GOP Leaders: ‘Political Rebellion Going on in America’

I’m an old fashioned but young republican and these people who call themselves our newest republicans better start acting the part or they can be replaced as well. I don’t care what you call yourself as long as you follow the Constitution and keep your hands out of my pockets.

What about the only election with federal implications, the house seat in New York? Hoffman, the national GOP’s glory boy was whipped good in a conservative district. I think the governors races were a reflection of local issues, particularly the corruption in Jersey. People have not forgotton the damage done by the GOP on the national level.

Of course, Republicans are capable of believing anything they want. They believe we aren’t losing the two wars they started. Of course, the families of our dead soldiers are aware of the painful truth.

A woman is brutally gang raped and beaten. She is imprisoned in a cargo container, denied food and water until she agrees not to press charges against her assailants.
No.
This was not an atrocity committed by the Taliban. It was committed in Iraq by the employees of Kellogg, Root, and Brown, a subsidiary of Halliburton/
Senator elect, Al Franken introduced an amendment protect female employees of defense contractors from this sort of brutal gang-rape . The US Chamber of Commerce opposed the Franken Amendment, and every male Republican Senator voted against it.
Although the victim of this savage attack will finally get her day in court. She will never be able to obtain health insurance because almost all health insurance companies would consider rape and the trauma that occurred a “pre-existing” condition.
This is only one example of the discrimination that women endure from the current health care system. pay as much as 48% more in health insurance costs than men, if they can get it If women were subjected to domestic violence. If they have had a C-section, they may be pressured by their insurance carriers to sterilize themselves to avoid further health care costs.
And these are abuses the GOP wants to perpetuate. According to the latest report published by the Harvard University Medical School, our dysfunctional health care system kills more Americans than we lost on 9/11. In terms of killing American and abusing women, the GOP is a on the same page as the Taliban.
The GOP can crow about their victory all they want, but the real losers are the American people.

“All life is interrelated. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality: tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars. As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people cannot expect to live more than twenty or thirty years, no many can be totally healthy, even if he just got a clean bill of health from the finest clinic in America. Strangely enough, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. You can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the way the world is made..”
These are the words of Martin Luther King over 40 years ago. Notice that Martin Luther King emphasized the need for universal health care. I might point out that Strom Thurmond, the de-facto founder of the modern Republican party, hated Martin Luther King and labeled him a Communist. The same sort of rhetoric resounds in the Republican party and is the stuff of the “revolution” the Republicans are touting
I can’t help wondering where Mitch McConnell and John Boehner would be if they lived 40 years ago. Would they be the same hateful mobs that King constantly confronted? You can change the era, but the same old hatred remains the same. Somehow a large section of our populace cannot survive unless they have some one or something to hate.
To respond to this observation, I will quote from Dr. Martin Luther King,
“A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look at thousands of working people displaced from their jobs with reduced incomes as a result of automation while the profits of employers remain intact, and say “This is not just.” It will look across the oceans and see individual capitalist of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of these countries and say,”This is not just.”
… A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war,”This way of settling differences is not just.” America, the richest and most powerful nation in the word, can well lead the way in this revolution of values. .. There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a hospital worker. laundry worker, maid, or day laborer. There is nothing except short- sightedness to prevent us from guaranteeing an annual minimum – and liveable – income to every American family. There is nothing, except a tragic death wish, to prevent us from reordering our priorities, so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war. There is nothing to keep us from remodeling a recalcitrant status quo with bruised hands until we have fashioned it into brotherhood.”
The current GOP bragging is a world away from the words of Martin Luther King. In spite of their rhetoric they remain a bunch of Greedy Old Prostitutes

I love the denial. The exit polls? We hate the Economy. Who wears that? Democrats… and since we are just mad in general there will be a flip.
With over 10% unemployment and Democrats being the majority you can say BYE BYE majority Democrats.

