Cave-in Watch; Updated

By Michelle Malkin  •  March 19, 2010 12:28 PM

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Ohio Democrats Charlie Wilson and John Boccieri have caved.

Nevada Democrat Dina Titus is a yes.

Six pro-life Democrats led by West Virginia Democrat Rep. Nick Rahall are getting ready to sell out for a chump promise.

Fox News asks: One down, one to go?

On the no side: Mass. Democrat Rep. Stephen Lynch.

NY Democrat Michael Arcurri is a no.

WaPo: Who’s in play: House health-care vote – How members voted on health-care legislation Nov. 7, where they stand now and who is still undecided.

Remember:

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Update:

PA Democrat Rep. Jason Altmire is a no.

FLA Democrat Rep. Allen Boyd is a yes.

Another reminder: “Keep in mind that from the time the Democrats started the 72 hour clock, they have been working hard at creating an aura of momentum and inevitability around the passage of Obama Care. What they most want to do right now is undermine the spirit of the opposition to get you to begin backing off.”

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Update: Democrat Suzanne Kosmas is a yes.

Update: Indiana Democrat Brad Ellsworth is a yes.

Update: Arizona Democrat Harry Mitchell is a yes.

Update: Colorado Democrat Betsy Markey is a yes.

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  1. #1
    On March 19th, 2010 at 12:37 pm, rfjjulie said:

    I am really starting to get worried. This doesn’t bode well for freedom. I keep calling, but with Salazar as my congresscritter and Bennett and Udall as senators, I feel hopeless.

  2. #2
    On March 19th, 2010 at 12:42 pm, Regulus said:

    When one battle is lost, you learn what you can from it and prepare for the next. That’s war, and the donks have declared war on what we have known to now as “America.”

    The lesson to be learned here is that Congress is not the place to stop donkey-care. The time has come to prepare the next battlefields: massive civil disobedience and multiple court challenges.

  3. #3
    On March 19th, 2010 at 12:44 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    Twenty pieces of silver isn’t what it use to be? At least Benedict Arnold got a commission out of his treason. House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn, Pelosi and the “leaders” are but pimps for a bunch of whores.

  4. #4
    On March 19th, 2010 at 12:44 pm, babiesgrandma said:

    Sign on the placards: You can’t fix stupid, but you can vote it out!

    What makes you think that we will have a vote come 2012?

  5. #5
    On March 19th, 2010 at 12:44 pm, Lindsay said:

    I am still in this fight until I die or get hauled off to re-education camp. No matter what happens on Sunday, we will keep fighting and voting the bums out!

  6. #6
    On March 19th, 2010 at 12:50 pm, txvet2 said:

    On March 19th, 2010 at 12:44 pm, babiesgrandma said:

    Sign on the placards: You can’t fix stupid, but you can vote it out!

    What makes you think that we will have a vote come 2012?

    We’ll have a vote in Texas, even if it has to be a vote for secession.

  7. #7
    On March 19th, 2010 at 12:52 pm, babiesgrandma said:

    txvet2 said:

    We’ll have a vote in Texas, even if it has to be a vote for secession.

    I was born and raised in Texas. I’ll dig out my birth certificate and move back down -

  8. #8
    On March 19th, 2010 at 12:53 pm, John Deaux said:

    On March 19th, 2010 at 12:50 pm, txvet2 said:

    We’ll have a vote in Texas, even if it has to be a vote for secession.

    Got a spare room?

  9. #9
    On March 19th, 2010 at 12:56 pm, et said:

    Government healthcare is a given. Why else would the republicans whole ad campaign be to start over on healthcare legislation?

  10. #10
    On March 19th, 2010 at 12:57 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    The Virginia General Assembly and Attorney General have already laid down their markers. It’s going to be interesting to see what the Feds do.

  11. #11
    On March 19th, 2010 at 12:58 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    The “undecided” Democrats are those who don’t like conflict and can’t decide who to offend with their vote. Do they offend the voters, or do they offend the party bosses? They are hoping that if they just do nothing, this will all just go away and they won’t have to take a stand either way.

    Whose rath do these congress critters fear more? Our wrath, or that of Pelosi, Obama, and SEIU thugs?

    There is a way for them to take the moral high ground…

    Publicly state that you want Obama to be good for his word and keep his multiple promises that Healtcare reform would NOT be passed with a “50 plus 1″ strategy, but rather with a 60% majority in BOTH HOUSES.

    Rather than using “deem and pass” and hope that the Senate uses reconcilliation to get the bill you want, tell the Senate to start over with a new bill that gets it right the first time.

    If a new bill can’t get a 60% majority in both the Senate and the House, then by Obama’s own confession that mean’s “you can’t govern“.

    Stop the Democratic Socialist Blitzkrieg, and insist that the Democratic “Leadership” actually start governing!

  12. #12
    On March 19th, 2010 at 1:00 pm, NJ-Aviator said:

    txvet2 said:

    We’ll have a vote in Texas, even if it has to be a vote for secession.

