LA Times: In the face of Republican attacks Tuesday, leading Democrats defended a controversial endgame maneuver that would allow them to pass the Senate version of a healthcare overhaul without taking a direct vote on the legislation’s most divisive provisions.

The stratagem, known in the arcane language of Congress as a “self-executing” rule or “deem and pass,” would allow House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) to skirt a roll-call vote, speeding passage of the bill and helping limit attacks on Democrats facing tough competition in an election year.

Republicans used the same parliamentary shortcut to avoid difficult votes when they controlled Congress, but on Tuesday they accused Democrats of being high-handed and unseemly. [ READ MORE ]

Republicans Promise WAR if Healthcare is Passed

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Meanwhile, on Tuesday, the healthcare “dogs that cannot be potty trained,” led by their Congressmen, went crapping on the steps of the Capitol, in Washington. The tea-partiers came holding pictures of HATE — one depicting president Obama climbing into a coffin.

   The same BREED of RACIST-IDIOTS Marched in the 60s

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FAT Dick Morris sent out a mailing titled: “Obamacare Armageddon Has Arrived” — “Congress and the president are very close to subverting the will of the American people who strongly oppose Obamacare.” “The good news is that this nightmare can be stopped,” the mailing implored ….

…..More Wackadoodle YELPS

Anti-Immigrant Bigot Tom Tancredo Responds To Fellow Wackadoodle Dick Armey — Former Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., reacts to former House Majority Leader Dick Armey’s comments that he is a “destructive force” for the GOP.

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Senator Inhofe attacks Al Gore on global warming — While speaking on the Senate floor, Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., claimed that former Vice President Al Gore “seems to be drowning in a sea of his own global warming illusions.”

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“Horseman” J.D. Hayworth’s LIES

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Bigot Rick Santorum: “I think the Democrats are actually worried [Obama] may go to Indonesia and bow to more Muslims”

Rush Limbaugh calls Obama “essentially a third world president“

Notes: How to annoy Glenn Beck in five minutes or less — Want to annoy Fox News’ Glenn Beck in five minutes or less while simultaneously making sure your community gets its fair share of federal money? Fill out and return the 2010 U.S. Census questionnaire when it arrives in your mailbox. [ READ MORE ]

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From Cuéntame: Hola Friends, Colleagues and Supporters!,

As hosts of Cuéntame we want to tell you a bit about ourselves, the project and about our latest campaign against Tea Party racism and violence.

Both Ofelia and I have seen with great sadness and frustration how Tea Partiers have unjustly and unfairly targeted the Latino community to further their political agenda. This is why our latest campaign exposing Tea Party racism has hit a nerve, not only within the Latino community but also with many folks across the country who like us are fed-up of all the hatred, the violence and the bigotry peddled by teabaggers.

From calling Mexicans “filthy, stinking animals,” to listening the likes of Tom Tancredo and Sarah Palin deliver hateful speech after hateful speech to the increase use of violence in their words and actions, Teabaggers have come out in full force against our community.

We are fed up and are ready to fight back. You can help us not only by watching and spreading our videos, but also by joining our page and recruiting your friends – Latino or not – to do the same:

Teabaggers exposed! Hundreds of people gathered to hear Tom Tancredo spread hate through his speech at the Tea Party convention. The tea party has taken on a racist agenda. Re-post this video on Tom Tancredo’s Facebook wall and tell him it’s NOT OK to spread hate around!

•   VIDEO: “Exposing The Racism” From Facebook.com/Cuentame

•   VIDEO: Demand an explanation — Why the constant bashing towards President Obama and minorities when the “movement” should be about taxes? Demand an explanation! Post this video on the tea party wall! Facebook.com/teapartypatriots

•   VIDEO: “The GOP (Republicans) Supports the Tea-baggers” — Many GOP members have spoken at numerous tea party meetings and rallies showing their support for a group whose many followers promote hate and intolerance. Tell the REPUBLICANS to stop supporting hate!

Tea Party Racists

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Pathology of a Hate Crime — Los Angeles KABC’s Doug McIntyre Terrorizes Hispanic Children

Tea Party Racism

Teabaggers Gone Wild! Featuring a Coconut, an Uncle Tom, a Spaniard and Other White Racists

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Republican politicians are so terrified by the prospect of Democrats taking permanent and irreversible stewardship over healthcare, just like they did with civil rights in the 60’s. Expanding access to health care for the poor and downtrodden in America is a “baseball bat” with which the Democrats can beat down on Republicans for years to come — and the “goon” GOP political machine knows this plenty well.

Look at it this way: If Republicans think that passing the healthcare bill will “hang” Democrats in the upcoming November elections — then, why are they working overtime to derail it? After all, the 2010 elections are just a few months away. Why not just let the Democrats self-destruct? Why the mighty mis-representations, mis-information and lies?

