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  • Daily Topics - Monday - March 22 2010   15 years 18 weeks ago

    @Zero G: you said: "Democracy Hogwash – At Least We Have Clean Pigs…" :) .... yes, but do those pigs have lipstick?

  • Daily Topics - Monday - March 22 2010   15 years 18 weeks ago

    Brandon doesn't believe in the commons. He thinks he stands alone and likes it that way. He's delusional, but oh well.

  • Daily Topics - Monday - March 22 2010   15 years 18 weeks ago

    @Zero G, thanks for the Chomsky article and clip from it. Always enjoy Chomsky.

  • Daily Topics - Monday - March 22 2010   15 years 18 weeks ago

    Oh, OK. I'm from Texas so English is a foreign tongue.

  • Daily Topics - Monday - March 22 2010   15 years 18 weeks ago

    Chomsky: Health bill sustains the system’s core ills
    http://rawstory.com/2010/03/noam-chomsky-health-bill/
    [...]
    The Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor added that it’s a damning referendum on American democracy that one of the most highly supported components of the effort nationally, the public insurance option, was jettisoned. He partly blamed the media for refusing to stress how favorably it’s viewed by the populace.

    "It didn't have 'political support,' just the support of the majority of the population," Chomsky quipped, "which apparently is not political support in our dysfunctional democracy."

    The provision has consistently polled well, garnering the support of sixty percent of Americans across the nation in a CBS/New York Times poll released in December, days after it was eliminated from the reform package. Democratic leaders deemed it politically untenable.

    "There should be headlines explaining why, for decades, what's been called politically impossible is what most of the public has wanted," Chomsky said. "There should be headlines explaining what that means about the political system and the media."

    Well, he does say that he'd of held his nose and passed it, but the dysfunction of our system is out for all to see.

    For myself, watching Democrats straining their arms (and credulity) to pat themselves on the back, I think back to the single-payer advocates being arrested in Max Baucus' committee, being shut out of the White House forums and the Blair House summit.

    Democracy Hogwash - At Least We Have Clean Pigs...

  • Daily Topics - Monday - March 22 2010   15 years 18 weeks ago

    Sooth . . . As in foretold truth . . .

  • Daily Topics - Monday - March 22 2010   15 years 18 weeks ago

    Brandon Voice SPAMs all liberal talkers . . . One of his two ‘entrepreneurial’
    companies he ‘runs’ buggers liberal talkers and bloggers for cash . . .

  • Daily Topics - Monday - March 22 2010   15 years 18 weeks ago

    anti-sooth?

  • Daily Topics - Monday - March 22 2010   15 years 18 weeks ago

    @Mysterious Floating Head: "Sooth"? as in For Sooth?

  • Daily Topics - Monday - March 22 2010   15 years 18 weeks ago

    @mstaggerlee forget Waterloo, let this be their Agincourt. Either way the Republicans get to be arrogant Frenchmen (my apologies in advanced to any French that I may have offended).

  • Daily Topics - Monday - March 22 2010   15 years 18 weeks ago

    Now omg NOW Thom tells us the deal that kept public anything and real reform off the table in the health care debate. Of course we knew that all along.
    For a year we have heard that we can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
    All along it has been the [pre-defined] 'Possible' that is the enemy of the good.

    The healthy have always taken care of the sick both by direct care and by paying for insurance and not using it. There is understandable anger with the current system where people have to pay twice - once to the government for the sick, poor, young and old and again to a private insurance company for themselves and their family. The Congress is on its way to passing a mandate that we buy for-profit insurance (tithe to Mammon) while avoiding either any public option or Medicare expansion (share and share alike). Yet the Democrats sound like they passed Medicare for all.

    The camel that puts its nose under the tent gets kicked in the face.
    Prepare for months of ads about personal mandates on everyone, unfunded mandates on the states, IRS agents and years of premium hikes. If the Democrats lose a bunch of seats it is their fault for compromising core principles and not making it clear that the right to life is fundamental to all other rights.

    Clearly, we have government of the people by the government for the corporations. Hope and Change we can believe in has come to waiting for Republican attorneys general to successfully convince the corporate dominated courts to throw out this nameless mess to make room for a public solution. Stranger things have happened but don't hold your breath because... Clearly, we have government of the people by the government for the corporations.

  • Daily Topics - Monday - March 22 2010   15 years 18 weeks ago

    @harryashburn: Sooth.

  • Daily Topics - Monday - March 22 2010   15 years 18 weeks ago

    @Nels ... and even MORE for Medicare for all ... :)

  • Daily Topics - Monday - March 22 2010   15 years 18 weeks ago

    Well if the Republicans don't want the American people to be forced to purchase health insurance from a private source. Great, let them set that precedent, then there is the more reason for at least a Public Option.

  • Daily Topics - Monday - March 22 2010   15 years 18 weeks ago

    BAD JOKE ALERT (If you are likely to take offense, DON'T READ THIS!) -

    Does this mean that we can finally kill grandma?

