“Poor Andy… I don’t think he has a clue as to what he is talking about. No government-run service is without its flaws as well as waste at all levels. Also, he better check and make sure that the facts re political backings are correct. We all know that education systems spend big bucks on the latest fads in ed. methods, etc., all to follow what some ‘expert’s ‘ agenda is. Better check out what our government is really supposed to do and not what we would like our government to provide for us. Then we’ll talk…”

And of course she bashes education as she home-schooled her last 4 (?) children, the youngest of which just recently enrolled “in kollege to become a stoodent again.”

The most basic commonality between most right-wing conservatives is the fact that common sense arguments (such as the video) do nothing to open their eyes.

And yet we all trust that corrupt and inefficient government to educate our children, protect us from foreign aggressors, build our roads, regulate our cars, issues our driving licenses, put out fires, arrest the bad guys and even decide whether someone’s children should be taken from them.

I’m sure the very same people who screamed bloody murder in 1935 about how FDR was turning the country into a socialist nation were more than happy to cash their Social Security checks and get their Medicare coverage in 1969. I just wish the anti-reform/anti-government folks could see that the public option will help everyone. Because it’s always a possibility that you can lose your job and your health insurance one day, and find out you have cancer a week later.

Link is to the information for the rally in DC on 09/13/09, which is also Grandparents Day. This took off when it was suggested by Robert Reich in a recent column. If you can be there, please go and show your support!

Where: Washington, D.C.
When: September 13, 2009
Time: 12Noon – 5pm

Gathering spot: Gather near the Lincoln Memorial and march to the steps of the Capitol Building via the National Mall. Our rally and march will be peaceful. We will meet opposition with silence. We will not incite or invite violence. Our goal is to let congress know that Americans need health care and insurance reform.

Former Labor Secretary, Robert Reich, has lent his support to Americans United for Health Care and Insurance Reform:

8/20/2009 8:58am

Dear Julie,

I’m not an organizer, have “no efforts,” and have no particular preference for one day over another. I just want Congress to know how many Americans want universal health care and will settle for no less than complete coverage and no less than a public insurance option, to keep private insurers honest. So I’m happy to lend my support to whatever you are doing. (I hear that right-wing tea-partiers are planning a DC rally for September 12, which may cause the media to treat any progressive march that day more as a controversy than as an affirmative statement of conviction, but that kind of strategizing is beyond my pay grade.)

All best to you,

Robert Reich

This group is not affiliated with Organizing for America or the Democratic National Committee. We will rally with other groups on September 13th, but we are not affiliated with any other groups, special interests or lobbying forums.

Great resources, documents, immediate connections to political offices, etc.
Check this site out.

feel free to copy and paste this to every lackwit politician you know!

http://tinyurl.com/m69b92

His timing in the campaign was impeccable and I think it still is.

Look how this started, with the right wing screechers at the town halls, death panels, Hannity, Beck and on and on. They were given enough rope and have hanged themelves. To the majority of sane people they look and are crazy.

Trial balloons have been released about compromising the public option, the left have gone nuts and energised their people, who it seemed to me were relaxing and thinking the Pres can get this. Well not on his own he can’t.

Then I read this little diary on Daily Kos, it didn’t gain loads of traction, mainly I think because there were a couple of really big diaries going on and people were engrossed in them, so it slid off the page really quickly.

Looks to me like the Pres knows this will come out on the 8th Sept., he knows how the public will react and he is supposed to be making a big speech about healthcare next week.

Perfect storm if you ask me.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/9/1/16750/80590

Something, BIG, very big might happen next Tuesday, Sept. 8th. This thing, might tilt the health care debate towards the Public Option. This thing, might change the way people think about the Health Insurance industry. Here is the thing: