This is making me ill, literally. We are at a time in our nation when most American's, a good majority, 71% want health care reform and access of health care for all. Yet there is an outspoken violent minority intent on stopping the process. They realize this is their only weapon, because reason and logic cannot be utilized in this instance. I've just finished reading the House Bill and now I am on to the Wyden-Bennett Bill (formed exactly after FEHBP). How many of you have read any of the bills. I have not attempted the Senate Bill, but I feel I don't have to because Max Baucus is in some ways being held accountable and I think there will be many changes in conference committee. But the real question eventually emerges: Why must my fellow Americans behave like children fighting in a school yard, rather than discussing the issue, reading the bills, (because this is the only way to hold representatives responsible for their efforts) and helping to solve the problem. HOLY SHIT people. Instead we are losing our chance. We are losing our chance to improve health care for all, you know doing SOMETHING BETTER FOR THE ENTIRE NATION.

We are learning to hate each other even more, we are bound quickly becoming regionalized, Balkanized, we don't even act like a nation anymore, we are literally fighting with each other spurred on by corporate interests! I thought we were smarter than that. People are acting like they are in the mob scene from Blazing Saddles, except it isn't as funny. I know a poster around here made that point before and it is a good one. It feels like people disrupting for disruption alone, in order to stop a process and to stop a conversation one we need to have with each other. It is weird too because so many of the protesters are saying crazy things, I've heard some of these so called protesters say in all seriousness: "Keep the Government out of Medicare"! Wha..... head snaps and turns, how laughable. Oh yeah and they say all this on their scooter from the Scooter Store paid for by Medicare, so to those loons I want to say, "You're welcome fool"

This has devolved quickly into another non-discussion of issues, and has erupted into another fight over so-called morality. We have heard "Abortion", but not one talks about the coverage of Viagra, Cialis, and other penis droop medications! Ohhh, Abortion, we won't pay for women, but for a penis, we will use all our gold. Give me a break. We have heard Euthanasia, even though living wills have nothing to do with that particular issue.

And then in order to scream and yell even louder, the other side to invokes Godwins Law, how typical. What does Rush Limbaugh, and his compatriots have in this battle? What ties does he have with insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies? There must be something else going on, because it seems folks are fighting against their own self interests, and if it is because our new President is black, then I feel even sadder for the nation.

I hope we are not losing our chance to accomplish one thing in the next eight years, perhaps the most important accomplishment we could have since the original child labor laws. Stop fighting and talk, WE DON'T HAVE TO HATE EACH OTHER BECAUSE WE DISAGREE. We just have to learn a little bit about compromise and working together. Don't make Nowhere Man the theme song of the United States.

I know I should not respond to you, but I am ready for the name calling if that is the tact you intent to take on this board. Why are you so angry? There must be a more civil way for you to respond in writing. People will listen when your anger and name calling subside and you try to add substantially to the conversation. Again I ask, why are you so incredibly angry? I do have one other question, what lengths will you go to get your point across?

He is pretty funny!

If people were really concerned, they would actually pick up the bills and read them. How come no one has joined me in this effort. How come I cannot convince even my neighbors to form little reading committees and find out what is going on? None of those protesters are informed on their own, they simply listen to what someone is telling them and this is no way to obtain information.

If you do not know first hand what is in the bill, and are unwilling to find out, how on earth can you protest? The factless cannot protest, they sound foolish and uninformed, and they waste time when others are actually attempting to get answers. They, in short, are making fools of themselves.

I see you are carrying on with your name calling. Thanks, but I was named for St. Teresa the Little Flower. My parents are both Catholic, Irish Catholic and Lebanese Catholic, with a little Norwegian Lutheran thrown in. Oh and of course I am 46 and although I reside in Seattle, I am from Montana, Butte, Montana. Anger gets us very little. But you carry on. Will you call me the "C" word soon, will you resort to telling me you won't marry me? Maybe you will next call me a lesbian, and then ramble away, on and on and on, yet leaving yourself once again looking like the fool, and all along avoiding the real issues. Your overlords have done you a service, no thinking necessary, carry on young man, you prove my point with each of your posts.