At this point, what's left but to

[Jackpine Radical]

bang our tin cups against the bars in unison and chant resistance slogans?

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[LakeSamish706]

3. Particapate in what? A sell out to the Insurance Industry? Maybe, maybe this Health

Care bill is the best that is coming at this point, but it really sucks big time that the so-called Greatest Country on earth is 19th in Health Care. Canada is 6th. right now, and even with this proposed Health Care bill, we will not move anywhere near that level.

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[EFerrari]

10. Your perceptual problems are yours, not ours. n/t

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[laughingliberal]

29. Oh, yeah! I saw how the teabaggers were all pissed off about the loss of the public option

oh...wait...

[EFerrari]

32. Baloney. And no, a kitten will not die every minute if this bill doesn't pass.

[eridani]

40. Wanna bet? I WILL microwave a kitten exactly 6 hours from now, unless--

Everybody on DU agrees RIGHT NOW to raise $50,000 to put into my bank account. And those of you sick fucks who refuse to do that just don't care about animal welfare, that much is obvious. So, what'll it be folks? $50K to me ASAP, or a dead kitty? MAKE UP YOUR GODDAM MINDS, FAST!

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[geek tragedy]

14. You think that Joe LIEberman, Ben Nelson, Evan Bayh,

Blanche Lincoln, Max Baucus, David Pryor, Mary Landrieu, Bill Nelson, Tom Carper, Kent Conrad, Mark Warner and Diane Feinstein were going to let a really good progressive bill pass?

[LakeSamish706]

17. Oh for fuck sakes, what is it you don't understand about this POS bill that you are defending? n/t

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[LakeSamish706]

25. Fuck off with the teabagger BS... The bill sucks and that is the bottom line.

Yeah it will probably pass and maybe (but I doubt it) it will be improved on and blah, blah, blah... This country still needs to get Corporations in line, and that includes Health Insurers big time.

[laughingliberal]

26. I think that once we went with reconciliation we did not need them. nt

All the other Senators plus Biden would have been 51 and we could have had our public option. But nooooo.....we had to suck up to the insurance and hospital industries.

[eridani]

41. Sure, if Obama had bothered to threaten them the way he threatened Kucinich n/t

[Sebastian Doyle]

39. Yes, Nutjobs ARE uniting.

It's impossible to tell the difference between a Freep Republic post and a Message Discipline LLC post anymore.

[dflprincess]

18. Actually we're 19th in people dying from preventable causes

(other than accidents) things like diabetes, burst appendix, infections that festered too long. Overall, the World Health Organization ranks the U.S. 37th - right between Costa Rica and Slovenia.

[LakeSamish706]

31. Lol.. That seems to me to be much worse actually! And I know that it is not a laughing

mater, indeed. Unfortunately this bill probably won't improve that standing by much.

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[LakeSamish706]

15. Of course he/she is in your concept of what is a good bill vs what is absolute bullshit. n/t

[readmoreoften]

28. -100. I'd rather suffer the OP than you, thanks.

[Oregone]

22. Participate? Participation wasn't welcomed. This is a shut the fuck up and go along with it bill.

You and I both know it.

[tbyg52]

47. +1

Much like many posts around here.

[dflprincess]

24. I've been participating for 38 years

I've stuck by the Democrats for years; held a variety of party offices and worked on more campaigns than I can remember. For years I thought of myself as a party hack.

Pardon me all to hell if I'm fed up with being lied to and sold out.

[DJ13]

2. A song for the resistance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8KQmps-Sog

[EFerrari]

12. I like this one. Somebody put the finale from The Last Waltz back up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILlRPIKOrPA

[sandnsea]

5. No Health Care! No Student Loans! No Unemployment Benefits!

Yeah I'd love to see that.

[madrchsod]

6. yup.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhafyI6-Bp0

[scheming daemons]

8. DK switching sides and convincing others to also really has you discombobulated, doesn't it?

.....

[geek tragedy]

19. Kucinich didn't switch sides, he acted out of conscience

with the full knowledge of what his vote means.

It is easy to pontificate when one's opinion carries no consequences.

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[JeffR]

9. Well, pissing and moaning on the internet remains an option...

:eyes:

[MineralMan]

43. And it's becoming more and more a Public Option.

Whining without a viable plan to do something other that what is being done is irrelevant, it seems to me. There has been lots of whining here, but precious little in the way of alternative plans that have any chance of success.

[Mari333]

11. just be patient.as with NAFTA, which was supposed to be 'fixed'

this will also not end well.

just be patient, and you can say, "I told you so."

be nice when you say it, but just be patient. The shit will hit the fan.

[laughingliberal]

21. If you're young enough you can work on training in an occupation in demand and emigrate

I, alas, waited too long. It was after the theft of the 2000 election that it hit me that all our efforts have been for naught and this country will not be turned back from the path of corporate fascism. When I looked into getting out I was trained in an occupation of preference. But..I had just turned 45. Don't make the mistake I did.

The rest of us? May the gods be with us.

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[laughingliberal]

35. I believe I already stated I looked into it after the theft of the 2000 election and I'm too old

And I really don't care where Rush goes. He can afford health care anywhere. I was advising those who still have the option to look into emigrating to 1st world, civilized nations.

[EFerrari]

33. I can't. My mother is alone. And here Hugo Chavez offered jobs

to unemployed English teachers in California, too. :)

[laughingliberal]

36. Do they need old nurses? nt

[EFerrari]

37. No but I will soon. Maybe they'll take us as a team!

lol

[laughingliberal]

38. That could work!

And the company would be excellent :)

[Greyhound]

23. The alternative I've chosen/had imposed is to stop playing.

It ain't easy, but then neither is getting screwed in a rigged game for a lifetime to make somebody else rich.

[conscious evolution]

42. +1

[NYC_SKP]

34. "join vastleft in a GBCW Post and leave DU"?

I mean, since you asked.

Me, I don't care, it just might be more painless for all involved.

[MineralMan]

44. Since you asked, you could take your deflated football and go home.

[Mari333]

45. ....

"Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice." John Adams 2nd U.S. Presiden

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[troubledamerican]

48. Let's hear it for JOE-mentum