Drum Roll: The GOP's plan to repeal the Health Care Bill....

I know there's an object lesson in here somewhere, but I'm too tired to speculate on it now.

(because they speak "American.")

The so-called "reform" was just another giveaway to the same private, corporate, life-destroying and soul-crushing insurance behemoths who have been spreading misery and killing the futures of entire fucking families for decades.

If we don't have the collective spine to pass a true single-payer system, then anything else is just more clusterfuck kabuki theater to give the appearance that something is being done.

Knowing either way it will correct things, if they get bad enough they will crumble, if they correct things then things get better.

I really do.

But as for myself, I'm finding less and less reasons to retain any sort of optimism lately.

words, progress is defined by you and those with similar views not getting their way. People actually said the same thing about SS back in the 30s -- fortunately for most, they were ignored and rendered irrelevant.

More like "30-odd other industrialized nations' way or the highway."

Our standards of living, life expectancy, and several other key social indicators are slipping for a reason.

And of course people bitched and moaned about Social Security. Those would be the same types then who are yelling over and over about how Single Payer would be "eeeeeevil!!!" and "Soshulism!!!" today.

Don't try putting any more words in my mouth or ideas in my head, because you clearly don't know enough.

A political stunt! Americans need to be outraged by this!!

they don't.

refuse to fight to get the message out there and explain what's really going on.

It's so incredibly frustrating!!!

in the Senate for that.

But the HEALTH CARE LOBBY wants it to stay like it is.

Because the projected savings are in the hundreds of billions, the Republicans won't come up with concomitant cuts in other programs to offset the money they'll have to spend for repeal.

Do NOT, however, expect to see that little factual tidbit mentioned in the popular media.

a single piece of paper with two words on it ...

"YOU'RE SCREWED"

This is mine, but we need to enact it.

A BILL
To disband the job-killing Republican Party, repeal all job-killing Republican Laws, and return the nation to a sense of sanity.

SECTION 1: Short Title
This Act may be cited as the "Get Rid of the Republicans Before They Get Rid Of Us Act."

SEC. 2: Disbandment of the Republican Party
Upon enactment of this Act,
(a) The Republican Party is immediately disbanded.
(b) All Republican officeholders are immediately removed from office.
(c) Any office that contains a Republican will conduct a special election to place a new officeholder in it. No officeholder may be politically appointed.
(d) Creating a new political party with any form of the word "Republican" in its name, or with any derivation of the common nickname "Grand Old Party," is expressly forbidden.

SEC. 3: Repeal of Republican-written and other job-killing laws
Upon enactment of this Act,
(a) All laws passed between January 20, 1981, and January 19, 1993, and between January 20, 2001, and January 19, 2009, will be declared Null and Void.
(b) The version of the Internal Revenue Code in force on January 19, 1980, will take effect.
(c) The Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999, P.L. 106-102, and the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, H.R. 5660, will be repealed, and the provisions of the Banking Act of 1933 will be reinstated.