GOP Leaders: ‘Political Rebellion Going on in America’

I'm an old fashioned but young republican and these people who call themselves our newest republicans better start acting the part or they can be replaced as well. I don't care what you call yourself as long as you follow the Constitution and keep your hands out of my pockets.

Soooooo, House republicans are claiming a victory after LOSING two seats to democrats, maybe with a few moire "victories" like these, the entire House will be democrat.

What about the only election with federal implications, the house seat in New York? Hoffman, the national GOP's glory boy was whipped good in a conservative district. I think the governors races were a reflection of local issues, particularly the corruption in Jersey. People have not forgotton the damage done by the GOP on the national level.

I think the right wing of the Republican party and the left wing of the Democratic Party are all nuts. I think they are both going to self destruct. We need to get the crazies out of Washington and get someone in there that will put our nation first and not their stupid party politics.

Of course, Republicans are capable of believing anything they want. They believe we aren't losing the two wars they started. Of course, the families of our dead soldiers are aware of the painful truth.

These two fellows are reeling on a false sense of hope to think that America will put another loony GOP in the white white

A woman is brutally gang raped and beaten. She is imprisoned in a cargo container, denied food and water until she agrees not to press charges against her assailants.

No.

This was not an atrocity committed by the Taliban. It was committed in Iraq by the employees of Kellogg, Root, and Brown, a subsidiary of Halliburton/

Senator elect, Al Franken introduced an amendment protect female employees of defense contractors from this sort of brutal gang-rape . The US Chamber of Commerce opposed the Franken Amendment, and every male Republican Senator voted against it.

Although the victim of this savage attack will finally get her day in court. She will never be able to obtain health insurance because almost all health insurance companies would consider rape and the trauma that occurred a "pre-existing" condition.

This is only one example of the discrimination that women endure from the current health care system. pay as much as 48% more in health insurance costs than men, if they can get it If women were subjected to domestic violence. If they have had a C-section, they may be pressured by their insurance carriers to sterilize themselves to avoid further health care costs.

And these are abuses the GOP wants to perpetuate. According to the latest report published by the Harvard University Medical School, our dysfunctional health care system kills more Americans than we lost on 9/11. In terms of killing American and abusing women, the GOP is a on the same page as the Taliban.

The GOP can crow about their victory all they want, but the real losers are the American people.

Anyone can call the results of these elections whatever they want. What your opinion is depends on what side of the isle you're on so I don't care what you say anymore than you care what I say. What can't be argued is BO and Biden spent a lot of time and money in NJ and Virginia. Corzine(sp?) had 10M to spend. They lost! People don't want to listen to garbage and right now the Demorcrats are driving the proverbial garbage truck. Yes, keep your hands out of my wallet and keep the government out of health care.

"All life is interrelated. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality: tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars. As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people cannot expect to live more than twenty or thirty years, no many can be totally healthy, even if he just got a clean bill of health from the finest clinic in America. Strangely enough, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. You can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the way the world is made.."

These are the words of Martin Luther King over 40 years ago. Notice that Martin Luther King emphasized the need for universal health care. I might point out that Strom Thurmond, the de-facto founder of the modern Republican party, hated Martin Luther King and labeled him a Communist. The same sort of rhetoric resounds in the Republican party and is the stuff of the "revolution" the Republicans are touting

I can't help wondering where Mitch McConnell and John Boehner would be if they lived 40 years ago. Would they be the same hateful mobs that King constantly confronted? You can change the era, but the same old hatred remains the same. Somehow a large section of our populace cannot survive unless they have some one or something to hate.

To respond to this observation, I will quote from Dr. Martin Luther King,
"A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look at thousands of working people displaced from their jobs with reduced incomes as a result of automation while the profits of employers remain intact, and say “This is not just.” It will look across the oceans and see individual capitalist of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of these countries and say,”This is not just.”

... A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war,”This way of settling differences is not just.” America, the richest and most powerful nation in the word, can well lead the way in this revolution of values. .. There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a hospital worker. laundry worker, maid, or day laborer. There is nothing except short- sightedness to prevent us from guaranteeing an annual minimum - and liveable - income to every American family. There is nothing, except a tragic death wish, to prevent us from reordering our priorities, so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war. There is nothing to keep us from remodeling a recalcitrant status quo with bruised hands until we have fashioned it into brotherhood."

