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Sounds as though someone misled her, or she misled herself, about the nature of the Tuesday morning all-comers gathering that Tennessee's two senators have held regularly in DC for many years. Her post does not make clear how she got the idea it was to be a private breakfast meeting.

Hey Tom, You are right. From what I understand this is a long standing tradition. Had I known it wasn't a breakfast meeting and just a 'howdy do', I wouldn't have attended. Given that the other meetings that were booked (including Rep. Jim Cooper) were all very serious and purposeful I expected the same... My bad. Now I know.

"There are a whole lot of people who headed to the nation's capitol today to oppose the democrat's socialized medicine scheme. Guess how many Democratic legislators will listen to THEM thoughtfully and respectfully."

No idea, Gilbert. Maybe those Democrats are deaf from getting "thoughfully and respectfully" screamed at during the town hall meetings on the very subject:

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/aug/08/hundreds-pack-boisterous-town-hall-meeting/

Wow; the sheer _hubris_ you've got.

I thought she was going to lose her house?

How she tooting around Washington possibly on the taxpayers dime. I would like to know.

"Wow; the sheer _hubris_ you've got."

Nope - the sheer hubris award goes to the liberal democrats who cooked up that massive and unconstitutional power grab in the first place.

They are the one's trying to steal my money. They are the one's trying to micromanage my life, dictate that I must buy insurance, dictage what that insurance must cover and initiate all sorts of tax increases that will both directly and indirectly increase my expenses.

And they dare to call this massive power grab and deliberate redistribution of wealth "reform".

Hubris indeed.

Hm. Would that be similar to the massive and unconstitutional power grab that allowed the government to spy on its own citizens through domestic wiretaps, violate international law and treaties through extra-legal renditions, and violate due process for accused parties through tribunals and secret prisons?

Or steal my money by allowing corporations to flout established accounting practices by turning a blind eye to existing, on-the-books regulations regarding financial independence? By encouraging the establishment of business practices that allowed untaxed entities to bundle high-risk investments with low-risk ones without requiring them to inform potential consumers in violation of longstanding GAAP standards through rescinding laws that had been on the books for over 150 years? By increasing the budget deficit to absurd proportions while simultaneously paying out tax rebates that, in hindsight, had almost no effect on the national economy and may have increased the "irrational exhuberance" of American consumers to the point where it may have indeed contributed to the rupture of the credit market?

Like I said, hubris. As if you have no ability to see things from the other side -- at all.

There's plenty I'm not happy about in any given piece of legislation launched on _either_ side of the aisle -- especially this one. But I find it noble that someone's at least willing to tackle the issue of the poor and uninsured, something that costs our medical system boatloads of money every year. And I'm glad that steps are being taken to help rein in the cost of health insurance in some way, because in the 25 years I've been in the workforce, they've gone up _every_ year for me, and that's just not sustainable in a modern economy.

It's easy to throw stones, Gilbert. Now it's time to grow stones.

douche bag is two words. just saying.

"You do not know what's in those bills and Congress does not know what's in those bills."

Oh the Dems know all the various versions of their plans are stinkers all right.

That is why they are hell bent on jamming something through as fast as possible - it is all such a "crisis" you see that we just can't wait. But of course the effective date of the plan's implementation can wait of course - until 2013 - convienently after the next presidential election cycle. The taxation part has to begin immediately though, one of the accounting tricks used to try and make the 10 year cost proections look smaller (the direct government costs to the U.S. Treasury that is - not the actual costs imposed on citizens via all the mandates, etc.)

Pelosi is forcing a vote on Saturday precisly because she is attempting to keep the Blue Dog dems from digesting, analyzing and reflecting on the results of the Augst elections. She is deathly afraid that if they do she won't be able to browbeat them into walking the plank for the liberal wing of the party.

Why no, Marv.

I'm not a liberal, so every word I say is an absolute fact.

And finally we get to the truth of what you actually believe.