You know who is laughing their fucking asses off?

[Stinky The Clown]

Repubican leadership.

They are in the minority and they are the very brink of having successfully engineered the biggest win in American history. Hell, they could even stay out of office for years and **STILL** be winners when they have people like the Dems in charge now doing their dirty work.

[Ken Burch]

1. You're right.

And nobody here has a rebuttal to that point.

So they're just going to insult you.

[WeDidIt]

2. All they had to do is stand back

and let the Dems hang themselves.

[jefferson_dem]

3. That's the undeniable truth.

n/t

[cliffordu]

4. I gotta go with the truth, here -

You are absolutely fucking right.

[Cleita]

5. I think in the long run they aren't getting away with it.

They are destroying themselves while they destroy us. Many of us will rise again, but this time we know who the enemy is for sure.

[tnlefty]

6. What pisses me off more than anything is that after

Sen. DeMint (R-Asshat-SC) made his waterloo comment the fucking Blue Dogs and Conservadems have been working to help his comments come to fruition. I swear it seems as if they stepped up their efforts. Enabling that SOB against the President of their own (supposed) party...just blows my mind and no one who've I've asked can actually explain it to me.

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7. i thought it was the canadians and folks in the uk. i'm so confused about who is laughing at me...

can we get a "people who are laughing at me" forum here at du so i can finally get this straight?

[NoPasaran]

8. Laughed-off ass: is it a pre-existing condition?

[HuckleB]

9. I don't buy it.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/16/illusions-and-bitterness/

Why would they be pushing the plastic "rally" today, if they were laughing?

[Goldstein1984]

10. The Republican minority didn't just stand back, they were

working to oppose the bill.

I think the ones laughing are the insurance companies and Big Pharma. They sit in their towers, looking down from their corner offices like the gods looking down from Mount Olympus, watching that their little Democratic and Republican puppets entertain them.

That's who's laughing.

[MadMaddie]

11. I can't argue this point!

I can't understand how Lieberwhore has this much power...

[Dinger]

12. Point Well Taken Stinky

You truthteller you!

[Yuugal]

13. The sad part

is that I knew my kids SCHIP was under attack but I would have bet my last dollar that it wouldn't be the dems who took it away from them. Silly me. To think, I gave money to Obumble and his fuckwad team of corporate nut-lickers. That is never going to happen again. Whenever I see any of the people on who are doing this to my family on the ballot, I'm not staying home or voting for a third party that won't win anyway, I'm going to VOTE AGAINST THEM! Sure, we will get a repuke for a term, but we could kill off the DLC once and for all if we had some guts.

Of course, we could do what some popular posters think we should do, which is shut up and vote for traitors because they have a D in front of their name, but I'm too old for that crap. We fell for it with Clinton and he gave us workfare and nafta.

[rwheeler31]

14. Why do you care about them?

[winyanstaz]

15. There is only one party now..with two heads...

and it's been that way for a while.
There are only a handful of real Dems left that are standing up for the people.

[BunkerHill24]

16. Man! You nailed it.!

I doubt anyone would disagree, but then again, we have many here who would prefer smoothing feathers of the status quo.

[amborin]

17. and Wall Street, which got "chastized" by the so-called banking reform bill

[lonestarnot]

18. Hell they could just call room service and party all of the money up and still have their dirty work

done.

[NorthCarolina]

19. The Conservative Dems are essentially GOP, so their numbers exceed the "official" count (nt)

[HuckleB]

22. BS...

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/16/illusions-and-bitterness/

[arthritisR_US]

20. can't say I disagree with you one bit! n/t

[KT2000]

21. this is the humiliation

they were working for.

I will not spin this as anything other than the republican win that it is.

[reggie the dog]

23. it shows who the real leaders are

[bvar22]

24. "Centrist Democrats" ?.....Republicans?....

Same thing.
They work for the same people.

They rotate through the White House to keep up the illusion of a "Two Party" system.
Grand Kabuki Theater.

On my bad days, I believe that the Progressive Caucus is just another part of the scam tolerated to perpetuate the illusion that the Working Class has a voice.
LOL

The Republicans are laughing?...Yes,
but the "Centrist" Democrats are also laughing...
all the way to their Wall Street Bank.


The Health Care "Debate" was grand theater....Well Performed.
The inevitable results, a $Trillion Dollar transfer of Wealth to the For Profit Private sector was decided LONG before Obama put his hand on the Bible Jan 20th. Obama simply played his assigned role.

Can you imagine the UPROAR if the Republicans had tried to force every American to BUY an imaginary product from a For Profit Corporation that manufactured NOTHING and created no wealth?

Only The Democratic Party could have done that.

[Stinky The Clown]

28. "On my bad days, I believe that the Progressive Caucus is just another part of the scam ......."

........ tolerated to perpetuate the illusion that the Working Class has a voice."

Just on bad days? I think that every day.

[treestar]

25. They lose if anything passes

You seem to be mistaking Republicans for progressives.

If Republicans had our problems, they'd be screaming Bush was a failure for failing to repeal Medicaid, welfare, food stamps and any other government program. This is what Republicans want. No government involvement.

[ShortnFiery]

26. They are all a part of the SAME big club. The one you and I are not a part of. eom

[Ignis]

27. Leadership? Try ordinary Republicans.

The last two loud-and-proud Republicans that are in my social circle are crowing and needling the rest of us relentlessly over this issue.

:argh:

[waiting for hope]

29. I don't think it really matters with the D and the R on

this one Stinky - I think both sides are getting what they want .. their lifeblood connection to the Health Care Lobby money.

[timeforpeace]

30. Well yeah, but it doesn't have to be that way. Even faux claims of reaching across the aisle on this

would drag them in to some extent. But Obama and Harry seem content to ignore even the lie of bi-partisanship and thus reap the whirlwind to come. Incompetence or arrogance or both? Anyway, it's the Dems' fault that the pukes are laughing.