I am so incredibly sick and tired of this outrageous and inappropriate stuff.

Images of the dead at the Dachau concentration camp equated with "Healthcare" and nobody in the GOP or mainstream media says anything.

Lovely, just absolutely lovely. (/sarcasm)

The crowd looked like they were the 'Armey of Lemmings' (teabaggers) and 'Brooks Brothers rioters' (staffers) to me.

mostly staffers.

I was thinking when I posted this to reddit that this is one of the greatest titles of all time. Then I am watching Colbert Report later that night and I see he used the same phrase. Can we imagine if Colbert's writers are Brad Blog readers. I sure can. Great job Brad. Lots of Love.

That bastard stole my excellent title?! I agree, it rocked! I'm suing Colbert. Thief.

That poster looks to me like "HealthCare under Republicans"™

Just sayin'

Brad,

I'm sure you know what a teabagger is. You are disgusting! You and all of your ilk that use a term like that to describe Americans that diassagre with you. You are not independent, you are a radical liberal person(?) with a computer. From what I have read of your drivel, you want a socialist government where I give the government my money to give to people who don't or won't work for their own money.
I don't mind helping out, I don't want to see people starve especially kids. But I don't want to give money to adults who say they have no money when they are watching TV on a 60" LCD HDTV (getting full cable package) and blogging on their computer connected to the internet with high speed cable and talking on their "Blackberry" phone.

Brad,
Please move to Red China.

Newell, and Maxx, you should know that all the huffing and puffing is really the FreedomWorks funded rhetoric. The funding to stop the health care reform is from the 1.5 million a day the health insurance companies have been putting into deluding folks like yourselves. I'm sorry to tell you, but you have been made a tool of and a fool of. It's a manipulation that big money (from your having been overpaying the health insurance companies if you could afford health insurance, that is). The whole "teaparty" party protest is NOT a grassroots movement, as it is portrayed to be. Listening to the corporate crutches like FOX, and Limbaugh, only perpetuates the problems of corporatism. Sadly, it's really obvious, when listening to those people speaking in the crowd, interviewed by Brad and others, that the whole picture is not actually comprehended by the majority of those there. The ones that DO understand it, that are there, are playing you like a set of bongo drums.

Newell @ 6 said:

You are not independent, you are a radical liberal person(?) with a computer.

No I'm not independent? Me and my computer are teaming up in a conspiracy against you??

From what I have read of your drivel, you want a socialist government where I give the government my money to give to people who don't or won't work for their own money.

Well, presuming you're a tax-payer, you already do that. But no, that's not wht the fight for health care reform is about, just in case you've been dis-informed (as you clearly have). For instance, the vast majority of those who declare bankruptcy are employed and, yes, "work for their own money". Of those, nearly 80% actually *had* health insurance.

So what does that tell you? Given your demonstrated ignorance on the topic --- which, I'll have to presume, as with much of your tea bagging brethren, is out of a desperate need to remain mis/disinformed --- it probably tells you nothing, because it doesn't synch up with the misinformation you've being supplied by your "news" outlets. Still, if you bothered to investigate real facts, and real data, you'd do both yourself and your nation a great service.

I don't mind helping out

Yes you do. Else you'd have bothered to inform yourself before shooting off your grossly misinformed opinions in public.

Maxx @ 7 said:

Please move to Red China.

No, thanks. Already lived under eight years of authoritarian rule here in the U.S.. Didn't care for it.

Interesting though that both you and Newell each seem to feel I'm the disgusting one, in apparent support of your tea bagger friends who would politicize the Holocaust to compare a public health insurance option like medicare to mass extermination of the Jews. Why do you hate Jews? And the U.S.?

I'd like to know why the Federal Government can't stop these people from INCITING violence in this country. The Prez speaks to other countries r/t human rights, yet he can't speak up and protect his own CITIZENS!!

blubonnet, you are wrong about the tea party movement. You won't see any of the "Major" media giving any ceedence to it because they are in bed with Obama, Pelosi and Reid. I agree that health insurance costs have skyrocketed. They are doubling every 8 years. Part of the problem is the tort system. Fox is not the problem and neither is Limbaugh. The problem is people like you and Brad that don't know how much these health care bills will cost us. I don't think you care how much it costs. Why do you want something for nothing?
Brad, you insist on calling me a "C" sucker and I don't appreciate it.
"I don't mind helping out

Yes you do. Else you'd have bothered to inform yourself before shooting off your grossly misinformed opinions in public."

I am informed. I have not read the whole 1200 pages of the health care bill from the House I doubt you have either.

Nice try, Newell, but you are being woefully misinformed (scammed) by your propagandist media who have a corporate interest in fooling you. They are doing a good job.

Fact is, the House health care bill has been scored by the CBO and found that it will reduce the deficit. Same was found with the latest Senate plan as well. Both of them, of course, are regrettably huge sops to the reprehensible private insurance business, so I don't care for either of the proposals, but you are 100% wrong about the costs.

Yes, Fox and Limbaugh are the problem, because they are lying to otherwise good folks like yourself and telling you what you've inaccurately repeated here (that we "dont' know how much these health care bills will cost us" and that the prob is tort reform, which is already included in both versions of the House & Senate bills and is only believed, by all legitimate experts, to have a tiny impact on overall costs of health care.)

You are being scammed, amigo. And you're falling for it. You're being played for a fool.

BTW, the newly introduced GOP health care plan insures far fewer people, lowers the deficit less than the latest Senate Dem plan, and raises the costs of health insurance for many.

But that's your own party's plan, so I'm sure you've got a good explanation for it, and a good reason to support it.

