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I have to lead with a soundbite from Bara Bama, who responded to John McCain's concern that health care reform treat all Americans equally by saying, "We're not campaigning anymore. The election's over." To which McCain replied, "I'm reminded of that every day." The obvious problem with this is that John McCain is running for re-election this year and Bama will never stop campaigning. We learned last week that Axelrod is already putting together the 2012 campaign team and deciding whether to base the campaign HQ in Chicago or D.C. If you ask me, they're both clowns.

Leading up to this event, New York Congressman Anthony Weiner claimed he'd, "Never met a Republican who wasn't a wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry." So, just so I get this straight, every Republican he's ever met is a wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry. Yeah, that's what he said, and he repeated it too, on the floor of the House chamber yesterday. There are 2 possibilities with this guy. Either he has never actually met a Republican, which may be possible in some districts of New York, or he's a worthless liar. Oh wait, he works in Washington - he's met all kinds of actual Republicans. Well, that's that then. This is the kind of useful dialog Democrats get a pass on but Republicans don't dare use because they get labeled as obstructionists. Riiiight.

What representative Weiner (pronounced whiner) was so upset about was the effort to tear down protections insurance companies get with regard to competition. The basic idea is that in order to sell insurance you have to be capable of paying out claims; you can't just start selling insurance out of the back of a truck. So why do Democrats think that's a problem? Because the only entity that Democrats want competing with the insurance companies is the Federal Government. If the public option gets passed before this exemption is removed the Supreme Court could throw it out. It's not that Republicans favor monopolies, its that they understand Democrats don't want competition, they want single-payer. Who are the hypocrites here? Isn't it obvious?

If Weiner and Democrats actually favored competition they would tear down all such regulations, allow companies and individuals to purchase insurance from an insurance company in the country. That's competition. That's free market capitalism. And that's what Democrats fear most.

Piling onto the hypocrisy, what do you think Democrats will do if they get government single payer and corporations no longer have to pay health insurance? Do you think they'll be satisfied knowing that expense is now profit? Hell no! They'll tax the shit out of every company in the world that employs even one U.S. worker. That's government money, dammit!

Ridiculous. If you want to kill America, this is the fastest way to do it.