Probably a couple minutes behind, but basically.

8:02 – weird knowing this is happening just a few miles from me

8:04 – of course there’s no agreement from Republicans about whether or not there should be health care reform.  They are rich, and enjoy fear.  Oh, and enjoy being rich.  Or are suckers.  Tough call.

8:05 – Don’t forget, 60% of young people support the reform.  Old people oppose it.  Interestingly, the old people are already on government health care.  Its called Medicare.

8:10 – Baucus is owned by the insurance industry.  Baucus can kiss my ass and I hope he loses his insurance right as he finds out he needs to get spinal surgery and be paralyzed for the rest of his life.

8:11 – ‘Sergeants Of Arms’ really sounds more impressive than two guys in suits.

8:17 – Greatest hits, hey, trust me

8:19 – I am determined to be the last.  Nice!

8:20 – History lessons

8:22 – Insurance companies screw you by saying you can’t have insurance.  Insurance companies screw you by stopping coverage even if you have insurance.

8:24 – Why this is bad for business.  See, Republicans?  Its bad for anyone who isn’t already rich.  How can you not back this?

8:27 – Almost everyone wants this.  Why are so many of you being bastards?

8:28 – We are fucking done with this now.  You WILL stop being children.

8:29 – New plan: costs down, coverage expanded, increased coverage security.

8:30 – Details: Nothing has to change for you if you are happy:  It will be against the law to deny coverage based on pre-existing condition.  Nor can coverage change when you get sick/injured.  No cap on amount of coverage.  Limit on out of pocket expenses.  Must cover preventative care/exams.

If you don’t have insurance: Insurance exchange/co-op.  Tax credits.  Will start in 4 years.  Public option (ish) until then for catastrophic financial protection.

If individuals still don’t feel like getting insurance, or businesses don’t feel like offering: Tough tittie.  You have to have basic insurance.  Business must offer insurance or ‘chip in’.  Most small businesses exempt.

8:36 – that was the easy part we all agree on.

8:37 – POLITICIANS HAVING BEEN LYING TO YOU SOME OF WHICH ARE RIGHT HERE!!!

8:38 – Who yelled ‘LIE”???

8:39 – great.  Pro-lifers get a fucking win.  Great…women everywhere lose.

8:41 – Public Option?  YES!!!   Lots of folks not standing or applauding.  Unsurprising.

8:42 – Will have to be self-sufficient.  Competition will survive because insurance companies aren’t grannies making cookies.

8:43 – all of you stop being children.  Mostly you guys over there.

8:44 – lots of people still not standing.  Must hate the poor.

8:45 -how do we pay for it? Will NOT add to the deficit ever (republicans yawning…literally)

8:46 – SMACK TO GW!!!  Hey, I didn’t make this deficit, it was the last guy!!

8:48 – Old people, do you realize Medicare is run by the government?

8:51 – oh sure, Republicans applaud tort reform

8:55 – you lie, we will call you a liar.

8:56 – Posthumous letter from Ted Kennedy.    Its about ‘the character of our country’

8:59 – WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER!

9:02 – When we become fear-mongers, we have all lost.  We will do the hard thing!!

Republican Response:

9:08 – Wow, he made it almost two minutes before out-and-out lying.  He basically says that the government plan is to replace everyone’s insurance.

9:09 – Basically agreeing with Obama on everything except the public option.  The insanity is unfathomable.

9:10 – Oh, yeah, but we really have to get to tort reform.  Much more important.

9:11 – Ah yes, jobs, freedom, explosions.

9:12 – bipartisian = giving the republicans everything they want.

So, apparently I’ve missed the big to-do about Obama and getting some pizza.  Ace Of Spades posted some crap about Obama flying some guy in and all that.
This isn’t particularly interesting as Ace Of Spades is what we call ‘teh crazy’, and a great example of the nutjobs that the right has produced in recent years.  What I want to do, though, is post a link to Little Green Footballs and its post on the topic.  Not because LGF wrote anything new (mostly quoting from elsewhere), but to show that there are, in fact, conservatives who aren’t fucking insane.  To be honest, I’m not 100% sure why the writer of LGF considers himself conservative sometimes, but regardless, he seems pretty reasonable and concerned with things like logic and facts.

Little Green Footballs – Pizzagate: Not a Gate

Stem Cells are a horrible distraction

“Why are we going and distracting ourselves from the economy? This is job No. 1. Let’s focus on what needs to be done,” Rep. Eric Cantor, the Republican whip in the House of Representatives, told CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Dear GOP, welcome to a world where the President can do more than one thing at a time.
Oh, and I’m not sure all those people suffering from things like Alzheimers, and Parkinson’s would appreciate you talking about this like its legislation to improve sidewalk conditions in Montana.
Oh, and were you wondering how much of a distraction this will be for the president? The answer is NONE.
The limit of federal funding is in place due to EXECUTIVE ORDER. Which, pleasantly, Obama can undo in exactly as much time as it take to sign his name.

