Stephen wrote:
> OK I know that not all Americans feel that way but it seems that the majority of
> vocal ones do.


No one seems to have pointed out the obvious reasons why some of this is 
happening.

1. Right wing republicans showing up at townhalls to "lie" about both 
being republicans (and in one case the leader of the local republican 
party), and what the bill says.

2. Certain politicians, like Palin, making shit up, like the death 
panels. Ironically while having refused to fund health care in her own 
state, while under a budget surplus, resulting in the death of 224 
people, who died *waiting* for reassessment of whether or not they even 
needed more medical help. Part of the Alaskan system is **still** not 
funded by government money any more, because they placed a moratorium on 
*any* funding at all from the fed, until they fixed the problems, and 
part of the Alaskan system is still failing to meet the standards 
required to reinstate such federal programs.

3. An odd sort of political mess in the party at the moment, which has 
left even people that Obama stated, on national TV, as "working to find 
a solution", popping up less than 24 hours later to *repeat* the same 
death panel lie.

4. Major right wing religious groups, like Focus on the Family, which 
was founded by the same "I will be King, or at least on of the rich, 
powerful people that god gave political power too will.", Eric Prince 
that runs Blackwater, and currently under investigation for war crimes 
(including shooting Iraqi women and children because they where Muslims, 
instead of Christians), are putting out "fake" reports on what the bill 
actually says, all of it carefully crafted to look like its designed to 
rob people of health care, kill their grandparents, and steal their money.

Truth is, the current "leadership" of the Republican party doesn't want 
*any* reform. They have no proposals of their own, they made no attempt 
while in the majority to make reforms at all, and when confronted with 
the possibility of being seen siding with Obama, they immediately 
reverse their apparent positions, and start repeating the lies and 
idiocy of the party line. Worse, we have no way of knowing how many are 
like the people in #4, but we know Cheney likely hand picked Blackwater 
(or took someone else's suggestion to do so), and that at least *some* 
unknown number of senators belong to the C Street church, whose views 
are *basically* the same as Eric Prince's, that they are ordained to 
rule, their religion is the only right one, there is a strict social 
order, which includes the poor, non-whites, and women, below everyone 
else, and that democracy actually doesn't work, because more of *them* 
are not in power.

Not sure which is worse, that the entire Republican leadership might be 
these people at this point, or that the ones that are not can't tell the 
difference between a cobra and a rattlesnake, of which these wackos are 
the former, while the other right wingers are of the *slightly* less 
dangerous rattlesnake variety.

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