Since I had my cable turned off a couple of months ago for crappy service I havent been keeping up with the news at all

no politics whatsoever. Its been quite the relief

and now I'm looking around at all the hubbub and the hyperventilating and I realize that these people are all freaking left wing right wing extremist nuts!

seems to be all McCarthyites or Maoists and nothing in between. No wonder nothing ever gets done

The majority in the center doesn't yell and scream.

I guess so

thats why this thread will die a quick death

I agree. Though I do think it's left and right wing nuts I have seen more right wing nuts than left but to be fair I turned off the news the last couple of days.

When I did have the news off for 5 months I notice how much better I felt, I think it's getting time to do the same again, and maybe even get out of here.

spiro agnew first identified the "silent majority" back in 1971.


think they still exist?

if so, do they really have any power?

I don't watch, listen to much news... I seem to get filled in on the latest by the threads... mingle is my news, and that is enough for me.

you have it wrong. it's the *formerly* silent majority that has started the new tea party movement, the ones who started standing up at the townhall meetings and telling the "representatives" to represent them, the ones who sat out of the last election and stayed home rather than vote the RINO McCain into office (remember it was just last week that McCain made the news by siding with his own party )

The (formerly) silent majority has been awakened and has the Democrats scared to death. That's why Obama has been sending his Union cronies to the townhall meetings, has his campaign apparatus (OFA/ACORN) astroturfing the townhalls and holding his own "townhall meetings" that look more like 'Yes We Can' campaign rallies..

In that case you must be severely messed up... Just kidding.. hmmm or am I.

My first good laugh of the day.. Thanks

Yea go back to Russia!

Sorry born and raised in the USA.

wanna come debate with me in person

hehehehe

I don't know, is it me or the mingle news presenters???

Well your cool with me, so who cares.. LOL

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I think that Obama and the democrats should shove health care down the repblicans throats we have the power now. The so called blue dogs if they do not vote for this they are yellow dogs and should join the republicans.

I agree, we may never have all the stars aligned again, so I say go for it and stop sucking up to republicans who pretend to care then stab you in the back and have absolutely not intention of helping. The blue dogs might as well be republicans right now.

Look up the 'United Health Group' and prominent republicans. You'll see who's really running the show to stop the public option, while we the people squabble over the actions of crazies at town hall.

I was wondering why the unions were so into getting this passed because they are exempt from it just like our elected officials and I came across this. What else is tucked away in the bill that hasn't come out yet?

$10B aimed at union retirees
Provision called welfare by some, not enough by others
BY JUSTIN HYDE and TODD SPANGLER
FREE PRESS WASHINGTON STAFF

WASHINGTON -- Antilabor forces say it's welfare for the UAW and Democrats' union allies. Labor supporters say it falls short of what's needed as tens of thousands of union members are pushed into early retirement as employers cut back health care coverage.





They're both talking about a $10-billion provision tucked deep inside thousands of pages of health care overhaul bills that could help the UAW's retiree health-care plan and other union-backed plans.



It would see the government -- at least temporarily -- pay 80 cents on the dollar to corporate and union insurance plans for claims between $15,000 and $90,000 for retirees age 55 to 64.



Big businesses with union workers are twice as likely to offer retiree benefits as nonunion ones.



Greg Mourad of the National Right to Work Committee called it "a shameless case of political payback," saying Democrats and President Barack Obama are trying "to force the rest of us to pay billions to cover those unions' health care."



Labor advocates say even more funding may be needed.



"It is not enough money," said former U.S. Rep. David Bonior, a Mt. Clemens Democrat who chairs the board at Washington, D.C.-based American Rights at Work, a labor advocacy group. "That will have to be supplemented to fill the gap."


Without U.S. aid, union health plans could fail

The health care debate roiling the nation promises an even greater impact in Michigan: It could determine whether the UAW's gamble that it can insure 850,000 retirees from Detroit's automakers pays off or goes bust.


Thanks to Detroit's twin auto bankruptcies and other concessions, the UAW's voluntary employee benefit association, or VEBA, had to take stock of unknown value for $24 billion in claims, while adding thousands of early retirees to its rolls.


Outside experts estimate the funds have about 30 cents in cash for every dollar of future claims, with no guarantee of what its stock assets will be worth. Lance Wallach, a New York-based VEBA expert, says if the funds "don't get something, they're out of business in 12 years."


http://www.freep.com/article/20090824/BUSINESS01/908240321/1318/-10B-aimed-at-union-retirees

I'd like to put Maddow and Olbermann....in a room with Rush and Bill O. that would be worth the pay per view.

I would too, just to watch Rush and Bill O, loose it.