Dear Rick, your kids shouldn’t be nervous to go to school because of a statement which was obviously not a threat UNLESS you take just a few words of it out of context.
Your kids should be nervous because you called their friend’s parents losers who deserve what they get.

Think Progress » Santelli Claims The White House Is Threatening Him: ‘My Kids Are Nervous To Go To School’

Which, from GOP-speak, translates to giving in to every demand.  After nearly a decade (or more) of not caring at all about what the Democrats think and/or want, after two terms of GW and just storming through any legislation they want, I hardly think the GOP would know bipartisanship if it came and bit them in the ass.
Oh, and not for nothing, but Obama doesn’t need the GOP.  He’s got 59 votes in the Senate and unless they are going to filibuster every bill (which will only make certain they lose another couple seats in 2010) they are pretty much out of luck.  
I gotta say, though, I’ll bet these folks are awfully glad they didn’t use their nuclear option a few years back.

GOP senators say Obama off to bad start – CNN.com

“If this is going to be bipartisanship, the country’s screwed,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, told ABC’s “This Week.” “I know bipartisanship when I see it.”

Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, said Obama was off to “a bad beginning,” out of step with the vow of bipartisanship both men made after Obama beat out the Republican presidential nominee for the White House in November.

A great video by Lisa Bonet’s and Lenny Kavitz’s Daughter, Zoe.

There is a pause just before the end so be sure to watch it to the end…
then a video of Zoe is second. WATCH AFTER PAUSE AT END.
http://www.dipdive.com/dip-politics/wato/

And, elsewhere on that site,
http://www.hopeactchange.com/mosaic

A brilliant anti-McCain ad
AmericaBlog is right. The experts don’t know what they are doing. Listening to them instead of the electorate could cost Obama the election, IMHO. I can only assume its the experts guiding him to the center. I can only assume its the experts telling him to leave McCain alone and just take the whopping. It wouldn’t do to fight back with, y’know, facts.

I think I love these guys (sorry that I’m late on this one)

Yes, don’t forget, it looks like McCain may be breaking federal law

Of course, that doesn’t matter.  What matters is Obama changed his mind, completely legally, to do his own fundraising, completely legally.  Again, there’s these cries of ‘flip-flop’.  I don’t understand that.  I suppose mindlessly sticking to whatever decision you made in the past, no matter what changes, is admirable if, say, you are…wait…no, it really isn’t admirable at all, is it?  It borders on suicidal.  And, in the case of Still-President-Bush, homicidal.

But I digress.

Obama takes part in legal activites and people smack him around.  McCain may have broken federal law, no one cares.

Our media, ladies and gentlemen.

Some days, after hearing about McCain not supporting the GI Bill expansion, after watching the MSM rip into Obama because of some poorly chosen (though ultimately accurate) words, after seeing Clinton use that same cheap attack, after watching some of the worst political reporting in history, I almost want to move into the mountains and set up an armed compound.

And on the topic of Clinton…please…drop out.  You will not become president this round.  I’m sorry, but its true.  There are only two ways this can go for you.

1. You don’t win the nomination.  And so you don’t become president.
2. You win the nomination by getting enough super-delegates to overcome Obama’s lead, basically over-riding the will of the people.  That splits the party.  McCain wins.  You don’t become president.

Personally, a big-ass disaster for the Democratic party might be just what we need.  My concern is the timing.  The fact of the matter is that McCain is a promise of 4 more years of a failed administration.  McCain is completely unqualified in knowledge, experience, and temperment for the office of president.  We have real people with real problems.  Its time we started acting like they matter, like the 57% increase in foreclosures matters, like the fact that there’s no end in sight to the bloodshed in Iraq, like the fact that the rich get richer and the poor are just shuffled off.

McCain doesn’t care.  Maybe he used to care, but he’s decided he gets more votes from the filthy rich who don’t have any problems.

Hm.  I think I always get a little pissed at the rich around tax time.  Not because they make more than i do.  But its the complaining.  Look, I make a decent living.  I’m not rich, but I’m doing pretty good, probably better than my parents ever did.  I consider myself to be part of the ‘group that always gets screwed’ when it comes to taxes.  Not enough wealth that anyone cares about me, not poor enough to be a cause.  And I’m OK with that.  I pay my taxes.  I do so, basically, without complaint (I don’t necessarily think we spend our money wisely…).  I can’t stand people making twice what I do who then bitch because maybe this year they can’t buy the third house so they can vacation on the east coast AND west coast.  That sickens me.

I like being part of this country.  I like having roads, and hospitals, and firemen.  I like having services and defense and all that.  I know that my taxes going to help the poor also helps me, and that someday I may need that same help.   I am an American, and I am a patriot.  And I believe we should stand together or not at all.

What about you?