    If there had to be a backup plan, that’s a great one.

  13. #13
    On March 19th, 2010 at 1:02 pm, Tazed and Confused said:

    If you haven’t restocked your bunker lately, today would be a good time to start. You know what is necessary to preserve your freedom and the principles upon which this country was founded.

    It’s coming. Prepare now.

    Obama will need to hurry the troops back from Iraq to defend Washington.

  14. #14
    On March 19th, 2010 at 1:03 pm, NJ-Aviator said:

    RealClear has a +7 shift to R in the senate according to their poll aggregates.

    That’s a start. I’d like to see 60 R’s with principles. That means no Snowe or Collins.

  15. #15
    On March 19th, 2010 at 1:04 pm, love2rumba said:

    This is just the beginning of many fights…each sucessive fight more brutal than the last….Let’s move.

  16. #16
    On March 19th, 2010 at 1:06 pm, iamsaved said:

    I’d say a push to vote every Democrat out of office has to get underway at the national, state and county levels. There may be some middle of the road Dems out there but they’ve allowed their party to be hijacked by the liberal left.

    Like a cancerous tumor, not only the cancerous cells have to be removed but some of the good ones that surround it.

    You can’t clear up a mold problem by leaving a little bit in the clean up. If you don’t erraicate it totally, it will keep coming back.

  17. #17
    On March 19th, 2010 at 1:07 pm, single stack said:

    I believe that if this monstrosity passes with the promises bribes of reconciliation Obama will sign it, declare the fight over and move on to the next power grab. There will not be any reconciliation. The Senate bill will become law as it’s currently written.

  18. #18
    On March 19th, 2010 at 1:14 pm, WarEagle82 said:

    I am starting to get a little concerned over the future. I am really wondering what chaos to expect over the next 3, 6 and 9 months. I now expect our situation to get much worse quite soon. I would never have thought this would have happened so quickly before the 2008 election.

    The end result of chaos is usually tyranny.

  19. #19
    On March 19th, 2010 at 1:14 pm, spaceycakes said:

    How do the statists and liberals look at themselves in the mirror?

    I suppose one could joke that they cast no reflection.

    Jokes aside; how can they reconcile their wanton cruelty and avarice?

  20. #20
    On March 19th, 2010 at 1:16 pm, Flyoverman said:

    Why would we back of the pressure one bit, even if it passes over the weekend? love2rumba nailed it:

    This is just the beginning of many fights…each sucessive fight more brutal than the last….Let’s move.

    Got that right. Let’s see if they are up to a protracted war of attrition.

  21. #21
    On March 19th, 2010 at 1:20 pm, Flyoverman said:

    Obama came into office promising he would “transform America.”

    Let’s help him keep that promise, but in a way never even imagined in his worse nightmare.

  22. #22
    On March 19th, 2010 at 1:21 pm, rightisright said:

    Obama will need to hurry the troops back from Iraq to defend Washington.

    Don’t believe the majority of the troops will support this Marxist in the W.H.. he is a traitor to the laws of the land…him and the rest of the democrat, thuggish, whores.

  23. #23
    On March 19th, 2010 at 1:22 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    babiesgrandma said:

    What makes you think that we will have a vote come 2012?


    And I ask you Sir, who is the militia? I tell you it is the whole body of Free Men

    George Mason

    You too babiesgrandma.

    What Our Founding Fathers Really Said About Guns.

  24. #24
    On March 19th, 2010 at 1:33 pm, Little Ma said:

    Never again will I utter or write these words: the Democrat Party. From now until I die I will call that party what it is: the Communist Party.

  25. #25
    On March 19th, 2010 at 1:34 pm, Hangfire said:

    A lot of people here in the People’s Republic of Hawaii do not want the government health plan. Hawaii already has one of the best, if not the best, health care systems in the nation. A lot of union plans and retired military are here.

  26. #26
    On March 19th, 2010 at 1:43 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    Forget about the cave-in list. How about how Grahamnesty is reaching across the aisle to load this treasonous bill with his budget-busting amnesty rider?

  27. #27
    On March 19th, 2010 at 1:46 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    Grahamnest

    Who ARE those effing idiots who keep electing this piece…

  28. #28
    On March 19th, 2010 at 1:50 pm, babiesgrandma said:

    ArizonaNeanderthal said: You too babiesgrandma.

    I was in the military; I have a gun; I know how to use it. Be prepared is not just for the Boy Scouts. It is for all of us who value their freedom.

  29. #29
    On March 19th, 2010 at 1:58 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    babiesgrandma said:

    I was in the military; I have a gun; I know how to use it. Be prepared is not just for the Boy Scouts. It is for all of us who value their freedom.

    Go granny, go…

  30. #30
    On March 19th, 2010 at 2:04 pm, ThunderHawkk said:

    Can you all imagine the slimy, sludge-caked swamp bottom that this vile bastard obama emerged from in his life to reach this point? Vile, wretched, pathetic, worthless P.O.S!

