Is there video of these events? - would come in real handy next year.

So all the "READ.THE.BILL" braying that's gone on applies only to those who might vote for the bill?

And VivaAmerica! is right: the videos of these events will come in very handy come election time.

Revolution? Reactionaries like them were the Tories.

I think we already saw the revolt. The last two election cycles along with the GOP's current polling numbers, which are damn near test patern levels.

The sad part is that the people who "won" the revolt of the past two cycles are trying their best to piss it away by "consolidating their power base". In a sense, becoming the New Permanent Elite in place of what Rove wanted to create, and in a bitterly ironic sense using some of the same methods of selling out to corporate interests. "Please bribe us and not the other party because we have the power and will take care of you."

John

When does trying to over throw your government become treason, because that IS the definition. Because you don't like what the majority voted doesn't mean you get to start a revolution! Thata is anarchy and treason!! It should be said; it's been too long in coming.

Most of these guys are traditional thinkers whose values are based on those of their family and on the church. Agriculture is a key industry to them. Traditionalists of this type resist change. They see no reason for it and they fear it. They tend to be anti-modern.

America now has a more than 50% urban population that works in modern jobs which force a great deal social and economic interdependence. Rather than traditional, thinking, the mode of thinking is rational. Rational thinking means to identify a problem, collect facts, apply logic, and change what needed to be changes.

Rational thinkers don't give much weight to traditional way of life or working. It's the mode of thought for people living in a modern urban-dominated world.

Inhofe is scared to death that the modern urban ways of life and thinking will swallow him up, and he'll fight it tooth and nail. The fear the conservatives are trying to spread? They live in it every day. That's why they think it is such a good tool to use to kill health care. It's what they know.

And no, they don't need rational thought. That's part of what they are fighting against.

What an irresponsible jackshit dimbulb pissant bonehead dumbass you are, Senator Inhofe.

Whenever I see that attribution "Sen. Inhofe (R-OK)" I always think, "No, Inhofe definitely R-NOT-OK."

James Inhofe, Ignorant and Proud of it!
Evidence on Global Warming? Who needs it?
Health Care for all Americans? Don't make me laugh!
Bills in Congress, and Supreme Court Justices? Why waste my time studying anything, I already know my way.

The worst kind of know nothing are the ones that are proud of their unbending will, into which nothing can make inroads, against which logic is powerless. And when facts have no meaning, when reality becomes immaterial, you have people like James Inhofe leading the way.

I feel nothing but contempt for that fool.

Could someone please ask John McCain what a "peaceful revolution" is? Does he understand the English language?

Is it just me or is Inhofe the Poster Boy for Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?

"I don't have to read it, or know what's in it. I'm going to oppose it anyways," he said at the event in Chickasha, Okla.

He can READ?

What was Bush's approval in late August? I recall him being dead in the water before bin Laden helped him out on 9/11.