So was Alan Greenspan - and we ended up destroying every financial instrument in the country.

Some people never learn.

It amazes me that Republicans are claiming that Dems want to kill the elderly. Republicans opposed the creation of medicare and social security. then they tried to put our social Security money in the stock market before the last crash. when we got the medicare drug plan through the Republicans insisted on a doughnut.

In the odd structure of Medicare Part D there is, first, a $250 deductible, which means you don't get any help until your drug costs pass $250. Above $250, you must pay 25% of the costs up to $2,000.

When your drug costs total 2,250 you reach the infamous "doughnut hole" -- and coverage generally stops until your prescriptions and drugs reach $5,100, at which point it's coverage starts again and pays 95 percent of any additional costs.

Many of the elderly I know choose not to take their medicine when they reach the doughnut, they cannot afford the cost. so called market forces cause the elderly to choose to die because they cannot pay teh drug bills.

I think that we are right on the edge of either a civil war or a military takeover of the government. For the last forty-odd years our two political parties have so polarised the population that there is no common vision of the future save that of the enviro-statists and their "back to shivering in the caves" insanities.

The only things the conservatives understand are chants and hate slogans. They oppose increases in education because ignorance is the breeding ground for conservatives. Sad that so few Republicans can put together a coherent thought on policy and need to resort to shutting down people’s opportunity to speak with their elected representative. This is what brought the third Reich to power - same bigoted conservative playbook

my congressman has been receiving death threats. this is a mob

Our leaders are feeling ambushed at Town Hall meetings. HA!
We have been ambushed by a tidal wave of immigration taking our jobs and lowering our wages for 40 years.
Would I like a better healthcare sustem, sure, the one we have now sucks, but not if it means we will give free healthcare to millions of illegals and theor relatives they will bring in after the Party leaders pass another amnesty against the wishes of the people. I am a white 54 year old Florida democrat that will not be voting for Sen Bill Nelson or Rep Wasserman Schultz in the next election.
Bothe the Democrats and republicans have failed our country!

..a Mob-Ster.......

And damned proud of it.......

Nancy Pelosi says the "angry mob" is carrying "swastikas!" Does anyone see a swastika?

The dems reaction has been very instructive to the conservative base, and not in any way helpful to them. I've never been an activist. I sometimes donate money to campaigns, but not often. Heck, I don't think I've ever even signed a petition on politics. But I did attend a tea party rally in my local community a few months ago and I'm considering paying a few dollars to take a bus to the state capital in September to attend another one. Watching the dems call everyone that disagrees with them a radical or paid shill shows me just how out of touch these people are with the citizens. Do they really think they will get me to back their agenda by saying someone had to pay me to protest their actions? Millions of regular people with families, who earn money and pay taxes are being demonized for simply disagreeing. Millions of us now have a much better picture of just how the democrats see us, and it's not pretty. There may be "leaders" at some of these meetings on the republican party, or some lobbyist's payroll. I really don't care. All I know is, someone is keeping me better informed of where I can go and express my displeasure with the Washington idiots spending my money, and I'm thankful for it. By calling all of us right wing radicals, the dems are helping to insure that we will be even less likely to listen to them in the future, and we know know without a doubt that they are lying through their teethwhen they talk about "protests". The best one today was on NPR. They were talking about how town hall meetings were suddenly being disrupted and that it had to be the work of organized lobbyists. The funny thing is they had NO FACTS to base their opinion on, they just threw it out there hoping it would stick. Worst journalism I've ever seen.

Mr Boortz, me thinks the water is finally hot enough for the frog to start jumping out.

Let's not forget that George W. was elected twice. The same people who are filled with glee at this administration's overreaching power grab, will be surprised and dismayed when the next administration, like it or not, will then be at the controls. So I ask the Liberal base: If we have a new version of George W. Bush in office in 2012, will you be content if he or she uses these same techniques of grabbing too much power and abusing the office? Remember, 50% of the population voted against this administration. You shouldn't get too comfortable.

On August 1, President Obama indicated that the 'economy was headed in the right direction'!

How could Obama even utter such words when Geithner is stating on August 2, that taxes may have to be raised on the middle class due to the bad economy??? …And on August 3, Robert Gibbs falls all over himself explaining that Obama made it “CLEAR” during the campaign that he would not raise taxes on the ‘middle class’! (Do you think there is a new definition of ‘middle class’ being worked at the White House?)

WHO DO YOU TRUST??

I really do not think that Obama knows what he is doing!! It seems that he has a 'CASH FOR CLUNKERS' plan way too often!!

*Cabinet selection (way too many tax cheaters, including the Sec of Treasury)

*Overseas apology tours

*TARP execution (Over 60 small banks have closed, while those entities who received TARP money (OUR MONEY) are paying out big bonuses! And…..where are those renegotiated loans to keep folks from foreclosure? Obama promised this back in the Spring!)

*Stimulus execution (Have your job yet??)

*Auto plan to preclude bankruptcy (GM & Chrysler both go bankrupt!)