Let’s examine the record of GOP minority leader Senator Mitch McConnell who hates Obama with a purple passion.
When I logged onto Center for Responsive Politics, I discovered that Senator Mitch McConnell gets $ 2 million in political campaign contributions from the health sector. He gets $ 1 million from lobbyists. His top political donor is Kindred Health Care. Among the other top 20 campaign donors are Humana Inc, Blue Cross, and GalaxoSmithKline. I might add that Humana practices something that Cheryl Tidwell, a Humana executive calls “controlling utilization.” (Source David Sirota, from an article on the Huffington Post, August 28.)
Does any one in Kentucky know that when they buy Blue Cross, they are giving Mitch McConnell a campaign contribution? Do they know that Mitch McConnel gets money from a company that uses a dreaded death panel to determine which policy holder lives and dies?
John Boehner gets generous campaign contributions from the insurance industry, which occupies 2nd place among Boehner’s top 5 campaign contributors. He gets additional contributions from pharmaceuticals, health professionals, and lobbyists. His top individual campaign contributors include Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Abbot Laboratories, Merck & Company, and, like Pense, Reynolds American, whose tobacco products are one of the reasons our health care is so high.
Of course Mitch McConnell and John Boehner are making all sorts of pompous statements celebrating their victory. But as they are bragging, Americans are dying because of inadequate Medical care. In fact according to a report published by the Harvard University Medical School, 44,000 Americans each year die because of inadequate medical care. And the House Republican idea of medical reform which permits health insurance companies to reject anyone with pre-existing conditions or any one who does not meet a “health standard” is just a fancy name for a death squad.
Yes, the GOP won two states — which they will tout as a victory. But the real losers are the American people.

There is political rebellion against the republicans as well. They shouldn’t get too excited.

According to a report by Save the Children, published in the Telegraph.co.uk, 250,000 children will die this year because of the effects of global warming. The GOP does not give a rat about these children. In fact, they don’t even know that global warming exists.
Yes, the Republicans won a great victory. But thousands of children will lose their lives because of this victory.

Yes, We the People are rebelling against The Messiah, his Czars and the rest of his Marxist administration. We’ve had it and aren’t going to take it any longer. Barry has grown the government and its programs to an unbelievable level and has plans to grow it even more and bankrupt us in the process. He’s living the life of a rock star, on the backs of the taxpayers, taking our money and giving it away while we lose jobs and our homes. This needs to stop NOW! Queen Pelosi needs to go along with King Harry and Barry and all the other bottom feeders that are bankrupting us for generations to come. They should be afraid because their time is about up. I hope we can hold on that long and still have a country left.

I havent been here in while but while all of losers with up in the clouds i seem to predict this Nov 5, 2008 if any dont believe you can go back and check my comments from then. I warned my fellow democrats that us blue dogs knew how to keep independents on our side and low and behold they let Reid and Pelosi and Franks and the rest of our liberal leadership in our party if you havent paid attention to the GOP over the last year they weeded out and now going grow into the majority slowly but surely we could ousted the liberal flank of positions of power, well for me I am going rouge Im changing to Republicrat and this new term is for us southern black democrats that are being left of the party more liberal bias I am black conservative and broke just like everybody else if some hears my rant please come put me of TV I told yall once and I will say it again, This crap wouldnt be happening if we picked Hillary Clinton. Damn we goofed up

William Joseph Miller – Could be a solar phase, could be the weakening of the earth’s magnetic field, could be Al Gore flying to give too many speeches on global warming. Only way to make a difference if it is partly due to humans is to charge more for energy and water. Curb consumption.

It does not matter who won yesterday, nor does it matter what it represents. BUT, I will tell you this. IF something in this Economy does not change by next year this time… there will be a new Congress and the Majority of which will be republicans. Our economy is still down and showing NO sigh of going up. Unemployment is still high as crap and shows no significant change. Houses are not selling and the ones that are, are selling at a 60% of the value they were at. Blow it off Democrats, if you want, but you know yourself.. that is way Americans vote. If the economy is still tanking next year.. Dems will be kicked.

There was reason to be scared to death when Bush was in office. Ever since Obama got in a strong majority of Americans are breathing a sigh of relief. Intelligence and competence back in the White House. We’re only
9 months into fixing the gigantic mess
the BushGOP stuck us with. What happened yesterday was what the stock market calls “a dead cat bounce”, even a free falling object lifts up a bit upon impact.

