Those goddamn 1993 Republicans were nothing more than socialist Nazi gangbangers who were trying to kill everyone’s grandma:

For Republicans, the idea of requiring every American to have health insurance is one of the most abhorrent provisions of the Democrats’ health overhaul bills.

“Congress has never crossed the line between regulating what people choose to do and ordering them to do it,” said Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT). “The difference between regulating and requiring is liberty.”

But Hatch’s opposition is ironic, or some would say, politically motivated. The last time Congress debated a health overhaul, when Bill Clinton was president, Hatch and several other senators who now oppose the so-called individual mandate actually supported a bill that would have required it.

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One reason the individual mandate appealed to conservatives is because it called for individual responsibility to address what economists call the “free-rider effect.” That’s the fact that if a person is in an accident or comes down with a dread disease, that person is going to get medical care, and someone is going to pay for it.

“We called this responsible national health insurance,” says Pauly. “There was a kind of an ethical and moral support for the notion that people shouldn’t be allowed to free-ride on the charity of fellow citizens.

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But the summary of the Republican bill from the Clinton era and the Democratic bills that passed the House and Senate over the past few months are startlingly alike.

Beyond the requirement that everyone have insurance, both call for purchasing pools and standardized insurance plans. Both call for a ban on insurers denying coverage or raising premiums because a person has been sick in the past. Both even call for increased federal research into the effectiveness of medical treatments — something else that used to have strong bipartisan support, but that Republicans have been backing away from recently.

Only in America will you find a liberal party trying to reform health care by using a 17-year-old  conservative party idea and the conservative party calling the idea the liberal party stole from them as a socialized, Marxist, government-run death camp.

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The Senate needs to kill this health care bill:

This is essentially the collapse of health care reform in the United States Senate. Honestly the best thing to do right now is kill the Senate bill, go back to the House, start the reconciliation process, where you only need 51 votes and it would be a much simpler bill.

There’s nothing in this bill that benefits you or me. There’s no single-payer, no public option, no prescription drug reimportation, and no extending Medicaid.

But there’s a ton of things in this bill that benefits Big Business. There’s a mandate that makes it illegal not to have health insurance. There’s a provision banning drug reimportation. And there’s a provision that makes it more difficult for generic drug makers to produce cheaper versions of popular drugs.

So this health care bill is nothing but a huge hand out to the health insurance/pharmaceutical industry. Yet liberals and progressives want this bill to pass.

Why?

Why do they want to pass a bill that makes not having health insurance illegal? Why do they want to pass a bill that doesn’t include prescription drug reimportation? Why do they want to pass a bill that helps the health insurance/pharmaceutical industry more than the American people?

Maybe it’s because they have developed a serious case of Stockholm syndrome and think Democrats have their best interest in mind. Or maybe it’s because they honestly think this is the best bill they can get.

Whatever their reason is they need to know that this health care bill is worthless and it needs to die a horrible, painful, violent death.

But since they can’t be reasoned with, and since they think Obama shits golden truffles, this health care bill will pass through both the Senate and the House and Obama will sign it by the end of January.

Which means I need to call my stock broker and have him put all my money in Atena, because they’re fixing to make a killing.

Update: Looks like Howard Dean hit a nerve.

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I thought everyone knew Joe Lieberman was going to do this:

Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) informed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in a face-to-face meeting on Sunday that he will vote against a health care bill that includes a public option or a provision that would expand Medicare, a Democratic Senate aide tells the Huffington Post.

The two senators had a discussion in Reid’s office shortly after Lieberman appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday morning. The Connecticut independent discussed with Reid some of his concerns about the legislation, elaborating on issues he had raised during the show. According to the source, who was briefed on the exchange, Lieberman punctuated the discussion by telling the majority leader directly that he will vote against the bill if the Medicare buy-in and public option provisions remain in it. Roll Call reports that Lieberman said he would also support a Republican filibuster of legislation that included these provisions.

