Protester on Fox: Pelosi 'Thugs' Came In 'Middle Of The Night,' Health Care Plan 'Sentences Our Families To Death'

**These liars really have to be countered.

"Those who cannot fend for themselves are discarded." I thought that was the current system...

This is great! The more of these people who are shown to be obviously disturbed then the faster this whole so called protest movement can go away.

Raugiel, you are spot on. I recently went through a kidney transplant. (Thankfully, I work for a fantastic company and kept my job and my health insurance.) My wife has Lupus. We are both uninsurable on the private market.

We could probably cover costs from our retirement savings for a bit, but one big hospital stay and we're toast. At that point, per Mike Sola, it's time for us to die.

Thank you Mike Sola for spreading lies and essentially telling me that, despite the fact that I have worked hard all my life, if I can't get private insurance, I should just go and die. F*** you, and all who sail with you.

"If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population." -- Ebenenzer "Republican" Scrooge

Pragmatically, can we ever be done with this degree of stupid without resorting to eugenics? No, that would be bad. But how about a basic test of sanity as prerequisite to voting, or even leaving the house without an attendant?

Beyond that, why is what these people say news? In what other instance does the media go out and interview paranoid schizophrenics, and quote them at length, as if there really were sense to their utterances? Maybe sometimes schizophrenic speech really does have brilliant truth buried within it, but "The government is conspiring to kill me," when you're neither in the Soviet Union of old or, say, a Black Panther in the US back in the 70s ... that's a sure sign that you're round-the-bend crazy. The polite thing is to ignore these people if you can't bring them help. Reinforcing their paranoia by taking it seriously isn't kind at all.

Not only are Democrat thugs visiting my house in the middle of the night, but also Obama won't produce his birth certificate.

I am not a nut.

Isn't "fending for yourself" the Conservative mantra?

The Double edged sword...

Sure conservatives can get the mentally handicaped (like this guy) to do their dirty work for them... but if they start to go nuts... then the gig is up.

I agree with this guy on one point. They shouldn't be called thugs.

Goons are more like it. Goon squads filled with looney goon blabber mouths.

If he's got insurance he likes, fine, he can keep it. I don't. Since I don't have a private option, why can't I have a public option?

What a freaken bastard.

These guys are ABSOLUTELY in the grand tradition of American popular opinion. One of the precursors to the Republican party was the Know-Nothing party (formally the American Party).

While I'm well aware that Know-Nothing was more of an anti-immigrant stance than a championing of ignorance, it's hard not to recognize the confluence when you see it. The party is still anti-immigrant. And it's obvious that Know-Nothing is a quite apt descriptor for the way the Republican base can be relied upon to reject facts and self-interest in favor of dogma.

What we see going on around us now is a logical outcome of the FoxNews, Rush Limburger, Michelle Bachman, Sarah Palin, etc efforts to pass of sheer fantasy for truth. And, when that fantasy is aimed at those who fervently believe in the worldwide fantasy of religion you have a very potent mix. Once you cross the line to making yourself believe whatever suits your purposes, you are on the edge of insanity, or, as it is otherwise known, you are a Republican.

Orson Wells demonstrated about 70 years ago, that people can easily be manipulated just by scaring them. What we really need today is a workable method for scaring the politicians, getting them to be very afraid of us. But, we are liberals, so that technique is off the table.

And while the previous post was a joke...we as progressives should be careful. If the republicans were ever to take the majority again, and they were to run a national health system,... these types of scenarios just might occur.The reason the republicans hate government so much is because they are so bad at running it.