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The Republicans should have seen it coming. He only talked about it his ENTIRE campaign. He said that he would be a priority in his Administration. He told the Congress to start working on it. The Health Care Bill was posted online for … months. It was discussed in committee. Over 200 Republican amendments were added to the Bill and, according to John Boehner (R-OH), they still hadn’t read it. AHHH! I get why they are the minority … they don’t read. And they keep their eyes closed so they can see they are about to be knocked out. WHAM!!!

It would be funny if they weren’t serious. I can’t tell you how many Republicans and Democrats who couldn’t bring themselves to vote for a black man, are still against this Health Care Law. It would be funny if they didn’t have children that would be without health care on their own and could really benefit being on their parents insurance until they are 26. It would be funny if we weren’t talking about families that only insure their children because they as working parents couldn’t afford to insure themselves too. It would be funny if they knew that this bill didn’t lower the costs of prescription drugs.

May be they do know and they just don’t care. Maybe it’s not what’s IN the bill, but WHO signs it that causes people to bite the hand that feeds them. I’d be surprised to learn that anyone who voted for Barack Obama is part of the Tea Party non-sense. Congressional Republicans waved flags from our nation’s capital stating: Don’t Tread on Me. This is the flag we used to form our own government and fight the British. We were fighting then for freedom to govern with real representation. We got that. It’s called CONGRESS. The President didn’t arbitrarily decided to impose Health Care on the people. We the People demanded it! We VOTED for people for people who would support our mandate for Health Care Reform.

Ready to Fight! States can opt out of the Health Care Reform provisions. This makes me double dog dare a Republican to run for governor in a state such as Michigan where 500,000 people are uninsured, not. This number doesn’t reflect those who can barely afford the health care they pay for. I wasn’t all that excited out my Democratic candidate for governor, Andy Dillon, but when my Republican Attorney General, Mike Cox, joined the other Republicans in filing a frivolous lawsuit about the constitutionality of the Health Care Bill, I am fired up! I am ready to lobby my neighbors to donate money for Dillon’s campaign. I am thankful for the down payment we all made in the ’08 election finally paying off. So Republicans can waive signs with the “N” word or flags of succession, but we progressives can fight hard too, but we just don’t need ethnic slurs and intimidation to do so. I’ll grab my checkbook, tie up my grassroots supporting shoes and get out as many as I can to vote Democrat this fall. You wanted a fight and here it is!

It’s really a cry for help.

Rabid screams from Tea baggers. Glen Beck’s crazed temper tantrums alternated by pleas to stop hating America and just hate Obama. Baseless and fear mongering tactics used by Representatives John Boehner (R-Oh) and Michele Bachmann (R-Minn).

I chalked it up to those crazy Republicans being … well…..crazy Republicans.

Usually the crazies are harmless if annoying, but you don’t let them play with sharp objects, heavy equipment, or make major decisions.

In 2008, America told the Republicans they were out of touch with the new America. Hurt and despondent, they locked themselves away in the GOP bunker only to emerge more deluded than before, but still without ideas. When it came time at the televised Health Care Summit to put their cards on the table, they had none. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Ziltch.

Only the tea baggers were left at the party that was fast becoming lame. What they lacked in numbers they made up in volume and craziness. The Republican leadership incited an already angry mob to even more frenzy, which in turn did shameful and un-American acts.

At the Health Care Reform rally in Washington D.C. they taunted a man with Parkinson’s because he supported health care reform.

They called Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga) the “N” word and spat on Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), both African American. Bricks were tossed through windows. They made death threats to those who voted for the bill and their families. We are only missing crosses burning on the lawn of the White House.

If the Tea baggers are now prescribing to the methods of terrorism and intimidation used by the KKK then so are Republicans. The party isn’t Grand, it’s just old. The party of Lincoln should not be the party of extremists who terrorize their own lawmakers.

Al Qaida didn’t cut the gas lines of the home of the brother of Rep. Tom Perriello (D-Va) with his wife and four children inside. Domestic terrorist who are GOP supporters did.

I haven’t heard Republicans firmly denounce these horrifying acts and demand that they be prosecuted like the criminals they are. If you are not against it then you are for it. If Republicans now advocate for domestic terrorism because of Health Care then we all know that it is past time to get them committed before someone really gets hurt.

Does the new Health Care Law cover straight jackets for the politically and mentally insane?

By: Michelle Loggins