Joe Lieberman has been screwing over Democrats ever since Al Gore picked him to be his running mate in 2000. So why is this a surprise? I mean, you’d think the Democratic leadership would have anticipated this from the guy that smeared Obama during the campaign .

But regardless of how stupid the Democratic leadership is for not seeing this move, I hope they force Joe Lieberman to follow through with the filibuster. Why? Two reasons: I’ve never seen a live filibuster and I want this health care bill to die.

Now I know this may come as a shock to you, but I’ve never seen a live filibuster and I’m curious to see how long Joe Lieberman can speak. Because when I saw him on Face the Nation yesterday he sounded like a fat man struggling up a flight of stairs. And that was just during a 21 and a half minute show. I can only imagine how difficult it will be for him to speak for four, five, or six straight hours.

The second reason I want to see Joe Lieberman go through with the filibuster is because this health care bill needs to die a slow, painful death.  Because it’s a bill written by the health insurance industry for the health insurance industry.

As the bill stands right now the health insurance industry gets to keep the inexpensive, healthy young people while forcing the government to take the expensive, sick old people. Which means the health insurance industry will make hundreds of millions of dollars in profit each year  because they won’t have to spend money of things like heart surgery, life long diabetes medicine, knee replacements, hip replacements, and other things old people need. (How is that fair? And how is the government capable of taking care of people 55 and older but incapable of taking care of people 54 and younger?)

But I know Joe Lieberman’s not going to go through with the filibuster because Democrats are sackless, corporate shills who are going to give in to his demands and pass a health care bill that benefits the health insurance industry while fucking over every one else.

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Because he tells it like it is.

Republicans and Democrats slammed Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) for calling Linda Robertson, an adviser to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, a “K Street whore” in a month-old radio interview that circulated on Capitol Hill Monday night.

The remarks are the latest to surface in a string of controversial statements by Grayson, who said on the Alex Jones radio show that he believes Robertson, a former Enron lobbyist, is not qualified to pass judgment on intricate financial matters.

Alan Grayson has everything you could ask for in a politician: independently wealthy,  good looking, smart, liberal, huge balls, and Jewish.

God, I’m getting hard just thinking about the time he called Dick Cheney a vampire. Er…I just remembered I left the coffee pot on in the bathroom. So, um,  I need to go turn it off before it burns down the entire neighborhood.

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Because the Democrats are one step closer to a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.

Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter will switch his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat and announced today that he will run in 2010 as a Democrat, according to a statement he released this morning.

Specter’s decision would give Democrats a 60 seat filibuster proof majority in the Senate assuming Democrat Al Franken is eventually sworn in as the next senator from Minnesota. (Former senator Norm Coleman is appealing Franken’s victory in the state Supreme Court.)

Suck on that you stupid fucking Republicans.  With Arlen Specter’s help the Democrats will finally be able to fix the shit George Bush broke while he was in office.

With Arlen Specter’s help the Democrats can finally withdraw all our troops from the Middle East.  What?  Arlen Specter supports the Iraq and Afghanistan wars?  Alright, I guess that’s okay.  I mean, he’s entitled to his opinion.

But anyways, with Arlen Specter’s help the Democrats can finally help the unions.  What?   Arlen Specter’s against helping the unions?  Alright, I don’t understand, but who am I to judge?  I mean, maybe he has a good reason for it, I don’t know.

But, um, with Arlen Specter’s help the Democrats can finally regulate Wall Street.  What?   Arlen Specter’s one of the biggest Wall Street campaign recipients?

Goddammit.  Why the fuck did Arlen Specter switch to the Democratic party when his views are aligned with the Republican party?

Specter told reporters that he received a “bleak” poll Friday from his advisers that showed virtually no chance of him winning in the GOP primary next spring against Pat Toomey, a former Republican House member who recently led the conservative Club for Growth.

Are you fucking serious?  This cock sucker changed parties because he was about to lose his goddamn job?

God-fucking-dammit.

