Republicans are terrified right now.

[Bleacher Creature]

You can sense it in their devolving rhetoric and their continued efforts to try and kill health care reform by playing the concern troll card (i.e., giving "friendly" advice to Democrats that the bill is political suicide).

And you know what? They are right to be scared. When health care passes and there's (1) no death panels, (2) no giant tax increases, (3) no cuts to Medicare services, (4) no government officials dictating people's health care coverage, (5) 30 more million people insured, (6) a means for people to start their own business without worrying about buying health care and (7) countless other benefits, they are screwed. Plain and simple.

[Cha]

1. Exposed as LIARS.

[RC]

3. They've been exposed time and time again.

Remember P.T. Barnum? The suckers keep getting reborn.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. ...and personally, I have no problem whatsoever kicking them while they are down.

[styersc]

4. No need to worry GOP.

What you can't thwart, the Dems are certain to.

[Ikonoklast]

5. Reality will trump their rhetoric.

Even the dimmest among their sheeple will realize none of what they have prophesied will come to pass.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

6. The New Deal and the Great Society...

left them in the poltiical wilderness for thirty years. Health Care Reform and Wall Street Regulation will have them on the outside looking in decades.

[Go2Peace]

16. That's hillarious. No comparison.

I support the HC bill but you give me the giggles. The New Deal is leap years ahead of where we are right now.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

19. 30 million people aren't giggling

And that's why the Reublicans are fighting this.

[moondust]

7. Representing the Grim Reaper

may have a pretty steep downside.

:)

[KingFlorez]

8. That's exactly right

You don't warn your opposition about making bad moves. It's a facade.

[jimlup]

9. And the democrates will be reelected since the voters will

recognize that they finally did something which is what the people are begging for.

Basically, the rule is simple: whatever the republicans say to do - do the opposite!

[HootieMcBoob]

10. Yup

This bill is far from perfect but with the insurance company regulation and the exchange it gives a lot of people real relief and sets up something we can work toward in the future. A public option can be added to the exchange or medicare can be expanded. We need this to be passed. It will totally discredit The Republican Party.

[applegrove]

11. Yup. People will like health care and feel a solidarity with everyone else

being covered. Exactly what the repukes hate....a happy group of Americans.

[eridani]

17. How stupid do you have to be to assert that differentl levels of coverage

--promote solidarity? Because of my age, it's OK to charge me 3 times as much. I can assure you that what I feel towards those who think that's OK is nothing remotely like solidarity.

[applegrove]

22. So sorry you don't feel a connection with everyone else being covered.

[eridani]

23. You are asking me, a member of the Bronze level pile of disposable human garbage

--to feel solidarity with the Platinum level Real People (TM) who deserve more care because they can pay for it? No fucking way!

[depakid]

12. LOL- when people see premiums continue their double digit increases

and watch as high copay, high deductible junk insurance becomes more and more the norm- Republicans are going to point their fingers and say:

We told you so.

My bet is that they relish that prospect.

[Writer]

15. Blech.

Never mind.

[Writer]

13. Republicans are terrified for a very specific reason...

the passage of this bill will begin a new era with a stronger federal intercession in our society. After 30 or more years of vilifying the government, Republicans are seeing that narrative fall out of favor with the public.

The new narrative is a pragmatic, functional government on behalf of the citizenry. The national political culture is veering back to the left.

[damonm]

14. And they have reason to be...

The passage of HCR, of ANY stripe, dooms the GOP to the wilderness.

The haters can keep their delusional bitterness, since they enjoy it so much.

[eridani]

18. Like hell they are. They win either way

They can either say neener neener we beat you, or they can campaign effectively against mandates, just as Obama did in 2008.

[Kablooie]

20. Yes there will be death panels!

For the Republicans.

[Phx_Dem]

21. Yep. If passing HRC was going to be as detrimental to Dems as the GOP claims,

they'd be sitting back and watching with glee as we marched ourselves into oblivion. Instead, they're pulling out all the stops and turning themselves blue in the face trying to stop HCR.

That tells us all we need to know.

[santamargarita]

24. Yes they are - I like it

[HughMoran]

25. Good - and glad we could milk millions from the Chamber of Commerce for hate ads

Haha, not only will no small business I know want to be a member of that hate group (unless their right-wing owned), but the Chamber also dumped millions into hate ads in an unsuccessful bid to put my company out of business (due to health insurance cost.)