    (I warned you, didn't I?)

  • Daily Topics - Monday - March 22 2010   15 years 18 weeks ago

    Great sources for backing up THE UN-AMERICAN EMPIRE!!!

    http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/The-un-American-Empire-by-Joshua-Snyd...

  • Daily Topics - Monday - March 22 2010   15 years 18 weeks ago

    So 36 Republican States plan on a Constitutional Challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and associated Reconciliation. We can only hope. Maybe President Obama is playing a game of Chess game on a scale not easily apparent to most. It could explain why the Public Option and Single Payer were never on the table in any of the negotiations.

    I think we need Republicans to challenge requirements to purchase PRIVATE insurance under penalty of law. Follow the Argument to The Supreme Court:

    Republican State Solicitor: It is not Constitutional to require people to buy any product, especially health insurance from a corporation. The government is in fringing on their rights and freedoms.

    Solicitor General: May it please the court, but these states have a statutory requirement for people to purchase minimum Automobile Insurance Coverage in order to renew their drivers licenses and renew their vehicle registrations. Why would this be any different?

    Republican State Solicitor: It is different because driving is a privilege. Cars are not necessary to life liberty or the pursuit of happiness. Owning and driving a car is not a right specifically protected by the Constitution.

    Solicitor General: Your honors, to me it appears that my opponent is arguing that access Health care is a basic right guaranteed by the Constitution. If you rule in their favor, then you must also rule that every expectant mother has a constitutional right to pre-natal care and every new born has a constitutional right to neo-natal care, no matter what pre-existing conditions may have occurred at birth. You most also rule that a 20 year old diabetic has the right to medical treatment and a 50 year old who contracts cancer must be guaranteed life saving treatment. I am not sure that is in the capacity of private insurance companies. The only practical and economic means for protecting their constitutional rights it to have the largest risk pool possible. This risk pool most necessarily then consist of every American Citizen, for that would spread the risk among the larges possible base. By your ruling in my opponents favor, you would in effect decree that the Government MUST operate single payer basic health insurance system in order to protect it’s citizens Constitutional Rights.

    Note:Let the right-to-life Supreme Court Republicans of the United States (SCROTUS) rule that a fetus does not have a Constitutional Right to be born healthy and that premature babies, diabetics and cancer patients do not have the right to life saving medical care.

  • Daily Topics - Monday - March 22 2010   15 years 18 weeks ago

    @mstaggerlee: D'OH!

  • Daily Topics - Monday - March 22 2010   15 years 18 weeks ago

    @harry ashburn - only one problem with that ... my wife (bless her) is not a big SHOPPING fan, either.

  • The Republican's Waterloo?   15 years 18 weeks ago

    Whenever I see the two words connected, Republican + Waterloo, I feel the need to post the most recent story of Republican debacle I have come across. Hence this offering:

    Firm Tied to Murtha Earmarks Goes Dark

    http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_104/news/44221-1.html

    Of course, I think that if the Republicans don't GET OFF the health care issue, they're going to disappear. Which is what I hope they do.

    Idaho has passed a state law mandating that their A.G. file a challenge to the constitutionality of the Health Care Bill upon passage. Of course, this must be taken seriously since they have a PACKED COURT in D.C.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/17/idaho-bans-federal-health_n_503...

    Thanks for the spot to spout Thom!

  • Daily Topics - Monday - March 22 2010   15 years 18 weeks ago

    The Health Care legislation is more about politics than health care. The battle is not over. The final battle has yet to be fought. When Alito, Roberts, Kennedy , Scalia, and Thomas enter the fight we'll be watching the battle to see who controls the country; the President or the Supremes.

  • Daily Topics - Monday - March 22 2010   15 years 18 weeks ago

    re: Man Assaults Officer with Penis: I understand he got off on insufficient evidence. ;D

  • Daily Topics - Monday - March 22 2010   15 years 18 weeks ago

    re: waterloo

    Let's make this health care victory the REPUBLICAN'S waterloo. Sure the bill is not perfect and it benefits the insurance companies and it is nowhere near the public option or single payer system that we want.

    The tea baggers labeled this "OBAMACARE", a term they thought was degrading and would frighten people. We should not run away from this, but embrace it.

    We should all call it OBAMACARE from this day forward, and hope that it becomes as important to America as Medicare and Social Security. Remind people every day how the Democrats fought to pass OBAMACARE without the support of one single Republican. Run with this and carry it proudly into the upcoming elections against the Republicans and let it be their downfall.

  • Daily Topics - Monday - March 22 2010   15 years 18 weeks ago
  • Daily Topics - Monday - March 22 2010   15 years 18 weeks ago

    harry ashburn and Mysterious Floating Head,

    I guess you've solved the mystery!

    "Wave of UFO Sightings over Cleveland (March 2010)"

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enrvQ_78glA&NR=1

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