Sarah Palin, Tea Party Leaders, Must Condemn Healthcare Threats

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the real trueth to all of the government and corporations is they are trying to turn this country into a third world country.they want to control everything to what you say think and do. i am very disapointed in the american people for letting this happen and yes i am an american and i love this country. we need to come together as one and stand and fight for what this country used to stand for. we dont need violence to do this. i would to see what would happen if everyone who feels this way to not buy anything for one week. i mean dont buy gas food or anything. just think what that would do. corpations and government not making any money for one week you know that would hurt them alot more than any violence or talking could ever do. if you realy want to get your point across you need to hurt them where it will hurt the most and that is in the pocket book just like they are doing to us. and if you want to take it one step further then how about every one taking 2 days off and i mean everyone at the same time. the point is we need to do something without resorting to violence and there are many was to go about it. the question is the we as americans have the gut any more to stand together and get it done.

eric of OK 7:42PM March 26, 2010

Your premise is flawed. Your talking points from Madcow and Doperman are flawed.

You incorrectly assume it's all about insurance companies. Wake-up Jane! It's about a freaking mandate allowing government to control a huge portion of the economy. It's about government with a piss-poor track record suddenly taking over everyone's health care. It's about a freaking mandate giving permission to the government to force people to buy something they don't want. It's about the erosion of yet more personal liberty and freedom. It's about the arrogance to think that the government knows what is better than you or I what is good for us. It's about the trampling of state rights.

NO THANK YOU!!! Again, you progressive liberals (sheeple) living in your utopian version of a sheep farm will never understand. This is all about proressives cheating the system to move us all just one more "progressive" step toward a nanny state.

david of ID 5:34PM March 26, 2010

@david of ID

Its OK to be an get people worked up into treasonous zombies on behalf of corporate lobbyists who only want easy profits of an unregulated insurance industry?

Its OK to encourage people to break laws to promote the profiteering of health insurance companies who want to swindle at their whim and be responsible to no one?

Its OK to lie about the fire in a theater because faux news said to do it?

So its OK for someone to stir up violence so some flim-flam entertainers want make a quick buck, like palinista and beck?

So it OK to be a freaking tool of corporate lobbyists who want to you be dumb, act dumb and maybe get violent without even knowing what for?

maybe its OK for you, not me

jane of KY 4:03PM March 26, 2010

It's nonsense that American are angry about getting access to insurance when they get laid off or have pre-existing conditions, or have sick children who need health care. When you watch the videos of the tea-party demonstrations in front of the congress there aren't even 500 people there.

The news people are just trying to sell advertising when, in fact, the vast majority of us are now relieved to know we won't be wiped out if we become sick, or worse, sick and unemployed.

David of VA 3:46PM March 26, 2010

Suggesting that Sarah Palin and the Tea Party tone it down implies that they are to blame and the culprits of threats and violence.

I hear vitriol spewing from MSNBC's talking heads; Doperman, Madcow, et al, but they're allowed a free pass?!

Your smarmy commmentary is nothing new. To be honest, I'm suprised that their has not been more violence. People are and should be understandably upset to see how Dems hijacked democracy with the health care debacle.

Need I remind you of the way Dems shut Republicans out of the process? The back room deals, graft, corruption, vote prostitution? That a major piece of legislation designed as a government takeover of the American economy passes with no input from Republicans, one-sided progressive agenda where moderate democrat law makers were forced to vote at seeming gun point. The use of little used backdoor process to circumvent the voice of the people through reconcilliation. That as much as 75% of Americans do not approve of the legislation.

Yeah, they shouldn't be PO'd, riiiigggghhhhtttt. Violence happens when people believe elected officials stop listening to their collective voice.

Violence in opposition has always been a part of America and always will.

Here's a few Thomas Jefferson quotes to chew on:

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."

david of ID 11:53AM March 26, 2010

I would never call obama a ja. Pointing out what he does do is enough.

Bill Hedges of MO 11:43PM March 25, 2010

Bill Hedges of MO

I watch "Fair and Balanced" Fox News too.

I also frequently watch the Mr. Ed Talking Horse's Butt Show,----------------------------------------------------------------------------

According to a new Fox news poll. The Mr.Ed Talking Horse's Butt Show is the most watched show among American Jack-asses

Lou Harris of NJ 11:22PM March 25, 2010

I think you hit the nail square on with your hammer. Polls show people don't want this reform and Democrats ignored.

The bad things happening to both Demo and Rep in Congress is wrong. A few bad apples. I hope it stops.

Nov. will be very bad for Democrats.

Bill Hedges of MO 10:54PM March 25, 2010

America began by FED-UP Individuals threatening a perverse, unjust, non-representative Government. As the English continued to ignore the pleas for justice, the threats became skirmishes and soon after battles.

WE WON...that sounds familiar? Who has said THAT recently?

Don't get me wrong...the racial/sexual orientation slurs DO NOT belong in America. We mostly have moved beyond that..BUT

OPPOSING an ARROGANT Government that is clearly OUT-OF-CONTROL is the MOST AMERICAN THING I KNOW!

Washington seriously under estimates the SWELL of anger brewing in this Country towards them. For every one TeaPartier that gets to rally, there are 10 more that couldn't make for various reasons (ie JOBS). Nobody pays US to be there but THERE we are!

November will be a HUGE awakening and none too late.

Chris Petty of GA 10:37PM March 25, 2010

Brainless

Bill Hedges of MO 10:25PM March 25, 2010

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