    Who are you, obama? From what depths of hell have you emerged to bring destruction to us all?

    I curse your vile mother who brought you into this world… Surely, a demon indeed…

  31. #31
    On March 19th, 2010 at 2:12 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    Obama is the son of a foreign national, a dual citizen at birth, not a natural born citizen. There was a VERY good reason our founders insisted on that language. Too bad we are too stupid to understand and apply it. Native born was specifically rejected as insufficient. At best, that is all Obama is. He may not even be that, no one knows for sure…..

  32. #32
    On March 19th, 2010 at 2:12 pm, rfjjulie said:

    What are these politicians smoking? Over at Politico there is an article on the Dr. Fix for 371B http://www.politico.com/livepulse/0310/EXCLUSIVE__Democrats_plan_doc_fix_after_reform.html?showall

  33. #33
    On March 19th, 2010 at 2:12 pm, TigerLady said:

    Cave-in Watch

    I call it Weenie Watch.

  34. #34
    On March 19th, 2010 at 2:13 pm, WarEagle82 said:

    Called my weasel congresscritter’s local office today and got right through. That seems to be a bad sign to me! I kind of hoped the lines would be choked…

    The guy I spoke to was very polite and I was too. But I was very direct. When I explained how the bill was unconstitutional and the “Slaughter Solution” was unconstitutional and that we would be watching his vote very closely they guy said little.

    When I asked how the weasel was going to vote he responded “we don’t know.” And I told him that was UNACCEPTABLE! The weasel OWES us an answer!

    He took my name and address and promised to get back to me. I expect the black helicopters any minute now…

  35. #35
    On March 19th, 2010 at 2:14 pm, Kevin K. said:

    On March 19th, 2010 at 1:02 pm, Tazed and Confused said: (#13)

    Obama will need to hurry the troops back from Iraq to defend Washington.

    He might not want to do that. Most of us remember our oath to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic a LOT more seriously than Washington DC politicians.

  36. #36
    On March 19th, 2010 at 2:15 pm, TigerLady said:

    War, you may not see helicopters but don’t hold your breath about that call. You should have followed up his promise with your skepticism due to the lying nature of most politicians.

  37. #37
    On March 19th, 2010 at 2:20 pm, NJ-Aviator said:

    Pasadena Phil said:

    Forget about the cave-in list. How about how Grahamnesty is reaching across the aisle to load this treasonous bill with his budget-busting amnesty rider?

    Excellent point Phil. I knew it would surface at some point, but not in the middle of this health care hijack bill.

    Here’s Jacobson’s closing comment in that article you linked. Sums it up pretty well.

    The CBO cost estimates (which themselves are based on falsely rosy assumptions) do not take into account the more than 10 million people who will fully participate in the exchanges and receive subsidies (depending upon income) automatically if the Schumer-Graham proposal became law.

    The Schumer-Graham proposal, which is endorsed by Obama, is just another warning sign that the CBO cost estimates are pure fantasy.

  38. #38
    On March 19th, 2010 at 2:32 pm, WarEagle82 said:

    This bill is going to cause unemployment to soar within months or even weeks after it is “deemed” into existence! See this for one example: http://www.chicagobreakingbusiness.com/2010/03/caterpillar-health-care-bill-would-cost-it-100m.html.

    If every large company in America takes a $100 million hit the first year you can expect them to shed employees to make up for it. Then again, I am not sure this is not what the Deem-ocrats had in mind…

    By the end of the year we will look back fondly on the days of 10% unemployment!

    This will be just the start of the unraveling of the entire economy! They have to know this. It can therefore be nothing less than the intentional destruction of our nation and way of life.

  39. #39
    On March 19th, 2010 at 2:35 pm, NJ-Aviator said:

    More from LegalInsurrection blog

    Firedoglake has a great list (see images below) of Democratic Congressmen who pledged — in writing — not to vote for any health care bill which did not include a public option but who are voting for Obamacare which does not have a public option.

    These Congressmen lied to their supporters. Think what they would do to their opponents.

  40. #40
    On March 19th, 2010 at 2:41 pm, WarEagle82 said:

    EVERYBODY NEEDS TO READ THIS LINK!

    http://biggovernment.com/capitolconfidential/2010/03/19/the-heat-is-on-congressmans-office-says-constituent-calls-are-harassment/

    YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING!

    THEY ALL NEED TO GO, NOW!!!

  41. #41
    On March 19th, 2010 at 2:45 pm, rfjjulie said:

    On March 19th, 2010 at 2:32 pm, WarEagle82 said:

    I agree with you WarEagle, but I don’t think the Won is smart enough to orchestrate this. That begs the question, Who IS behind this? and Why?

  42. #42
    On March 19th, 2010 at 2:46 pm, Speakup said:

    This is our nation, we own it, its our house, our home, our only safe harbor, our precious possession, our freedom, its up keep, is our responsibility.

