Well if Republicans supported it equally, then it wouldn't be a political issue...

You know this statement from the Hatchster confirms Grayson's statements on the House Floor that the Republican plan for health care reform is don't get sick. And if you do get sick, die quickly (just vote for us before you die)

I so sick of these "anti-socialist politicians". What do these people think that the income tax is or the military - they are all social organizations where everybody put their money in for the good of all. the republicans like Hatch are basically anti democratic fascists who want to rule by authority of people like themselves, and ignore such things as elections and the Constitution as well as the will of the vast majority of Americans. If the Republican party fails it is by their own stupidity and the authoritarians like Bush, Chaney and their other failed politicians.

Wait...let me see if I've got this straight. If the people punish the R's for opposing policies that the people actually want, it's the Dems fault for being for such policies. And the two-party system would be in much better shape if both parties were against anything that would actually help people.

Leaving aside the absurdity of this, isn't the two-party system actually supposed to encourage a differentiation of ideas?

They're running scared and hapless now that things "most Americans" want are getting airplay on mainstream media nonstop, and the things "most Americans" want are things the Republicans as a group are dead set against.

They can't play their insular little socio-political games anymore, of playing the Deep Southerners and their fears against "Democrats" and the Far West Freedom-types against "Democrats" and the "Pro-Life" crowd against everyone that isn't them. They're now up against something that the vast majority of Americans, in polling, want, need, desire, and crave. They can't cherry pick the one signature issue to get them votes.

The one signature issue they're opposed to is the one that everyone wants. If the Republicans turned around tomorrow, abandoned the insurance industry, and gave us full lifetime single payer or--heaven forbid!--something like Britain's National Health Service, where if you're American you get cradle to grave free service in trade for your taxes--they would pick up 15 seats in the Senate next term.

But they won't, because of pride and ego.

The sun is setting on the Age of Reagan, and good riddance to unAmerican filth.

"...the Republican Party couldn't retain its supporters."

It's don't a pretty piss-poor job of doing it now, regardless of what the Democrats are doing. Even many diehard conservatives have lost faith in the GOP because of the public policy and economic disaster that was the Bush administration.

Hatch is funny. His argument here seems to be, "We can't have health care reform because Americans would like it and we Republicans are knowingly standing on the wrong side of history." If he's willing to concede that this is what the American people want, why isn't he willing to vote for it?

The passage of Medicare didn't kill the GOP. I don't think this bill, on its own, will kill it either.

What might kill the GOP is this bill plus the GOP's anti-moderate witch hunt, extreme unpopularity among moderates and independents, its total opposition to any issues favored by minority groups and generally awful political strategy.

Instead of whining about how the Dems passing HCR will destroy your party, you should instead try to change your party so that it does not imperil you.

Shorter Hatch: Millions of Americans must suffer and die because it helps keep the Republican Party afloat.

Now THAT'S a winning message.

Two-party system threatened? If only we could be so lucky.

Hatch is a dipstick, more specifically he should look at the UK with their socialized medicine since 1949, and their two party system:
Churchill
Heath
Thatcher
Major
all conservative priministers at a tiem when the national health service (the ultimate in socialized medicine) was in full force.

Hatch is a dipstick, more specifically he should look at the UK with their socialized medicine since 1949, and their two party system:
Churchill
Heath
Thatcher
Major
all conservative priministers at a tiem when the national health service (the ultimate in socialized medicine) was in full force.

Isn't it amazing that every initiative the Dems have ever had is a threat to everything great about America? I guess Hatch interprets a two party system as a minority that dictates while the majority bows to them.

Well if you actually WANTED TO FIX WHAT WAS WRONG, maybe you would get more support you Hatchhole.