Locks/lock out.....and what precipitated such a move? The repubs stall/obstruction tatics. Attempt to run the clock out?

Your own link.....Even before Thomas gaveled the reading to an end, he had directed staff to call the Capitol Police to remove the Democrats form the library.

or the manner in which repubs stacked or tacked on amendments which they clearly had no intention of being heard, voted on etc. but rather drag out the legislative process as long as possible?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz5AmhI9g7o

As for the rest of your litany... George Bush was ahead in every single vote count in Florida in 2000. At no point in that whole sorry exercise, initiated by sore loser Al Gore, was Bush ever behind. Bush did not steal the election, as every count had him winning.

I would beg to differ as would quite few.....

"Under any standard that tabulated all disputed votes statewide, however, Gore erased Bush's advantage and emerged with a tiny lead that ranged from 42 to 171 votes.

Associated Press

Of 9 scenarios evaluteated Gore won all 6 of the scenarios in which all of the votes were counted.

Palm Beach Post

On November 12, the New York Times published a table on page A17 which clearly demonstrated the votes that put Gore ahead.

http://gorewonflorida.org

Gore never had a chance to win the recount battle in court, because Republicans controlled the U.S. Supreme Court - as well as the Florida state legislature and the ultimate arbiter of a dispute over electors, the U.S. Congress.

That and his brother was governor, the disinfrachised voters, the questionable voting machines, faulty ballot design, fellon purging system.

Just a tad too flukey "coincidental" wouldn't you say?

As for the Iraq war. I grow tired of trying to explain how a lie requires foreknowledge that the information given is false.

Yes, I could see how you would grow very weary attempting to defend such a position. Especially in light of that which we know now.

If you haven't gotten it by now, you're too impossibly thick to ever understand.

Hardly, I understand perfectly, as do others. Not one lie but a litany of lies almost bordering on "pathological",ey? That which they can't out distance, lay to rest....No WMDs, no yellow cake, no "WE DON'T TORTURE", POWs did have rights/recourse Mission Accomplished, The Surge is working, etc etc etc.

Seizing control of the health care industry and running it out of Washington DC is not a Republican priority.

Yes, well aware of that...especially given their lack luster performance. Their contribution 20th century was nada/zilch. If anything their mantra/intent was to dismantle the safe guard FDR put in place? Deregulation just about anything they could get their hands on?

In the 2008 election, health care ranked as the number one issue for a paltry 9% of the voters. The overwhelming majority of Americans are perfectly satisfied with their health care and health care insurance.

Yeah, I guess that was before the economy went head long into the crapper partially due to Bush's lie of war and deregulations, ey? Ripple effect, on going unemployment seen?

But socializing medicine is the Holy Grail for Democrats.

No. Given the above mentioned, hard times faced by the those suffering, I think it the AMERICAN people that have finally said enuff is enuff.

They have tried it every time they hold the White House and majorities in Congress. They try it because they want the power, the money, and the control that socialized medicine will give them: trillions of dollars in new taxes, thousands upon thousands of unionized workers, and the opportunity to regulate every aspect of the lives of everyday Americans.

And the repubs, as has been shown, have fought them every turn/bend the entire way. Protecting their power source/base, no?
You really have to ask yourself which party represents who's interest?

Memory jog for you. I seem to recall it was lefties who were always talking about leaving for other countries. Furthermore the claim that Republicans "questioned the patriotism" of those who disagreed with them is one that has gained the patina of truth through repetition

Quite the selective memory you have there.

"With the benefit of minute hindsight," he told the Times, "Saddam Hussein wasn't the kind of extra-territorial menace that was assumed by the administration one year ago. If I knew then what I know now about what kind of situation we would be in, I would have opposed the war."....William F. Buckley

That makes Mr. Buckley as much of an "unpatriotic conservative," by Mr. Frum's standards, as Pat Buchanan, Joe Sobran, Chronicles magazine, Robert Novak, me or any of the other unusual suspects he lumped into the unpatriotic category.

The only difference is that we didn't have to wait until more than 800 Americans and an untold number of Iraqis were dead, billions of dollars wasted, and half the planet despising us to know what would happen.

http://vdare.com/francis/unpatriotic_conservative.htm

Sean Hannity is often praised for being a "great American" by his fans, who undoubtedly consider the talk show host patriotic. While patriotism can be defined in many ways, supporting the brave men and women who serve in the U.S. military is undoubtedly one of them. As he constantly reminds his listeners, Hannity believes it is impossible to support the troops without supporting their mission in Iraq. To question the president, his motives, or the wisdom of our current policy is unpatriotic, says Hannity. At least that's what he says today.

http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=590446

If the convention speeches are any guide, Republicans have run out of excuses for blowing the economy, blowing the surplus, and blowing our military resources and moral capital in the wrong country. So they're going after the patriotism of their opponents. Here's what the convention keynoter, Miller, said tonight about Democrats and those who criticize the way President Bush has launched and conducted the Iraq war:

While young Americans are dying in the sands of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan, our nation is being torn apart and made weaker because of the Democrats' manic obsession to bring down our commander in chief.

Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator.

In [Democratic leaders'] warped way of thinking, America is the problem, not the solution. They don't believe there is any real danger in the world except that which America brings upon itself.

Kerry would let Paris decide when America needs defending. I want Bush to decide.

Every one of these charges is demonstrably false. When Bush addressed Congress after 9/11, Democrats embraced and applauded him. In the Afghan war, they gave him everything he asked for. Most Democratic senators, including John Kerry and John Edwards, voted to give him the authority to use force in Iraq. During and after the war, they praised Iraq's liberation. Kerry has never said that any other country should decide when the United States is entitled to defend itself.

http://www.slate.com/id/2106109/

And your last link reinforces that which we knew all along.....

However, it is now evident that an ugly campaign is underway not merely to misrepresent the health insurance reform legislation, but to disrupt public meetings and prevent members of Congress and constituents from conducting a civil dialogue. These tactics have included hanging in effigy one Democratic member of Congress in Maryland and protesters holding a sign displaying a tombstone with the name of another congressman in Texas, where protesters also shouted "Just say no!" drowning out those who wanted to hold a substantive discussion.

The lengths/methods repubs will go to prevent the crossroads we face ever being seriously addressed.

Business as usual. Party ideology before people.