‘Revolution in the Streets’: Mass. Republicans Prep for Fight over Seating Scott Brown

And how does a Republican win help the average voter?
Healthcare reform is halted. No health care for the uninsured, premiums continue to rise for the rest of us, healthcare costs continue to rise, causing more businesses to drop coverage, and this helps us how?
Isn’t this what we had under the Republicans for eight years? How is this a “revolution?” More like a step backward.

“That’s different than waiting for the election to be formally certified by the secretary of state, a process that takes at least 10 days, Kaufman said.”
The Republicans fought this tooth and nail in Minnisota – the certification of the election results by the secretary of state is required. If the Democrats play games to stretch it out too long, more than about three weeks (it always takes a couple), then they can complain.

newsflash, independent voter
The senate healthcare refor bill would reduce the federal deficit by $132 billion over the FIRST ten years alone.
This, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.
If healthcare reform doesn’t pass, premiums are going up and more employers will drop coverage.
Here is a handy article to how the bill would afffect YOU:

Come on MASS the Dems only want Coakley so they can pass the bill. Lets relook at it. Vote Brown so it will force a relook at the bill. Please help the nation in finding out what all is contained in this bill that the dems are hiding. Please help the nation. Brown will not just vote yes because his party says to.

If only Charlie Rangel had the ethics of Nelson…oh forget it!

AMY!! stop and think! you are citing the cost of a program spread over ten years, with services that arent provided until the 4th year in! I can make my budget look much better than it does today if I use math like that! This has been a congressional healthcare AUCTION!! ASk Louisiana, Nebraska, Florida, big pharma, insurance, AARP and the unions!Page by page, issue by issue, this bill has been up for sale!This IS NOT A PRODUCT OF CONVICTION BUT RATHER A PRODUCT OF BRIBES! why???

“newsflash, independent voter
The senate healthcare refor bill would reduce the federal deficit by $132 billion over the FIRST ten years alone.
This, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.”
that is because they are raising taxes. They are correct it is a reduction – in the pocketbook.

John, its also because the first 3-4 years are all income and no output…Imagine if Sears collected peoples money at the registers, but put their purchases right back on the shelves, or didn’t deliver the microwaves and washers people paid for….for YEARS!! Yeah, their ledgers would look real good.

The main reason for insurance premiums to rise is because health care costs rise. So, let’s reform the system by regulating all companies in health care including schools, equipment, procedures, pharmaceuticals, etc to a 5% profit margin. This would certainly ower costs, which then we lower premiums to the same 5% profit margin. Also, create a government system for those who cannot afford insurance and repeal the law that requires hospitals to treat people without insurnace (or money to pay). Illigal aliens should be returned home and then apply for work permits and TIN’s for taxes. If they have no criminal record, allow them legal employment. That will certainly lower costs.

“that is because they are raising taxes.”
vast majority of the revenue would come from a surtax of 5.4 percent on adjusted gross income over $1 million (for couples) or $500,000 (for single people).
Is that you?
http://www.factcheck.org/2009/11/health-care-and-the-economy/

mdunson…are you SURE you want an America without “the rich”? It sounds like you loathe those who are successful. A land with no rich people looks like Haiti my friend, and when the going gets really, really tough, they have NO ONE to turn to..except “rich” foreigners. I never (ever) got a job from a poor man…have you? I’m not rich btw, but I am always inspired by those who have worked hard and built their fortunes.

I couldn’t see Obama’s Harvard Law School classmates and Law school professors at the back of Obama during speech which was held in Boston’s Northeastern University and not in Obama’s alma mater Harvard University in Cambridge ,Massachusetts.How could Obama seal his Harvard academic records and birth certificate and not be proud about graduating magna cum laude and being born in Hawaii,USA.

If the average voter is at all interested in stopping the rampant spending of Obama/Reid/Pelosi at this point a republican may just be your answer. That is if you believe that if the debt triples to $36 trillion in ten years we are beyond hope, truth is with no plans to reconcile the current debt of 412.4 trillion we may already be beyond recovery.
If perchance you have hopes to save America from a rogue president and his minion congress please consider joining GOOOH which plans to send all 435 members of the House home in 2010 and replace them with representatives that are beholden to their constituency instead of their respective political machine.

To quote Ben Stein:
“The American people already know that Mr. Obama’s plan to lower health costs while expanding coverage and bureaucracy is a myth, a promise of something that never was and never will be — a bureaucracy lowering costs in a free society. Either the costs go up or the free society goes away.”

The bill had a nice frame work when they started hearings. It incluided a Government run plan to compete with the insurance industry which would keep cost down. That provision is gone. As a substitute a provision is included to allow insurance co competition across state lines…this can be gamed and is less effective. The key is that this has turned into a political football, if passed will cost the US Taxpayer dearly. I am for health reform but somebody has to explain the product before I spend more than a Trillion dollars of my kids money on it. Let’s start over with transparancy this time.

THE FIRST thing to watch is the activity of SEIU and ACORN. Nothing like a couple thousand fradulent Democrat votes to ruin any patriots day.

Robo..I don’t support universal care under these economic circumstances, but we do agree on one thing..this bill is a grotesque byproduct of corruption, kickbacks and pay-offs. I keep using the tired analogy of a 16″ pizza with 100 hungry mouths to feed. This calls for inspired leadership..not back room secret “feedings” I didn’t vote for Obama, but for a fleeting moment, I thought he might be the guy to help us make very tough and painful decisions..for the sake of our kids.