    “Everyone loves his own country, customs, language, wife, children, not because they are the best in the world, but because they are his established property, and he loves in them himself, and the labor he has bestowed on them. The working of revolutions, therefore, misleads me no more; it is as necessary to our race as its waves to the stream, that it may not be a stagnant marsh. Ever renewed in its forms, the genius of humanity blossoms.”
    – Johann Gottfried Von Herder – “Philosophy of History” (1774)

  43. #43
    On March 19th, 2010 at 2:57 pm, NJ-Aviator said:

    WarEagle82 said:

    EVERYBODY NEEDS TO READ THIS LINK!

    That’s a pretty disturbing account. Good thing they hung up on the wrong guy. It’s becoming clearer each day, that with the democrats in charge, we no longer have a government that governs with our consent. And they also want to prevent us from petitioning our govt for a redress of grievances, as is guaranteed by our Constitution.

  44. #44
    On March 19th, 2010 at 3:09 pm, babiesgrandma said:

    love2rumba said:
    This is just the beginning of many fights…each sucessive fight more brutal than the last….Let’s move.

    I say, Let’s Roll! Our country has been hi-jacked!!

  45. #45
    On March 19th, 2010 at 3:10 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Apparently they won’t be happy until we go all “Wolverines!” on them.

  46. #46
    On March 19th, 2010 at 3:12 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    “Fence sitters” in the House should stop and realize that in the last four months, the only time Obama’s Approval Index improved to only single-digit negatives (reaching a high of -4), was when Obama promised during the SOTU to focus on JOBS instead of HEALTHCARE. The minute people realized that Obama had lied, his Approval Index dropped to double-digit negatives, and today he has matched his record low of -21.

    Table the Health Care discussion, focus on improving the economy, and if you later come back to Health Care, START OVER WITH A NEW SENATE BILL!

  47. #47
    On March 19th, 2010 at 3:22 pm, cheapseat said:

    One of our founding fathers said (I think it was Ben Franklin) ” when the people find that they can vote to rob the treasury the republic will be destroyed.” We are at that point.

  48. #48
    On March 19th, 2010 at 3:37 pm, love2rumba said:

    WarEagle82 said

    This arrogance does not surprise me at all. What does surprise me is that people have put up with it in albeit quieter ways for decades and still kept voting for them.

    I remember my first exposure to a US Congressman was by the name of Al Swift,Democrat, of Washington State’s 2nd congressional district back when I was a high school senior in 1981. This ‘Congressman’ was the most arrogant Know-It-All I’ve ever met. What baffled me then was how the voters of Second District would keep returning this guy back to Capitol Hill term after term…

    Perhaps some of these voters in the article are now learning a valuable lesson as to how their ‘representative’ really views his/her voters…A lesson I learned when I was 17.

    Thanks for the link, WarEagle82

  49. #49
    On March 19th, 2010 at 3:41 pm, 11B said:

    Thanks George W Bush. Seven years ago today you invaded Iraq. The way you conducted the war cost the republicans both houses of congress in 2006. Think about the republican senators who were knocked off in 2006. Had they won they would not have faced reelection during the recession of 2008. If we had just 1 of those guys in the Senate this past year we could have prevented Obamacare. Now we are powerless and can only hope a few democrats vote our way.

    Thanks a lot W. With your incompetent conduct of war, push for amnesty, prescription drugs, etc., etc., you have handed dems the opportunity of a generation. Who cares if they lose in November, Obamacare won’t be overturned. Was the Immigration Act of 1965 overturned? Were FDR’s major reforms ever overturned?

    I don’t even see the point in voting anymore Even if we make major headway in November, we’ll be greeted with the spectacle of John McCain and Lindsey Graham running the show.

  50. #50
    On March 19th, 2010 at 3:43 pm, groundhunter said:

    Periello said that if you don’t tie thier hands they will keep steeling.

    Those who vote yes under the impression that the reconciliation bill gives them something they want or changes the Senate bill in thier favor are just dupes. The Senate bull will be stripped from the reconcilliation bill, sent to Obama for signiture and the reconcilliation bill will never be concidered by the Senate. It will die from neglect and we will be stuck with a putrid health care system.

  51. #51
    On March 19th, 2010 at 3:51 pm, rplatt said:

    If these left wing Democrat legislators were people of integrity and courage you could reasonably believe they would stand their ground and vote “no”. Unfortunately, they are slimy little political weasels that would sell their mothers for a pittance.

  52. #52
    On March 19th, 2010 at 4:03 pm, CO2 Producer said:

    Everybody limbo! How low can you go?

  53. #53
    On March 19th, 2010 at 4:05 pm, Hangfire said:

    They should all wear togas and sandals, drink wine, and vomit regularly.

    Pelosi is Caligula’s horse, or at least the rear of it.

