Tea Party Plans March Obamacare Protest

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I guess Iforgot to compare the Iraq war to WW2,there is no comparisons,Saddam was a tyrant,but he had nothing to do with 9-11,he was found in a hole.We did not even finish our job in Afghanistan,whers Bin laden? Troops were sent to Afghanistan to bring Bin Ladens head back on a stick,I guess Bush-Cheney did a good job at that.We attacked Iraq for the interest of big buisness,Republicans are good at 2 things,fighting unjust wars and giving tax breaks to the wealthy and big buisness.

john ostrowski of CO 2:29PM March 16, 2010

Good grief John..that's ostowshkish! It's the men who were willing to give their lives in wars who made it possible for you to live in such a free country. Quit reading the leftwinging rags, all funded by rich ideologues who don't have your best interests at heart. Only your slavery. If our veterans had your attitude through the years, the US would have all been taken over by Japan, or Russia, or Germany, and all the other 3rd world country's would be 5th world country's..worse off than they are now without our help and innovation...use your head man!....you need to study actual world history, but NOT at our 'public' or 'private' educational institutions. You need to read actual historical documents, and news accounts, memoirs, etc.

bluevotersdonotmovetoredstates uwillbankruptthemtoo of FL 12:33AM March 16, 2010

Sad that you can only resort to violence.....typical 3rd world politics...my how things are degenerating when people who think the world owes them a living, and are grateful for NOTHING, get a little power. The living dead are ruled by the elite, who only use you to rape the country's of their wealth, and when it runs out..you are the first to suffer! The non-producers! You should talk to some Russian, Chinese, and/or some of our 3rd world immigrants who when living in their former country's had to bribe their underpaid, communist/socialist/marxist Dr's to actually perform needed treatments and surgery's. They would have to pay them a whole years wages. The Dr's, who possessed no work ethic, much less the proper training/tools/drugs/ to operate on them or their family members make the patients family's pay them to 'do no harm', and to bring them out of anethsesia. Keep kicking God Dariel, you can't win, and you will only bring everyone down with you. Shanty town, here we all come, except for the ruling politicians!

stayinurbankruptbluestates don'truinourredstateswignorantvotes of FL 12:22AM March 16, 2010

Obama is president and he can do what he wants. We put up with the whites way of llife for hundreds of years but now we have our own president and we run things for next 4 years.
ACORN and SEIU will become more involving in squashing the tea parties. Such as we did at town halls last year escorting rowdy right wingers out and handing them over to SEUI waiting outside to kick their aszers

dariel of PA 9:43AM March 13, 2010

I guess bush-cheneys lieing to the american people about the Iraq war,tax breaks for the richest Americans,sure makes all Texans proud.The republican party ran the debt up for the next 100 years,40,000 wounded in Iraq,blown off arms and legs,you can tell that none of Bush or Cheneys kids were involved.Bush-Cheney fabricated the war in Iraq for there own financial gains,oil.Bush should have been impeached.

John ostrowski of CO 1:28PM March 11, 2010

YOU KNOW THIS COUNTRY IS IN BAD SHAPE WHEN YOU SEE WHO HAS BEEN ELECTED-I WISH WE COULD IMPEACH THEM ALL /-ALL OBAMA AND BIDEN DO IS BOW DOWN TO OTHER COUNTRYS/LOOK AT WORLD WAR THERE WAS NO LIBERAL POLITICS INVOLVED -OUR MILITARY WAS TOLD DO WHAT EVER YOU HAVE TO WIN AND WE DID /NOW THAT OBAMA IS IN THERES ITS /TELL THE TERIST THAT NOT TO SAY ANYTHING IF YOU GET CAPTURED - THAT HE WILL FIND A LAWYER AND TAKE CARE OF YOU-AND DONT FORGET /HERES OUR TAX DOLLERS AT WORK// THE DAY BUSH JR GOT VOTED IN I WAS PROUD/HE DONT TAKE NO CRAP /AND HES NOT A SELL OUT /HE TOOK CARE OF OUR COUNTRY/JUST REMEBER WHERE THIS ECONOMY STARTED GOING DOWN HILL WAS ON THE DOCUMENTRY FRONTLINE SHOW/GUESS WHO WAS IN OFFICE AT THE TIME /HOW ABOUT WILD BILL CLINTON/ALAN GREEN SPAN /DEMOCRATS/THEY WERE TOLD BY A LADY LAWYER WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN /IF WE DIDNT CONTROL WALL STREET AND BANK LOANS /BUT BILL HAD HIS FEET PROPPED UP ALONG WITH GREEN SPAN AND DIDNT WANT TO LISTEN TO HER AFTER NUMEROUS TIMES BEING TOLD/WOULD NOT HIRE HER - WHEN SHE SHOULD HAVE HAD THE JOB-/OBAMA WOULD BE FUN TO TALK TO AND JOKE AROUND WITH /I BET JIMMY CARTER THE PEANUT FARMER THANKS HIS LUCKY STARS EVERY DAY THAT HES NOT THE ONLY ONE THAT COULDNT RUN A COUNTRY/-RONALD REAGAN/GEORGE JR BUSH ARE MY HEROS THANKS FOR A JOB WELL DONE

