I have to agree to some degree, according to most polls, the will of the people would have been a government run single payer system. This wasn't anything like that, but still, a vast improvement over the current system. If all it did was eliminate the evil practice of denying coverage based on a pre existing conditions, then that would have been enough.

If democrats are smart, they will base their campaigns around the fact that republicans thought people should die if they had a pre existing condition, and even wrote up their own bill upholding letting people die if they've already had the nerve of having the same kind of cancer once before.

We've got a long way to go, but if the democrats do nothing more than outlaw denying coverage for pre existing conditions, this could be enough to keep the republicans out of power for a generation.

Good points all, but lost on lunatics that make up the base of the republican party. Remember the goofy town hall protesters that didn't know, and refused to believe that medicare and social security are government programs. Apparently these yahoos honestly believe that there's some super nice private insurance company that decided to cover everybody at 65.

I didn't think that my opinion of these weird ass teabaggers could sink any lower, then the town hall protests came along and presto, they really were even dumber than I had thought, which seemed like an impossibility. I shudder to think at what kind of stupidity is lurking within them that I haven't yet discovered. We've got at least until 2013, and really, probably until 2017 to find out. It should be a an interesting and bizarre 8 years.

Of course, I kind of doubt he cared about all of that when Bush pushed through the Patriot Act. Reading that was unAmerican, it has patriot in the name, just vote for it.

Still, he has a point, we need to get this right. Abortion rights need to be included as does the public option.

I'm willing to live with the new layout on the home page. But isn't the letters section sort of the readers? I mean, we're the users of it. If the majority of us like the old format, then it seems like it would be good business, not to mention just nice, to keep it that way.

That would be funny.

But if people think he might, it will raise his speaking fees and he can negotiate a bigger contract for another TV show.

Don't waste your time explaining that atheism is an absense of faith, not faith. They already know that, they just say that to annoy you. I used to say the same thing when I was a believer. It's one of those catch alls believers say when they're losing an argument, like "what if you're wrong?" Or "I'll pray for you." Oh, and "God believes in you." When a god shows himself/herself/itself to the world, I will instantly become a believer, not necessarily a follower.

As for the problem the letter writer finds themself in, I really don't understand why you didn't have a discussion about this with your husband before you married him. The first thing is to tell him, then you can worry about others outside the family think.

Wait, where you live Chile's is considered a Mexican restaraunt? I know they have fajitas, but here most of the menu is hamburgers and steaks.

Anyway, ACORN strikes again, it has replaced SPECTRE, HYDRA, and SMERSH as the global criminal organization bent on world domination. I wonder if Blofeld has accepted a position there yet, and does he still have his cat? Better call James Bond, Nick Fury, or Matt Helm, only a fictional character can defeat a fictional criminal organization.

I remember back in the early 90's, Michael Moriarty got mad about something Janet Reno did, quit Law&Order and said he was going to run for president. He made the direct to video Poltergeist: The Legacy instead.

And did he bring his cat to the hearing?