Comments on: Height of Irresponsibility

By: Rima

Rima — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:58:35 +0000

I don’t think Republicans are allowed to carry matches.

By: yg

yg — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:18:10 +0000

i’m surprised they didn’t make a bonfire out of the bill, alongside their burning crosses.

By: Reece

Reece — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:19:55 +0000

WHEEEEE!

By: Wordsmith

Wordsmith — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:16:37 +0000

When I was stationed in Germany (Augsburg) we went to Dachau. That picture poster at the rally matches one I have on a slide taken in the museum. The comparison is sick; there is no comparison. Their point is manufactured drama to bolster a lie using the imagery of an evilness that’s can only be defined (as one poster called it) Satanic. They’ve taken something that’s the polar opposite of the health care debate to illustrate a “consequence” of what we will get if health care for all comes to Amerika.

By: Rafael

Rafael — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:48:42 +0000

Tort reform is Republican pipe dream based on erroneous, misleading and exaggerated reports. Just a matter of closing the courts to citizens and protecting corporate wrongdoing.
And what do you thing a Representative Constitutional Republic is?
A D E M O C R A C Y.

By: jhwhit

jhwhit — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:15:55 +0000

he’s a litterbug

By: soineedaname

soineedaname — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:01:26 +0000

Your disingenuous attempt at framing is belied by the facts.
When the protesters continuously bring disgusting signs to their rallies comparing HealthCare Reform to the Holocaust, including a graphic photo of the horrors of Dachau overlaid with the inscription:
“National Socialist Health Care: Dachau, Germany – 1945″
[http://twitter.com/eliewieselfdn/status/5484104083
Then by any criteria the TeaBaggers have clearly meet the threshold of an angry mob.

By: j

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:32:37 +0000

It wasn’t a mob, and the people weren’t angry. It’s a shame people who don’t want to make decisions themselves are letting people (who are NOT looking out for their best interests) make decisions for them. This bill is not about health care. It is about personal liberties and personal choices. People deserve a lot of things, but they need to pay for them. There is a big difference between rights and privileges. You don’t pay for the rights. You MUST pay for privileges.

By: Aurora

Aurora — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:34:03 +0000

His posture echoes a picture from the end of WWII where an indignant woman (Belgian, French…) is denouncing a collaborator. My mind saw,’traitor, collaborator’ before I took in the subject matter in this photo.
Curious experience to realize how something I saw in Life magazine as a small child had that much power over my perceptions today.

By: DennisQ

DennisQ — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:18:08 +0000

This is Congressman John Culbertson who won't say whether he would have voted against Medicare in 1965. MSNBC'S Lawrence O'Donnell allowed Culbertson to rant on about apple pie, motherhood and the flag, but at no point did the Congressman answer O'Donnell's direct question. Incidentally, when right wingers talk about tort reform, they're really advocating a cap on medical malpractice awards. They really ought to call it that, because they don't mean to "reform" tort law in any other context. If you defame a celebrity, that person will hit you with a million-dollar lawsuit, and collect if the jury finds in their favor.