Reply #49: my comments are below starting with the first two words in CAPS

[samsingh]

First, "what they've done to American" democracy isn't specific. If it's just the last 8 years, obviously that guy is gone now. Many people like to see the country as the work of one person -- it's not. No matter which party controls the branches of government, even when one controls all three, the other still get their 'licks' in. And Federal bureaucracy is wide and deep -- not everything goes across the President's desk. No matter who the President is.

THE WARS, started by lies to congress, the American People, and the world, has resulted in thousands of soldier deaths and hundreds of thousand civilian dealths. THE ECONOMY was left in shamples with a trillion $ deficit. THE WARS still rage.


"THEY" didn't shout "LIAR" at the President. One guy did. A back-bencher no one had heard of until last week. It was inappropriate. He apologized.
However, H.R. 3200, as available to the public has no provision for verification of eligibility, and those in control of the House have rejected every attempt at remedying that deficiency. Claiming people will not seek to exploit that loophole is like claiming a law prohibiting children from buying tobacco and alcohol with NO provision for ID checking will work -- it's simply disingenuous. Saying it to Congress is insulting to them, and saying it to the American people insults them too.

THAT ONE guys has raised over $750k from idiot repug supporters that ARE condoning what Joe Wilson did. HE HAS refused to apologise in congress. AND WHAT'S worse is that WILSON IS THE ONE WHO IS LYING or HE can't understand what HE reads.

"I hate the wars they cause".
Hmmm. CAUSE? I'll give you "engage in" although a lot of Democrats voted for it too, but I'm not sure about the cause part unless you feel Republicans are solely responsible for the world we find ourselves in. That is certainly a larger question and issue than your statement suggests.
THE REPUGS lied about the reasons to go to war. AND THEIR INCOMPETANCE led to 911. They lied to congress about intelligence. they chose to destroy the careers of anyone who told the truth of the lack of WMD in Iraq

I'm not aware of any effort to withhold medical care from the needy. We have Medicare and Medicaid. They're a financial tsunami, but we HAVE them. Anyone can go into an emergency room and get emergency care. There are many free clinics and no legislation prohibiting more. As harsh as this probably sounds to you, medical care is a commodity, not a right. A "Right" does not impose a burden on anyone else, other than not violating that right. You can go without medical coverage longer than you can go without housing and food, and they're not "rights".
HAVE YOU watched SICKO the Moore movie? BTW - Moore has not been sued by the sue happy REPUGS so the facts in the movie are correct
Have you read any headlines? IT'S ABSURB to argue that the status quo does not withhold medicine from the poor, sick, and people who get sick.

"They" don't hate you because you "care about other people". Some may disagree with you because you want to actuate your "caring" with other people's money. And didn't President Johnson declare "war on poverty" over forty years ago? How is that going? What we've spent on THAT war would fund both gulf wars fifty times over. Odd that you're not upset about that failed war.

ODD THAT you would compare a symbolic war on poverty - i don't think poverty fights back with guns and bombs - to a war that BUSH, CHENEY, and REPUGs lied to us about and started. First their incompetance let 911 happen. Then instead of getting the terrorists in Afganistan, they lied to start a war with Iraq and ended up creating more terrorists.

REPUGS HATE us because we want to help other people. REPUGS ideas have been discredited for all time after the state of the country, economy, and the world that was left after they were refused to be given any more power from the people.

REPUGS GENERALLY seem to be petty creatures that like to dish it out but are CRYBABIES when it's their turn. THEY ARE horrible, stupid, and lazy. They use pseudo arguments to justify letting other people die when they could be helped. AND THEY have supported unConstitutional leaders like CHENEY.

Republicans (actually conservatives) don't have a "war on the poor". They do have a war on poverty though, and the primary weapon is called "work". You work and you get paid, and then you're not poor. If you are physically unable to work, there are programs to deal with that (Social Security being one). If you just don't want to work, then you've CHOSEN poverty -- it wasn't thrust upon you.

THIS IS THE BIGGEST PIECE OF BULLSHIT IN THE PARAGRAPH. REPUGS have caused a $1 trillion + deficit, destroyed the economy, and THEY SAY that the working poor are TOO lazy to find work.