Wow! They’re just figuring that out. They have been thrown out of office almost as fast as the election process will allow. A for Virginia that’s the result of the loss of the 35 billion dollar Air Force Tanker contract. New Jersey is upset about high property taxes. Can’t blame them there. Uncertain about how putting a republican in will help them. Now their jobs will be turned into dung. I guess he’ll remind them about how thankful and privileged they should feel.

Just the picture of Boehner and McConnell made me laugh. Which rebellion are they talking about? The one where the conservative republicans are throwing the moderate republicans under the bus? That rebellion? Sure can’t mean a rebellion because of last night’s elections. Dems gained two congressional seats while all the repubs got were a couple of governorships. Thanks Palin, keep up the purging and we’ll continue our majority in Congress. You betcha!

I hope the Democrats ignore all of this and continue the change in the same manner. I’m very confident our great leader comrade Obama will lead us to glory, equal wealth for all and victory for the People. Crush the constitution and the capitialist pigs!
All hail our great, noble honorable supreme omni present savior Obama!

Jonny, do you have any memory at all of GWB telling the country he had a mandate too? And he didn’t even win the election.
The GOPers telling us this is a referendum is just one more untruth they’re intent on spreading to further their cause. Sadly, there’s plenty of dittoheads and Palinites who’ll believe it. Geez people, doesn’t it insult your intelligence when Boehner says such stupid crap? He really must think we’re all idiots.

GET REAL!!!
Total Governors (States, Territories & DC):
GOP 27 / 48%
DEM 29 / 52%
Total Congressional Legislators:
GOP 175 / 40%
DEM 260 / 60%
Total Senatorial Legislators:
GOP 40 / 40%
DEM 58 / 58%
IND/DEM 2 / 2%
Presidential Election 2008, States Carried, Territories & DC:
GOP 22 / 42%
DEM 31 / 58%
Presidential Electoral College Votes:
GOP 173 / 32%
DEM 365 / 68%
Now WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT A “POLITICAL REBELLION???”

The republicans aren’t the answer.

As a Libertarian I am hopeful! The liberals will destroy the United States of America that most of us grew up in! If you take from the rich and give to the poor soon the rich realize it useless to work! As said many times before you can’t tax a nation into prosperity!

Big Whoop!

Asked if that means Republicans will win back the House—Dear Lord, can you imagine? They are bound and determined to turn this recession into a depression and will not stop until they do it, until they just completely kill this country for good. This time last year we had 600,000 LAYOFFS PER MONTH!!! Now we had 12,000 last month, and you’er complaining about that??? You want 600,000 a month again?? by all means, put republicans back in. Have you no memory for what they just did to this country that we had no even had a chance to dig ourselves out of? AMericans putting republicans back in power is by far the stupidiest thing they could ever do. I It’s re-electing Bush all over again. Beyond stupid. YOu dont like this recession????? why did you elect bush to a second term? And to remedy that, you’re going to go for MORE republican economic theory??? what the past 8 years did isn’t bad enough for you???? I swear, some people are so thick thye will not learn until we have 25% unemployment as in the depression. And sure enough, the policies the republicans are asking for now are EXACTLY those of Herbert Hoover. How stupid can you be, people???? do we really need to find out?

These Republicans are MORONS. The economy is _clearly_ starting to turn around, after we were pushed to the brink of destruction by Bush and the Republican Congress. The GOP must think Americans don’t have long term memory. After we have good Christmas season sales, declining unemployment rate by spring, and a stock market back to 2002 levels, the Republicans will have absolutely nothing left to stand on. Time will prove Obama correct. The right wing extremists should have their fun little tea parties now, because America is not going to fail as they wish it would.

With over 10% unemployment —caused by republican leadership. There were over 600,000 layoffs last year, this time, during bush’s term, from the top 500 companies in the US. got that? Over 600,000 laid off PER MONTH according to forbes magazein. Last month, there were 12,000. Tell me, you want 600,000 layoffs per month again??? elect more republicans. complaining about unemployment when you elect republicans is like crying to the doctor about the pain from your heart surgery while you eat big macs every day of your life for the past ten years. own up to your share of the responsibility in the demise of our economy by the failure of republican economic policies. All those trillions in tax cuts for the rich to ‘create jobs”. How’d that go???? too bad all those ‘jobs’ were in overseas companies, huh? idiots.

