GOP Objects To Putting Health Care Amendments Online

Won't happen because it would stand in the way of their "power" but I believe that with the internet is should be mandated that EVERY bill be posted and open for public comments before it can be voted on in Congress.



Each voter should be able to post a comment using their voter registration number so they get one comment only. Those comments would be sent to their representatives based on their voting districts so those reps know what their own constituents think. Those comments should also be available for other viewers to see minus personal identifying information.



After the comment period is over the individual reps should then be required to post their response to their own constituents with regards to their intended vote and why.



Let the world know what Congress is proposing and what the people really think about it.



I see a future where an elected representative becomes pointless and where, because of technology, "We the People" can actually propose and vote on the laws we must live under.



( We need to fix a sad education system first of course )
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Baucus Debacle Shows Why Democrats Have to Stop Trying to Woo Republican Lawmakers

I am a Democrat...and you are right. In America it is not about the party but who pays who to do their bidding.



Max Baucus is a prime example of a Democrat on big insurance payroll. Corruption is universal in Congress but the voters keep sending the same pirates back year after year.



I was a Republican at one time but got sick of their methods of lies and distortions and win at any cost mentality. They are too willing to throw morals, ethics and truth out the window to win. I also became angry at their use of Christians to do their dirty work, much of which was very much against anything approaching "christian values". They use the church and ignorance as a political tool.



We get what we deserve because of our own ignorance and laziness. "We have met the enemy and it is us" and we are doomed to repeat the cycle as long as we insist on sending the same garbage back to the dump on Capitol Hill.
About Max Baucus
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Top Five Reasons the Baucus Bill Is Really, Really Bad

Baucus is trying his best to sell us out and make insurance companies richer than before.



"required" to buy insurance? I can't afford it now. His plan says that "affordable" plans can cost me ( age 63 ) five times more than average just because I am older. I also have a pre-existing condition. By law they can not refuse my insurance.­..provided I can afford the premium. By making it so expensive I can't buy it at all puts me in the position of (a) doing without care as is the case now, and (b) paying a government fine because I don't have enough money.



If I qualify for a subsidy from the government to pay for a premium that is inflated 5 times, that means the insurance company is getting paid for by the taxpayers including the insurance company profit.



Talk about sweet deal for insurance companies. Government is made to guarantee them new customers and must pay for them if we cannot.



How very American of him to sell us all out for cash.



He makes me ashamed to be a Democrat...
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News Corp Should Fire Glenn Beck

One only has to view any number of the Fox talking heads to see a clear pattern of bias and distortion.



I filed a complaint with the FCC and asked the FBI to investigate Beck to see if his remarks could be considered an "incite" to violence which is a federal crime. No word on that yet.



Beck is an example of but not the entire problem with Fox. I could accept his stupid and racist remarks with a grain of salt if they would remove that ever-present "FOX NEWS" log and replaced it with something that made it clear to viewers that those are NOT news programs but personal opinion shows intended for entertainment and more specifically, a notation that the remarks are not endorsed by the Fox Network.



It precisely because the network claims to be "News" and has as a motton, "Fair and Balanced" that the words uttered by the likes of Beck, Hannity, O'Reilly et.al are unacceptable. They are not broadcasting "news" !



( I tried to post to Facebook but it is not working...keeps being delayed by Google -Analytics and times out. )
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Want to Work 112 Days a Year? Run For Congress

You know with certainty that these special interest get what they want from the members they "buy". If you spent millions and received nothing in return would you keep spending year after year? Of course not.



As citizens we don't get to vote for any lobbyist, we vote for a person we hope will posses the ethics and morals to represent our best interests...but that is not what we get. We are always out voted by whoever has the most cash and in relation to health care this results in 22,000 dead Americans a year on average. More deaths than 9/11, Iraq and Afghanistan and WWII ! Lives traded away by Congress in exchange for cash to run for office just so they can provide these favors to their friends.



We still control the vote if we pay attention...we can impose term limits by not reelecting the same greedy bozos over and over. If we continue to ignore the facts and keep the same people in DC then all I can say is that we have the government we deserve.
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Senate Finance Committee Dropping Dem Health Goals: AP

Sen. Max Baucus is well known to be a shill for the health care industry. Just check out his campaign donations from them. Perhaps he as decided that killing the public option ( and killing more Americans in the process ) is more than off-set by the huge donations he gets.



He set a price on our heads and the health lobby paid it.



Is his committee's real plan to completely kill reform by refusing to include the one prime goal of reform?



A public option is the prime measure by which reform will be judged. Anything less will be just another hand out to private insurance companies and more funerals for those who could not afford the price of admission to health care. But the likes of Sen. Baucus have only one goal...stay in office at all cost even if it means your sick child must die.



He collected over $11 million with much coming from the private insurance industry.



http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=2010&cid=N00004643&type=I
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The Media's Treatment of Palin's Outrageous "Death Panel" Claims

Where is the FCC in all of this when they ignore out right lies broadcast by so-called news media?



Is there no truth in news any more?



As to Palin...she is a two-faced you-know-what because just a while back on TV she said words to the effect, "...to honor our soldiers can't we all just agree to stop making things up."



How soon she forgot...then promptly started making things up.



The fact that the media did not call her on that outright lie says a lot about how far our journalism has fallen in recent years. Is there a station you can still trust? I have not found it.
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