This Isn't Too Surprising

In fact, they really have no choice. If Republicans running for office in 2010 and 2012 don't come out against health care reform, then they'd risk pissing off the Tea-Baggers:

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) went on an anti-health care reform blitz yesterday, both asserting that the bill will be a central issue for Republicans running in 2010 and 2012, and even suggesting that repealing the bill will be a big part of this platform.

Gingrich, appearing on Meet The Press, was quite blunt about the idea: "I suspect every Republican running in '10 and again in '12 will run on an absolute pledge to repeal this bill."

He also called the health care reform bill "the most corrupt legislation I think I've seen in my lifetime." McConnell was less straightforward, saying that all the Democrats "kind of joined hands and went off the cliff together."

Palin/Beck 2012!

By the way, check out these lies from right-winger Mary Matalin:

"I was there [in the Bush White House]. We inherited a recession from President Clinton and we inherited the most tragic attack on our own soil in our nation's history. And President Bush dealt with it."

One thing the Republicans have learned over the years is that it is OK to lie to the American people. And the bigger the lie, the better.

George W. Bush did not inherit the 9-11 attacks. They actually occurred eight months into the his first term, and Bush/Cheney spent those first eight months pretending that al Qaeda didn't exist. And Bush did not inherit a recession from Clinton.

Nice try, though -- I'm sure the Tea-Baggers loved it.

And speaking of lying, this is hilarious.