Bo said, “No more leftist socialist programs that WE the taxpayers are stuck footing the bill!”
You sound like a true right wing wacko. So tell me Bo, are you voluntarily ripping up your social security checks, and refusing any type of Medicare assistance? I mean, why in the world would you want to participate in such ‘socialist’ programs?
In fact, when are ALL Republicans going to voluntarily return their social security checks to the government? When is that movement against “socialism” going to start? Never?? Thought so!

This is quite laughable.Republicans are so desperate for attention right now,they will say just about anything to make the American public fear the same government that lines their pockets with millons of dollars every year.The GOP in short are nothng but a group of fear-mongers.They thrive on control, through misinformation and secretcy.President Obama has been in office for 10 months.Americans know it’s going to take longer than that to fix the catastrophic 8 years G.W Bush held this country captive.Remember GOP,”if it sounds too good to be true,it usually is.”

The heck with both parties – VOTE LIBERTARIAN if you are socially LIBERAL, believe in the constitution, and want LIMITED government.

Democrats seemed to be expressing relief
based on exit polls in Virginia and New Jersey indicating that while voters responded that they were content with the methods employed by the Obama Administration in running the country but were angered by the continuous recession. I would bring you back to the 2008 primaries when exit polls showed widespread duplicity in voters certifying that they actually voted for Obama when subsequent data showed that in fact they had not. Exit polls are very often skewed as national polls are as well. In Obama’s case, voters do not want to be involved in a controversy where they are seen as being anti-Obama anything. Besides all of these revelations are sort of like an oxymoron. If voters are angered about this awful economic downturn they must have necessarily thought about the Obama decisions at some point. Not admitting the tie in to Obama is par for the course.

Yes, the GOP can brag about their victory, but for real they are the party of greed – NOT the party of Christ.William Joseph Miller>>>> And democrats are the party of ??? Oh yeah theives. I take from you and give to them and KEEP a LOT for myself. Like Capone. You remember him. Nice guy but when you got him made he shot you. Reminds me of the Russians.
Posted by: ChicagoBob | Nov 4, 2009 5:57:01 PM
GOP is the party of NO and the party of greed. Just look back in time. And what are they are going to do? Cut taxes. RLMFAO Duh!

And what are they are going to do? Cut taxes. Jim Bob >>>>>>> Jim, What will the democrats do? They are in charge. And how did it work for you? They Spent MONEY we dont have. In fact they had to print it because they could not even borrow it. Unemployment WENT UP! Wall Street is getting rich and the middle class is falling into poverty faster than ever. WOW Jim GOOD IDEA’s I liked tax cuts better. Unemployment was low and the middle class was making good money. My neighbor an electrician was not looking at 2 years of unemployment. My wifes friend would not be looking at layoff. The houses in my middle class subdivision would not be foreclossed on
and the fed would be borrowing you money at 0% instead of Fat cat bankers tthat want 17% interest thats KILLING any of us with some debt.

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This is political Rebellion God’s way.
If we lifted up God’s word, the people would be caring for their families, the elderly, widows, fatherless and the poor among them. All religions are told to do those things. We would not need taxes and programs. When we ignore and degrade God’s word we are blinded to the power to overcome our big government system and other world problems.
Even before the 2010 elections, if the people want God’s solutions and His wisdom to govern this nation as IT IS WRITTEN and not as religions have transformed it, they will bring in the Kingdom of God, a nation run according to God’s word. If they do not want it, we will see much more misery and destruction, UNTIL we understand God rules, by choice or by judgment. Leviticus 26.
Most of the word of God is secular wisdom on how to live on this planet without destroying ourselves, others and the planet. The religion part is giving Him thanks. He is the God of the whole earth and He has cross-referenced His prophets to bring in unity according to IT IS WRITTEN. He has extra proofs to come forward when we choose His wisdom. He will continue to lead us.
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God has solutions to world problems we created by ignoring His wisdom.

