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Do you know what the most successful Health care system is in this country? Its not Kaiser, Blue Cross, Health Partners or Well Point. It happens to be the VA, which happens to be government run. For us vets who are lucky enough to have the VA, we never have to worry about how we are going to pay for any illness that may come down the road. Don't have to worry about losing my house, life savings or passing debt onto my kids. Every American should be so lucky.

I love how you call another commenter dumb and yet you can't spell or form a proper sentence. Huzzah for hypocrisy!

Pay no mind to the semi-literate commenter.

You nailed it square...

Actually square, as an owner of two small businesses our companies did better under the Bush presidency than under Clinton.
But either party has to deal with the fact Government has gotten too big and out of control.
Neither wants to get the social programs under control, because they have no clue as to how to do it.
The small business community has a real solution to the uninsured people since the mid ninety's, but after it passed the congress seven years running, it was kept off the table in the Senate by the likes of Daschle, Kennedy and Clinton.
So as we close down one business and add to the rolls of the unemployed, trim down our other business to survive, we feel the angst of so many Americans, vets or not(myself a Vet) we don't blame anyone in particular, the unions made their own bed, financia institutions l made theirs because of lack of oversight,you could expound on the root causes all day and when it boils down, we will find the biggest problem is ourselves.
We have evolved into a me or I society, instead of a we and us.
At anyrate the unfolding of this congress will make the days of Danrostinkowski look like a cake walk, carbon tax, healthcare takeover not much reform there,energy policies by dumbing down, the list is endless and enough blame to share.
So leave the republicans to their demise of being arrogant and telling what members they have left who to vote for, and leave the democrats to wanting to get something for nothing, and in the end we shall see who the real losers are, and don't be surprised when you realize it is us the taxpayers, who don't have the resource to keep paying.

Unfortunately, the Southern Conservatives that you refer to who most vociferously support Palin are the Republican's that actually have a message. It's a bit of an odd, somewhat-dysfunctional, and for the purposes of actually effectively running a nation's government is just simply wrong, message ... but it's a message, nonetheless. The remaining Republicans, those that may very well have some realistic and genuinely effective policy and program suggestions for the future are too busy trying to carry-on Bush's 'bumper sticker' politics-as-usual ... feeling it is real governance if you simply point fingers at the other side and say 'They're bad ... send them home.' Those Republicans should have learned from the '06 and '08 elections that that kind of philosophy and policy only works when the circumstances the country finds itself in happen to somewhat coincide with blaming the other side for producing those circumstances. What the Republicans also continue to fail to understand is that, assuming jobs will be one of if not the major driving issue in '10 and possibly the '12 elections, they have been unwilling to sit-down with Democrats and work in a true bipartisan manner to have any jobs-creating legislation passed besides the initial stimulus bill. The Republicans are in the minority. They will not be able to dictate government policy. But they can have an influence provided they do not continue to hang-on to the most rigid, far-right conservative principles and defy, deny and denounce anything more moderate, and instead agree to doing something, anything seen as proactive in the eyes of the American people and voter. Failure to do that will spell their continued failure, isolation and minimalization in the future.

Well lets see how Dems did. We lost two Governorships, but gained two more seats in the house. I think I'll take two more house seats over two Governorships.

I just don't get why they aren't going in that direction. i would have no problem paying for a comprehensive system that guaranteed 100% coverage for Americans. but this junk they are working on will still leave people uninsured and that would be tragic.

this is the same argument Hitler used.

Doesn't sound like you have much of a grip on it either hivanh

hivanh: I don't think its that the GOP doesn't understand new thinking, etc. I think its that they are so consumed with keeping every last red cent (there's a revealing red) they have to themselves. They live in fear that some poor child might actually benefit thru a social program that their money may have been forced to support. It's the same old "I've got mine, who cares about you" mentality that stops them from new thinking. New thinking to a repub is how can I keep more of my money and not have to contribute anything to government. Or, abortion is against their god's will but after the birth, there is no money for a social program (the dreaded social word) to help support that crack baby that the mother wanted to abort. Or, no money for public education because the repubs can afford private school.

I'm with you. If we could just wake up from the nightmare of two party politics.

no doubt mistakes were made but we will be back very soon