Many persons who are 'moderate' are not blind. The proof will be in the pudding (so to say) when we begin to see health reform in action. What the Budget Committee reported denies the claims of the Republicans that this bill will add to the deficit. What will add to the deficit is an escalation of war in the Middle East. Have we forgotten that we have been a war-based economy for years? I hope that there are very few 'blind' Americans today - and that everyone is paying attention to their local and statewide representatives. We'll see what happens to small business; the unemployed; those who in the past who had no health insurance. If improvement is not apparent - everyone is in trouble.

You wouldn't be IMPLYING that our republican senators are helping the real estate industry and the defense industry would you?
Thjey wouldn't do that.
I think the airplane they wanted and that the defense department doesn't is the F-22. An F-35, a much better craft is ready to build and is what they want.
We can give the extra F-22s to Saudi Arabia (the ones we can't man or maintain that our senators want built anyway--- for jobs. Might as well repave streets that don't need paving (oh, we do that too).
Ask any Marietta conservative voting worker if he wants more unwanted F-22 planes? Of course he does. Hypocrisy.

The Majority of Americans KNOW this is wastefull and WRONG..

2010 is going to bring about real HOPE and CHANGE.

"A little matter will move a party

~Thomas Paine"

they stir the drink. It's that simple.

Isakson asked for a $15,000 tax credit for anyone who bought a house. Anyone in the building or real estate business knows this one thing would have cut unemployment and shortened the recession by a year. Reason they know this is from past recessions - always ending with a housing resurgence - artificially stimulated or not.

A tax credit does not cost money. The $15,000 libs will say is lost is first of all not that much because most taxpayers can't take the full amount even over 2 years because they don't owe that much in taxes, but even setting that aside, one house sale (a resale) creates or keeps over 10 jobs and a newly constructed home sale definitely creates 100 jobs.

Any fool can understand the 100 jobs but the 10 jobs are harder to calculate. Here's how. A resale involves a real estate agent (or 2), a mortgage broker, an underwriter, a home inspector, a termite inspector, a closing attorney, a title company and all the support staff that many of these people have. Add in moving companies, painters, housecleaners, home improvement stores, furniture stores, etc. you can see how a portion of hundreds of jobs who have part-time involvement with one sale can add up to the equivalent of 10 jobs.

Doing OK as long as it is tax money supporting them! Hypocrisy.

mapleleaf, I have never read such idiotic, mindless diatribe in all of my life.

Your are actually saying that the Republicans are FORCING the libs to vote for this idiotic "legislation"?

Get a grip, dude (or dudette, whatever you are) 61% of Americans don't want the health care bill to pass. The Obama administration and the libs in congress don't care and are not listening.

LIBERALISM: The triumph of mindless, wishful thinking over logic, reason, and experience.

I think that is 61% of Fayette County that don't want any insurance. The airlines and government insurance will pay theirs.

I do think Fulton County wants it 85%! NYC, Phil., D. C., Birmingham, Montgomery, LA, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miss., but not Arizona or North Dakota.