is defined as "BD."

of everything it wants to control. When it takes over, it gets rid of the regulators. These they call Damnable Bureaucrats. In this way, they concentrate power in themselves by empowering their corporate constituencies, who then close and power the circuit with campaign contributions.

Government thus sells itself off to the highest bidder.

You may think this is a good thing, that government gets out of the way, that by putting designer bandages over treatable cancers they have cured the patient. All this nonsense about the Bill, the GOP played the FUD game, and that's all it is, you said so yourself: "that rewrites every aspect of the system from Washington with no possible way to anticipate how all those changes will play out."

That's FUD. It's perfectly obvious something must be done about our appalling health statistics. It's a measure of our culture, of our nation. We're right down there with some of the more-odious dictatorships on our live birth statistics. The government does have a role to play, of regulation and disbursement, and all the GOP can say is what they've always said: Death to the Bureaucrats. It's the stupidest thing in the world.

Laws without regulators are no laws at all. The absence of regulators does not make a market free. Haven't the GOP screwed up the world enough with their deregulation? When will you guys get the point here: the GOP is interested only in enriching their cronies. Every policy move they make only damages the economy. Demanding more tax cuts, what a bunch of innumerate idiots. Everyone who votes GOP is voting against his own economic interests.

the GOP did nothing about this when they were in the majority - nothing. The idea that the bill as it's presently constituted is a government takeover of everything is also BS. The bill does more to preserve the current system than anything else.

Just stick with the Republican line that the American system is the best in the world. When you get away from the propaganda it just doesn't ring true.

Yes, you are totally going to be persuasive to sane people by linking to RedState.

they did nothing when they had the majority for 6 years, and since Obama was sworn in they haven't supported any major initiative that he proposed. They negotiated and got changes they wanted inserted in the bill, and even then not a single Republican voted for it.

There's no factual support whatsoever for that statement.

Look, I've supported my statement with quotations and other events which were similar. I don't believe that the GOP wanted a bill. I don't find it a credible statement. I don't really understand why you do.

News to me. Where was this vaunted GOP bill? Where were the serious Republican proposals? I remember people chortling about Obama's Waterloo. I do not remember any serious policy proposals.