  54. #54
    On March 19th, 2010 at 5:00 pm, love2rumba said:

    Obamacare, etc. can be removed as law or not enforced if the American people want it to be so. The question is, how badly do you want to make that happen, and what are you willing to do to make it happen?

  55. #55
    On March 19th, 2010 at 5:06 pm, thefoundingfathers said:

    The following was sent to me today at work:

    Now, let me get this straight……we’re
    trying to pass a health care plan written by a committee
    whose chairman says he doesn’t understand it, passed
    by a Congress that hasn’t read it but exempts themselves from it, to be signed
    by a president that also is
    exempt from it and hasn’t read it and
    who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn’t pay his taxes, all to be overseen by a surgeon general
    who is obese, and financed by a country that’s broke.

    What the hell could possibly go wrong?

  56. #56
    On March 19th, 2010 at 5:48 pm, vickisoup said:

    What they most want to do right now is undermine the spirit of the opposition to get you to begin backing off.”

    I confess: It’s working! I can’t remember ever feeling so discouraged in my life.
    :sad:

  57. #57
    On March 19th, 2010 at 5:56 pm, jlhudg23 said:

    That sign in the photo says:

    You can’t fix stupid, but you can vote it outz

    True, but we’re no longer dealing with “stupid”; we’re dealing with “evil”. And the quickest fix for evil is to hang it by a noose from a tree until it stops twitching, then shoot it in the head and finally burn the body.

    And be sure to put a silver stake through its heart.

  58. #58
    On March 19th, 2010 at 6:09 pm, Skywise said:

    Guys, guys, guys… don’t be depressed. Angry yes… depressed no.

    We may have lost this battle but the war is just beginning.

    Remember, Reagan privatized the airline industry and Ma Bell. Two things that were sacrosanct national businesses from inception. People screamed that we would be at the mercy of fat cats making planes unsafe and airlines would crash more often. It didn’t happen. People screamed that the nations communications would fall into disrepair and phone calls would become more expensive. Instead communications like long distance calling and the internet skyrocketed and whole new forms of communication were discovered. If he can break those, surely we can unshackle government from this insipid health care “reform” bill and restore liberty to the people. We have people who wrongly think it is their authority to tell you what to eat, drink and think and how much money you can make and then have the audacity to claim they’re “free thinkers”. They are wrong.

  59. #59
    On March 19th, 2010 at 6:17 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Another reminder: “Keep in mind that from the time the Democrats started the 72 hour clock, they have been working hard at creating an aura of momentum and inevitability around the passage of Obama Care. What they most want to do right now is undermine the spirit of the opposition to get you to begin backing off.”

    Exactly. If you watch and listen to Pelosi here, her voice sounds nervous. She’s not nearly as happy and downright giddy as she would be if she truly had the votes.

    The whole process here is to create a sense of inevitibility… “fake it ’till you make it” … so that those Reps who are still on the fence think that it will pass, and then choose to join what they think is the winning side. Pelosi is hoping for a self-fulfilling prophesy.

    The Dems are lying through their teeth, but if enough spineless Reps fall for it, Pelosi could succeed. The best thing the fence sitters could do would be to ALL hold back until the ACTUAL VOTE, then when Pelosi only has 206 votes without the fence-sitters, they all vote NO and KILL THE BILL.

    Don’t commit to Pelosi now. It’s all a charade right now. The clock is ticking for Pelosi. She doesn’t want to put it to a floor vote unless she KNOWS she has the numbers, so if you hold out and don’t let her know she has the numbers, then she will either have to put it out there without knowing the result in advance (a very risky move), or she will have to pull it back from a floor vote, and therefore admit that she doesn’t have the votes yet!

    Don’t let her put YOU on the spot, instead, put HER on the spot.

    Don’t tell Pelosi how you plan to vote. Let her sweat the next two days!

  60. #60
    On March 19th, 2010 at 6:17 pm, tiredofit08 said:

    Gee how convenient…2 dimocrap reps are now getting the water flowing in the San Joaquin Valley…not all of it, just their districts…coincidence? me thinks not…Senator Coburn…please follow the trail on this one too…

  61. #61
    On March 19th, 2010 at 6:25 pm, ThatSamIAm said:

    This could be our last Friday as a free republic. Our constitution has been assaulted. Our democracy virtually strangled to death. The rights and liberties of the American people have been raped by the socialist progresive liberals that were foolishly allowed into office by an apathetic nation. But some of us stood up. We did not accept this willingly. I just want that to be known. May God have mercy on our souls… those of us that still have one. If you voted for these pathetic tyrants to “make history” then congrats. The destruction of a nation is certainly historic. And when we run Obama and the rest of these socialist scum out of office in a landslide it will also be historic.

  62. #62
    On March 19th, 2010 at 6:34 pm, MrOlympia said:

    Heil the Fuhrer!

    Skinny wimpy girly man Odumbo is in the early stages of trying to rule the world. Who/what will stop him and when?

    I feel like a Jew in Germany as Hitler took power. Once Obamao solidifies power in the USA he will make every effort to branch out worldwide. Be ready for your 666.

