After gutting HCR, we will focus on unstimulating the economy.

At some point, the Republican party will have to owe up to the continual damage they are doing to this country.

That is probably why they are trying to defuse into smaller cells - so that they can claim they are innocent of the carnage or they can take full responsibility as some sort of initiation in taking one for the team.

Last time I checked, Cantor's wife's bank got a HUGE safety net via the bank bailouts last year.

He's against poor people.

(and I mean period!)

His version of America is the greedy deserve their money, hands off.

Here's what I sent back to Mitch in the Obama million call scheme. They blocked this voter with a spam filter. Helluva way to tell me I'm worth something.

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Good afternoon to you,

You are wasting my time.

Single payer is/was the way to go, and at least a strong public option is what will rein in costs. Works very well in the EU and Canada, in spite of Faux "News" cherrypicked anecdotes. Do you realize how Reagan lied outright about the "welfare queens"? Same thing now.

This bill now does nothing but force paying top dollar for garbage care. Add in the fact that the White House (= Obama) led the fight to cave into the already-too-rich insurance companies means that the campaign rhetoric is optional for Barack Obama. Add in the spineless groveling to Joe Lieberman (who I see still rejected the latest "compromise" that I would speculate you actually discussed with him with buy-in before you went public) which continues even now and anyone can see you [individually and collectively] aren't about change.

There's a reason the polls tanked on HCR after the PO was removed. In short, it became garbage, and the American people were smart enough to see it.

Who is in charge there, really? We know, the bankers and the moneymen.

I will also observe that even though Obama is better than W in some ways, it's only some and not enough. Tell me how he will defend torture to his two daughters as they realize what he is doing and still trying to hide the excesses of his predecessor on the flimsiest of grounds. Barack Obama owns this now.

Until I see the real change promised, don't even ask for my money, time, or vote.

Was there ever a question that the GOP's goal is to gut all social programs? The only thing they thing guvmint money should be spent on is the military. Well, that and pouring money into agricultural and oil subsidies.

Steve, when you have friends like democrats, who needs enemies like republicans?

Point is I don't really see the efficacy of worrying about what republicans do or say as it's the democrats themselves that are imploding and failing to govern.

Piss on the whole 'democrats are diverse' meme, if you have no control over your party you have no control over your policy.

A conservative friend confided to me that the recession was blown out of proportion. It uis NOT, he insisted, the greatest recession since the Great Depression. His proof? No bread lines or soup kitchens or men selling applres on the corner. I told him I coudl explain the difference between the Great Depression and the Great Recession in four words: Unemployment Compensation and Food Stamps.

If Cantor and his cronies want to trigger a double dip recession with the risk of falling into another Depression, just reduce or kill off unemployment benefits and food stamps. In my State of Oregon with a population around 3 million people, there were 650,000 people on food stamps last month. Unemployment benefits and those stamps are the reason we do not see the destitution we saw in Dorothea Lange's iconic Great Depression photographs. Cantor is too young and inexperienced to realize it, but he really doesn't want to see that kind of destitution either. Because it means the pitchforks are next.

When the unemployment started hitting really big numbers, that's when the military managed to meet its quota, without having to lower them or extend huge numbers of waivers. What's not to like?

And what Tom Nicholson said, @16:07, about the Temple Singer's wife; even if Cantor got voted out in '10, he wouldn't lose his health insurance and he wouldn't need his COBRA (though I'm sure he'd apply for his unemployment benefits all the same; never let an unearned penny go by, begging to be picked up)

If the Republicans want to get rid of the safety net, then let's get rid of the safety net.

All of it.

Police, fire departments, the military, the courts, everything.

Republicans seem to think Social Darwinism is for someone else and not them.

They wish.

Here's what I sent back to Mitch in the Obama million call scheme. They blocked this voter with a spam filter. Helluva way to tell me I'm worth something.

I "signed up" to be a volunteer on the site just so I could tell them "not one phone call, not one dime."

"the difference between the Great Depression and the Great Recession in four words: Unemployment Compensation and Food Stamps."-Russell Aboard M/V Sunshine

And that is precisely why guys like Cantor, et al appeal to the Minority White Male.

Men whose credo is: "I earned every f'ing thing
I got, with no help from no damn gummint! And I'm mad as hell that MY tax dollars are going to support THEM!"

DAY, your post reminded of Mr. Joe Republican. Google it.

I would like to officially encourage the Republicans to take this meme and fly with it. Go forth! Spread the word! Make it your central campaign mission for 2010.

Please.

Cantor is a dick.