$115 trillion debt? Ok, I don't like our debt any more than anyone else and would like to see it reduced. But when we're talking about the national debt, let's at least use a number within the same order of magnitude of the truth.

Eric, do not gently into the good night.

These are the goon squads, the shock troops of the conservative power elite and health care - the Democrats' first major redistributive legislation has the USCoC FreedomWorks, Club for Growth etc mobilizing the troops...no question about it and no question that they are using a solid and REAL grassroots network of white evangelicals developed over the past 3 decades.

One of the TNR "jons" I forget whether it was Chait or Cohn pointed out last week that the HCR debate is only the first test of whether and to what extent we are able to rollback the Norquist gang's power.

I take the Baggers seriously. I take their Masters even more seriously

This is a high stakes game with the US proto-fascist

Ride to the sound of the gunfire as Pat Buchanan would say

Look, the bottom line here is that rational Americans know and understand that these people are stupid and dangerous... and with that in mind, we need to bring pressure to bear against all forms of mainstream media, when they continually legitimize them as citizens with a valid point of view. One to which they are entitled, because of "free speech", and which has every right to be discussed ad nauseam in the so-called "mainstream".

This is total bullshit. This is all nothing more than willful ignorance; the failure of basic education; the failure of reason in our society; the defeat of the "reality-based community".

To keep giving these people a soapbox is to marginalize the U.S.'s relevance, in a complicated world. We cannot afford that to continue, under any circumstances.

The MSM is going to continue to feature these drooling idiots prominently, unless some really effective pushback is mounted. This is not doing our country any damned good.

The tell is the repeating of "take back OUR America". They view it as theirs, and it pretty much has been for the previous eight years. This resembles nothing so much as a child who's had his candy taken away.

You can take back America by winning elections. And what we've learned from the past history of the left is, you don't win elections by acting like freaks in the streets.

Give it up you ignorant, racist Saltines! You're slipping into minority status right before our eyes. As an African American I can't tell you how much I'm enjoying your little dance around what's really going on here. This country has already been taken back from the inbreds and government sucking oldsters who don't even know that their Medicare and Medicaid are GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS! Socialism my ass! You people are still pissed because your side got it's ass kicked in the last election. Newsflash....We're going to kick your asses again in this healthcare battle! You hayseeds should be use to losing by now!

Good stuff, Roxanne.

Freedom of Speech is not just a right, it is a responsibility.

Generations of men and women have died to preserve this responsibility. It sickens me to see how it is being perverted. Not by the people at these events, who for better or worse honestly believe the garbage spewing forth from their lips, but by the people who filled their empty heads with such lies.

When you have a mouthpiece that can reach millions of vulnerable, undereducated people, when does practicing this 'right' become abuse? When does manipulation of the 'facts' become equivalent to yelling FIRE in a crowded theater?

Citizenship in this country had degraded to the point where we can't trust an individual to be responsible; to inform themselves before making a decision or forming and voicing their opinion. Wouldn't it be easier to police the mouthpieces at this point?

But who in the hell do we trust to police them? I think we're all screwed.