  63. #63
    On March 19th, 2010 at 6:40 pm, TacitEagle said:

    Socialism is Slavery.
    Say NO to Socialism.

  64. #64
    On March 19th, 2010 at 6:41 pm, rambler said:

    I’m not ready to give up, even if it passes. What would happen it the public continued to keep the capital phones busy? What would happen if the dems couldn’t raise money for campaigns? We still hold the purse strings. There is a lot more we can do. It’s time to think creatively. We have better brains than those who support this socialist take over. Socialism has always failed. The USSR failed. The Berlin wall fell. These progressives can fall too.
    If I had taken all the money that I had to pay for health insurance and put in in the bank or invested it for medical purposes, I would have been in great shape. Those on the dole have limited options. Pelosi et all are counting on us to cave if this is passed. We can’t afford to cave.

  65. #65
    On March 19th, 2010 at 6:53 pm, graysonret said:

    The democrats are banking on a lot of citizens/voters that aren’t aware of what is going on; a small percentage not caring. For example, my neigbor is more interested in the “Billboard top 10″ than what’s happening in D.C.. Too many are apathetic to this take-over of their country. The democrats want this to continue. As long as it doesn’t immediately affect their jobs, tv programs and music, many don’t care.

  66. #66
    On March 19th, 2010 at 7:05 pm, MarcoPolo said:

    The Republicans pass big spending bills to keep us safe, the Democrats pass big spending bills to keep us healthy.

    Somebody please make them stop.

  67. #67
    On March 19th, 2010 at 7:06 pm, Speakup said:

    Besides.

    If you hate the insurance companies like the President wants you to and this is so bad for those awful greedy people, why isn’t big insurance and big pharma using their billions in nasty profits to pay for a 24-7 ad campaign against corruptOcare?

  68. #68
    On March 19th, 2010 at 7:08 pm, TigerLady said:

    11B said:

    You’ve got to be kidding. Aren’t you forgetting that a Democrat majority congress voted to fund the war in Iraq? If they were so against it they could have refused to fund it. End of war. They are complicit in the spending.

    Why don’t you blame the State Run media? They were largely responsible for how the sheeple in this country viewed the war, the budget, George W. Bush. They had a hand in the Republicans losing their majority. Hell, the Republicans had a hand in getting themselves voted out of office. When they held the majority they were not fiscally responsible and spent like drunken sailors too.

    I understand your frustration. Anyone with common sense is frustrated, angry and scared. But playing the Bush blame game is wrong.

    Rush mentioned this today–back to the 2006 elections, people voted to punish the Republicans. Did all the good, solid conservatives get voted out of office by a punishment vote?

    It’s time to let go of Bush Derangement Syndrome. He was not perfect, especially toward the end of his second term but your accusations are far from the truth.

    If you don’t want McLame and Grahamnesty to be in power, work to vote them out. I plan to do just that.

  69. #69
    On March 19th, 2010 at 7:30 pm, Laree said:

    The Right Doesn’t Like This Bill. The Left Doesn’t Like This Bill. The Middle Doesn’t Like This Bill. There Is NO Public Support For This Bill Just Special Interest Leaning On The House of Representatives.

    So who will support these Democrats come November? Not their base it appears. Where will their campaign money come from?

    It’s not just Independents and Republicans that don’t like this Bill.

    http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/03/19/fact-sheet-the-truth-about-the-health-care-bill/

  70. #70
    On March 19th, 2010 at 7:51 pm, iamsaved said:

    If a conservative doesn’t like guns, he doesn’t buy one.
    If a liberal doesn’t like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.

    If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn’t eat meat.
    If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.

    If a conservative is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.
    If a liberal is homosexual, he demands legislated respect

    If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.
    A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him.

    If a conservative doesn’t like a talk show host, he switches channels.
    Liberals demand that those they don’t like be shut down.

    If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn’t go to church.
    A liberal non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced.
    (Unless it’s a foreign religion, of course!)

    If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it,
    or may choose a job that provides it.
    A liberal demands that the rest of us pay for his healthcare.

    If a conservative reads this, he’ll forward it so his friends can have a good laugh.
    A liberal will delete it because he’s “offended”.

  71. #71
    On March 19th, 2010 at 7:53 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    The democrats are banking on a lot of citizens/voters that aren’t aware of what is going on; a small percentage not caring

    The sheeple won’t notice until 20% of their income is forced from them to pay for Marxistcare.

  72. #72
    On March 19th, 2010 at 7:54 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    iamsaved said:

    True, but not much to laugh about today.

  73. #73
    On March 19th, 2010 at 8:09 pm, Speakup said:

    On March 19th, 2010 at 7:51 pm, iamsaved said:

    If a conservative reads this, he’ll forward it so his friends can have a good laugh.
    A liberal will delete it because he’s “offended”.

    Almost, a liberal will want you deleted.