*CZAR Creation (I lost count at 34! Just how many do you think would pass a senate confirmation?)

*The GITMO mess! We have enemy combatants safely located at GITMO. WHY BRING THEM TO A HOMETOWN NEAR YOU? Want their friends demonstrating in your hometown? WHY DID OBAMA DO THIS?

*The Prof Gates moment when he condemned a police department before knowing the facts

*CASH FOR CLUNKERS (WOW – Is this a teachable moment in ‘PLANNING’?)


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..AND NOW, He wants to take over the Energy Sector and YOUR AND MY HEALTH CARE!!!! Do you trust your future health care to him?? (AND, IF YOU SEE EMAILS OR INFORMATION WHICH IS ‘ANTI-OBAMACARE’ SEND IT TO THE WHITEHOUSE AT flag@whitehouse.gov
THEY ARE SHOWING DESPARATION!! WHY????)

Folks, we seem to have a band from Chicago who will FIRE; then GET READY; and finally, AIM. Obama is beginning to make George Bush appear as Einstein!

Why can this Team Obama not realize that in America, TAX BREAKS WORK!! Why doesn’t TEAM OBAMA TAKE A PAGE FROM JFK’s Playbook??

Real long story short, Congress and the Administration are spending money we do not have; they are trying to cram programs down our throats that we don’t want; they are reducing the liberties and freedoms of citizens to obtain additional power for themselves; and they cannot tell the truth if their lives depended on it!! Their collective arrogance is asinine!

Yo Dimwits, Atlas shrugged was a novel at best.
It provides solace to those stuck in a helpless obession with their own self importance.
Feel what you will but NEVER attempt to force your sick obsession on the rest of us.
We long ago realized it was just a book!

It's patriotic to exercise our first amendment rights . . at least that is what the left always told us. Now that the right is doing it . .suddenly we're a mob! Sheesh!

It's not wise to demonize voters who are exercising their right to free speech. Democracy is a loud and messy business. This administration doesn't seem so enthused about 'community organizing' when they're the ones being organized against.

People are going to remember in 2010 the contempt this administration showed to average concerned voters during this debate.

What I've seen are a bunch of normal everyday looking Americans showing up to ask questions. They only seem to get upset when they are treated like fools and their questions aren't answered or they are blatantly lied too! Calling these people Nazi's is the worst sort of propoganda. Nancy Pelosi and Barbar Boxer should be expelled from Congress, and Obama should apologize to the working people of this country!

I listen to your radio show while running errands just to see what the enemies of the American collective are whining about.
I have been an independent small business person for over 25 years, and I hate the parasitic, predatory entity known as the "health insurance industry". It is the poorest value I have received of any product or service I have ever purchased and provided at no additional cost to my employees for each of those years.
First, there is no 'free market' for healthcare coverage. It is a closed, monopolistic system kept free from anti-trust rules by an antiquated law regulated in each state by a bought-and-paid-for commissioner.
Second, what other product or service in this country has the luxury of shaving 40% off the top of each dollar and which would stay in business if they had to face any real competition?
Third, I would venture a guess that most of the booger eating morons who confuse your program with anything vaguely resembling truthful information have no idea they are supporting such an anti-competitive, collusive enterprise. They just fall in line with the distorted notion this support of fascism (the real dictionary definition not the tortured on air one) is somehow "American" or "patriotic".
The health insurance companies are parasites. They need to be dusted and washed away like so many lice and be remembered historically for the damage they have done to our economy.
I will be attending my Congressmans town hall meeting to support a massive change in this awful system. I look forward to reasoned debate, but I don't have any tolerance for corporate sponsored brown shirts with nothing to add but protection of the status quo!

The Left will never call them terrorists. That's on the list of banned words...just check the Leftist's handy non-PC dictionary.

No, they'll call the electorate "purveyors of man-made disaster".

Just as Republicans lost touch with America so are the Democrats. But the difference is Republicans just ignored the voters whereas the Democrats are ATTACKING THEM. Those evil right wing mobs. Uh, what about the independents and Democrats in the mix that are just as pissed and want answers. This is a digusting and luaghable strategy and it pts to truly how tenuous the Dems hold on power is. For 4 years they played on not being GW and now that they are in power they have nothing in connection with middle America and independents except to attack those who do not agree. Sad really.

I think it is HILARIOUS that the DNC used the video clips they did - but that, of course, is because it is exactly what is happening. Look at the crowd - do you see young punks with sticks? NO. Do you see crowds of mostly men who have been rounded up from the union halls who are still work age, but this is now their work? NO. What do you see? Grandmothers, mothers, elderly, grandfathers, young children who have come with their moms, men, women, and DIVERSITY! I see all economic classes represented. I see all races represented. But mostly - I see VOTERS represented! Congress is going to be REALLY, REALLY sorry when they find out that their own people lied to them and told them that these weren't voters - that they were paid! HA!

Take-or-pay, you mean in the settlements? I have found some reading on that, just wanted to be sure I was following ya.