Facts aren't important to folks like Newell. I'm being serious. A recent study of conservatives holding specific views found that, given actual facts concerning different issues, conservatives still clung to old news if presented by trusted sources, even if those sources had since repudiated those positions.

An example:
in 2002, over 80% of American voters believed thatSaddam Hussein had initiated the attacks on the WTC, this because Bush and Cheney SAID SO. Later, Bush and Cheney both REPUDIATED SADDAM'S INVOLVEMENT, admitting that they never had any evidence to back up their original claims, and further admitting that, as far as they know now, Saddam had NOTHING to do with the WTC bombing. However, still 43% of Americans STILL believe, despite literally hundreds of books and primary source documents and the admission of the former President that it was false, that Iraq had something to do with these bombings. Folks, these 43% are NOT liberals.

Willful ignorance guys, just like when I used to go to the old wrassling matches. There was a ton of people there you couldn't convince it was staged.

Same type of ignoramuses.

Probably why Stossel became a corporate con artist.

"Part of the problem is the tort system"

...riiiight...

That's such a tired old line. More corporatist propaganda.

Just like Ko's calling Tom Tancrydo out for his chicken-hawkedness on the Ed Show...he showed us what they really are. He'll probably sue now. Hypocrite.

I think they named a post after Newell, you know the old line.

He also happens to be the only Jewish Republican in Congress.

Republicans could get JC Watts out of retirement, if they need a black Republican congressman to denounce the racism against blacks in the Tea Party.

hey brad, figured out where obama was born yet? Since you're an investigative journalist and all, why are all his documents sealed? Go gettm tiger!

Oooooh that's a real stumper there Dan Evans....

if you're a freakin' idiot! (Please note that I did not personally attack anyone with that comment.)

Listening to Randi last night, I didn't realize that Eric Cantor was Jewish...with that heinous misuse of Holocaust imagery right in front of him and he says nothing. Was he at all moved by it, I wonder, or he is he so politicized that he will stoop to any level to "win"?

Cantor? I don't have teh gaydar but...

Newell said:

I'm sure you know what a teabagger is. You are disgusting! You and all of your ilk that use a term like that to describe Americans that diassagre with you.

Y'know, it amazes me that these Tea Party fools get angry when they're called "teabaggers," but they continually go around calling Democrats slurs like "socialist," "communist," "Nazi," etc. Of course, the double standard is part and parcel of conservative rhetoric, so it's no surprise they'd react to the insult like they do. They shouldn't dish it out if they can't take it, especially if what they're dishing out is 100x more offensive that what we progressive and liberals are calling them.

Not only that, Jason, but it was the Teabaggers themselves who initiated that borderline pornographic teabagging title. They were self proclaimed TEABAGGERS until MSNBC picked up their self assigned name and ran with it (read: beat it like a dead horse) thus making them aware of just how patently and pornfully absurd it was.

Don't remember that Newell? Wow. What short, if not almost completely-truncated-by-brainwashing memories you all have!

From the Urban Dictionary:

TEABAGGER: One who slaps another person in the face with their nad sack.
I just teabagged your sister.

TEABAGGER: A whining fool shouting loudly for liberty but not willing to pay the bill.
After most American workers saw more money in their paycheck due to the lower tax rate, the teabaggers at Fox News railed against high taxes, but did not discuss how much Jesus hated hypocrisy.

Newell said: I have not read the whole 1200 pages of the health care bill

No f*cking WAY do I believe that one!

Brad, I must say, you always hit the nail on the head.

Anyway, as far as tea-bagging goes, Bill Maher gives us yes another insight. LOL The whole clip is diverse, short, surprising...and...

http://current.com/172ti4c

I have one question for all of the "tea party patriots", if you had to leave the US and live somewhere else, where would you go?

...wait for it, wait for it, (note that said country mentioned, most likely has government run health care),
..., why not lovely Somalia?, a country with little to no government to interfere with people's lives.

again, as Brad continually campaigns for open accountable voting, this is the true key to freedom, a vote that counts. (just once) The american people are actually smarter than most of these people who are getting all of the face time on the 'news'.

You know how ignorant this "protest" is, well, here's s clue how ridiculous it really is. The quotation below is that of ADOLF HITLER (the guy Bush's grandfather Prescott, helped in banking his agenda). Anyway, this quote is from HITLER: "The main plank in the National Socialist party is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and to substitute for them, the folk community, rooted in the soil, and bound together by the bond of its xommon blood."

I cannot argue that there are problems with healthcare in America, but this bill is not the answer we need. It's a noble cause to be sure, just not one we as a nation can afford right now. The gov't is borrowing $3.8 Billion a day, everyday, and is currently spending 38 cents of every dollar brought in as service on our ever-increasing debtload. And yes, the CBO does peg this bill as 'deficit neutral', as long as Americans pay their $167 Billion in fines for not obtaining or providing health insurance. The CBO does not calculate how much is going to be spent prosecuting and jailing those who do not pay the fines. Also not factored in to the CBO report is how much the insurance companies are going to raise premiums to offset the inability to underwrite policies. Imagine if your auto insurance couldn't use driving records to rate policies, everyone pays the same, regardless of driving history...Now, are rates going to go up or down? And remember, the insurance company, by law, will only be able to charge one premium. Are they gonna charge everyone the good driver rate or is everyone going to be charged as if they have 7 DUIs and 6 at-fault collisions? Look at what your credit card has done to you in the last 6 months for your answer, because this bill gives big insurance a 3 year head start, banks only had 8 months.