Axelrod’s letter are concepts that he believes should or might be in the bill and his myths are things that could be in the final bill but are not clear at this point.

Call the House Energy and Commerce Committee and ask them for a complete, up to date copy of the bill.

Do your homework. Trust no talking heads. Decide for yourself.

The vast majority of citizens in this country(80%)rate their current health care and insurance as good or excellent. They want to keep their plans. They want to see costs lowered and coverage expanded to cover the uninsured and protect those with pre-existing condition, but they do NOT want their current coverage to change. They do NOT want a single payer system. They do not want a ‘public option’ that is a transition, to a single payer, government run, government administered program.

Why? The vast majority of citizens do not trust the government. It is ingrained into our national character. They do not believe that the federal government is the deus ex machina that will help them to overcome seemingly insolvable difficulties. Agree or disagree, first and foremost, they believe in God and themselves. They look to God, themselves and their families and neighborhood communities BEFORE they seek the aid of the government.

No one will disagree that those who speak out against a single payer solution to health insurance reform willingly take advantage of roads, police and fire departments, parks, schools and a host of community services. These are clearly institutions that ‘promote the general welfare.’ But there us a fine line between ‘promote’ and ‘provide.’

Ben Franklin famously said, “They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.”

Be it Joe the Plumber or Katy Abrams, progressives miss the point. Progressives embrace the centralized power of the federal government and seek to strengthen it to achieve what they believe to be the ‘common good’, to protect minority groups, eradicate social injustice by expanding the size and scope of the federal government. “We the people” BEFORE the individual.

But progressives forget that the INDIVIDUAL IS THE LARGEST MINORITY. They cannot be so conveniently defined and demonized. Stupid, racist, political terrorists, greedy, sell-outs, tools, stooges, and (gasp!)activists…Are you serious?

Citizens like Katy Abrams and Joe the Plumber have a right to speak, to organize and assemble in protest, no matter how much progressive may disagree with them. These citizens value individual liberty ABOVE collective fairness.

It is that simple. Single payer, government administered and government subsidized “Medicare for All” is a trade on individual liberty that the majority of Americans are not willing to make.

So lets have some discussion about the exempt tax status of corporations in healthcare determined and issued by the IRS. Insurance reform requires corporate tax reform in the health services!!!!

I think “Katy, the bag of rocks” is a more suitable nom de plume.

Oh for God’s sake. Is it really impossible for people to avoid the temptation of piling on the confused people who get sucked in by this propaganda, of posting some “clever” bon mot showing how much smarter you are than they?

In my opinion, until we find a way to stop getting our ass kicked by this kind of operation, we should cool it with offhand remarks about how smart we are and how dumb they are.

Limit the scorn to the leaders of this “movement”, leave the followers alone.

The Daily Howler was all over this yesterday. Read him, the man is making sense.

For what it’s worth, people like Abram said similar things about the Clinton health plan—and President Clinton was white. By the way: Do we really want to assume that these concerns make no sense, just because they come from someone who isn’t politically sophisticated? We seem to recall a very sophisticated person saying, on the Maddow Show, that we are currently going through “the biggest heist in monetary history.” That person was Naomi Klein—and Rachel never had her back. (Bad for corporate ownership?) If we’re undergoing the biggest such heist, are you sure that Abram shouldn’t be concerned? By the way: Why hasn’t Rachel ever asked Klein to explain what she meant?

Is it possible that Maddow is a self-dealing (future) millionaire ass? By way of contrast, is it possible that Abram somehow smells a real problem? That we’re too dumb—too narcotized by stories about Iraqi baseball and John Ensign’s sex romps—to be able to smell it ourselves?

By the way: We’ve never seen Klein ridicule less-sophisticated working-class people. Could it be because she’s too smart?