lies keep coming from Repubs

Preventing an economic depression required a great deal of spending on unpopular causes, such as bailing out bankers and automakers. Much of the structural deficit that exists is the result of decisions by previous administrations. All of that is true. So don't let these repblicans tell you otherwise.

President Obama's eleven month record

As the Senate prepares to pass its version of health-care reform legislation, Obama's advisers have portrayed a highly successful year pushing important bills through Congress, comparing his record to those of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson, even as they note that Obama is operating in a more partisan time in Washington than those Democratic predecessors had.

The most important thing he did this year was to ensure that the financial system did not collapse.

Also, 30 million uninsured Americans are projected to receive coverage, estimated savings of more than $1 trillion over the next two decades, a "patients' bill of rights on steroids," and tax breaks to help small businesses pay for employee coverage. Those elements are in the House and Senate versions of the legislation; their competing proposals will have to be reconciled in conference committee next year.

President Obama has just one term

If socialism is society providing healthcare for all and not government ownership of all assets, then I must be a socialist, which by the true definition I am not.

And the way I read it, so was Jesus by that definition. Why aren't Doctors, Drug Companies, and Insurance Companies, who have the assets and control the healthcare delivery in our country through political donations and activity, pushing for adopting the Kaiser Permanente method of healthcare delivery? The anwer is obvious.

AND they are not going to unless they are forced and how do we do that. Well we haven't been very successful as Presidents have wanted to, since Truman. AND they are still fighting and controlling the actions and dialogue of the debate.

Finally, we are getting a little opening because we have a President that is not caring about getting reelected and is trying to work toward healthcare for all. You can bet their money that they have amassed over the years is going to destroy him by 2012.

AS for the cost, the Republicans spent a lot more in the false war in Iraq when they should have been going after bin Laden. Iraq has oil. Arabs have oil which is why President Obama is pushing for non-oil energy--he is also not in big oil's pocket--and they will be after him, and are already fighting "going green."

Big oil and big Drug-Insurance-Doctors Associations aren't patriots for our country, but patriots for their wallets. They are the "robber-barons" of our time. What was it Jesus said about the eye of the needle and something about the poor? AND what did he say about homosexuals? (not that I advocate converting)

Speical intersts capture of Republicans not new

The threat posed to our democracy by legislators being co-opted by powerful interests, such as Insurance Companies control of healthcare, was warned of as far back as the Founding Fathers. As Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 1 "Happy will it be if our choice should be directed by a judicious estimate of our true interests, unperplexed and unbiased by considerations not connected with the public good. But this is a thing more ardently to be wished than seriously to be expected."

republican hypocrisy

On a 63 to 33 vote, Democrats cleared a key hurdle that should allow them to approve the must-pass military spending bill Saturday and return to the health-care debate.

After years of claiming that Democrats don't support our troops, just three Republicans supported the military funding. The republican leadership admitted that they were trying to use denying troop funding as a way to slow down healthcare reform. Talk about hypocrisy!

Our President

“Even as we confront a vicious adversary that abides by no rules,” he said, “I believe that the United Sates of America must remain a standard bearer in the conduct of war … That is why I prohibited torture. That is why I ordered the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed … We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not just when it is easy, but when it is hard

Americans elected him, and the Nobel committee awarded him the peace prize, in large measure simply because he wasn’t the republican, George Bush.

read today: The former vice president, Dick Cheeney, a leading republican, has brought dishonor to himself, his office, and his country. I am not aware of another former President or Vice President behaving as despicably as Cheney has done in the ten months since leaving power, most recently but not exclusively with his comments to Politico about Obama's decisions on Afghanistan. (Aaron Burr might win the title, for killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel, but Burr was a sitting Vice President at the time.

Cheney has acted as if utterly unconcerned with the welfare of his country, its armed forces, or the people now trying to make difficult decisions. He has put narrow score-settling interest far, far above national interest. This behavior is directly from the republican playbook. Shame on them.