So about 4000 tea baggers show up yesterday and the media covers it. Saying how this is proof Americans are against health care reform. Yet this past summer, when literally 50000 Americans showed up in Washington demanding single-payer, it never got any mainstream media coverage. It's clear to me that our corporate media is adamantly opposed to heatlh care reform. They ignore poll after poll showing Americans want a public option, while covering the screamers trying to kill the bill. The corporate media is trying to shape perceptions that Americans are opposed to health care reform, when it's the opposite. As for these tea baggers, they are just old whites that can't accept America is changing. White supremacy in government is over and they can't handle it. That's all this is about. Next time a tea bagger says Obama is taking away all of our freedoms. Ask them to name one freedom they no longer have? It's time we start challenging their extremist fact-free rhetoric.

Please republicans nominate these two batshit crazies for the presidency in 2012. Obama will win in a landslide. If you republicans actually think Palin or Bachman have a snowballs chance in hell of ever getting elected President. You need to get yourselves some serious mental help.

To try to decipher anything from this off year eelction is absurd. Off year elections have notorious low turn out. My local election got 30% of voters out. The media is trying to say this was a referendum on Obama. It's not. The 2010 midterms will be though. Until then can we just focus on getting health care passed.

Our capacity as a nation to be outraged, disgusted, and revolted by such things seems to have vanished. I suspect the continuous reports of various horrors - every hour, every day - on television news is largely responsible for making us this callous. Arnold Clapspaddle

I would agree and disagree with this statement. I believe TV has helped to numb people to the outrageous actions happening to us. Yet it's not the whole story for Americans apparent apathy. A famous psychology study put a dog in a cage and subjected it to electric shocks. The dog couldn't get away from the shocks, no matter what it did. Eventually the dog just curled up in a ball and took it, stopped trying to get away. Psychogolist called it learned helplessness. Americans see what's going on. We see our government doing terrible things. Yet we feel there is nothing we can do to change it. We vote the republicans out and the dems in. Nothing changes. We replace Bush with Obama. Nothing changes. The security state keeps on it's merry way. Corporations can do whatever they please. Our government has become unaccountable to the people. It doesn't represent us anymore, it represents the corporations and the security state. If anyone steps out to protest, the government wacks us hard. Look at what happened in Pittsburgh with the G8 summit. Well if you could even find it in the media. They didn't cover those protests. Just like they didn't cover the protests in Chicago at the Bankers association. It's not really apathy, it's learned helplessness. Americans have become the dog unable to get away from the shocks.

This ruling is the result of 30 years of republican presidents. The courts have been stacked with right-wing ideologues. The 2nd circuit appeals court is one of the most conservative in the nation. Is anyone surprised they ruled this way? Conservatives hate rights. Conservatives are always been deferential to government power. The court in this case has ruled the executive can do anything and never be held accountable. If the supremes don't review this case, then it becomes the law of the land. Even if the supreme court hears this case, I'm not sure they would overturn it. Considering the right-wing make up of the court. Elections have consequences, and we are reaping what has been sown.

If Lieberman isn't stripped of his chairmanship for siding with the republicans to filibuster health care, then this is all just kabuki. It's suspected that the Obama admin made deals with the health insurance companies, that they wouldn't pursue a public option. Obama has said he supports the public option, but behind the scenes they were pressuring Reid to go with a "trigger". Knowing full well if a trigger is required to get a public option, the public option would never take affect. So if Lieberman isn't penalized for siding with the republicans, it's all part of the game. Someone told Lieberman hey everyone hates you anyway, so you take the heat. Spares the blue dogs like Nelson, Landreau, and Lincoln from being the bad guy by joining a republican filibuster. If Lieberman isn't punished, then you know this was all planned out.