People will remember his punchline long after all the statistics that support it are forgotten.

He is very intelligent harvard grad and a lawyer specializing in filing law suits against bad military contractors in Iraq

the republicans say if you are sick to go to the emergency room for treatment, but the fail to mention that if you are going in for a non emergency treatment like you are sick to the core but you don’t know why, and thus have to have some followup to see what is wrong with you SORRY!, that is not an emergency and you are told to go home. told to go home with what? pre colon cancer, or some other major illness that won’t show up in full force until weeks or months later. this does not represent health care.

lets us be honest in this country we have a health insurance system not health care system

Grayson’s choice of the word “holocaust” was unfortunate and inappropriate, but the essential substance of his remarks was hard to assail on the basis of facts. I haven’t heard a single bit of criticism from ANY Republican that has been even remotely rational. There are many legitimate reasons for which they could oppose the D’s healthcare reforms, unfortunately, they have only chosen imbecilic reasons.

It is apparent that they have no substantive objections other than it offends their corporate paymasters, for whom they have been busily whoring throughout this entire debate.

He done good!

I would say that the other pees, publicaners, are the problem

They don’t have an agenda or plan or anything, they are absolutely terrible at governing for that very reason.

They have to lie or stand on propaganda meant to separate people from their own best interests. Instill fear in whatever form they can come up with.

Their only raison d’tre is to fill the pocketbooks of those that have, all the rest is bullshit.

Progressives on the other hand have gotten 40 hour workweeks, unions, better education, social security etc. etc. etc.

And they certainly don’t support the financial system as it is.

Go get a fucking education that’s more than eleven degrees in width

I think another significant difference between Republicans and Democrats to what was pointed out in the post is that Republican leaders excite their followers by playing to their followers’ FANTASIES about what the world is and how THEY THINK it should be, and then, once in power, they go behind the scenes to make the world worse than their followers could ever imagine it really is. It’s an endless circle, seeing how the reason the Republican base thinks that government is good for nothing is parlty because their Republican leaders abuse the power of government and make it seem good for nothing.

Meanwhile, the Democrats overall want their base to see the problems for what they are and then, first, to think about how to fix them, and, second, to get motivated to do what needs to be done. I don’t think it’s technocratic, exactly, but it is a different approach to stirring people to action.

Here’s the bottom line:

The Democrats got the House and Senate back in 2006 because the Republicans lost, having proven that they couldn’t govern, which was especially true during their last six years in the majority.

And in 2008 Barack Obama successfully identified the problems, defined them well, and especially stirred people’s emotions.

So what are the Democrats going to do in 2010? It’s already going to be an unfair fight, as midterm elections always give an advantage to the opposition party.

When Obama tries to help Democratic candidates for Congress, what’s he going to stump on? That he and the Democrats sure did a great thing when they instituted a few token regulations on the insurance companies and then handed a ridiculous amount of money to them in the form of subsidies?

“But,” he’ll say, “we sure did try,” wink, wink, “to get you real reform with a public health insurance option.”

Maybe he can just tell all of us who have wanted to support him that we should try our best to ignore the big, wide red stripes that are all over far too many of the Democrats in Congress and, for that matter, in the White House, you know, maybe he can try to sell us a FANTASY about who the Democrats in government really are and that we should trust him when he says that the Democrats, when they go behind the scenes, aren’t really just blowing us off in favor of corporate interests.

Yeah, that’ll get out the base in 2010!

Grayson really is rain on the parched earth of my thug-and-msm-battered-soul .. but people like Citizen Hamsher and us made him happen too .. the times are absolutely crying for some truth whoopass