They know what’s in store for them if Obama signs this bill into law — as the “confused” gradually begin to realize that Sarah Palin’s “Death Panels” or Glenn Beck’s Communist verbiage are nothing but a pack of desperate LIES.

They might win more congressional seats this November, but after all has settled down, the EVIL and RACIST Republican scheming against healthcare will backfire on them — just like when they opposed civil rights, social security and Medicare legislations .

Dick Morris, Fox News’ FAT, despicable, fear-mongering LIAR — predicts “DOOM OF THE DEMS IN 2010,” — “a complete obliteration of Democratic congressional and Senate majorities.”

The always wrong Dick pegs Obama’s approval rating at 43% – by “Rasmussen polls,” a right-leaning polling tool often used by Republicans to cook up numbers — to help advance the right’s racist, extremist agenda.

FYI: Gallup which runs the most reliable of all political polls, has Obama at 52%, and other pollsters are within the same range.

Morris says he’s “100 percent positive” that Obama will create panels [DEATH PANELS] that will “[curb] medical care to the elderly”

Meanwhile, the Republican National Committee has unleashed a fundraising document which caricatures President Obama as the Joker, and, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.), as Cruella de Vil and Scooby-Doo, respectively. The three Democratic leaders were gathered under the heading “The Evil Empire.”

The racist-cartoonish images were part of a 72-page PowerPoint presentation assembled for potential campaign donors and fundraisers. The document was obtained by Politico after being left at a Florida hotel where the Republicans had gathered Feb. 18.

It looks like the lunatic tea-party haters have clearly taken over the Republican Party. [ READ MORE ]

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Random Right-Wing Attacks

Fox News, right-wing blogs attack Obama’s embrace of GOP health care ideas as a “gimmick“

Beckel: “Every Republican who’s complaining about it now voted for reconciliation on George Bush’s tax bills”

Limbaugh says Obama’s message is: “Shut up, debate over. Bend over.“

Limbaugh previews his response to Obama’s health care speech: “It’s Hiroshima time, folks. It’s Nagasaki“

Limbaugh: “We have just been delivered the biggest pile of manure yet with this health care speech”

References:

1. The GOP’s Big Health LIE

2. The tea party is an extension of talk radio. It’s an extension of Fox News Channel. — It’s an extension of the southern faction of the Republican Party — the faction that gave us the Southern Strategy, the Willie Horton ad, the White Hands ad and the racially divisive politics of Lee Atwater and Karl Rove. It’s an extension of the race-baiting and, often, the outright racism evident in all of those conservative spheres. [ READ MORE ]

3. How did media cover GOP’s 2003 use of reconciliation? They didn’t

4. Michael Lind speculates as to why Republicans want gridlock: READ HERE
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It’s hard to imagine how a town like Leitchfield (population: 6,139) in central Kentucky could survive without government. Sitting between Nolin and Rough River Lakes, it’s on the way to nowhere in particular, so no private interest would build a road to it. In surrounding Grayson County more than one in five people and one in three children is on food stamps, so no one would feed it. It does not produce enough wealth to sustain itself. Unemployment, long in double figures, stands at 16 percent. One in five lives below the poverty line; the median income is $35,011. Were it not for the redistributive effects of taxation, its residents would literally go nowhere and many would be incredibly hungry when they got there. [ READ MORE ]

Meanwhile, Sarah Palin has told the Tea Partiers they have to pick a party – either Republican or Democrat. Speaking to Republicans in Arkansas, Palin started by praising the Tea Party, calling it a “grand movement” that she loves because it’s “all about the people,” ….ER,..Really! — HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS — in speaking fees?

During his show Wednesday night, Fox News’ Sean Hannity argued that former President George Bush was more in touch with the American people than president Obama, while Toe-sucking LIAR, Dick Morris fearmongered about financial regulatory reform, linking Obama to Castro, and, retarded blogger, “Voting Female,” spun her ass up in the air — like a skunk scent-marking its territory!

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Dick FAT Morris fearmongers about financial regulatory reform: “Castro would have loved to have had” that power

Beck: “The Nazis learned their propaganda from the progressive movement in the United States“

Beck and sidekick outraged by “disrespect” of Obama putting his feet up on Oval Office desk

Beck on Obama using his real name “Barack“: “You don’t take the name Barack to identify with America,” but with “your heritage,” “radical[s]“

Beck: “don’t you listen” to people who call him “crazy” and “unhinged“

John Stewart Confronts Fox’s Bill O’Reilly

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Filipino Immigrant, Michelle Malkin on census: “indoctrination,” “Alinskyite,” “way to ensure a permanent [Dem] ruling majority“

“NAZI Jew” Mark Levin continues to smear Leahy, attacks “criminal front group” Media Matters

O’Reilly: Glenn Beck “is a Constitutionalist. He takes a very traditional point of view on what America should be“

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