The Republican party of today = The party of hate, the party of no, the party of miss-information, the party of lies, the party of hypocrites, the party of deception, the party of twisted truth, the party of exclusionism, the party of extremism, and the list could go far beyond the 1000 characters allowed here. The Republican party will not see real power again for at least 20-30 years if ever at all. It will most likely come back under a different name as the “Republican” party has been overcome by extremists that are more Republican than American. Don’t get too excited about the election in some small districts that had problems on both sides. America is not going to allow the extremists on any side destroy this country. The present day Republican Party took it too far and it will pay for it’s arrogance for several decades. The balance that kept the extremists out of both parties over America’s more prosperous years is what I hope to see again. A balance between both the Liberals and conservatives that creates that needed checks and balances to prevent abuse and destruction of any part of American. The middle class is what makes the country great, not the Corporations, not the military, not the elites, not the rich, not the poor, not the extremists of any kind. The middle class makes America work and makes it succeed. NO MORE EXTREMISTS and right now, the Republican party is nothing but that.

The Republican party of today = The party of hate, the party of no, the party of miss-information, the party of lies, the party of hypocrites, the party of deception, the party of twisted truth, the party of exclusionism, dlboggan >>>> ROFL and Democrats the party of what? Criminals and theives? Communists? Man this is really a delusional. There are nuts on both sides.

Another thing about the Democrat and Republican politicians is that if there is a viable third party forming they’ll work together to suppress it. The two parties work together to serve corporate interests above democratic interests. Why have they both allowed American knowledge and engineering to be sold off to foreign corporate interests?

Obama, Rahm, Soros/MoveOn.org, Acorn, and others are taking the country too far (to the Left), too fast. It will backfire on them, since they forget that the far-left did not put them in office…the Independents and disillusioned Repubs did.

Hey Repubs, the political rebellion was a year ago!! The repubs are desperate, this don’t mean a thing. Like my daddy used to say ‘even a blind pig will find an acorn every now and then’.

The dems are the party of losers. Filled with stupid obamatrons who try to ply old ideas of government taking care of everyone without anyone having to work.
We independents decided this election. We’ll decide the next for you loony left winging mooonbats!!!

Reviled in Europe and most every place else on the globe. A president who displayed such arrogance, a president who listened to no one. Will Parker>>>>> Sounds just like Obama LOL.
Went to get the olympics Got Zero. Iran blowing us off. Russia Laughing at us. The French Prime Minister calls Obama Naive and hes right. North Korea has enough unrainum to make another nuke.
The dollar is weak and Obama has offended everyone. Doctors, police men, insurance companies and his Pay Czar is threating companies that dont have any TARP funds with audits that would cost them millions if they dont go along.
Obama is all about NO transparency. He has kept the wire tap clauses. WOW.. And how about that 72 hours on the net first? LOL Democrats are a bigger joke than repulbicans. Blago gov of IL strong arming childrens Cancer hospital for campaign cash and tons of other criminal democratic activity here in IL.

The GOP is desperate. Look at how they grasp at this for any shred to hold on to. It’s kinda funny, really. Boehner, please tell me why you lost more seats in Congress last night? Is that all apart of your “brilliant” plan? Good one. lol…

liberals sorry to tell you this: there is no found cure for stupid!!You are own your own when you go into denial and can’t believe in reality.People are mad as h@ll at this phony administration and you will continue to lose credibility if you fail to heed the wishes of the people.

What? It’s just too bad there’s not another party to vote for, one with the American people’s interest at heart, that doesn’t have their hands held out for every corporate lobbyist. I’m tired of everything I care about being sold off to the highest bidder. We’re just a big Pottersville. We paid for the banks to own us.

The Republicans have a vested interest in keeping unemployment high…

Alexrod and Rahm and Georgie Soros forgot the fact that, when you are the only party in power, everything gets blamed on You!…George W’s presidency is fading into history, and there is nobody left out there.

The democrat party is falling apart..First it was we got to get this health care scam passed by summer , then by fall, now by next year…No one believes obama and the dems not even the dems themselves..

The key to GOP winning is elimating FRAUD!
NJ had probably 100,000 illegal votes.
Absentee ballots UP 500 %.

