President Obama is making a last stab at obtaining some kind of meaningful health care reform legislation by holding a televised bipartisan all-day “Health Summit” today. Before a single word was spoken, Republicans – lead by Turd Blossom Karl Rove - were already calling it a PR stunt and accusing the President of making false claims. So much for bipartisanship or compromise. Or – where it concerns Rove -even the slightest sense of ethical or moral behavior.
The forum began on shaky ground with Senator Lamar Alexander (R/TN) virtually demanding that the Democrats renounce their right to use the budget procedure known as “reconciliation” to pass the legislation with 51 votes. Harry Reid quickly retorted that reconciliation was used by the Republicans to force through Bush’s nation-wrecking tax cuts, so there was no way the Democrats were relinquishing that mechanism. If only Reid had been as adamant for a public option . . .
It almost seems that these meetings are designed to provide a plausible argument for the politicians on both sides to use during their mid-term campaigns: “See, I tried to work with the other side, but they wouldn’t listen . . . it’s not my fault nothing was accomplished . . . “ So, the American people who have elected these selfish hypocrites to office will continue to suffer while they bicker like grumpy old men fighting over the last cinnamon roll at the rest home breakfast buffet.
And just for fun, this is what a warm winter Saturday in Georgia looks like, in the year of our lord 2010.
Did anyone let Glenn Beck and Michelle Bachmann know there was a Teabagger rally in Georgia today?
I bet they are positively livid knowing they missed out on all the epithet-dropping, noose-tying, power hose squirting fun!
Fuck these stupid people.
‘Health care as it stands will bankrupt this country’ – Barack Obama.
Average cost of average MRI in Britain, France, Germany, and Japan – around $200. All have a version of single payer.
Average cost of average MRI in America – $1000. (If you can get it approved by the insurance company.)
Single payer is the only true reform, yet was not even considered by Obama. He made ‘deals’ with insurance and pharma conglomerates!
Why?
Be afraid, folks.
Was it me or do you think that BOehner was drunk off his smirky ass. It looked as if everytime he wanted to speak Obama held his hand to his face and if I could write the thought bubble it would say” Not this asshole again, how did he ever get here”
WTF why is he there he has nothing to say except repeat any sound bite Karl Rove trains him to say much like that palin chick.
So you know what you’re talking about, Mike:
British Columbia’s medical services plan:
http://www.health.gov.bc.ca/msp/
Should have given you the URL for BCMSP Premium Plans. We even get help if we can’t afford the premiums!
We truly live in the best part of the world here in Beautiful British Columbia!
http://www.health.gov.bc.ca/msp/infoben/faqas.html#premiums
All that and two more nuclear power plants on the way almost paid for with good old USA tax dollars.
Oops! A little clarification: The “that” in my previous post refers to the “sickos” in the white sheets photo parading around some itty bitty town in Georgia.
I’ve explored trying to immigrate to Cananda. The only way one can get in is 1- if you’re a refugee as recognized by the U.N., 2- if you have a really great job skill that’s in demand in Canada or 3- if you have a bunch of money that you intend to invest in Cananda. The door is closed. We’re stuck here.
I’ve heard politicians talk for 30 years about “bringing the jobs back”. The jobs are not coming back. Outsourceing is what capitalism does by nature. Capital will always flow to the cheapest source of labor, unless a law is made to stop it. And no such law will be made, not in this country. I want to see the goverment expand welfare programs, not make empty promises about jobs. It’s time to start thinking about “shanty towns” for the USA.
Republicans had 30 years to do something for the American People, including healthcare. What makes Obama think they are going to try to help us now?
THe kkk is just a microcosm of the Republican party. All republicans feel and think the same way…same talking points, they just put on ties instead of beadsheets.
Ha, ha, ha!
You know, Hayworth may have something here. What does one do when you get tired of sitting around, what you proposed Americans do on your show last night, Mike?
Excerpt:
KAYE (voice-over): Hayworth campaigned for McCain in the 2000 presidential race but says the McCain of 2010 is very different than the McCain of 2000.