PAUL of TX 10:34PM March 10, 2010

I'm really not sure anything is grassroots in today's political climate. Every message and slogan is masterminded by somebody's selfish interest. The tea partiers want to believe this is some special movement they are participating in, but unfortunately it’s just another platform for partisan talking points. I mean seriously, they talk about government waste and unneeded taxes, yet the "party" is willing to pay a reported $100,000 to Sarah Palin for speaking at one of their rallies? I mean if that isn't the big waste of money, I'm not sure what is. The whole "movement" is a joke.

Jane of OR 2:07PM March 10, 2010

My friends, Bart Stupak who announced last week on FOX News that he was willing to "kill" the Healthcare reform bill if facing a primary challenge from Connie Saltonstall.
In an article in Newsweek online, Stupak, a Catholic Democrat from Michigan, admits to crafting a pro-life ammendment in the house version of the bill with the Catholic Bishops of America. (see Stupak's interview-link following by pasting to your browser)
http://newsweek.tumblr.com/post/435131081/i-spoke-last-week-to-rep-bart-stupak-the
Stupak has allowed his religion to cloud his judgement to deny women of America health reform. To mak contributions to Connie Saltonstall's campaign, simply go to https://actblue.org to make a contribution starting from $5.00.
Bart Stupak is a member of the Tea Party Terrorist Movement, the C-Street Gang and The Family. This group is the religious-reactionary branch of the Republican Wing Nut Tea Party Terrorist McCarthyism Movement. Stupak is letting donations from the insurance lobby cloud his jugement on this issue.
Stupak is now getting campaign donations from Goldman Sach's to stop reform. For those who are unfamiliar with Goldman Sachs, they received billions in tax payer bailouts, and provides services to 1300 health insurance lobby groups.
The report seen here (paste the link below in your browser)
http://digitalbenefits.typepad.com/HITECH/LewisGoldman.pdf
tells insurance companies to keep raising rates, even though many Americans and businesses will not be able to afford these huge rate increases, and many customers will be forceed to drop plans that they currently have.
Businesses have stated that the Goldman Sachs and insurance company rate increases will be a jobs killer, but Bart Stupak won't budge on defeating healthcare reform.
Whether it is tea party wing nuts flying airplanes kamikaze style into government buildings, or tea party terrorists shooting Defense Department Law Enforcement Officers, or killing Patriotic Americans by denying them healthcare reform, Bart Stupak supports this extremist wing-nut fringe branch of the Republican National Committee.
I am a Conservative Republican Catholic who opposes abortions; however, the right to life also extends to providing healthcare for the thousands of Americans who die each year due to a lack of care.
The right to life also extends to young children who have been destroyed due to sexual abuse by catholic priests. Stupak and the Bishops would better serve the church's views by condemning the homosexual prostitution ring current afoot in the Vatican.
Bart Stupak needs a primary challenge from a candidate who is willing to vote at for the wishes of the people, and not for the Catholic Bishops (who Stupak enlisted to write this amendment). Goldman Sachs, the insurance companies and Wall Street fat cats are paying Stupak to oppose the bill.
CALL BART STUPAK AND TELL HIM THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT HEALTHCARE REFORM NOW!