The democratic party is taking a joy ride Driving one of these toyota’s that have an electronic gas control,not mechanical and once it gets going you can’t stop it and Obama is the driver,Joe is shotgun,Polosi is the back seat driver and Ried is talking to himself and all of a sudden the car go’s from o-to-90 and can’t stop the car,What do you think will happen at the end. Well take a guess and by the way,the car is our country.

Jafo I truely agree with You PRA53

After weeks of calling my asthmatic daughter’s pediatrician trying to get her an H1N1 vaccination,( no doctors or hospitals here have it) I drove to our local health clinic tonight where they were giving out free H1N1 shots from 5-8pm. Hundreds of mostly Guatemalan families formed a line that circled the entire complex. I’m not going to ask if anyone was checking green cards, what I am going to ask is why these shots are being distributed in such a hap-hazard way with no effort to immunize those who are at greatest risk first! Welcome to big government OBAMA health care..hush now, take a number and get in line..remember, you can’t complain if it’s free.

Let me see….the GOP looses a House seat that they held for over 100 years (and one that Palin, Limbaugh, and Beck pushed the GOP candidate out), and they looses another House race in California. They win two governorships that goes always goes to the party opposite of the President’s Party and they call it a “sweeping victory.” I hope they have more sweeping victories and go from a party of 20% to a party of 10%.

The Republican party of today = The party of hate, the party of no, the party of miss-information, the party of lies, the party of hypocrites, the party of deception, the party of twisted truth, the party of exclusionism, the party of extremism, and the list could go far beyond the 1000 characters allowed here. The Republican party will not see real power again for at least 20-30 years if ever at all. It will most likely come back under a different name as the “Republican” party has been overcome by extremists that are more Republican than American. Don’t get too excited about the election in some small districts that had problems on both sides. America is not going to allow the extremists on any side destroy this country. The present day Republican Party took it too far and it will pay for it’s arrogance for several decades. The balance that kept the extremists out of both parties over America’s more prosperous years is what I hope to see again. A balance between both the Liberals and conservatives that creates that needed checks and balances to prevent abuse and destruction of any part of American. The middle class is what makes the country great, not the Corporations, not the military, not the elites, not the rich, not the poor, not the extremists of any kind. The middle class makes America work and makes it succeed. NO MORE EXTREMISTS and right now, the Republican party is nothing but that.

Its all about jobs. Until America
starts hiring again, Obama is going
nowhere.

I like the way all these democrats have all their facts neatly lined up like little duckies about the GOP,but what they fail to mention is the eight yrs of silly willy in the white house before Bush, either they don’t remmeber or they play the stupid game. willy cut all sorts of funds that were going to the CIA,and other agencies that were tracking Osama,and saddam and other terroist groups,which led to 9/11 and as far as WMD,in Iraq,what do you call it when you see on the news towns with bodies littered the streets,mothers holding thier babies still in their arms

Goodness ChicagoBob, –the nonsensical brand called “illogical conserative republicans of the polarizing far right” opposite of the polarizing far left crowd?

Both parties are chock full of thieves and liars out to fill their own pockets. It’s best to vote all incumbents out and not let either party get comfortable. The longer any party has control the more they try to take advantage of the working people that support this nation with their sweat & blood.

Republicans had very little to do with the victories handed out by voters in this election.
More so, this election was about people who are fed up with politics as usual. People are losing “hope” and faith that things will ever “change.” (Republicans just happen to be “the other choice” right now.)
The GOP needs to listen to its base, and favor candidates that cut spending, and return to the basics of the constitution.
Democrats haven’t figured out that things have changed. It’s not health care, or “cap and trade”, or even education. “It’s the economy, stupid” and it’s about JOBS.
President Obama has had nine months to blame President Bush, and that is fair.
But, after nine months, it is time for this baby to be born.
Blaming President Bush is no longer working.
This election proved that.

There will not be a improvement in our economy until the liberals are voted out of power. Liberals coming to power was the very reason that the reccession hit. Companies and foreign investment saw the writing on the wall and pulled their money out of the economy. If America will elect a republican congress next year, we will see the economy take off almost immediately. Guaranteed.