  74. #74
    On March 19th, 2010 at 9:06 pm, 11B said:

    The democrats are banking on a lot of citizens/voters that aren’t aware of what is going on; a small percentage not caring

    It won’t matter anyway. If they are able to ram Obamacare through, they will be able to ram amnesty through. Once that is done there will be enough new voters to cancel out any angry voters.

  75. #75
    On March 19th, 2010 at 9:22 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    11B,
    That’s been the plan from day one, sneak through health care by saying it won’t cover illegal aliens and then voila, make them all legal. The majority of the uninsured ARE illegal aliens and they are the ones running up the costs by not paying for the care they receive. Those costs are recovered from US. This whole health care fiasco is for the benefit of citizens of other countries, who are in our country illegally (that’s against the law for you out in Rio Linda).

    Amnesty will be easier because plenty of Republicans support it.

    “At what point should we expect the approach of danger? By what means are we to fortify against it? Shall we expect some trans-Atlantic military power to step across the ocean and crush us? Never. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it cannot and it will not come from abroad. If danger ever reach us, it must spring up from amongst us. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men, we will live through all time or die by suicide.”
    Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) From an 1838 speech when he was just 29 years old.

    Amnesty is national suicide.

  76. #76
    On March 19th, 2010 at 9:35 pm, nyk said:

    That’s been the plan from day one, sneak through health care by saying it won’t cover illegal aliens and then voila, make them all legal.

    I feel like a Jew in Germany as Hitler took power.

    Who are you, obama? I curse your vile mother who brought you into this world… Surely, a demon indeed…

    WOW.

    Rationalism: A New Interpretation.

    Enjoy your Sunday, guys!

  77. #77
    On March 19th, 2010 at 9:51 pm, love2rumba said:

    Enjoy your Sunday, guys!

    …and you call that rational, NYK?

  78. #78
    On March 19th, 2010 at 9:53 pm, RedDog said:

    Another reminder: “Keep in mind that from the time the Democrats started the 72 hour clock, they have been working hard at creating an aura of momentum and inevitability around the passage of Obama Care. What they most want to do right now is undermine the spirit of the opposition to get you to begin backing off.”

    Remember that communists are adept in creating and functioning in crisis. It is their environment.

    Many of my generation knew this day was coming. We just never believed it would happen in our lifetime. Like our young Marines we must now learn to improvise, adapt, and overcome.

  79. #79
    On March 19th, 2010 at 9:58 pm, RedDog said:

    On March 19th, 2010 at 4:05 pm, Hangfire said:

    They should all wear togas and sandals, drink wine, and vomit regularly. Pelosi is Caligula’s horse, or at least the rear of it.

    How appropriate that she’s Italian.

  80. #80
    On March 19th, 2010 at 9:59 pm, RedDog said:

    Apologies to Americans of Italian decent.

  81. #81
    On March 19th, 2010 at 10:04 pm, herself said:

    Fox News appears to think Pelosi now has 216.

    {+,+} Bleah, I feel awful.

  82. #82
    On March 19th, 2010 at 10:19 pm, jangar said:

    ALL Democrats need to have the gravy kicked out of them in November.

    Mainly out of principle.

  83. #83
    On March 19th, 2010 at 10:23 pm, jangar said:

    I am still in this fight until I die or get hauled off to re-education camp.

    If you get hauled off…piss on them.

    Re-education my arse.

  84. #84
    On March 19th, 2010 at 10:31 pm, jangar said:

    A liberal will delete it because he’s “offended” an a$$hole.

    FIFY

  85. #85
    On March 19th, 2010 at 10:32 pm, jangar said:

    Fox News appears to think Pelosi now has 216.

    Thumb screws & bamboo shoots.

  86. #86
    On March 19th, 2010 at 10:43 pm, John Deaux said:

    Isn’t it amazing how the trolls come out to gloat and insult, but never stick around to defend the corruption of their idols?

  87. #87
    On March 19th, 2010 at 10:47 pm, jangar said:

    This will be just the start of the unraveling of the entire economy! They have to know this. It can therefore be nothing less than the intentional destruction of our nation and way of life.

    I think the motive here is to create a class of poor (and government dependent) that completely eclipses all other demographics. In other words, the middle class is screwed and dead. Welcome to poverty.

  88. #88
    On March 19th, 2010 at 11:42 pm, rightisright said:

    Don’t anyone think this Stupak is anything but a sellout, traitor, Marxist. He’s for the health care bill, meaning he is a Marxist! he just doesn’t want the Marxists to spend money on abortions…what phony bastard he is, but he is a democrat.

  89. #89
    On March 20th, 2010 at 12:19 am, granite said:

    On March 19th, 2010 at 10:43 pm, John Deaux said:

    Isn’t it amazing how the trolls come out to gloat and insult, but never stick around to defend the corruption of their idols?

