Remember where you were at this historic moment.

[Union Yes]

MSNBC, Shuster is reporting we have gone over 216.

[ixion]

1. Yes, the Day the Dems Screwed the Pooch

what a time to celebrate. :eyes:

[Why Syzygy]

3. +1 nt

[Individualist]

8. +1

[Smashcut]

13. +1

[girl gone mad]

14. Just glad this will be over with soon.

What a colossal waste of time and energy that was.

[salguine]

47. + infinity

[Speck Tater]

2. Oh NO!!! Now frogs will mate with turtles and the world will be overrun with mutant turogs!

It's the end of civilization as we know it!

:sarcasm:

[TlalocW]

15. Human sacrifice! Cats and dogs living together! Mass hysteria!

And you don't want to know about the Twinkie.

TlalocW

[SoCalDem]

17. & JD Hayworth will marry a horse

:rofl:

[LeftishBrit]

23. Neigh! No self-respecting horse would stoop that low!

[SoCalDem]

25. a blind & deaf horse, maybe

:)

[zbdent]

28. it's truly amazing what you find when you get a peek into someone's psyche ...

the things that JD must be suppressing ...

shudder ...

[zbdent]

26. I almost got sideswiped by a Turog ...

[hlthe2b]

4. Waiting for this to be announced so my poor little doggy girl

can go on her longer walk of the day... She is becoming very impatient, so I'm glad STUPIDAK finally did his press conference. ;)

[Cal Carpenter]

5. This 'historic moment' filled with oozing hyperbole

and exaggeration about the importance of yet another mediocre, convoluted piece of legislation? The culmination of another dog and pony show that makes some people pleased by the crumbs they've been tossed while doing nothing (or worse) for the people who need help the most?

Yeah, sitting here right on my couch, eating some chips and dip. That's where I am :shrug:

[Oregone]

6. Uh, sure.

"historic"

[Earth_First]

7. My daughters birthday...

While this is far from perfect, an imperfect beginning will forge healthy reform in her lifetime!

[EFerrari]

9. Yeah, I was here at my mother's place trying to keep her out of foreclosure

and looking forward to the insurance industry screwing her and me over in a brand new way.

[laughingliberal]

22. +1 nt

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. What historic moment?

The moment American's were forced to buy private insurance or pay the price? The moment pre-existers were told that there might be something for them if they can wait 4 years... because "high risk pools" are basically the same thing in auto insurance as they do in health insurance, subsidies be damned? What moment?

[dana_b]

27. woo hoo! get out the Dom!

:eyes:

[Individualist]

35. More infamous than historic.

[RKP5637]

11. Sitting reading DU!!! n/t

[leftygolfer]

12. i'll remember, so will my kids

as long as they no longer have to worry that my lack of a full-time job means they are in danger, i'm fine with it. i'm willing to wait or go without for a few years, but my kids are better today. so yes, i'll celebrate. this is a great day.

[cilla4progress]

16. Oooh - what a bunch of doggy downers here!

I'm sorry Union Yes - I'll share in your glee!

Yippee! I don't care what the naysayers may say, this is a significant step in the right direction. If we had lost this...mmm mmm MMM, I hate to think.

The "right" (you know what I mean) has prevailed today. Against formidable, many-headed, well-financed forces of evil. We beat them back, if only a little bit. We stopped the slippage, at least for this day.

I trust my Dem leaders - Obama, Pelosi, Kucinich, Clyburn, Lewis, Frank, Cleaver, that this bill, much-weakened though it is, is a meaningful first step toward real health care equity.

[EFerrari]

20. Doggy downers? Do you always bestialize people you disagree with?

Nice.

The Democratic party won today. Whether the people did or not is still very much up in the air.

And I'll refrain from comparing you to an animal, whether you deserve it or not. :)

[cilla4progress]

29. Good one!

Why yes, in fact, I do. But I always make them take valium 1st!

How'd you know?

[EFerrari]

32. What else do you "make" people do that disagree with you?

:hi:

[cilla4progress]

34. Oh, you do NOT want to go there!

Snap! We're on the same side right?

Buh bye!

[EFerrari]

39. You're right. I don't want to go there, not even in thought. n/t

[truedelphi]

30. This DU board has destroyed my innocence.

I had to ask spouse why Rachel Maddow endlessly tittered every time she said "TeaBaggers."

Now I can't even buy a box of Lipton's without cracking up.

MY INNOCENCE WAS DESTROYED, I TELL YA

And now you point out the "doggie-downer" realities...

<sigh> Just don't ruin CATS, for me, okay?

[EFerrari]

33. Hang on, I'm covering 6 pairs of ears.

:rofl:

eta: as you can tell by my tpyngi

[truedelphi]

40. I think my spouse understands more than me

He is from an unnamed Rocky Mountain state, where the men are real men, and the women are sheep



(Real sheep, woolly bleating etc. - don't mean blind followers) ...

Or some such scatological proverb.

[EFerrari]

41. LOL

:rofl:

[truedelphi]

44. If you lived here, you would always

Have to cover up those six pairs of ears!

[girl gone mad]

37. Doggy downers? I don't even want to ask what that means.

I do think you guys might want to tone down the celebrations. It won't take people too long to figure out that this thing is a clusterfuck.

It's one thing when you can't deliver on the promises you make (a routine this administration has repeated to the point of nausea), but to celebrate that failure to deliver as if it were a major accomplishment could only compound the perception that the gap between our leaders and the people they are supposed to represent has become virtually insurmountable.

[salguine]

48. If you care to explain how making the insurance cartels hundreds of billions

of dollars richer is a step in the right direction, I'd really love to hear it. I really would. I don't anticipate a logical answer, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

[Karmadillo]

18. That moment when the corporations and their puppets fought off real health care reform. Woohoo!!!

nt

[truedelphi]

24. While spouse and self googled what is needed

To go somewhere that offers REAL AND TRUE HEALTH CARE, and not phony baloney, lobbyist-sponsored crumbs of turds.

[pampango]

19. I wonder if the Teabaggers and other republicans will remember where they are when

they hear it has passed. Might be kind of a JFK moment for their world.

[EFerrari]

21. That's a good point. I wonder what they will do.

So much happening at the same time.

[Raine]

31. Yeah I'll remember the day the insurance companies

got everything they ever wanted and the American citizens got screwed.

[Odin2005]

36. Yes, the day the showed that the Democratic Party is just as bought as the Pukes.

[cilla4progress]

38. I'm glad these folks have somewhere to go with their woe.

Truly. Sorry they hijacked your thread, US. Maybe see you somewhere else... I'm outta here!


(Bring it on!)

[EFerrari]

42. Um, "I'm outta here, bring it on"?

Those poor horses.

[optimator]

43. Patriot Act was an historic moment as well

as was the Wall Street bailout.

[prolesunited]

45. Every party has a pooper

[Cal Carpenter]

46. Maybe for some people principle is more important than party

This isn't a sports playoff. This is real life.

[prolesunited]

49. Yeah, I know

I've exhausted my COBRA and can't get insurance because of pre-existing conditions. I'm one accident, one major illness away from losing my life savings, my home and declaring bankruptcy.

*This* is real life.

[liberal_at_heart]

50. oh, I'll remember all right. I'll be out marching for single payer.

[ThomWV]

51. CNN has been reporting it since at least 1:40, they now have us up by 5

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http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2010/03/politics/health.care.votes/index.html?hpt=T1