Fix it? Too bad they couldn't be bothered to actually work on it before it became law.

God, I hate Republicans. Good for nothing loafers collecting almost a quarter of a million dollars annually to do nothing. Now they want to do something?

At least Corker is telling the truth. One point.

Tea Party Loons don't want to hear arcane rules about why you can't repeal the bill- super majority, presidential veto, yada yada yada- just REPEAL THE DAMN BILL!*

Regarding their signs: Yelling is easy. Spelling is hard.

The republicans will have a unified message soon. As soon as Frank Luntz determines the best language to use to fool the amerikan sheeple. It does take time to use focus groups to determine how to convince people that up is down.

"It's not what you say, it's what people hear."

Republicans will say everything, in order to please everybody---because they realize that there are not enough cushy guest-commentator positions at FOX to go around....

"But as we've seen repeatedly, Republicans are at their most effective when they're on the same rhetorical page."

Exactly.

Changing the subject a little, Dems should take a page out of their playbook and learn to get on the same rhetorical page in order to get our message across. The difference would be that Democratic rhetoric would have the advantage of being true.

Day, yesterday at AmericaBlog, John Aravosis had a post up called Teabonics. It links to a gallery of teabagger signs from all over. Check it out. To quote many, many Teabaggers: your gonna love it.

(I'd give you a link but I'm on my iPhone.)

Hey, partial Armageddon could be part of the new GOP lexicon. That along with partial drilling, partial death squads, partial nuke treaty, partial bank regulation, and best of all partial intelligence which is something in short supply with these cretins. Nauseating...

I am handing out lollipops for each and every "Republicans in Disarray" article we see from the Lame Stream Media (this of course excludes Keith and Rachel who are not lame by any stretch of the imagination).

My guess is there will be few to none. You'd think that this would be a bigger story, given the usual iron discipline of the GOP message machine. But of course, Democrats in Disarray is much more alliterative, and the refs have been worked so hard that they can barely set finger to keyboard to criticize the Goopers.

For decades the GOP has used and abused the Fundies and others on the extreme right for electoral purposes without delivering much in return. Now, they've riled up the loons to such an extent that the inmates have taken over the asylum and it's the old guard GOP leaders who have to jump through hoops to suit the rabble. I'm not nearly as pessimistic about Dem chances in the next elections as some. Keep passing legislation that solves the problems of most Americans and pisses off the tea baggers, then beat the the GOP over the head with their failure to satisfy the base.

Our uber-conservative friends would do well to repeal and replace the stupid happening over at their sister encampment - FOXNEWS! Then, they can work on doing the same for the Republican party! -Kevo

Here's that link to Teabonic (signs in Teabagger speak):

http://www.americablog.com/2010/03/teabonic-teabaggers-command-of-english.html

I wonder if it is fair to compare the dead who are slain in defense of the far far right wing rhetoric , to the accumulating total of slaughter directly attributable to the insidious Affordable Care Act .
The good clean , sensible people , who , aware that this is the end times , might consider a running total comparable to the National Debt tote board .
There needs to be a way in which the crushing fear of things can be refocussed on how things never change , is exactly why they have changed .
Here is the church , here is the Steeple , and in the left wing DFH pews are the Sheeple . Sheeple , sigh , who in defense of their right to live , far far right wing saints magnanimously offer to remove those annoying government functions which deviously assist in that defense .

It's time to start asking exactly what parts would be repealed or changed. Of course that will never be asked or mentioned because it requires policy to be stated. Even if the thugs get a majority in Congress, laws still require the President to sign or veto, including the pocket veto. Either work with Democrats, or the ACA is law until at least 2013.

I am surprised that they have not already put in a bill to repeal the death panels, after all, that is what they were fighting for!
I have been wondering why Obama decided to allow partial drilling for oil (except the obvious reason. ie to give repubs something else to divide them) and when I hear that the drilling offshore in Virginia will provide us with 6 days of oil, won't that reinforce Obama's statements that we must concentrate on alternate energy sources?

I have been reading all the signs in 'teabonic' and being English, I have one thing to say to teabaggers 'give us back our language'

Some good Democrat has to get out there and offer a fixes bill. Maybe strengthening some of the good stuff. Maybe exending a Medicare buy in to folks over 55.

Jack Bruce and Pete Brown

Take it back, take it back, take that thing right out of here.
Right away, far away, take that thing right out of here.

I was going to put up the whole lyric , deciding that indulging wasn't as valiant as me .

Corker's never gonna get any points from me, he engaged in some pretty sleazy race baiting during his last Senate campaign. Unless he's apologized for that, forget him.
Someone else pointed out that he was speaking at Vanderbilt, where the head of the university has endorsed HCR as a way to ease the burden on their hospital. He's just saying what one particular audience wants to hear, although it does happen to be true.

I hope they manage to get rid of those death panels before my wife and I become grandparents.

I'm not so sure that once a new message is settled upon that the teabaggers will maintain their fury, or even remember that they insisted on full repeal. After all, we have always been at war with Eurasia.

Don't dismiss Corker out of hand. Unlike Burr, Corker is an up and coming leader for the Senate GOP. He's smart, instinctively moderate (although he sometimes has to pretend to be otherwise in today's GOP), and has practical governing experience as mayor of Chattanooga, where he was surprisingly progressive. It's no accident he has been made GOP point man on a number of issues, including the auto bailout and financial reform. This is the GOP brain struggling against its id. The id may be raging, but the head is trying, meekly, to fight back. I'm betting on the id.

My crude estimate is that the cost of the reform, $1 trillion, represents .5% of the GDP over ten years. How do you "destroy" a nation by changing its government outlays and taxation by less than 1%?

The Republicans are shooting themselves in the foot. They are not just the party of No, they are the party of Hell No. The winner in November will the party completes their mission first. The Democrats need to get a spine and the Republicans need to get a message. May the best party win.

Chances are the Rethugs will split not only over health care, but on regulatory reform, and immigrtation. The teabaggers are pulling to the right very hard, but they can't prevail with their small numbers no matter how much undeserved media attention they get. If more violence breaks out on the right that will only serve to turn off more people in the middle. Even if they get control of their message it will still be tailored to the base, and that won't resonate far beyond the ghettos of the hinterland either. Couple that with Steele alienating the donor base, and you have a recipe for Rethug chaos.

The real problem is the Dems don't have message control either, and they have precious little time to create it. Mostly they don't seem to know how to do it.