But Chris, if you’re laughing at me, the joke’s on you.

[kpete]

Chris Matthews, Are You Talking To Me?
By: Marta Evry Thursday December 17, 2009 7:32 pm

See, if you had been paying even the slightest attention, you’d understand that some of the most vocal critics of the Senate health care reform bill worked the hardest to get Barack Obama elected last year. We are Progressives, Independents, Decline-to-State, and Centrists. We vote religiously. We give generously. And we’re scared to death that the health care bills making their way ever so slowly through congress are going to end up making the system worse rather than better.

At first we were patient. We held out hope that our President knew what he was doing, that he would keep up his end of the implied contract we entered into when we helped get him elected. We expected Change, we expected to be respected, empowered and included, we expected him to fight, and we expected to join him in that fight.

None of this has happened. And so we’re going to speak truth to power. You may not like it, the White House may not like it, but you both underestimate our power at your peril. Because we’re not troublemakers, we’re organizers.

We know how to bypass the main steam media and the DSCC, co-opt OFA’s resources for activism we believe in, raise money-bombs for Alan Grayson and to go after Blue Dog Dems who oppose real health care reform. We know how to canvass and how to phone bank. We can, and will, support a multitude of primary challengers against the entrenched corporate interests that just happen to call themselves Democrats.

more:
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/19565

[Buzz Clik]

1. Obama's grassroots efforts were enormous, and many of us disagree with the notion that he failed.

I'll be back in the trenches for him in 2012.

[Fumesucker]

2. Wait until private insurance mandates enrage a large portion of the populace..

The Democrats will lose in historic proportions..

I don't want to see Republicans back in power and I'm close enough to those who are just barely scraping by to understand just how badly this is going to piss them off.

Oh, and FWIW, I'm nearly sixty and have no insurance.

[Buzz Clik]

4. If such a bill passes and if such a bill is signed. then we'll be changing the guard.

Starting not with Obama, but with the assholes who wrote the bill and voted for it in the Senate and House.

A good purge at the polls would do us good.

[Fumesucker]

6. The voters by and large aren't that smart...

Democrats will go down in wholesale numbers and that will include Obama..

Haley Barbour trotted out the meme the other day..

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=9E19861D-18FE-70B2-A848E2226B69A444


Gov. Haley Barbour (R-Miss.), chairman of the Republican Governors Association, called the Democrats’ health care reform proposal “catastrophic” Thursday and compared it to the poison ingested at the infamous Jonestown cult’s mass suicide in 1978.

At a press conference, flanked by Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), Mike Johanns (R-Neb.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Barbour said that if the Senate passes the health care reform bill, it would result in huge electoral gains for the GOP in 2010.

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“I’ve been looking for Jim Jones and where’s the Kool-Aid. This is awful, awful policy for our country — and the people know it. The public already understands this. And the longer the debate goes on, the more the public understands that they’re going to end up paying more and that they’re going to get lower quality health care. But politically, if the nation can survive it, it will be a political windfall for Republicans.”

[lame54]

3. I'd hate to see failure

[Mari333]

5. knr for this

Matthews pissed me off for the last few days, going so far as to say that the dems dont want to identify with those 'san francisco liberals' and laughing. Then he proceeded to say "Obama has gone too far left"

That guy lives in a wealthy bubble so secure he has no CLUE as to whats going on out here.

what a maroon.