Healthcare will be a moot point when the dollar is trashed by the national debt situation.
Our governmnet is over-promised and underfunded. Obama compared his healthcare to the USPS, which as I speak is being rationed because it is overspent. For once Obama spoke the truth!

Ben Stein also said, “Now, Americans are waking up to the truth that ObamaCare basically means that every time you are sick or injured, you will have a clerk from the Department of Motor Vehicles telling your doctor what he can and cannot do.”

The health care bill should have been scrapped and rewritten months ago. Now it is getting further into sleazy deal territory and is probably the most foul piece of legislation to be ever considered for a vote by Congress.
The simple fact that people are resorting (on both sides) to partisan majorities and dirty tricks says it all. We will only get real reform when it is a basic majority of the will of the people, not 2000+ pages of convoluted garbage that no one understands – with so many pieces of pork that it would never stand up to a court challenge.
I thought Obama campaigned against all of these tactics – and promised a “cleaner” Washington?

Ben Stein is a whiz, how about this comment, it explains why Mr. Obama is rushing HIS congress?
” Now, we face a devastating loss of freedom at home in health care. It will be joined by controls on our lives to “protect us” from global warming, itself largely a fraud if believed to be caused by man.
Mr. Obama knows Americans are getting wise and will stop him if he delays at all in taking away our freedoms.”

Insurance companies have controlled and decided the costs of health care to where it cannot be afford. Insurance companies dropped patients who became seriously ill. Insurance companies have denied Life Saving procedures allowing patients to die, who would have lived otherwise. Insurance companies have denied people with pre-existing conditions health insurance. Insurance Companies Paid Millions to each Republican in Senate and Congress to stop health care reform. Insurance companies have been the major special interest group for about 3 quarters of a century. And you want the health care reformed defeated. When you loose your jobs and your health care, good luck.

Amy, I already had seen that link and read the story. The problem is that it tells me nothing about coverage. And using their calculator, it’s going to cost about $2000 MORE a year, of course the “goverment” will kick in most of that. So what have I gained? Now the taxpayer, you, me, everyone has to kick in more for my insurance then I can buy it as individual now? Something doesn’t add up.
As I said before, healthcare reform is a good thing, but not if it gets shoved through with no details of what it contains, what is covererd, and the real cost. I think we can look at what Medicare was “Estimated” to cost and then compare it to the actual cost. Not even close. If Mr. Brown needs to get elected to slow this down and let all americans look at it, then I am all for him. We don’t need another rubber stamp.

I’m guessing the Insurance Companies are giving some big bucks in Mass. Because if the DEM is not elected their Obamacare plan to force all US citizens to give them money will be out the window!

There is a lot more going on here than the health bill. Look at Brown’s voting record on; education, women’s rights, polution. and the environment. He accuses his opponent of being in the pockets of pharmacutical companies, yet it is these same companies paying millions to stop healthcare. His cry is to reduce taxes, his meaning is to remove services from the middle class and preserve the wealth of the upper 5% of this country.

Angel if they wanted to do some legislation that would controll the insurance companies, so they have to accept everone, so they cant drop anyone, so they have to cover preexsisting ills, pass that, but we dont need all this other crap in this bill.its 2000 pages of bribes and insurance company favors,union deals and so much pork no one admits to reading it.

If the admisitration continues to hand out sweet deals to select groups, making the rest of us pay for them, there will never be healthcare reform.
You can complain about the insurance company fee’s and restrictions all you want, but if our goverment is guilty of the same tactics, what good is it? I guess maybe forcing your neighbor who has managed to save money and worked hard pay for everyone else’s insurance makes it better? Why not just put a cap on attorney fee’s and lawsuit claims FIRST, with no sweet deals handed out to anyone and see how much that would save everyone? Too easy?

amy in maine…america has resoudingly denouced the dems and their communist agenda. done …finit( french for finished)time to get people back to work.cant wait to see minority leader of the house..pelosi.;

It is impossible to use logic to pursuade those who have been willingly brainwashed.
We need a measure of reform; not just To totally scrap an 85% workable product that needs a tune-up; then attempt thru coersion and corruption to replace it with an indescribable, unknowable ANYTHING run by this completely corrupted lying government.
It’s like your Worst Nightmare of a crooked auto mechanic!

america deserves the republicans…if americans don’t see what happened under bush the last eight years then they can have the republicans forever…ha,ha,ha.

I BELEIVE old barney franks would like to see brown win.I JUST KNOW I SAW A GLEEM IN HIS EYE.

If the politicians in Washington are sincere about reforming health care and bringing costs down, they would have started the ball rolling by addressing the tax code. For example, the tax code could be changed so that all money spent by the taxpayer on health care was an adjustment to gross income. Doing so would create such a shortfall in revenue that your government might possibly begin getting really serious as to determining the real reason for the escalation in health care costs. Hint: It’s not the MDs.

The DNC must have some pretty solid numbers about tomorrows race. For me the most telling thing was Bob Beckel’s demeanor on Hannity tonight. He looked subdued and at a loss for words for the first time ever. He also sounded very reasonable regarding the consequences of his party delaying any seating or cramming legislation.
How does a party with control of the executive branch, the house and a senate super majority back itself into such a corner?

Cindy….you are amazingly insightful, polite, thoughtful, confident, and correct. (Well, the part about “old people” was a bit of a sting). It’s been delightful to read your posts and I hope we can share a virtual “High Five” after today’s election in Massachussetts. Wouldn’t it be great if Brown wins by a HUGE majority? Hope your day is great.

I’d like to have 8 more years just like the first SIX years under Bush. You can keep the last 2 years of his term. You know, those last 2 years when the democrats were in charge of Congress??