The smoking gun is here:

Finally we see how Senator Grassley intended all along to stall and delay the whole thing and maybe sabotage the whole thing.

Ezra Klein and Wonkette have some fascinating things to say about it!

But I still have a few things to say. Grassley could have come out early and said that he was opposed to health care reform, if his constituents opposed it he should have been more honest. Instead he chose treachery.

Well now we know where it stands. In the words of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young:

Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming
We're finally on our own

Chuck Grassley sez:

I said to the president that I thought in order to get a bipartisan bill, it was absolutely necessary for him to say that he would sign a bill without a public option in it'

He also sez:

It isn't a good deal if I can't sell my product to more Republicans.

Chuck Grassley is also afraid of some very wild things like "death panels:"

Chuck sez:

You couple this with all the other fears people have and what they do in England, and then you get the idea that somebody's going to decide gram's lived too long,

And he says these things long after he began "negotiating" health care reform as a member of the "Gang of Six!"

Originally posted on Daily Kos

I have found the Right Principles instruction booklet from ThinkProgress and posted the text here, and highlighted certain portions that I feel need to be addressed, in order to come up with countermeasures to expose the tactics the Right uses to disrupt constituent's meetings with their Representatives.

1.  Digitally record everything. I mean everyone brings a DV camera! And take photos!

2. If they want to "pack the hall," then the local chapters of every organization must pack it first. Better yet, host the meeting. The turfers will have to be on their guard inside a union hall. Spread out everywhere. Occupy the front row seats!

The Right Wing idiocracy has gotten the Left wrong concerning Sarah Palin.

We are not afraid of Sarah Palin. Far from it. Sarah   Palin is the butt of a joke. We wish to continue laughing.

It is she who takes herself too seriously. As if she was some prodigious intellect and moral paragon. She assumes that she is the one who has all the answers, and that the whole world, jealous and insecure - is out to get her. Martyr complex anyone?

She has her defenders, like Michelle Malkin and Anne Coulter, who are as delusional as she is in that they manifest denial fantasies identical to those of Germans after both World Wars:

Malkin's is the one about a valiant warrior being "stabbed in the back," while Coulter's is the one where Germany has some secret plan to confound the enemy and save itself.

Only it's all about their fallen savior Sarah.

But all of them, including Diva Sarah, are reality challenged.

Can't you surmise that your President is human? Well, in the immortal words of Steve Martin: "Well excuuuuuuuuse Meeee!!!" What do you want from the guy? I know people expect him to have a halo and shoot thunderbolts from his butt; however, walking on water must be reserved for saving the economy, and not for role modelism.

It seems that the Republicans are suffering from a nervous breakdown.

It's cause is deep insecurity, which manifests itself in denial, as exhibited for example, by the attempt to obstruct the American Rescue and Recovery Act, and congratulating themselves for being irrelevant regarding it's passage.

A symptom is confusion, loss of self identity. What direction do they go in? Who is the leader? Do they go in a direction that puts them more in touch with the majority of people? Or do they retreat inward and hold on for dear life to the one core constituency they have left, and risk consigning themselves to a doctrinaire niche? Do they follow the lead of a chairman who wants to reorganize the party, and show some backbone, or do they turn into little lemmings and follow a pompous overinflated blowhard "with talent on loan from God," over the narrow cliff of their doctrines?

Well, the Republicans chose the  latter of each set of choices.

I don't want to scare anyone, but I am concerned. Think that Progressives and Center Lefties are the only ones celebrating the election of Barack Obama? Think again. The Lunatic Right is overjoyed! And that makes me nervous! I'm not talking about loudmouths like Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, or Limbaugh. They are crying in their beer. I'm talking about the true nut cases who espouse violence in the name of "racial purity."

So now nothing is sacred. Not even something as laudable as the bipartisan coming together on the Children's Health Insurance Program! The very people who credited Hillary for her role in it's passage, are now so mercenary as to deny her any credit for CHIP at all! Well, in order to do this they'll have to talk out of the other sides of their mouths. Back then, when it was passed, they were more than happy to heap praise on Hillary for persuading Bill to come around on the deal, so they could pressure Trent Lott to roll over. Kennedy had then acknowledged that the First Lady had a very important role in getting the White House on board.