An incensed White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel went up to GOP Reps. Roy Blunt (Mo.) and Paul Ryan (Wis.) to complain about the outburst. "No president has ever had that happen," Emanuel said. "My advice is he apologize immediately. You know my number." Wilson did as Emanuel advised. After all that shouting, it's a wonder he wasn't too hoarse to place the call.

All I can add is play the video and look at the expressions from Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi.  One hopes there is security in Congress as nobody knows what wingnuts are really capable of.  What is contained on the previous link is so sick that I don't want to look at the words it contains.

However if one had been following the events at so-called "town hall" meetings around the country during the month of August, this behavior was totally déjà vue.  My thoughts were that I've seen this act before.  Furthermore did someone say there are no problems with medical care in the United States?

The first lady's box at the speech (was) a virtual medical ward: a woman with sarcoidosis, a colon cancer patient, a recurrent cancer survivor, a double amputee, two women with breast tumors, a woman with eye problems, a man with high cholesterol, two brain tumor survivors, the son of a brain cancer victim and the fathers of children who have seizures and hemophilia.

These are tragic situations.  Men, women, children, it doesn't matter.  One does not experience tragedy frequently.  So I'm wondering, why is there no feeling expressed for these people.  Can those who are oppossed to doing something, can they offer...anything?  An acknowledgement of reality, a smile perhaps or a glance.  But there is nothing, it is as if these people didn't exist.   

Clearly recognition of such things never disturb the thoughts of those lucky enough to be on the fast track of multi-million USD bonuses received for such meritorious achievements as running American corporations into brick walls and bankruptcy.  Oh yes, there are a lot of them that are  really good at doing things like this.

To reiterate, I don't enjoy writing about subjects like this and I know it is equally disturbing to read as well.  All I can say is that I believe it is important to continue bringing reality to the attention of as many as possible, as it is frequently quite difficult to comprehend without specific examples.   And I have to keep reminding myself that there are many people out there who do understand and have even experienced what I describe.  It is a very sad situation indeed for those of us living in a country with the world's largest and most productive economy. 

One finds though that the bounty is not widely shared.  In fact:

Americans have the highest income inequality in the rich world and over the past 20–30 years Americans have also experienced the greatest increase in income inequality among rich nations. The more detailed the data we can use to observe this change, the more skewed the change appears to be. (T)he majority of large gains are indeed at the top of the distribution.  Economists Paul Krugman and Timothy Smeeding and political scientists Larry Bartels and Nathan Kelly, point to public policy and partisan politics as an important cause of inequality. They point out that education, labor force, and demographic changes cannot be the sole cause of the widening gap between the rich and the poor, and that the U.S. is unique in having experienced such a rise in inequality - a trend that, if caused by education, labor force, and demographic factors, would have manifested itself in other developed nations. In addition, there is strong evidence that the party of the president and the ideological content of public policy have powerfully shaped the path of income inequality over time. While expertise, productiveness and work experience, inheritance, gender, and race had a strong influence on personal income, household income was largely affected by the number of income earners, contributing to inequality between households based on the number of earners in them. Yet, other causes for income inequality, especially some of those behind its recent rise, likely remain unknown. 

I have discussed elsewhere how wealth is maintained.  The simply answer is class warfare that is essentially managed and coordinated by the three branches of the U.S. Government.  In the 20^th Century for example, virtually all of the great presidents were Democrats.  

 Theodore Roosevelt, who is ranked among the greatest, became so sick of it that he eventually departed the Republican party. 

If John McCain III wants to be remembered as something other than a spoiled military brat, he should start drawing analogies.  It should be quite clear by now that when someone runs for public office, whatever they did in the past, good or bad, is open to use ad hoc by one's adversaries. And that applies to heroes as well as villains. 

I'm very saddened about all the suffering that Senator McCain had to go through in that insane war.  I know that it isn't exactly something one ever recovers from.   Beyond saying that however there isn't anything I can do. 

Additionally for those who didn't know, this is an era where anything a political candidate or other notable person does or says in public is likely to be recorded, placed on the internet and seen all over the world.  FYI...

The concept that one becomes wealthy by their own efforts is largely a myth.  Wealth as well as poverty is essentially inherited, a process usually taking place over generations.  And according to U.S. Census data, the number of Americans with health insurance of any kind is going down.   Most of this is due to job loss, there is no safety net in the U.S. so don’t fall off the high wire because there is nothing between you and the pavement.

The only critique I would offer of the President is to question why he ever attempted to deal with Republicans.  As ThomasFriedman observed the United States is a One Party Democracy.  In such a system, one party attempts to enact legislation while there is another group which really isn't a party, in this case nothing more than a collection of old white southern men who have no potency for anything other than negation. 

Montana Senator Max Baucus announced his intention to formally introduce legislation that will largely fulfill the health care objectives Democrats campaigned on in 2008 regardless of Republican signoffs.  It will be good but not perfect.  That shouldn't be a problem though, time moves in only one direction.  That is part of the design.