SNL skit - anything done? Nada.

Heath care debate translation: What, citizens, you have a opinion? We don't care - and if you speak up, we will use the media to brand and arrest you disbelievers!!

Democrats have accused Republicans of sanctioning mob tactics, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., accused protesters of trying to sabotage the democratic process.

The Republican Party says it's not behind the protests, but Reid scoffed at the notion that the protesters reflect grass-roots sentiment. He held up a piece of artificial turf during a session with reporters.

"These are nothing more than destructive efforts to interrupt a debate that we should have, and are having," Reid said Thursday. "They are doing this because they don't have any better ideas.

They have no interest in letting the negotiators, even though few in number, negotiate. It's really simple: they're taking their cues from talk show hosts, Internet rumor-mongerers ... and insurance rackets."

Republicans answered back.

"All the polls show there is serious concern, if not outright opposition, to the president's health care plan," said Antonia Ferrier, spokeswoman for House Republican Leader John Boehner of Ohio. "Democrats are ginning up this cynical shell game."

WASHINGTON -- Top White House officials counseled Democratic senators Thursday on coping with disruptions at public events on health care this summer, officials said, and promised the party and allies would respond with twice the force if any individual lawmaker is criticized in television advertising.

These officials also told skittish senators that fresh polling suggests an emphasis on issues such as barring insurers from denying coverage on the basis of pre-existing medical conditions is a political winner, able to increase support among independents, women, seniors and rural voters.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity, saying they were not authorized to discuss details of the closed-door session that took place hours before lawmakers headed to their home states for a month long vacation.

In the week since the House began its own break, several town hall-style meetings have been disrupted by noisy demonstrators. These episodes have drawn widespread media attention, and Republicans have seized on them as well as polls showing a decline in support for President Barack Obama and his agenda as evidence that public support is lacking for his signature legislation.

The Senate's second-ranking Democrat slammed recent town-hall protests over health care on Sunday, insisting they violate "the democratic process," while the Senate's top Republican accused Democrats of "attacking citizens" with such complaints.

US to citizens: shut up, we don't care what you think!

Let's be real, do you really think that by giving tax payer money to banks and home loan institution's,that they are going to bring us out of this mess.If I recall, aren't they the one's who created this fiasco. I say put the money back in the hands of the tax payer who makes under 250,000 a year, and see how that works.I'm not talking about some slap in the face 600 dollars. Send everyone who made 250,000 dollars or less a check for half of what their gross income was when they filed taxes. If they still had a job. People will spend that money and help create supply and demand again. The 600 dollars some people received, probably went into their gas tank,which went right back to the hurting oil industry.

Instead of giving big banks and the big 3 money. Give each American over the age of 18 who paid taxes last year $300,000.00 each. Tax free. They real people will pay off mortgage (good one and bad ones), pay off their cars, credit cards, student loans and other bill they have. Which WILL stimulate the economy. If you own your house, you will probably do some project, there again stimulating the economy.

No bonuses, no asking for more. we should try this. It has a better potential of stimulating the economy and restoring confidence. It would certainly work for me.

I would pay off my mortgage.

I think that by 2010, things are going to be so crazy and taxes so onerous, that the people will throw out all incumbents. You may believe this baloney that things have improved, but I don't see anything improving- zip-nada-nothing. Trillions have been spent and Obama is banking on 3 million jobs being created prior to the election. We have six million unemployed right now. By 2010, he'll still have at least six million unemployed, maybe more. Government doesn't create jobs. People and small businesses create jobs- they are in the process of being taxed to death by the states in which they reside. Change we can believe in. Don't think so.

One of the persistent themes being voiced at the tea parties is the notion of "taxation without representation", a concept borrowed from the original Boston Tea Party.

However, we just had an election during which every adult citizen had the opportunity to vote. So what these folks are really complaining about is that their candidate(s) LOST!

This does not invalidate the election, people. All it means is that you are SORE LOSERS. Suck it up and try again in 2010.

Just ignore the protests. Just ignore Rush. Just ignore Fox.

The fact that you liberals can't indicates that you are worried about conservatives. There are more than you think and the entire Democrat program is banking on economic success. So far, the last time I checked, there are still nearly 6 million people unemployed. The DJIA is stuck in neutral. What is going to trigger even more defections from your base will be the increases in taxes that must accompany this trillion+ spending and more bailouts and foreclosures, which brings us back full circle to no jobs being created.

There is upside, downside, and spinside to the series of events over the last week that culminated in the dramatic rescue of an American hostage.

Almost immediately following word of the rescue, the Obama administration and its supporters claimed victory against pirates in the Indian Ocean and declared that the dramatic end to the standoff put paid to questions of the inexperienced president’s toughness and decisiveness.

Despite the Obama administration's (and its sycophants') attempt to spin the success as a result of bold, decisive leadership by the inexperienced president, the reality is nothing of the sort.

What should have been a standoff lasting only hours - as long as it took the USS Bainbridge and its team of NSWC operators to steam to the location - became an embarrassing four day and counting standoff between a ragtag handful of criminals with rifles and a U.S. Navy warship.

tea parties are not about bi-partisan politics. they are a rebellion against ineffective government. strangled by its own rules, regulations, policies, statutes and laws, our government can only demand more of our money while in essence it is a dead entity. you cant have taxation with representation when your government is a corpse!

We need to cut the blood supply (taxes)to the growing cancer (Washington DC.) Each state should start asking for a constitutional convention. Start talking about repealing the federal income tax and Washington DC will begin to listen. To few, telling the many what, where, and how to live.

Ministers are facing a dilemma over their battle to combat swine flu. They will have to decide if Britain should cut back production of seasonal flu vaccines in order to allow pharmaceutical companies to concentrate on making a vaccine against the new virus.

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"With a flash of anger Thursday morning, President Barack Obama offered a blistering critique of "a small group of speculators" who refused to go along with the government's plan to keep Chrysler out of bankruptcy."

Ahhh, nothing hew here. Same old verbiage of shouting overwhelming support for "the people" while demonizing entrepreneurs just to garner popularity from the masses on what in reality is an unpopular idea to the average American (how many of you want to deal with the government on your car warranty...it is a horrible process now, imagine if it got lost in the depths of Washington).