(see THIS is why I'm here, to learn)

How about addressing the ACTUAL problem with healthcare, which is frivolous medical malpractice lawsuits? If you want REAL reform, you should lobby your hero, Obama, to push for take-or-pay. And in case you're wondering, he's completely aware of that inconvenient truth. It just doesn't jibe with his devious political agenda. And while you're at it, you might want to mention to him that GM's real problem is the UAW, which will suck down taxpayer dollars for generations to come (which he already knows, too). Of course you want to shove it up Richie Rich's asz, so to hell with common sense.

The long and short of it is that Obama doesn't give a shiite about you or any other worshipper. Look at his destitute brother, FFS. The guy lives on a buck a month. Why hasn't your hero sent him a $20? That SHOULD be a real eye-opener for you, but your cultist love for Obama obscures the obvious.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
ERMA BOMBECK

My stepmother was paid by the AFL-CIO to go to Illinois to organize illgal aliens and show them how to protest for thier marches last year. I know, she admits it. Factually correct that there are paid and trained protestors,just a blatant lie as to who is paying for them and what they are marching for. Union lemmings can argue, but it IS TRUE.

They DON'T deserve your vote in 2010. Anyone of them, who vote for this DISASTER on HealthCare need to GO!!!! It doesnot matter which party they are in. We need REAL PEOPLE in Washington. Not people who thinks of themselves as our LORDS. These same people talk about how WE The People dress!! What about THEM. What DOES THEIR CLOTHES COST????? THEY NEED TO BE VOTED OUT OF OFFICE FOR GOOD!!!!

I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man,
nor ask another man to live for the sake of mine.

I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man,
nor ask another man to live for the sake of mine.

Part of this MOB mentality is inflamed by the conservative pundits' riotous and demagogic ramblings turning the most innocuous points into Birther conspiracy or the failures of big government. None of this is productive. Shouldn't we be discussing HOW we can accomplish healthcare reform rather than WHY?

You may be rich or are in good health, but for anyone who actually relies on adequate healthcare, the current system is without a doubt flawed. Insurance companies operate for profit and hold our health for ransom with a system of claim and denial that is unprecedented. Case in point: http://www.doublex.com/section/news-politics/health-insurance-woes-my-22000-bill-having-baby

Tell me you think we don't need healthcare reform, fatcat.

Is Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson going to have a town hall meeting anytime soon? I'd be there to ask him does he regret supporting the Wall Street welfare bill back in the fall of 2008. Hopefully Herman Cain will run against him and send old Johnny boy back home.

From the sound of things, we've got 'em on the ropes. They're desperate, scared, crying foul, and looking for sympathy. It's time to go for the pin.

Seriously, though. This is real. It's not a game, and it's not fake, by any means. We, who oppose this plan, need to keep at them and let our voices be heard and make sure they understand, we're NOT in agreement with this plan and we DON'T WANT IT.

You want nuts?
http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/the-marching-morons-go-to-denver/

http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/leftwingnut-anarchists-vandalize-dc-army-recruiting-office/

You leftwingnuts are also pretty adept at shutting down free speech when it's opposed to your viewpoint. Just ask David Horowitz and Tom Tancredo. Any conservative who gives a speech at college campuses is usually met with violent outbursts. For eight years during GW's tenure, you frothing moonbats told us that "dissent is patriotic". Well, we're dissenting against Dear Leader's socialist regime.
Get used to it, sweetpea.

Compare these squares with the Democrat operatives who protest Republicans .... a pack of screeching, mentally disturbed freaks in matching pink outfits, stinking of pachouli, throwing pies at the orator, calling for Bush's head, and getting dragged out of the room while kicking, screaming and spitting.

I agree with Stan. Those people are nuts, and they look dangerous to me. You know half of them probably have a gun and a stack of highly flammable wooden crosses in their garage ready for the day when a person of color moves into their gated community. This really needs to be stopped because this is not the thoughtful, enlightened, exchange of ideas like you saw when we progressive had to tolerate your nazi president for 8 years. This is pure anger bred by the people like Neal Boortz. It is therefore not protected speech and these people should be thrown into jail until they calm down. Maybe while they're in there they should be forced to read the point of view from the other side so that they realize why the government needs to take over the insurance industry so that everyone can have excellent healthcare. Or maybe you conservatives can't even read?

... that people should call the GOP phone line like the commercial says, and ask them to actually start organizing protests. Of course they probably won't because the GOP doesn't have a backbone in general which is why they lost the majority in all of Congress as well as the presidency. It's taking just your average citizen finally standing up for themselves to get something done.

Keep it up. I for one think it's funny how worked up they getting because the country is finally waking up a bit. I really can't wait to see what all this very public berating will do for them during the 2010 elections. One thing is for certain in that there is a lot of footage to slice into campaign adds showing just what democrats think of people who value their freedom.

Now if only the country would wake up and stop voting for people who want larger government, and instead vote people who only operate in a realm of what the Constitution mandates. Ahhh, on can dream.