Like you, I hope this report is true.

LOL

I leave the remainder of this comment box for each reader to fill in using his own imagination.

If you haven’t seen Deliverance put “squeal like a pig” in your search engine and watch the video, wiki doesn’t do it, or the healthcare debate, justice.

The term was used in film Deliverance.

This from Wikipedia:

After a stray comment about moonshine offends the hillbillies, Bobby is forced at gunpoint to strip naked. McKinney’s character chases after and physically harasses Bobby as he tries to escape. His ear is twisted to bring him to his hands and knees, and he is then ordered to “squeal like a pig”….. Ed is bound to a tree with his own belt, helpless….

link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deliverance

Why on earth would a Democratic congressman use the term to describe a meeting of his own party’s Senators?

Now I just hope they overstepped far enough to get some real conservatives to DC.

Kind of like used car salesmen…it’s a well known tactic…as they’re negotiating with you…that you state a number…the salesman says…let me see if I can get my manager to agree to that….he disappears and has a coffee and a bull session in the staff lounge and then comes back and knocks a much smaller number off the original asking price and tells you that’s all his manager will let him do…the only question to be answered is…did the guy even bother talking to his manager to add a little truth to his ruse?

Sanders voted for the bill, got Jack Squat, and had as much pull as Nelson and Leiberman.

Part of me understands why progressives do not stand on their principles – because their principles are weak and they know it. We all know what progressives stand for. We also know the tactics they use to misinform people (and keep them misinformed) of what they really believe and why it would be good policy. It is easy to stand on conservative principles – because we know it is right – there is strength in KNOWING. We have history and facts to back it up.

American contemporary progressivism is a difficult philosophy to confidently stand up for.

“The talking that is to decide the result must be done in private committee rooms and behind the closed doors of several committees. The intervals between sessions are filled with a very feverish activity. Messengers run from one meeting to another until the small hours of the morning. Conference follows conference in a way that is likely to bring newspapers correspondents to the verge of despair, it being next to impossible to put the rumors together into any coherent story of what is going on. Only at the rooms of leadership is there any clear knowledge of the situation as a whole; and the excitement of the members of conference rises from sessions to session under the sheer pressure of uncertainty. The final majority is compounded no outsider and few member can tell how.” Woodrow Wilson 1914

“Conference follows conference in a way that is likely to bring newspapers correspondents to the verge of despair, it being next to impossible to put the rumors together into any coherent story of what is going on.”

In plain English the public DOES NOT KNOW WHAT IS ACTUALLY GOING ON, and all this gloom and doom and problems inside is a diversionary tactic to give false hope … It does not exist, they just want you to think it exists.

Personally, I putting my bayonet on my musket i.e. “Fix bayonets.”

You’ve been real consistent in your view that this bill will have major problems getting passed. What is your background that gives you such a strong belief?

Thanks for the hope!

But the difficulties are real that the Dems are facing — because they have kicked the most difficult issues down the field until the end.

And now they must be dealt with.

It’s as real as it gets.

It is not a coordinated misdirection.

However, one thing is clear: the progressives have no DeMint or Coburn or Nelson or Lieberman who really will bring the bill down if they don’t get their way.

As soon as the progressives concede they will vote for the bill they lose their leverage.

The Progressives simply will not stand on principle.

PLEASE!!! DIE! DIE! DIE!!!

I go to a lot of local politcal gatherings…makes me wonder if you’re not at some of the same ones. You part of the Conservative Cavalry meetup group? I talked to Stivers at a healthcare debate they held at LaScala several weeks back – he was good, but Robert Wagner stole the show.

So, what to do if it fails to increase the expected gains in the 2010 elections? One thing we could do is change the old “party of no” phrase to the “party of know.”

We Republicans know what the Constitution says. We know that the American people want the Constitution to be enforced and followed.

We know that 85 per cent of the American people are satisfied with their health care and do not want the government to interfere.

We know that it makes no sense to destroy the best health care industry and system in the world because a few million people in America do not buy health insurance.

We know that the best solutions to achieve better access to health care for Americans is to reduce the involvement of government, not increase it.

We know that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are badly broken and headed for bankruptcy and need to be fixed before the federal government creates any new government entitlements.

Etc.

Thank you.
ColdWarrior
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