A. Weiner Is You

Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York calls out the entire Republican Party on the floor of the House.

Twice.  A classic exchange between Weiner and Republican Dan Lungren of California:

WEINER: You guys have chutzpah. The Republican Party is the wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry. They say this isn’t going to do enough, but when we propose an alternative to provide competition, they’re against it. They say we want to strengthen state insurance commissioners and they’ll do the job. But when we did that in our national health care bill, they said we’re against it. They said we want to have competition but when we proposed requiring competition they’re against it. They’re a wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry. That’s the fact!

LUNGREN: Mr. Speaker I ask that the gentleman’s words be taken down.

WEINER: You really don’t want to go there, Mr. Lungren.

About time somebody said it.   The problem of course is that what Weiner said could be applied to a number of Democrats as well.

What?  Do you see a signed health care reform bill yet?  No?

Keep that in mind.  It's a damn fiery speech here that Wiener gives.  In the end however, it's just words without the actions to go with them.