away the Panama Canal, that might be Alzheimer's.

It COULD be that Hatch is going through age-related neurological decline that is leading him to be more impolitic. According to Ian Stuart-Hamilton's, "The Psychology of Aging", there's a lot of evidence that with age, the frontal lobes decline. When we're trying to figure out a problem or deciding what to say, the frontal lobes help us filter out incorrect, irrelevant or inappropriate possibilities. This could explain why elderly people are known for speaking their minds, and why Hatch spouted off in this manner. Wouldn't be anywhere near enough to disqualify him from holding office.

Too funny beating on Orin when the dims are trotting out KKKK Byrd and having him blink yes or no. Ole Teddy K was not even showing up for work yet pulling a paycheck. Heck, I wonder what this guys excuse for that nut down in Fl, Grayson is.

Majii

You dont think government already controls media? You have Henry Waxman ready to introduce legislation to make it official!

As for production, Do you think that bailout to GM was just to keep them afloat so they could keep pumping out Escalades?

Mnemosyne,

If in history I bet you would have been one of those cheering voices as the Furher drove by the Victory column saying "save me save me"

Im assuming many of you here enjoy the current policies of growing the federal government so why dont you all just come out and admit you thought W. was great then too? Right now I cant tell the difference between W. and BHO.

I will forgive politicians that have come out of their drunken state for the past 9 years and have come to realize that they have to start doing their job which is working for the people not special interest, big business, etc.