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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Picture: Two Republican LOONS, Rep. Steve King of Iowa, right, and Rep. Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, crumpled a copy of the bill on the Capitol steps.

HuffingtonPost: After months of debate, the House of Representatives passed historic health care reform legislation late on Saturday evening. The 220-215 vote (click here to see how each member voted) cleared the way for the Senate to begin a long-delayed debate on the issue that has come to overshadow all others in Congress.

A triumphant Speaker Nancy Pelosi likened the legislation to the passage of Social Security (Opposed By Republicans) in 1935 and Medicare 30 years (Also Opposed By Republicans) later. “Oh, what a night!” she proclaimed at the beginning of a press conference held after the vote. Obama issued a statement saying, “I look forward to signing it into law by the end of the year.”

“It provides coverage for 96 percent of Americans. It offers everyone, regardless of health or income, the peace of mind that comes from knowing they will have access to affordable health care when they need it,” said Rep. John Dingell, the 83-year-old Michigan lawmaker who has introduced national health insurance in every Congress since succeeding his father in 1955. [ READ MORE ] [ PELOSI'S DAY ] [ SWEEPING HEALTH CARE PLAN PASSES HOUSE ]

Unruly ReTHUGliLOONS Try To Disrupt Last Night’s Health Reform Debate

Nancy Pelosi Brings it Home

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Dick Morris, the discredited Pervert and LIAR, and former Clinton adviser, who spilled state secrets to prostitutes while strategizing for Clinton — has characterized the now passed Health Reform Bill as follows: “As the suicidal Democratic congressmen proceed to rubber-stamp the Obama healthcare reform despite the drubbing their party took in the ‘09 elections, the president trotted out the endorsements of the AMA and the AARP to stimulate support. But these — and the other endorsements — his package has received are all bought and paid for in BRIBES.” [ READ MORE HERE ]

Dick Morris has Zero credibility. Any compromises by president Obama are necessary because of “Road-Blocks” placed by Republicans and their big-business backers. What is a president to do when faced with the hostilities of street mobs, hysterical Republican congressmen, LIARS like Dick Morris, and the troglodytes at Fox News, whose sole aim is to distract and confuse the public, and to incite armed Christian racists?

Faced with unprecedented obstacles, Obama has no choice but to cut deals for the good of the majority.

As I mentioned in an earlier article, President Obama has been hit with SHIT from multiple directions. Vicious snakes with “complimentary interests” have been hammering the president relentlessly, notably big business who line the pockets of Senators and Congressmen, who in turn stoke the racist juices of their constituents, in order to hold on to power, mainly in the south.

What Dick Morris does not tell you when he overstates that the Democrats “got a drubbing in the ‘09 elections,” is that the Republicans in Virgina and New Jersey won by appearing moderate. “Tricky Dick” does not mention that there are deep divisions within the G.O.P., as evidenced in the New York District 23 congressional election, where a Democrat won a seat which has been occupied by Republicans for over 100 years. He also fails to mention that these were off-year elections which historically don’t mean much anyway (except when Democrats win, like in 2005). [ READ MORE ]

Notes: Republican Health Reform Lunacy — The Party of NO’s Plan B: STALL Healthcare Reform!

What Republican THUG Bloggers Are Saying:

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   Columnist – John Sammon
I talked to another Republican who wants to ignore the eight years of Bush and blame Obama for everything. I just threw up my hands. I realized it’s hopeless. There will never be any progress in health care or anything except doomsday weapons with people like this guy around.

You can’t reason with people like this.

Here are 10 reasons why you can’t reason with them.

1. They believe there has never been a Republican wrong about anything. If they are proven wrong in their viewpoint, they’ll deny it. They believe it’s impossible for American policy toward other countries to be wrong, if the policy was enacted by Republicans.

2. Republicans, mostly white men, consider black Americans, Mexican Americans and women to be inferior. They consider them inferior in this order (bottom most inferior):

A. Women (white women).

B. Mexicans.

C. Blacks.

Yet, they need women for purposes of sex, those Republicans who aren’t gay. Also, Republicans don’t mind picking a person of color as a token to dispel the notion that they are racist.

