Some tongue-in-cheekiness from Michael Moore on the passage of the Health Reform Bill.

Which brings me back to what I fervently believe. At least half of the folks that are gonna benefit from this are the tea bagging racists who have been screaming racial epithets and secession the whole time. I hope they can get their meds past the big ol’ honking hypocrisy pill they’ll have to swallow.

This is not a spontaneous uprising of disaffected citizens who are angry about bailouts. This is the base of the modern Republican party, same as it ever was.

– Digby on the Tea Party Racist Traitors

I’d love to say I’m surprised but I’ve lived in the South and in the rural Midwest. Racist Republicans are nothing new to me.

However, you used to find that the most vile woman-hating, minority-loathing, gay-bashing language was kept at home. Now it is out in the open. The secessionist bullshit is in the open. The violent revolution is on the table.

Why? Because they lost a couple elections. That’s it. People, in the main, got tired of their lies and bullshit and voted a lot of Republicans out of office. Then, we the people, elected a black man president. And these cretins went insane.

You have a better explanation? Pop me an email, because nothing else looks plausible.

Our nation is progressing. Moving forward. We just now got a health insurance system that is on par with other free nations of the world. They got their’s in the middle of the last century. We’ll get a portion of our’s in four years time. Progress. Kind of.

But this is horrible for the conservatives. Let’s see what passes for compassion with them.

Reverting to time honored racism, calling black Congressmen “nigger“. Spitting on Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver.

Talking Points Memo has a nice roundup on both the racial element, plus the blatant homophobia by calls of “faggot” directed at Rep. Barney Frank.

Once again, so “compassionate” these conservatives.

Here are Reps James Clyburn and Elijah condemning the Rethugs:

“The only part of health care in which there isn’t already a lot of federal intervention is the market in which individuals who can’t get employment-based coverage buy their own insurance. And that market, in case you hadn’t noticed, is a disaster — no coverage for people with pre-existing medical conditions, coverage dropped when you get sick, and huge premium increases in the middle of an economic crisis. It’s this sector, plus the plight of Americans with no insurance at all, that reform aims to fix. What’s wrong with that?”

Krugman keeps talking sense about health care reform. None of this helps when Republicans keep making shit up and believing outright lies, but oh well.

Ever so closer to a health care reform bill. Keep your fingers crosses folks.

Man, I sincerely hope Lush Rimjob is being serious about this. He says he’ll move to Costa Rica if heath care reform passes in the US.

Now, I really wouldn’t wish this on Costa Rica, but please pass the bill and get that fat, drug-addicted, boy fracking bastard off our airwaves and out of our country.

Yet another pointless attempt to reaching out and trying to find at least one rational Republican leader.

Comedy Central video link

A bit crass of a title but basically the story highlights how the Rethugs were against bipartisan solutions to health care before they were against it after discussing it.

In short, these guys have no desire to help Americans – even when their ideas are included in the bill.

And yes, anyone who supports this asinine behavior IS a moron.

NPR stops kissing conservative ass just long enough to realize that budget reconciliation has been used before to get around Republican objectives to caring for Americans.

Turns out you wouldn’t have COBRA plans or poor children’s health coverage without it.

So…there’s a precedent. Use it.