From 'birthers' to 'deathers': GOP tactics for opposing Obama

Hi, I am a stupid American who believes what I see on TV. I do not read about current events. I get my information from talking heads. I have not read this health care bill. I am blind to the way this country operates. I am susceptible to propaganda. There is only one right answer to the health care debate -- support the bill, or deny it. No other options exist. Again, I have not read the bill, but I believe whatever the authorities tell me. I don't understand what the Constitution is. I don't really understand reality for what it is either, and choose to understand it from the viewpoint that I have been indoctrinated to accept. Conformity and submission are the cornerstones to an effective and evolved society. Groupthink must be replaced with individual sovereignty. We have no rights, except for what the government grants us (goes back to my misunderstanding of the Constitution). The government is good and can do no wrong. The government is good and can do no wrong. I can go back to sleep now.

If I am a conservative or Republican I am susceptible to the lies surrounding this bill. I will be lied to in order to make me think the bill is a bad idea. I must attack and oppose anyone who thinks this bill is a good idea while the powers-that-be do as they like to get the bill signed into law.

If I am a liberal or Democrat, I am susceptible to the lies surrounding this bill. I will be lied to in order to make me think the bill is a good idea. I must attack and oppose anyone who thinks this bill is a bad idea while the powers-that-be do as they like to get the bill signed into law.

Pick your side and fight to the death of reason! Enjoy! After all, it's America's favorite pastime (quickly replacing baseball).

There's no deceit behind why the GOP isn't backing Obama on this one. It's a poorly thought out plan that anyone can see will have problems in the upcoming future. Who can listen to Rachel Maddow?

tagc,

Aha! You cheated! You actually READ the bill! You are supposed to wait until Rush explains what the bill REALLY says.

If you are going to tear off onto the broad, sunlit plains of public policy discourse...without waiting for Mr. Limbaugh to attach the lead to your collar...I am afraid I must warn you that your opportunities for advancement to the highest kennels...er, LEVELS of the Republican Party are going to be quite severly limited, my friend.

No, if you are going to go around and just READ whenever the mood strikes you, I am afraid you are going to be stuck with those poor saps in the OTHER party (the-party-that-must-not-be-named)...or forever wander the Earth as either a member of one of those hopeless "third parties" or worst-of-all the universally shunned "Independents."

God, I hate that last group. They're all "Ohh, look at me, I'm Intellectually consistent. I have integrity. I don't have to hold my nose and vote for an entire slate of candidates when I know that two of them are little better than common criminals." Losers.

Crap...Ranting...Again.

My dad (Republican, South Carolina) actually sent me a copy of the email that was circulating about this on Monday citing "page 426". I wrote back and 'splained to him (after reading the bill) that end-of-life care is simultaneously one of the single greatest areas of uncontrolled medical expense, and one of the least rational decisions that grieving loved ones can make.

Hospice care is much more humane, and several orders of magnitude less expensive than institutional/hospitalized end-of-life care, but guess what... the medical establishment and the insurance companies don't make any money on it. So they want to maintain the status quo - they don't want "mandatory consultation" regarding end of life issues. That's all that is in the draft language from July 14 - mandatory consultation every five years to ensure that participants have a medical declaration and have made their own decisions about end-of-life issues while they still can.

This is a prime example of just how corrupt the U.S. Federal lobbying-based political process has become.

I agree with the assertions made at the end of the vid... Write to your representative/congress-person, NOW and tell them to get off the "dole" and get on the ball, and fix this system now by supporting the legislation.

What do we expect from the party of family values? The ones that wanted to impeach Bill. Have any of them offered to resign after being busted? Doublespeakers or hypocrits, take your choice.

Keep on ranting, Carpe Diem!

I am convinced that average Americans really cannot fathom how much money is at stake here and how many fabulously wealthy people will stop at NOTHING to keep the current gravy train chugging down the tracks. And, as usual, we see the great mass of unwashed enablers -- basically any conservative Republican making less than $100,000 per year.

It is bad enough that their choice of political parties is utterly irrational (all humans make mistakes, after all), but to watch them do their whole "rabid attack dog" thing is kind of like watching one of those episodes of "jackass" in which some guy tries to light a fart on fire and ends up a victim of self-immolation. You just sit there and read their posts with a kind of awestruck horror that someone could be quite that suicidally imbecilic...and yet lived to be old enough to type whole words on the Internet.

One would think that natural selection would have culled them all from the herd by now. But no...they have all become regulars on Current, dividing their time between castigating the Federal Reserve and foretelling the rise of the Illuminati.

Sorry...I am ranting again...

"People at a certain age with certain diseases will be deemed not worth the investment"

How is that any different than what the insurance companies do to deny claims?

Hypocrisy at its finest as usual, since they won't even admit to the same flaws in the present system with the focus on the bottom line.

clownpuncher are you for real, because that has been proven for a while now that the health care insurers and right wingers are funding these kind of bloggers. Are you so naive and in bed with the creeps from the right you have forgot these tactics.

div, you are correct they shoot themselves in the foot every time showing their racism every time. What the hell are these kind of people with no love for all man kind doing breathing air in my country. We are so beyond this crap.

Have you noticed some of the new commenters at our site lately. It is so obvious to me that many of them are paid deniers working for the health insurance company's. This is a life and death situation, 20,000 Americans die every year because they did not have access to health care.

It's shameful that these people knowingly lie to citizens and rile them up into a fear frenzy. Especially the way they prey on the elderly and making such outlandish and morbid lies up about them having to decide when to die...

It's downright sickening.

Such a distraction, I pity the people who still believe that...

Any excuse or made up shit the right can come up with. What next? If you get single payer you'll be in a lottery to be executed like in Logan's Run?

These reichwingers need to grow a brain and some integrity.

Wow, just wow. I know the right has come out with some crazy bs, but this tops it (I'm assuming that a right wing nutter told her that).

Always distracting...

I can see why so many people fall easily into the GOP trap. After all of the years of getting screwed by our govt, it's hard to believe them when they offer you something that would actually benefit you. We've become so jaded and distrustful of our govt that we actually want to believe that they are out to kill us. Despite the fact that all of the rest of the industrialized nations in the world have socialized medicine and rank higher than the USA in quality, some of us are convinced that it is impossible to do it successfully.