There is one industry that is booming in my city of Houston Texas. The following are excerpts from websites and news releases.
“The Methodist Hospital System currently has over $1 billion in expansion and construction projects in the Houston area. More than one million square feet of new facilities are under construction in the Texas Medical Center, and two of three community hospitals are making major expansions. A fifth health care facility in west Houston is currently being planned.” ( This is from the Methodist Hospital website )
“Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Hospital is set to break ground on a $104 million project that will add 240,000 square feet to its campus at Interstate 45 and Research Forest Drive.
This is the third major expansion project undertaken by Memorial Hermann The Woodlands in the past decade. In 2003 the hospital completed a six-story patient tower, and a third medical office building was opened on campus in 2005. The hospital also recently opened a new community 24-Hour Emergency Services clinic on Woodlands Parkway.”
“With the $1.5 billion Vision 2010 expansion plan, Texas Children’s Hospital is bringing groundbreaking concepts in research and patient care closer to a reality.” ( This is from the Texas Children’s Hosp. website.)
There are more. It’s a long list. I wonder where the funds are coming from for these hospital expansions. Could it be from some of the obscene profits made by these corporate giants. The above mentioned hospital facilities mark up some procedures over 3000 percent over actual cost. Yes, that’s THREE THOUSAND PERCENT. Their cost’s and markup’s are listed on AHD along with all their other financial data.
So keep on McConnell and Boehner. Keep on pulling the wool over your constituent’s eyes. Many who don’t know the real facts or where to find them will believe you, and your right wing lunatic conservative buddies will make a few more inroads for a few victories for the ones who believe in your bs. But it will really be a terrible loss for the American people, especially the American people who find they can no longer afford to pay to keep the corporate giants expanding and their CEO’s driving Rolls Royce’s. So your win’s by your conservative Governors wasn’t a win at all.

i apologize for my grammatical and spelling goofs…it’s been a long night.

The career politicians can spin this however they feel they need. I live in upstate NY and I can tell you that what was voted for was change in the 23rd. All the disenfranchised righties and lefties that visited to support their candidates had little influence in the election booths. The voters of the 23rd voted out the incumbent, period. You are not seeing citizens fall out of either party in droves, but what you are seeing a minor revolt in an off year election against a change they were not told of when they cast their votes in 2008. I cannot speak for any other district but I “feel” there is the same sort of discontent and distrust all over the Country. I believe that the legislators had better start listing to their constituents and not their party bosses and special interest lobbyists if they are even thinking of another term. It is true that Americans have short memories until you screw them out of even more of their wages to disburse these wages to anyone else. Up here in the “woods” (where the politicos only travel to influence their agendas) our standards of living and savings for a semi independent retirement are in the can. The only bailout we want is for the governments (all of them) to get out of our wallets and to live within their (our) means.

Bullwinkle. Well stated. My solutions are simple. Strict election finance laws and one term one time.

If there is a “rebellion” it is due to the constant stream of lies and exagerations the GOP and the Republican News Network feed their under-informed and willfully ignorant constituency. What these people fail to understand is that their leaders are not concerned for them in the least. Their leaders support and are supported by the insurance industry. Huge amounts of money are being poured into the anti-healthcare campaign by that industry, who have a massive stake into whether it passes or not.

MaryR claims that the people are rebelling. No doubt that two governor races victories constitute a rebellion. I’m glad that Mary has learned to type while clutching her tea bag. This election didn’t mean anything. Oh I guess it does if all you listen to is Limbaugh or Beck but the majority of the population still supports Obama. It’s to bad that the health care reform bill is DOA but the Republicans have done what they do best and that is lying to the people in order to firghten them into voting against their best interest. When you tell senior citizens that if this passes they will lose their medical care of course they are going to be against it. In reading the posts I notice that many of those who are against any changes mention their wallet. It seems money is all they care about. If I could give an extra ten bucks a month and knew it would help someone less fortunate than myself I would not have a problem with that. The way these people go on you would thing that the government was going to hit them for 90 percent of what they earn. Such is not the case. But the Republican philosophy has always been take from the poor and give to the rich and they will never change. And they will never have enough….even if they get it all. Let’s just wait till 2010 before we pass judgement. If the American public forgets what the Bush years brought us then they deserve whatever they get.