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I'm a Dem who voted for Obama and believe that fixing healthcare is key to restoring the economy. But I'm concerned about the rush to pass this bill. As I understand it, the bill is loaded with money for things like parks, bike trails, and playground lights, which are supposed to be "preventive" measures. Please!!! Much as I personally think those things are important, they are not critical for a healthcare plan! Furthermore, they give critics plenty to lambaste. I want this done, but I want it done right.

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Well, if by liberal you mean supporting the kidnapping, torture, and indefinite imprisonment without trial kind of liberal. Or the increasing the faith based initiative (which gives our tax revenue to churches) kind of liberal. Or the spy on our own citizens via FISA kind of liberal. Or the creating a 25 member religious panel and placing one of them at the Health and Human Services department kind of liberal. Or the denial of equal rights for gays/lesbians kind of liberal. Then your right, Obama is one tough liberal.

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Re: cadbury Congress's chief budget analyst delivered a devastating assessment yesterday of the health-care proposals drafted by congressional Democrats, fueling an insurrection among fiscal conservatives in the House and pushing negotiators in the Senate to redouble efforts to draw up a new plan that more effectively restrains federal spending. Under questioning by members of the Senate Budget Committee, Douglas Elmendorf, director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, said bills crafted by House leaders and the Senate health committee do not propose "the sort of fundamental changes" necessary to rein in the skyrocketing cost of government health programs, particularly Medicare. On the contrary, Elmendorf said, the measures would pile on an expensive new program to cover the uninsured. Though President Obama and Democratic leaders have repeatedly pledged to alter the soaring trajectory -- or cost curve -- of federal health spending, the proposals so far would not meet that goal, Elmendorf said, noting, "The curve is being raised." His remarks suggested that rather than averting a looming fiscal crisis, the measures could make the nation's bleak budget outlook even worse. Elmendorf's blunt language startled lawmakers racing to meet Obama's deadline for approving a bill by the August break. The CBO is the official arbiter of the cost of legislation. Fiscal conservatives in the House said Elmendorf's testimony would galvanize the growing number of Democrats agitating for changes in the more than $1.2 trillion House bill, which aims to cover 97 percent of Americans by 2015. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/16/AR2009071602242.html?hpid=topnew

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Yup, time to get tough. Look what's happening in California, the state that is crumbing into anarchy because those fat, lazy democrats are so used to the soft, easy life of holding a standing majority in the state's legislature. They can't raise taxes and have continued to rack up a devastating deficit as a result. That's because they have completely forgotten how to play hard ball. They can't stand up to the one third plus percentage of Republicans in the legislature and get a two thirds vote as required by California to adopt a budget. The president should take a hard look at that. Those right wing maggots need to be targeted and choked off. You only need to pick off two or three. And in D.C., those who don't play ball need to be carefully selected for the same kind of treatment. Being nice only works up to a point. Then it starts to threaten the very fabric of our government.

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Re: Masako; ..Sir, the "Fabric of Our Government" is Cant...There is no fabric, and no government if government means the people's ability to deliver the goods we all deserve... We have anarchy, and where there is anarchy there is profit...And suffering...Try to spend any amount of time in an ER waiting room, even if you have insurance... Sure, if you were bleeding out on the floor, you might get attention, but there is no money in it, and no way to refuse doing it so hospitals manage their own bleeding by making the prrocess as slow and painful as it is... People are hurting...You need every cent because wages are driven down...As a consequence, medical coverage is seen as a luxury...Well if you are not sick at this moment, it is a luxury, and if you have nothing to lose but your life, and the state will try to save that, even when they will do nothing to help you maintain it, then you are covered...There is not one of us getting what we need from this society...Even the rich piling up billions by the indignities they force on the population are not getting what they need... The more they seek security by taking security from the nation the more insecurity they spread...Look at us...Look at those who profit by turning the government away from its purpose, and against the people...Look at how government succeeds, and how officials are elected -by turning the people against themselves... Public health is a public problem, and all the more so with pandemics threatening... But the current of frustration, bigotry, and hatred is strong, and the government can feed that pain to keep power...This is your fabric...This is your government, that it can do anything for itself, and do nothing for the people...It does not have to give us health care...It needs to give us justice, and with that we will all be better off...Thanks...Sweeney