    They know that they cannot defend the corruption.
    That’s likely the major reason that most, if not all trolls, especially the one I figure your comment was prompted by; are, to some degree, angry and nasty.
    And few, if any, are as angry and nasty as the one I figure your comment was prompted by.
    Somewhere inside of themselves, the trolls know that they are just plain wrong to promote the dangerous, evil, America-hating policies that they promote.
    They know that what they promote is wrong, yet they keep promoting it – cannot stop promoting it.
    And that conflict eats away at their insides.
    They will not admit it. But, no matter how mightily they deny it; no matter how they mock, no matter how viciously they attack their political, worldview opponents for pointing this out…this conflict is a source of relentless, unceasing, unbearable pain for them.

  90. #90
    On March 20th, 2010 at 1:12 am, Member-VRWC said:

    On March 20th, 2010 at 12:19 am, granite said: But, no matter how mightily they deny it; no matter how they mock, no matter how viciously they attack their political, worldview opponents for pointing this out…this conflict is a source of relentless, unceasing, unbearable pain for them.

    In the case of supporting Obamacare that would be because at some subconscious level they know that someday they, too, will wait a year to get an MRI, two years to get a hip replacement or be denied an organ transplant or other course of treatment that could cure their illness. Likewise, supporting other nonsense like Amnesty and Cap and Trade. They know that even if they are fortunate enough to have a job that their wages will be depressed as millions of unassimilated people at odds with American values are given legal status and that more and more of those reduced wages will be used to pay for basic utilities, leaving little, if anything at all, for something resembling the entertainment that smoothes the rough edges of a subsistence lifestyle. They know and yet they mock and attack. The kool-aid has overwhelmed their ability to think rationally.

  91. #91
    On March 20th, 2010 at 8:39 am, Bruce said:

    No one will do what’s necessary to stop this. Signs won’t help and one person acting alone won’t do any good. Even in the face of tyranny, there is no will to impose the Constitution.

    Our country is being overthrown and no one will fight.

    Talking about it doesn’t help. The majority has spoken, but the Democrats won’t listen.

    This is not only the result of the Democrat traitors: this is the result of good people over the decades failing to resist.

    Now it’s over.

  92. #92
    On March 20th, 2010 at 11:29 am, TigerLady said:

    nyk said:

    I feel pity for you. But unfortunately if this goes down, we’ll all suffer together. You’re apparently too ignorant to see the hand writing on the wall.

    No need to respond, there’s nothing you can say. But get back to us in a few years when there’s nothing left of freedom.

  93. #93
    On March 20th, 2010 at 11:56 am, Virginia Patriot said:

    Welcome To Demon Pass, formerly known as the USA.

  94. #94
    On March 20th, 2010 at 1:53 pm, Jimnospin said:

    If anyone wants to help send weasel Harry Mitchell home to Scottsdale this August, I think I’ve found an extremely worthy opponent for him who could use some support and exposure.

    Check out Dr. Chris Salvino’s website and see if you agree with his views.

    http://www.drchrisforcongress.com

  95. #95
    On March 20th, 2010 at 2:28 pm, BOB said:

    On March 19th, 2010 at 10:47 pm, jangar said:
    This will be just the start of the unraveling of the entire economy! They have to know this. It can therefore be nothing less than the intentional destruction of our nation and way of life.
    I think the motive here is to create a class of poor (and government dependent) that completely eclipses all other demographics. In other words, the middle class is screwed and dead. Welcome to poverty.

    Yes, it means power for those who offer the most freebies……forever.

  96. #96
    On March 21st, 2010 at 12:13 am, kurthanson said:

    The section in the bill that will force citizens to buy insurance or go to jail must be immediately challenged in court.

    Is any group getting ready to challenge this provision before the Supreme Court?

  97. #97
    On March 21st, 2010 at 12:56 pm, obdurate said:

    Its time to fertilize the tree of liberty!

  98. #98
    On March 21st, 2010 at 11:04 pm, 11B said:

    Tigerlady

    You’ve got to be kidding. Aren’t you forgetting that a Democrat majority congress voted to fund the war in Iraq? If they were so against it they could have refused to fund it. End of war. They are complicit in the spending.

    The democrat majority that came in 2006 did not cut funding to the war because they weren’t going to leave US troops with their butts exposed in the field. The republicans were the ones who wanted the war and the people punished them for it in 2006 largely because the reasons given for going to war and the estimated expenses of the war were way off the mark.

    Going to war in Iraq was a gamble. The republicans stood to benefit immensely if it went clean and quick like the 1991 Gulf War. Remember Bush I went to 91% approval in 1991. However, they stood to lose, and they did, if it was not.

    I still stand by my original statement. The republican senators who lost in 2006, and thus would not have had to run during the recession in 2008, could have prevented Obamacare. So to me I’ll add the cost of this medical monstrosity to the other direct and indirect costs of the Iraq war.

  99. #99
    On March 22nd, 2010 at 10:34 am, spaceycakes said:

    just say ‘Phyllis Schlafly’ & nyk will soil her knickers.

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