3. Republicans don’t believe in freedom of speech. Anybody who has an opinion they don’t like they heckle or shout down. They don’t believe in the Constitution. Anybody who wants to do something different they call a traitor.

4. The Republican Party, the white man’s party, are champions of the double standard. For example, they constantly brand social programs as socialistic giveaways because the programs help those whom they consider inferior, but they don’t mind spending billions forever nation-building in Iraq, giving money to those they consider inferior (Arabs). As long as it’s a war of conquest or building a colony overseas, it’s not wasteful spending. If it’s here in this country and spent on the poor or immigrants, it’s wasteful spending.

5. A Republican harps on the cost of everything, but knows the value of nothing. An older Republican will call you a subversive if you’re liberal, but doesn’t throw his Social Security check in the trash, a check made possible by liberals. The Republican spends the Social Security check.

6. Republicans love to castigate others for being unpatriotic, yet far fewer Republicans in Congress have served in the military than Democrats. Elected Republican officials love to carp about family values, yet they are at least on par with Democrats when it comes to adultery, gay, rough and group sex, and pursuing under-age boys in the men’s room.

7. Very few Republicans have read a history book. George Bush Senior said Pearl Harbor happened on September 6, 1941, and Ronald Reagan laid a wreath in a German cemetery commemorating victims of the Holocaust only to find out it contained SS members of the Gestapo. He laid the wreath anyway. George Bush Junior compared Iraq with its attack helicopters to American independence in 1776.

8. Republicans not only didn’t learn from Watergate, they actually admired it, and have tirelessly developed secret government ever since, including the art of “Plausible deniability,” first coined by Reagan. Republicans fervently believe in secret government.

9. Republicans don’t believe in a two-party system, though it worked fairly well for all its failures and foibles up until the time Republicans began listening to the whacked out psychotic extremists in their party. They make Barry Goldwater look like a Bolshevik.

10. Republicans believe that God is a Republican who looks like John Wayne. This makes reasoning with them very difficult.

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References:

1. Here is Toe-Sucking Pervert Dick Morris spoon-feeding the numskulls with lies | Who is Dick Morris? FIND OUT HERE.

2. 41 Things You Have To Believe To Be A Republican Today
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If the Republican Party and it’s congregation comprising of Bible thumping, gun hoarding, tea-bagging bigots and assorted semi-illiterate racists, believe that the country is headed toward Socialism, then instead of marching on the streets with their balls dangling on their confederate hats, they should be the first to show REAL dissent: Give up MEDICARE and SOCIAL SECURITY — both SOCIAL programs that aging Republican bigots are happily enjoying.

Medicare is a social insurance program administered by the United States government, providing health insurance coverage to people who are aged 65 and over, or who meet other special criteria. Medicare operates as a single-payer health care system. The Social Security Act of 1965 was passed by Congress in late-spring of 1965 and signed into law on July 30, 1965, by President Lyndon B. Johnson as amendments to Social Security legislation. At the bill-signing ceremony President Johnson enrolled former President Harry S. Truman as the first Medicare beneficiary and presented him with the first Medicare card.

The most bigoted Republicans are senior citizens — unable to give up their LYNCHING MENTALITY of the past. Give up your monthly Social Security Payments, your Medicare benefits and start lining up at hospital emergency rooms, for us to take your SOCIALIST rants seriously!

President Obama is just trying address the inequities that exist in this country — very modestly! ….Give it Up!!

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Will someone please put Sarah Palin out of her agony? Is it too much to ask that she come to realize that she wants, in that wonderful phrase in American politics, “to spend more time with her family“? Having stayed in purdah for weeks, she finally agreed to a third interview. CBS’s Katie Couric questioned her in her trademark sympathetic style. It didn’t help. When asked how living in the state closest to Russia gave her foreign-policy experience, Palin responded thus:

“It’s very important when you consider even national-security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America. Where–where do they go? It’s Alaska. It’s just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there. They are right next to–to our state.”

