OK DUers explain to me why ReTHUGS are so

[malaise]

against the Health Care Bill. Joe Scum and Buchanan sound desperate.

[liberal N proud]

1. If they wore jump suits like NASCAR drivers with logos on them

we would be able to tell who was paying them off.

Deeper than that, there are two drivers for the GOP, Stop Obama and the Democrats with hopes of regaining Congress in the fall and the White House in 2012.

The other driver is their corporate GREED syndrome. GREED drives every republican decision.

[47of74]

2. Also, I think there's racism

A lot of Rethuglicans seem unable to come to peace with the idea that an African-American is now President.

[JHB]

5. Both of the above, plus overthrow of their ideology to justify it all

1) They've been the party of the wealthey and powerful for over a century now.

2) Racism: not wanting to pay the bills for "shiftless, lazy people spongeing off the rest who work hard" is race-neutral by itself, but ain't it just amazing how quickly it gets associated with black people and illegal immigrants?

3) Bubble-bursting: the overarching ideological rationale for everything under their agenda is that "government is the problem", and that "limited government" (the military, and a huge one at that, but not much else) is what's best for the country. An effective, popular medical program would pop that cover story like the hot air balloon it really is.

[elocs]

3. They are against it because many Democrats and the left are for it.

Automatically being against anything that comes from the President or Democrats is simple for Republicans and it saves having to actually think. That's why they like Rush so well because he does their thinking for them. The truth is that they are intellectually lazy.

[KharmaTrain]

4. A Couple Reasons...

The first and obvious is a Democratic victory...one that shows they've accomplished something shoots to hell the GOOP strategy of making Obama look weak and ineffective and Democrats as inept. Right now people are tired of this process...they want it resolved one way or the other. The GOOP doesn't. They want to milk as much dissent and negatives out of it as they can...teabagging and filibustering. They're seeing their "efforts" going down the tubes.

They're also dancing to their puppetmasters...Chamber of Commerce, Insurance and Healthcare lobbyists...who see their gravy train coming to an end and that if they can defeat this bill they know no Democrat will try to bring up any reform in the forseeable future. They hope they can stall and anger long enough to win seats in both houses and put an end to any "reform"...cause they know that immigration and cap and trade are next. As DeMint said...this is "Obama's Waterloo"...and if he succedes, it'll be theirs.

:hi:

[pampango]

6. If republicans seem to agree with some of us on something (like opposing this HCR bill),

we have to assume they are faking it or posturing or we will lose our sanity. :) (Or we can go with the lame "even broken clocks are right twice a day" justification.)

[stray cat]

7. They care about the elderly and working Americans?

:rofl:

[Vinca]

8. The Democrats could propose "National Jesus Day" and they'd oppose it.