The chairman of the Maricopa County Republican Party, a Hayworth supporter, takes the attack against McCain even further.
ROB HANEY, CHAIRMAN, MARICOPA COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY: I hardly think he’s Republican. I think he actually belongs to the Democrat Party, to tell you the truth.
KAYE (on camera): The crowds here at J.D. Hayworth’s events may not be huge, but in the crowd at every stop, Tea Partiers who say they want their country back. J.D. Hayworth is banking on them for their support.
Tea Partiers want smaller government, lower taxes, and more freedom. J.D. Hayworth says he can deliver that and much more.
Why are Tea Partiers key to a win for you?
HAYWORTH: Because they represent the awakened Americans. They’re tired of just sitting in the living room shouting at the television set. Now they understand what is at stake for their future, for their children’s future, and now you see awakened Americans becoming involved Americans.
KAYE (voice-over): A building intensity among conservative activists nationwide. A wave J.D. Hayworth hopes to ride from Arizona to Washington.
Randi Kaye, CNN, Phoenix. http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1002/15/acd.01.html
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North Carolina, your “high school days” state, as you said on air last night, Mike, may have an even finer media focus this year:
Republicans could have another seat to defend in Arizona if Sen. John McCain (R) chooses to retire in 2010. Popular Gov. Janet Napolitano (D), who is term limited, is said to be interested in running for the seat, especially if McCain retires. http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_54/politics/29929-1.html
Tell them why Bunning is filibustering, Mike. Because his cronies wouldn’t support his re-election ambitions; it’s revenge! http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/33603.html
I heard about how the CPAC Republicans are calling themselves the Party of PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY… WHAT do Republicans/Conservatives KNOW ABOUT PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY? Are you people MAD?
Case and point just look how the Republicans are TRYING to make RECONCILIATION look like it was the end of democracy. As Rachel Maddow and Randi Rhodes pointed out in the last few days, Republicans used the Nuclear Option (reconciliation) as a RULE OF THE SENATE 21 times.
In OTHER WORDS Republican Party talking points are based on the ignorance of their constituents. They revise history and LIE because they CAN… because morons who vote for Republicans DON’T KNOW THEIR OWN HISTORY! This ain’t NO Tea Party… this is a CLASS WAR!
NOTE: (I wish the Pharmaceutical Industry could find a cure for the severe superiority complexes, odd paranoia and religious delusions most of the Right-wing is suffering through)
The most SHAMELESS, HYPOCRITICAL THING I’ve ever been witness to is how Republicans/Conservatives are dodging responsibility for the economic meltdown. They decided it was better for their political careers and revised history legacies if they just LIED and blamed Obama/Biden for the HUGE MESS! ANYONE WHO VOTES FOR A REPUBLICAN IS A TRAITOR!
I’m so sick of Republicans/Conservatives ruining this great nation while waving the patriotic flag. JUST LOOK AT THEIR RECORD during 8 years of Bush/Cheney and Republican controlled Congress (1994-2006). It’s like these incompetent, scheming fools were trying to live up to the old Soviet saying about “America will be destroyed from within”. Waste, fraud, abuse, scandal, corruption, lies, job outsourcing, off-shore tax evasion , reckless economics, war profiteering, Constitutional violations, on & on…
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Bipartisanship is bull shit, only a complete con artist or a coward would utter those words.
We not trying to change the soda pop vendors on campus the insurance companies are playing for blood and We the People are paying with blood. I am god dam tired of people in the media trying to point out the hypocrisy of the rightwing We Got It. So what are the options keep this bull shit going or do what must be done.
The neocons have always said the left lacks the intensity to decapitate their opposition. That being said a handful of right wingers are making the pseudo left look so pathetic that nobody would hitch their wagon to that group of fuck ups.
Do the Repugs think we’re all stupid? Do the teabaggers have good insurance? The teabaggers are lucky to get jobs as greeters at wal mart. It’s all another case of the rich using half the poor to beat up on the other half , except it might not work this time.
I watched the entire seven hours. Loved it.