There is, of course, the sheer absurdity of the premise. Two weeks ago I flew to Tokyo, crossing over the North Pole. Does that make me an expert on Santa Claus? (Thanks, Jon Stewart.) But even beyond that, read the rest of her response. “It is from Alaska that we send out those …” What does this mean? This is not an isolated example. Palin has been given a set of talking points by campaign advisers, simple ideological mantras that she repeats and repeats as long as she can. (“We mustn’t blink.“) But if forced off those rehearsed lines, what she has to say is often, quite frankly, gibberish.

Couric asked her a smart question about the proposed $700 billion bailout of the American financial sector. It was designed to see if Palin understood that the problem in this crisis is that credit and liquidity in the financial system has dried up, and that that’s why, in the estimation of Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Fed chairman Ben Bernanke, the government needs to step in to buy up Wall Street’s most toxic liabilities. Here’s the entire exchange:

COURIC: Why isn’t it better, Governor Palin, to spend $700 billion helping middle-class families who are struggling with health care, housing, gas and groceries; allow them to spend more and put more money into the economy instead of helping these big financial institutions that played a role in creating this mess?

PALIN: That’s why I say I, like every American I’m speaking with, were ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health-care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy, helping the–it’s got to be all about job creation, too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health-care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans. And trade, we’ve got to see trade as opportunity, not as a competitive, scary thing. But one in five jobs being created in the trade sector today, we’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. All those things under the umbrella of job creation. This bailout is a part of that.

CNN’s Jack Cafferty: Sarah Palin Is NOT Qualified

This is nonsense–a vapid emptying out of every catchphrase about economics that came into her head. Some commentators, like CNN’s Campbell Brown, have argued that it’s sexist to keep Sarah Palin under wraps, as if she were a delicate flower who might wilt under the bright lights of the modern media. But the more Palin talks, the more we see that it may not be sexism but common sense that’s causing the McCain campaign to treat her like a time bomb.

Can we now admit the obvious? Sarah Palin is utterly unqualified to be vice president. She is a feisty, charismatic politician who has done some good things in Alaska. But she has never spent a day thinking about any important national or international issue, and this is a hell of a time to start. The next administration is going to face a set of challenges unlike any in recent memory. There is an ongoing military operation in Iraq that still costs $10 billion a month, a war against the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan that is not going well and is not easily fixed. Iran, Russia and Venezuela present tough strategic challenges.

Domestically, the bailout and reform of the financial industry will take years and hundreds of billions of dollars. Health-care costs, unless curtailed, will bankrupt the federal government. Social Security, immigration, collapsing infrastructure and education are all going to get much worse if they are not handled soon.

And the American government is stretched to the limit. Between the Bush tax cuts, homeland-security needs, Iraq, Afghanistan and the bailout, the budget is looking bleak. Plus, within a few years, the retirement of the baby boomers begins with its massive and rising costs (in the trillions).

Obviously these are very serious challenges and constraints. In these times, for John McCain to have chosen this person to be his running mate is fundamentally irresponsible. McCain says that he always puts country first. In this important case, it is simply not true.

URL: http://www.newsweek.com/id/161204
From the magazine issue dated Oct 6, 2008

[Enlarge] About The Author: Farid Zakaria is Newsweek’s International editor and PostGlobal co-moderator. Fareed Zakaria was named editor of Newsweek International in October 2000, overseeing all Newsweek’s editions abroad. The magazine reaches an audience of 24 million worldwide. He also writes a regular column for Newsweek, which also appears in Newsweek International and fortnightly in the Washington Post. Starting this year, Fareed has been hosting a new foreign affairs show on CNN Worldwide — Fareed Zakaria GPS, an hour-long program that takes a comprehensive look at foreign affairs and the policies shaping our world. Every week they bring you an in-depth interview with a world leader, as well as a panel of international analysts who examine the major global developments of the week. As always, Fareed’s emphasis is on new ideas and innovative approaches to solving the world’s toughest problems. Fareed Zakaria GPS airs each Sunday, at 1pm, on CNN.