There's more to the story. I think Karoli Kuns and the MoveOn group are witholding information on the identity of the finger-biter. She's tweeting like crazy, and folks are talking about all those who witnessed the event ...

Lots of stuff at my blog, American Power ...

Please: Help us finger this man!

So a left-wing looney who supports a government run health-care plan bites off the finger of a right-wing looney who opposes a government run health-care plan. The left-wing looney who supports a government run health-care plan flees the scene and is currently being sought by the authorities. The right-wing looney who opposes a government health-care plan goes to the hospital to seek medical treatment for his injured finger and then files a claim with Medicare, a government run health-care plan. Only in America would you find people this freakin' stupid.

And don't get me wrong...the left-wing looney who supports a government run health-care plan should be caught and tossed in a padded room somewhere. Anybody who bites off a finger of another person is freakin' nuts, I don't care what your political views are.

Posted by: Lipiwitz at September 4, 2009 12:06 AM "...government run health-care plan "

I though Medicare was a government run "insurance plan" (Public Option?)one you are forced onto once you turn 65. Paid for with deductions from your pay check each week. It was not to be a hand out. Yes, people want it, because they paid for it.

Afew facts about Medicare--people who have worked paid into the system and do pay from their social security checks also. In addition there are choices within the system at this time. The guy who sent into the crowd of opposition was looking for fight literally. The other guy defended himself and got medical care--a rational idea.
So--not a moral equivelent .

I have been paying Medicare insurance for thirty years..I will be paying more into it than I will ever get back. Medicare has been a total disaster as companies withdraw their own plan. Medicare is not free, we are paying for it like SS..at a small percentage of us are.

The world doesn't owe you shi((T, get out there and get a freaking job and stop living in your parents garage.

I am with the Lipiwitz on this. The finger biting is ridiculous and the offender should be brought to justice. Purely stupid people fighting over their piece of pie, not trying to reduce the pie or get the pie out of their lifes.

Going back to Wal-Mart in Montana, suppose the old man punched this guy twice, was the aggressor, would that give the MOVE-ON guy the right to drop him with a shot? And then reverse it, suppose the old man had a pistol, after being bitten by an aggressor, would it be ok in self defense to shoot the move-on idiot?

A guy from jersey...it's a government run health care plan. You can opt out but good luck finding a private insurance company that will insure you once you hit 65. You think a private insurance company will actually pay out MORE in benefits than what they receive in with premiums?

Now if you'd all excuse me, I have to run down and do volunteer crowd control for all the millions of vets lining up to get out of their government run health care plan. Can't even type that with a straight face.

Elections have consequences! Elections matter! Who honestly gives a crap what the sniveling minority thinks? Force a resolution and put the bad boy through and let the inbred rednecks whine until they're blue in the face.

>>"The right-wing looney who opposes a government health-care plan goes to the hospital to seek medical treatment for his injured finger and then files a claim with Medicare, a government run health-care plan. Only in America would you find people this freakin' stupid."

There is nothing "loony" about his behavior. People who are sixty-five oppose Obama's plan on the perfectly reasonable grounds that it is bad for them. In fact most Americans who are paying attention oppose Obama's plan because it is bad for them.

The Obama plan consists of lowering the quality of healthcare for those who currently have it and forcing those who do not currently have it to get it, whether they want it or not.

>>"Who honestly gives a crap what the sniveling minority thinks?"

A majority oppose your socialistic plans, which is why they will not pass. Go cry in your beer somewhere else.

The bottom line of this nationalization of health care is very simple. The government will take health care resources away from American citizens and give them to aliens. It is just that simple.

Interesting; notice the seniors are in good shape for their age, but the middle aged bag of crap is one of those lard butts who wears black to look cool - while he confronts people in wheel chairs. And he fights like a psycho!

"I have to run down and do volunteer crowd control for all the millions of vets lining up to get out of their government run health care plan."

You forgot the end sarcasm tag at the end of that statement.

"Now if you'd all excuse me, I have to run down and do volunteer crowd control for all the millions of vets lining up to get out of their government run health care plan. Can't even type that with a straight face."

Yea, well you really don't need a sarc/tag.

Because thousands if not millions of Vets are not happy with the VA medical care. Nor with other programs that they administer.

Including me. My prime example is that I caught Pneumonia in 07. Of course it happened late Friday night and Sat morn. My daughter forced me to go to the local county hospital ER Sat afternoon. Once there I received life saving treatment and good care.

The hospital submitted a claim along with the doc that treated me. VA refused the claim. Saying I should have waited until Monday and made an appointment with the VA hospital (which has no ER).

The diagnosis clearly read "Pneumonia-acute".

Now almost three years later, after two appeals, sending all the med records twice (which cost me forty dollars for the hosp. 20X2, and twenty four dollars postage (second time registered mail). They still have not paid the bills. I can't seem to ever get anybody who knows anything, or why they haven't paid. Of course in the mean time, it has went to collections and very soon it will go on my credit record if it already hasn't.

VA care is a preview of how government run health care would be. I won't tell you all the horror stories my friends who are on Medicare have told me. You wouldn't believe them anyway.

Papa Ray
West Texas
P.S. I have other stories of VA doctors that can't speak English and that I can't understand hardly a word they say and stories of how I had to go to the VA several times just to get a correct diagnosis and/or the proper medication.

I forgot to mention...From the time you make an appointment until the time you get in to either see a doc, lab or whatever is usually four months. Sometimes you will get a letter sometime in that period telling you that you have been slipped to a later date.

Great Care for us Vets...

Papa Ray