In Delaying Health Care GOP Wants To Force August Repeat Over Holiday Break

Gibbs said President Obama is perfectly willing to sign the bill on the beach from Hawaiian vacation, but few on the health care team expect that to happen.

nice PR.

This process is a farce, but as Feingold and Weiner point out, it's leading to exactly the type of "reform" - i.e., very little and pro-corporate, at that - that President Obama and his team wanted all along.

Funny, given how people around here feel about Ben Bernacke, the public option, single payer, and Medicare buy-in, ENDA, card check, etc., etc., are those of us who pointed out Obama's horrible cabinet appointments some months ago still "concern trolls"? Told ya....

Sanders could have introduced this amendment in a way that would have made it easier to prevent Coburn from doing what he is doing, but he didn't. It seems to indicate that his objections to Coburn's actions are a show and he really hates the bill being considered.

So if they pass the bill in the Senate this week...it may take some of the spring out of the Yuletide teabaggers' steps, no?

Their grimy little know-nothing neo-Fascist faces all aglow, notwithstanding?

The new left-wing talking point on this whole debate is pure bullshit. That new talking point seems to be DISSENT=MURDER. I'm curious, when are the people here going to start deploying the Nazi analogies?

And if this bill is so fucking great like the Democrats claim it is, why would they object to defending it in front of their constituents? The absolutely undeniable fact of the matter is that the piece of shit Senate bill is highly unpopular, and everyone knows it. The left was in love with citing polls on the public option, and Dems tried to use its supposed popularity as a trump card every time someone opposed their plans. What happened to their enthusiasm for citing polls?

I am torn on the whole issue of this bill. Should I oppose it because it is a piece of shit, or should I support it because it is a piece of shit the passage of which will almost certainly guarantee the Dems get killed in 2010?

What's this about saving 123 people a day?

We could spend 1/100 as much money and save 1000 times as many people in the Third World.

Or maybe you think only Americans are human?

Read about Chuck Norris’s take on health care reform here.

http://progressnotcongress.org/?p=3412

Classy language. Are you a rightwing loonie or a leftwing loonie? I can't tell the difference these days.

It is over. There is no health insurance reform, there is only more money to the insurance companies. By mandate, no less. We will be forced to pay 'protection' money to the insurance industry. If we cannot afford enough, we taxpayers will pay the difference. The repubs are only comedy relief, they have no real input in this mess. They are irrelevant. The real joke is that if the dems pass this mess, the insurance companies win, and the dems lose. If they do not pass anything, the repubs win and the dems lose, and the country loses. What breaks my heart is that the people who are really trying to help us all are being silenced and shut down. The big money wins. I watched Sen. Sanders take his amendment off the table. It was more than I could stand. Lieberman will never be elected to any office ever again. But, the joke is on us becuase he will be set for life....financed by Aetna. Ha Ha.