The current GOP bragging is a world away from the words of Martin Luther King. In spite of their rhetoric they remain a bunch of Greedy Old Prostitutes

The margins of victory are not big enough to call it a referendum on anything. Basically the complacent Obama voters didn't show up at the polls. Strutting this as a big victory can backfire on them since not too many people care for grandstanding. They really need to treat this as an indication that the party has not suffered a knockout in 2008.

I love the denial. The exit polls? We hate the Economy. Who wears that? Democrats... and since we are just mad in general there will be a flip.
With over 10% unemployment and Democrats being the majority you can say BYE BYE majority Democrats.

The only grandstanding is the moonbat lefties whose party won the election and think they have(had) a mandate to push their crackpot schemes on the rest of amaerica.

Let's examine the record of GOP minority leader Senator Mitch McConnell who hates Obama with a purple passion.
When I logged onto Center for Responsive Politics, I discovered that Senator Mitch McConnell gets $ 2 million in political campaign contributions from the health sector. He gets $ 1 million from lobbyists. His top political donor is Kindred Health Care. Among the other top 20 campaign donors are Humana Inc, Blue Cross, and GalaxoSmithKline. I might add that Humana practices something that Cheryl Tidwell, a Humana executive calls "controlling utilization." (Source David Sirota, from an article on the Huffington Post, August 28.)

Does any one in Kentucky know that when they buy Blue Cross, they are giving Mitch McConnell a campaign contribution? Do they know that Mitch McConnel gets money from a company that uses a dreaded death panel to determine which policy holder lives and dies?

John Boehner gets generous campaign contributions from the insurance industry, which occupies 2nd place among Boehner's top 5 campaign contributors. He gets additional contributions from pharmaceuticals, health professionals, and lobbyists. His top individual campaign contributors include Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Abbot Laboratories, Merck & Company, and, like Pense, Reynolds American, whose tobacco products are one of the reasons our health care is so high.

Of course Mitch McConnell and John Boehner are making all sorts of pompous statements celebrating their victory. But as they are bragging, Americans are dying because of inadequate Medical care. In fact according to a report published by the Harvard University Medical School, 44,000 Americans each year die because of inadequate medical care. And the House Republican idea of medical reform which permits health insurance companies to reject anyone with pre-existing conditions or any one who does not meet a "health standard" is just a fancy name for a death squad.
Yes, the GOP won two states -- which they will tout as a victory. But the real losers are the American people.

The election did not look good for Democrats, but nothing terrible either. Certainly not a Republican revolution, although clearly Obama has lost some of his political pull. 2010 is the big decision year, and if nothing gets done on health care the Democrats will likely get punished for it via poor turnout (see 1994).

There is political rebellion against the republicans as well. They shouldn't get too excited.

Wow, with all of these liberals posting how this means nothing it must have them really scared.

According to a report by Save the Children, published in the Telegraph.co.uk, 250,000 children will die this year because of the effects of global warming. The GOP does not give a rat about these children. In fact, they don't even know that global warming exists.

Yes, the Republicans won a great victory. But thousands of children will lose their lives because of this victory.

I remember the Republican convention of 2004. The Republicans affixed a cross of Jesus on to the speakers' platform. They believe we are a Christian country.
According to the Gospel, Jesus healed the sick. He never asked about pre-existing conditions. Wall Street, which funds the GOP, steals from the sick. Jesus told the rich man to sell all he had and give to the poor. The GOP believes in stealing from the poor, the sick, and the old and giving to the rich.

Yes, the GOP can brag about their victory, but for real they are the party of greed - NOT the party of Christ.

Yes, We the People are rebelling against The Messiah, his Czars and the rest of his Marxist administration. We've had it and aren't going to take it any longer. Barry has grown the government and its programs to an unbelievable level and has plans to grow it even more and bankrupt us in the process. He's living the life of a rock star, on the backs of the taxpayers, taking our money and giving it away while we lose jobs and our homes. This needs to stop NOW! Queen Pelosi needs to go along with King Harry and Barry and all the other bottom feeders that are bankrupting us for generations to come. They should be afraid because their time is about up. I hope we can hold on that long and still have a country left.

Yes, the GOP can brag about their victory, but for real they are the party of greed - NOT the party of Christ.William Joseph Miller>>>> And democrats are the party of ??? Oh yeah theives. I take from you and give to them and KEEP a LOT for myself. Like Capone. You remember him. Nice guy but when you got him made he shot you. Reminds me of the Russians.