Gone_Rogue of OK 4:53AM March 10, 2010

Where were Republicans and DINO’s when Bush and the Republicans passed an unfunded deficit bill allowing Medicare to make payments to insurance companies? I opposed it then. The GOP, Tea Parties and Republicans do not tell you, that, this is what the Democrat party and Obama want to cut from Medicare. They use a broad term "cut Medicare". These payments forces the federal government to pay $1.15 to insurance corporate fat cats for every $1.00 spent on medical issues. In simple math, for every $1.00 spends using a government sponsored Medicare payment, the insurance corporations get an additional 15 cents. The idea then, was that having insurance companies provide part of Medicare, rates would go down: THEY HAVE NOT!
The insurance lobby got the Republicans to pass this unfunded deficit behemoth with no opposition. I am a Republican who supports healthcare reform. The issue affects me since I am a medical student. The idea that bureaucrats will "take over healthcare" is poppycock. Day to day, I see insurance company bureaucrats deny care to patients, and withholding payments for what the doctor and patient deem necessary for care. These insurance bureaucrats are like customer service representatives who have no background in health policy, yet make decisions that override a Doctor's decision about care that patients' need.
The GOP calls for competition across state lines. I support this to some extent. However, the GOP plan does not create a baseline as to what basic care should be covered under these plans, nor does it provide a baseline for cost. It means that like credit card companies, insurance companies will flock to states that have little or no regulations, states that have the least basic coverage, and states whose costs are at higher premiums to customers. Example: the credit card companies. Credit card companies are primarily based in Delaware and South Dakota because regulations there allow credit card companies to charge exorbitant and creative fees. The same would happen with insurance, except that patients' lives would be at the mercy of these fees from so-called competition across state lines. What the Democrats want, is a baseline set of items that would be covered by these insurance companies?
Real competition should also include allowing foreign corporations to establish cheaper insurance companies here, than the American insurance corporations. As with the autos, technology, motor cycles, steel and textile industries, we would get a higher quality product at cheaper costs. Even it means failure of the American Insurance Companies; I want foreign competition for insurance companies.
Creating High Risk Pools: The GOP likes this idea. How many of you have children? That is considered a pre-existing condition. Yes. The party of "family values" and their insurance lobby considers the act of having children a pre-existing condition. As such, women will be at a disadvantage.

Gone_Rogue of OK 4:22AM March 10, 2010

In Texas and California, which has the most stringent Tort Reform laws (limiting liability to $250, 000 max), so-called [defensive] diagnostic tests have increased, while the number of medical errors continue to increase in both states. Moreover, Texas leads the nation in uninsured working Americans. Recently, I was an unemployed mechanical engineer. Prior to attending medical school, I saw my insurance rates increase from $1200 in 2006 to $3600 in 2010, and I have never filed a medical claim, in my previous job for an oil company. This year Shell Oil will be moving their operations and 13000 American jobs to India and Brazil. The reason issued was the high cost of healthcare benefits to American employees. The issue of tort reform is moot when one looks at the supposed cost savings from these reforms. Both states Texas and California lead the US in uninsured Americans.
The farce of Death Panels: The provision in the bill was placed by a REPUBLICAN Congressman from Georgia at the request of insurance companies and the American Medical Association. End of life consultations are already being performed in hospitals around the US every day, would be paid for under the bill. Currently, these expenses are paid for out of pocket by families since it is not covered. Unless one works in the medical field, or is faced with end of life decisions, it is easy to label these "Life Panels" as death panels. The Healthcare bill in Congress provides payments to medical professionals and their families who receive counseling during the palliative phase of life. Consultation in many cases also means extending life of loved ones. Today we already have [death panels] within the insurance companies via their bureaucrats, many of whom have no background in the medical field, nor social services fields. These Customer Service Representatives and clerical staff at insurance companies make life and death decisions based on costs, and which overrides patients and Doctors' recommended care. These insurance clerks and bureaucrats deny care every day to working families, costing the US 45000 deaths per year.
Obama is right when he links high insurance costs to shrinking jobs. Most major oil companies that once viewed Texas as a bastion of free market enterprise are shifting more workers in expatriate jobs overseas, because of never ending increases in insurance prices per each employee. Why would anyone start businesses here in the US when they can incorporate themselves overseas to avoid paying high insurance costs for employees? As a conservative who with experience on both sides of the issue, I believe that without healthcare reform, the US is doomed to failure when it comes to reestablishing jobs.

Gone_Rogue of OK 4:20AM March 10, 2010