And the Democrats still won't do anything about it.

SSDD.

The american electorate is too stupid. Once Fox Noise gets a hold of this Democrat move they'll lie through the roof that it's all a socialist plot.That the GOP never said anything akin tto what is posted there. It's all a commie rat fink lie. I'd bet a weeks salary. Nauseating...

The electorate is stupid, yes, but the media have totally failed.

And for some reason, the Dems just can't learn.

Is the republican plan online yet?

Defeating HCR at any cost seems so central to the Republican reason for being that you have to conclude that the 45,000 preventable deaths each year from lack of coverage and the countless bankrupticies are the price we must pay so the Republican Party may live.

"Throughout the debate on health insurance reform, Republican concepts and proposals have been included in legislation. In fact, hundreds of Republican amendments were adopted during the committee mark-up process."

That explains all the shitty parts, but I understand why they are saying this.

Repub from Virginia (Marshall) says that handicapped children are born to mothers who aborted
a previous pregnancy as God's punishment to the mother. Guess he is saying Palin aborted a baby before trig.
These crazies are also trying to stop any funding for planned parenthood,the sickness of these people never ceases to amaze.

Reason #13 that we should always elect a democrat as president:

When a republican is elected president, we know with absolute certainty that the American worker is going to get screwed. When we elect a democrat as president, we can pretend to be surprised when we learn that the American worker is going to get screwed!

The Obomination proudly proclaims that he incorporates republican ideas. The Obomination continues to strive for bipartisanship.

The American worker gets requirements to purchase health care insurance. The health care industry gets assurances that there will continue to NOT be competition in markets. The American worker supports a public option. The Obomination takes it away. The American worker needs a single payer system. The Obomination takes it off the table before 'negotiations'.

Is the Obomination anything other than a slightly less tainted version of the DLC/Dino/Rethug-Lite Billy Bob Clinton? Will 'Health Care Reform' turn out to be anything other than a federal mandated increasing of corporate profits and screwing of the American worker?

People are loss averse. Months ago, the Dems should have reframed the debate around what Americans will lose if the House bill is abandoned. They can still make that pivot.

When the Senate allowed for "reasonable" caps on annual coverage by insurance companies in the HCR bill was that a Republican plank?

The page includes a lengthy list of Republican proposals that have already been incorporated into the package, and which the president supports.

This is glorious. Simply glorious. Now, the Republicans can go all beserker about how they're never, ever, ever-not-in-a-million-years going to cooperate with teh Obama---and Obama gets them with "but you already have, little ones".

I predict Republican-v-Republican gladiator fights by the Ides of March!

UP or DOWN vote also applies to left-bloggers and commentators. This is the bill; are you in favor of it, or are against it? If 50 Senators want a public option, then let them amend it.

It doesn't matter why you think the bill is crummy -- if you're against it, then your allies are Cantor, Boehner and McConnell.

And it is definitely too late for talking about poor message discipline from Democrats while trashing the most important Democratic bill of the moment.

Reality should matter, at least a little, when considering GOP talking points...

I know you are, but what am I?

...they're lying.

And don't tell me that "reality" doesn't matter to them either! Oh noes!

'Tis a good heart y'have, Stevie-boy, but y'r railin' aginst the tide. Public discussion of governance is nothing more than dueling megaphones (some of them shaped remarkably like humans) playing recorded messages, and thanks to the Roberts Court, it's only gonna get worse.

I really think Rove was on to something. Keep the base revved up, and turn them out on Election Day. None of the rest matters any more.

After all is said and done and if the legislation is passed, I really do hope the sausage is palatable.

Steve, once the Democrats adopt a Republican't idea it is no longer a Republican'ts (or conservative idea).

Like 'Advanced Directives - Death Panels',
'Individual Mandates - Living Taxes',
and '100% Medicare Advantage reimbursement rates - Medicare Reductions'.

So of course once Congress and the White House adopt a Republican't idea, the Republican'ts disown it. It's like they found out their ideas 'turned gay'.

If not one Mainstreet Republican without adequate health care bothers to speak up, that should speak volumes.

Half this nation would rather toe the GOP party line than go against it, and have useless teabag rallies, and be led like sheep by the self-serving (Fox and Rush and Sarah), and Take Back America on the most abstract of terms instead of asking their representatives to vote for health care, health care that would improve their very lives?

I believe equating the electorate with stupid is fair and balanced.