Why can’t normal people get away with the shit politicians do?  Why can’t someone who’s about to get fired go, “You know what?  I don’t feel like losing my job today, so I’ve decided to become the CEO and do the firing.”  Why can’t someone who wants some information go, “You know what?  I think that guy is banging my wife, so I’m going to tell my paperboy to strap him to a table and waterboard his ass until I get an answer.”  Why can’t someone who’s about to go bankrupt go, “You know what?  I don’t feel like being broke, so I’m going to create a failing business and get the government to bail me out with billions of dollars that I don’t have to pay back.”

Why do these rich, white stupid-ass motherfuckers get to make up the rules as they go along to benefit them, while they force every other poor son of a bitch to play by the first set of rules and continue to get fucked over?

For the love of God, could we please, PLEASE, have a crazy person storm the Capital while Congress is in session and blow these motherfuckers away?  For fuck’s sake, these are the assholes who are screwing you over.  Not illegal immigrants.

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You’ve just gotten a taste of how this torture shit is going to play out.

Liberal activists are pressing for the impeachment of federal Judge Jay Bybee over the Bush administration’s “torture memos” in part because there is virtually nothing that President Barack Obama, congressional Republicans or conservative Senate Democrats can do to stop the process from getting underway.

Ah, yes, the classic Washington “Us verses Them” bullshit.  Where the Democrats will say things like, “This is outrageous.  How is this man a federal judge?  He signed a memo giving permission to waterboard detainees, stick their heads in a box full of bugs, slam their heads into a wall, slap them, and deprive them of sleep.  How can this man say he will uphold the Constitution when he shat on its chest 7 years ago?”

And the Republicans will respond with, “Fuck that.  There were high ranking Democrats who knew we were torturing those nasty brown pieces of shit in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Did they object?  Fuck no.  They were too busy getting paid thousands of dollars by lobbyists to care about the fucked up shit we were doing to people.  If they’re going to impeach anyone it should be their own goddamn selves.”

Think I’m lying?  Read this shit :

Republicans are pushing back. The Judiciary Committee’s ranking member, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), warned that Democratic leaders also would also come under scrutiny. He said Podesta should also pursue House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over her lack of action following classified briefings she received on the interrogation techniques.

“If he wants to be absolutely fair, he ought to ask the speaker to resign as well,” Smith told POLITICO on Monday. “Clearly, any attorney should be able to offer their legal advice and give their best counsel to a president and to an administration without fear of someone trying to reach back and impeach them when they get to a higher office.”

So it looks like nothing is going to change.  Rich, powerful white people will continue to torture  poor brown people.  The media will continue to make this a Republicans vs. Democrats issue.  And Americans could care less because they are too busy worrying about the stupid fucking swine flu.

You know…business as usual…

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The sun is out.  Birds are singing.  And white people are starting to come together.  Yes my friends, today is national tea party day.  So put on your best protesting clothes and get ready to throw tiny tea bags into some large body of water.

Today’s the day to come together and protest the trillions of dollars Barack Obama put on the books; to protest the tax rates that won’t affect 95% of the population; and to protest how shitty the Main Stream Media is – except for Fox News.  Today’s the day when we all come together to protest how we hate getting ass fucked by our government.

Never mind how the ass fucking has been going on since the 1970′s.  Never mind how the tax rate was higher when Ronald Reagan was in office.  Never mind how the corporations have been pushing this shit since that douche bag Rick Santelli screamed at Obama about bailing out homeowners as he stood in the middle of the stock market.  Never mind how you all are acting like a herd of retarded sheep by doing whatever the fuck rich people tell you to do.

You go out there and yell those stupid chants.  You go out there and hold hands while bitching about the government.  You go out there and listen to those Republican congressmen tell you how sick they are of spending your money.  You go out there and shed a tear when some old soldier speaks about how this isn’t the America he fought for.  You go out there and blame everything on Obama and the Democrats.  You go out there and  ignore the fact that Congress was controlled by Republicans for 13 years.

Because you’re standing up for what you believe in, and for that I say – God bless you.

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