I fear healthcare reform because when it passes and even the redneck dumbfucks in my district realize that the Republicans haven't done a damned thing for the working man but screw him since Eisenhower, they will boot my wrinkly old ass out of office so fast it will make my dentures pop out."

I'm not saying that the bill will be perfect. Far from it; it's got too many givebacks to the hospital/industrial complex. I'm not saying the Democrats are perfect. Far from it; they're still too in thrall to Big Money and too spineless to ram a decent bill up the ol' GOP tan track. But at least they will make progress, and truly seismic change is always incremental.

The GOP is TERRIFIED of their dupes finally discovering that not only do their representatives have no clothes but they've been mooning Joe the Plumber and his ilk for the last 20 years. Get ready to be exposed, elephants.

What in the holy living fuck are you talking about? Did you lose your way on the way to the "Garrison Kiellor is a torture enabler" hate thread or what?

And, a few rungs down the evolutionary ladder, we have the commenters on this story at Red State. Drop by for a hot, steaming cup of "who the fuck let these people play with the Intarwebs?"

Seriously, the comments are comfortingly inane: ACORN, SEIU thugs, and using various handguns to blow apart the "libs." Very entertaining. The ignorant right-wing booby in full victim plumage.

The GOP won two governor's races against incompetent Democrats in an off-year election!

The turnaround is here!

America is crazy for crazy!

GOP! GOP! GOP!

Being on vacation makes you sassy, Joan. Some nice Palin snark, of which there can never be enough, sez I.

I'm enjoying the spin, but even more, I'm enjoying yet another driving home of a salient point that soooooo many Republicans are forgetting in their salivation over a 2010 midterm with the economy on the rocks and no healthcare bill: YA STILL GOTTA PLAY THE GAME.

Otherwise, the Pirates wouldn't have beaten the Yankees in 1960 on Mazeroski's home run. Whatever the polls say and whatever the conventional wisdom is, you've got to hold the election. And as long as you can keep Diebold out of it, the results tell the story.

Yes, Garamendi won. I'm a recent ex-Californian always respected John G., so that's good news.

Looks like we've passed the referendum protecting domestic partner rights here in my adopted state of Washington. Won't be long, I expect, before a gay marriage bill comes up. Bring it.

They don't bring it up because of the RDF: Republican Distortion Field. Democrats winning a GOP district? Didn't happen. Can't happen. Doesn't matter if it did. Michelle Malkin said so.

According to American Chronicle...

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/126984

...the meme of defunding the program is one more proliferated piece of hysteria by the anti-Obama wingnuts.

As always, elevating the tone and content the discourse to the pooh-pooh, "Heh-heh, you said HARD" level of a junior high school locker room.

Nobody's taking down Carly Fiorina in the primary; the race against the strong incumbent Boxer is another matter. But in California, they've already got an extremely strong women's political lobby going with ex-eBay CEO Meg Whitman running for governor. Having a pair of testicles (which, given the state of affairs in my former state, one could argue that NO ONE has) could be a serious political liability in the Golden State for some time to come.

The key talking points and memes of the Reality Distortion Party are so thick on the ground here that it's the perfect microcosm for their syrupy brand of crazy. I mean, we got 'em all, come on down:

- No federal government

- Voting against your own best interests because you're enslaved to ideology

- The libruls want to control every aspect of our lives

- Socialism (the definition of which about 1% of the crowd understands)

- Confusing the Declaration and Constitution

Man, it's dizzying. I agree with another poster and up the ante: not only should we let the South secede, but we should add an opt-out clause to the healthcare bill. If you as an individual want to opt out of the plan, you can. But you opt out of ALL government healthcare: no Medicare, no Medicaid, no government reimbursement of trauma centers if your sorry ass drags in there after your heroine SaranBellum Palin accidentally shoots you while hunting moose, nada. You hate the government so much, Bubba? Then you're on your own.

Oh, and while we're at it, no public schools, fire protection or FEMA assistance when a flood takes out your shitheel double-wide and its matching outhouse, either.

Hell, we might trim 10 million people from the federal books. Obama wants to take on the deficit, that's a start.

Bravo. Clap clap clap.

Well and truly said.

That's the bottom line. When something is given a more than fair chance, relatively unopposed, to deliver results and it fails miserably, catastrophically, horrendously--it is time to admit failure and go in another direction. And that is where the GOP and conservatives are disintegrating. They can't admit that their entire ideology is a dismal, abject and total failure.

If they could reinvent themselves around values like transparency, true advocacy for the working man (instead of giving him a reach-around while sucking off Wall Street), perhaps some genuine Christian values as opposed to the mutant horror that right-wing Christianity has become, and perhaps even conservation of the environment (they are "conservatives" after all), then maybe they could mount a comeback.

But instead, they just want another shot. THIS TIME it will be different: the five most dangerous words in politics. Sell your delusions somewhere else, guys. We're all stocked up here.

In the midst of all the misappropriation of the word "Nazi" surrounding healthcare reform and Obama, thank you for clearing things up.

The real Nazi is you, you filthy, anti-Semitic piece of shit.