. . . If the adoring army isn’t just plain getting tired of the incessant emails, phone calls, sloganizing, and calls to arms. I mean, isn’t this why they helped elect Barack? So they wouldn’t have to do this anymore? I always think of that woman in Florida who was rapt with the notion that, because of Barack, she wouldn’t have to worry about putting gas in her car or paying her mortgage. He was going to solve all these things. How demoralizing it must be in the post-January 2009 world that people that that poor woman, whose life was only complete after seeing Barack speak, still has to go to work and pay for the gas the get her there. “Hope” may just be the most ironic slogan of the 2008 campaign cycle. Stomped out in six short months?

Ramati’s thesaurus must have “scaled-down” as a synonym for “synthetic”.

Speaking of synthetic synonyms…how ’bout “astroturfy”?

you tend to pay attention to staffing levels…..so I guess 40 is about what Soros agreed to pay for in a Red State.

Whereas the 300 came on their own dime…

I do find that in reading various sites the left does expect advocacy and political opinions to actually provide a livelihood, while I get more of a feeling on our side of the fence people see it as a thing we do for free, but only when we feel compelled becasue someone is trying to stop us from enjoying the fruits of the pursuits of livelihood we otherwise spend time on.

I hear the regime is considering to remove the “public option” because it is only a piece of their plan. That’s true but regardless of what they are calling it – the governments nose would be under the tent in setting up a huge bureaucracy and gaining control.

They just don’t get it! What part of NO aren’t they getting? The sane Democrats and Republicans should fight back and for the country with a simple one page bill with bullet points:

* Tort Reform Cross- state lines so we can buy the best plan for us (we can with auto, home owner’s…)

* Portability – your coverage is yours regardless of employer.

* Fraud (prosecute the thieves)

*Secure the Border – diseases and weapons are being walked over the border! Deport and don’t “insure” invaders

* Let no law be passed that Congresswo/men can exclude themselves or unions from! If they don’t come to their senses the Independents will abandon them and clean house in the 2010 election.

Even the Republican bill makes sense! I read theirs in a fraction of the time it took me to get through the incomprehensible mess of HR3200 whose main objective is a government power grab and nothing about health care or reform. For people that want an honest debate, they should really do some research for themselves. I found a great deal of information at:
http://www.gop.com/2008Platform/HealthCare.htm

Some of the basics are Portability so my health care belongs to me!

They have a provision to protect providers from frivolous law-suites

Interstate competition so I can buy the coverage I want from a different state, just like I can with auto and home owner’s insurance.

Medicaid idea of allowing real choice insurance plans is a good idea.

Medicare improved with coordinated care.

All in all, I could completely accept “health care reform, as outlined in the Republican Plan. I’m and Independent so I look at both sides of an issue.

So a state which voted to elect McCain, a pretty much guaranteed red state no matter the year had more people turn out against Obama than for him?…. SHOCKING!

It’s really very simple. The Obama rent-a-mob folks who DO have a real job (probably very few) have already burned through their sick leave, FMLA and vacation days. Until Obama can provide them with a paid-for house, car and monthly stipend, they have to go to work…so they just couldn’t make the bus. Then there are those who are still in mourning for Teddy Kennedy…they just can’t yet bring themselves to truly live again. The rest had a scheduling conflict with one of Obama’s 2000+ “house parties”…busy, busy.

down right comical.

lets see – Bush-era republican M.O.:
put up a scripted, invite-only forum, and then use the video to make it look like there is some national consensus for the position at these forums. then send insurance lackeys and screamers, birthers and birchers, to democrat forums to make it look contentious when it is not even close in the national polls.
then use the same media that is cowed by its allegiance to a 50/50 impression in reporting to then suggest there’s a deadlock where there is not.

ah-lame