GOP plans to use abortion to bring down the whole bill.

McConnell is back to his favorite tactic: bluffing and delaying until he is back into a corner. the best way to handle him is to confront him head on, that is, if reid and co. have the guts to do it. it is time to fight or to shut up and go home.

If you closely read McConnell's words, you can see that he senses GOP deafeatism in this one. He's just delaying the pain.

McConnell has a 15% approval rating.

The word billion should have been trillion!

I'm glad we decide policy based on push-polling rather than elections. It's hard to even remember why we spend billions on campaigns. And voting is such a hassle. Wouldn't it just be easier to out-source the whole operation to Frank Luntz? That way we'd know exactly what America is thinking from second to second and could make long-term plans accordingly.

Don't be bad mouthing McConnell. He is my senator and he doesn't know better. He is one sick puppy.

And do you know why he thinks Americans don't want reform to pass, even though polls show the people in favor of reform? Because polls don't grab the media's attention, and rallies do. We need to have a rally in favor of reform, maybe say over the upcoming congressional break.

How can anyone trust a guy who has neither chin nor lips?

Here's the problem. The way that the bill looks when Reid devises it will not be the same it looks after weeks and weeks of amendments. This is the new fillibuster. They will kill the bill.

All of this is because the democrats can't agree to set a limited time for debate and vote for cloture.

McConnell is the icon for everything that is wrong in Washington DC. A GOP mouthpiece lying and obstructing.

May McConnell and all those like him have to pay for and try to stay healthy under existing so-called 'competitive' private plan coverage. Good luck. (Not really.)

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/september_2009/health_care_reform

It deeply troubles me that even in the face of factual evidence to the contrary Gopers keep screaming that the sky is falling. They pretend to speak for "the American People" cleverly leaving out the word majority. When they do pretend to speak for the majority, they speak about fictitious bills. There is no such thing as Obamacare. It has all been done in Congress to this point. There's the problem. If you want something screwed up, send it to "committee." Congress is the most inept committee on Earth! What the American people need and WANT is a good bill with universal, fair coverage and significant cost containment. They know how to do it. They know it is the right thing to do and yet we get the church lobbyists, Big Insurance blackmail and a timid Democratic majority. I think many Dem's don't like the way this is looking because real reform is being sold out to the highest bidder. I am happy with the progress made so far but am concerned that such threats from the right are actually listened to by not only the fux nuse crud but those who aren't paying attention. If Repukes actually had the majority of the people we wouldn't even be having this conversation.

The polls tell the story.

Seeing the forest and big picture !!

To date, out of the earmarked $787bn in stimulus package , roughly $155bn dollars, not sufficient to reverse the trend of jobless rate, have been doled out. But, away from job saving and creation, GDP growth etc, the added value on the stock market alone might stay at roughly $1trillion, which could help us see the forest in light of conclusion of the historic health care and sustainable energy act.

As always, focusing exclusively on up-front cost and subtracting its added value from equation, we will more likely be trapped in a small cage.

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The U.S. senate is a joke. It's a rich man's club dedicated to keeping the rich rich. Even though the Dem's have a 60-seat majority, this already watered-down bill won't pass.

I want to see someone shove a pie in this asshole's face.

The health insurance companies will spend millions in the next few weeks to stop health care reform. They will pull out all the heavy guns(money and influence) to put the breaks on HCR. The republican greed and obsession for power, knows no bounds. They will absolutely pimp out the American People(because they have such a low opinion of the American population in general) to get that power. They have absolutely no memory of more than ten months ago. They were right in there with Bush, but deny it, without batting an eye. I panic when I think that the Republicans might take the congress and White House back because of the lies that they are caught in now, can you imagine, if they were in political power? The American People seem to be so easily duped by propaganda, especially that put out by the health insurance companies and pharma. The republican party doesn't want centrists, moderates, liberals, humanitarians, women or gays to join their party, but wants them to vote for them. Unbelievable to me how they are getting the support that they are getting. If we don't have a voice or voices in Washington, why not just hand over power to the brawl mentality of the tea baggers and wing nuts? Our group doesn't seem to be able to govern, even though, they are in the majority. We are in a weak position because of weak kneed democrats.