Great video.

IMHO the reconciliation bill and the Senate-passed AHIP/PhRMA giveaway bill both stink. Why? Because this is right-wing corporatist legislation through and through. Republicans ought to be giddy with anticipation that the proposals they and the Washington corporate lobbyists have championed for years are about to become law. But nooo…

Some guy in a multicolored outfit wearing a conical wizard hat of some kind thinks Congress is “smokin’ the funny stuff.” Maybe he wandered over from the circus parade.

Then we have a cardboard pitchfork, symbolizing… whatever a cardboard pitchfork symbolizes.

Some lady is worried that the health care bill has a “death tax.” If she were in the movie “The Matrix,” she would definitely take the blue pill (which lets you live in a world of illusion).

Everybody seems to get all their information about the bill from Faux News and Glenn Beck, which probably explains why they don’t know anything about the bill.

An older guy gets the Constitution mixed up with the Declaration of Independence. Of course, House Minority Leader John Boehner made the same goof-up not long ago, and he was holding a copy of the Constitution in his hand at the time!

The Tea Party plan: People who can’t afford health care can pray to Jesus to be healed, and scour the woods for natural herbs instead of shopping at the pharmacy. Or go to free clinics.

One guy is a dead ringer for Walter White, the protagonist of AMC’s brilliant TV series “Breaking Bad.” [BTW the third season premiere is tonight at 8 pm]. If you saw the first episode, you know Walter White turned to cooking meth because he had cancer and no health insurance.

In case anyone thinks the on-camera ignorance of the Tea Partyers is a trick of clever editing, check out the informal survey by former Bush speechwriter David Frum.

Becky–

Corporations complain about so-called “health care reform” because they only got 95 percent of what they wanted, instead of 100 percent. Watch the stock market tomorrow if you don’t believe me.

Big Insurance has four more years to continue denying care for pre-existing conditions to any but “newly enrolled children,” (six months after the law is signed). They are still allowed to charge higher premiums based on pre-existing conditions.

Rescissions will continue because the bill does not empower a regulatory body to keep people from being dropped when they’re sick. State regulators have already demonstrated their inability to stop this practice.

Larry–

The Tea Party protesters last weekend got more media coverage than the significantly larger numbers of anti-war demonstrators and immigration reform marchers.

Doonesbury’s take on the Tea Party

We can laugh at the insanity but then again there is the fact that presumably responsible right-wing politicians and elected officials are saying the same things. Then there’s the eliminationist rhetoric that’s kinda scary.

Let’s beat that other side to a pulp! Let’s take them out. Let’s chase them down. There’s going to be a reckoning!

Larry–

I heard on TV that the Tea Party guy who spat on a congressman was actually apprehended, and he sat awhile in the Capitol Police office, but nobody wanted to press charges. He was let go without even a ticket.