IT'S TIME FOR UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE

The lousy medical care I have is called Medicare, and I love it!

Are you talking about countries where rationing occurs, and the government says you are too old to have something fixed?

.. your lousy government ...

And I don't suppose you care a whit when a baby dies, do you?

Are you talking about countries where rationing occurs, and the government says you are too old to have something fixed?

okie wrote:

And I don't suppose you care a whit when a baby dies, do you?

hah! so i guess you can keep your lousy evangelical worship of false gods to yourself, ehh?

DontTreadOnMe wrote:

okie wrote:

And I don't suppose you care a whit when a baby dies, do you?

hah! so i guess you can keep your lousy evangelical worship of false gods to yourself, ehh?

A helpless infant is a false god? Are you sane?

Dem Congressman's Office: His Life Has Been Threatened Over Health Care Bill
By Eric Kleefeld - August 5, 2009, 5:54PM

Rep. Brad Miller (D-NC) will not be hosting any town hall events this August -- instead, he's making himself available to constituents for one-on-one meetings about health care reform -- and at least part of the reason is this: His offices have received threatening phone calls, including at least one direct threat against his life.

"We had no town hall events scheduled for the August recess anyway, but in light of everything that's happened -- we have received a threatening phone call in the D.C. office, there have been calls to the Raleigh office," said Miller communications director LuAnn Canipe, in an interview with TPM. The threatening call in question happened earlier this week.

"The call to the D.C. office was, 'Miller could lose his life over this,'" said Canipe. "Our staffer took it so seriously, he confirmed what the guy was saying. He said, 'Sir is that a threat?' and at that time our staffer was getting the phone number off caller ID and turning it over to the Capitol Police."

They haven't heard anything back from the police yet, but they did get the caller's number. So this could develop into something soon enough.

Canipe explained that Miller had no plans for a town hall before and won't be holding any now, due to this event and the examples he's already seem from the around the country: "Our point is, we're not gonna be bullied into having a town hall so it can then be interrupted by the fake grassroots folks."

"We don't want to people to think we're shutting out our constituents," Canipe added.. "We're meeting with them one on one to discuss health care reform."

(Special thanks to TPM Reader ML.)

Poll: 28% Of Republicans Are Birthers, 30% Undecided
By Eric Kleefeld - July 31, 2009, 9:09AM

A new Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll finds that 77% of Americans believe President Obama was Indeed Born in the United States, with only 11% saying he was not -- but there's no clear verdict among Republicans.

Among Republicans, it's a much weaker plurality of only 42% who say Obama was born in the U.S., with 28% saying he was not, with a very high undecided number of 30%. Among Democrats, the number is 93%-4%, and among independents it's 83%-8%.

This means that for Republicans to openly admit that Obama is indeed a natural-born American citizen, they risk alienating a significant chunk of their loyal base. And on the other hand, they could scare away independents by humoring the tin-foil hat crowd.

Late Update:: Another thing to point out is that Birtherism is heavily concentrated in the South. Only 47% of Southerners say Obama was born in the United States, 23% say he was not, and 30% aren't sure.