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- TheBlueOne0
Just putting the pieces together:
"At a town hall Wednesday night, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) told constituents, "We're almost reaching a revolution in this country."
Inhofe also said he doesn't need to know what's in a health care reform bill to vote against it.
"I don't have to read it, or know what's in it. I'm going to oppose it anyways," he said at the event in Chickasha, Okla.
The senator was in good company, with most of the audience agreeing with him and expressing their disdain for big government and Democrats. One man said, "No more compromise. We're losing our country."
- How many US Senators supported armed leftist groups in the 60's? -->TheBlueOne
- None.TheBlueOne
- TheBlueOne0
"... it doesn't make sense that any health legislation should have over 1,000 pages. What's obviously going on is a set of complicated giveaways to corporations when what's needed is a simplification of medical services delivery. To accomplish what we want, whether it's single payer or a robust public option, the legislation really needs no more than two or three pages. Simple, unambiguous language that either directs the government to pay all medical bills or that allows individuals to buy into Medicare at a reasonable cost. And there's also a third way to approach the problem that makes sense, which would be to incrementally expand Medicare over the next several years, each year taking in new tranches of the public, starting with older and younger groups and working towards the middle.
It seems to me that the progressive caucus, if determined, could make a stand on the simplicity issue and then bargain over its contents. No bill will pass that is longer than five pages. Period.
At the same time it makes no sense whatsoever, if the Democrats choose to go it alone without Republican votes, to include in any health reform legislation the already agreed compromises with Republicans. That was yesterday; those were old rules.
Health care is a genuine political inflection point. The Democratic party needs to decide what it wants to do with itself, either to endorse meaningful reform or become irrelevant."
- ukit0
I can't decide if "deathboy" is real or not.
He's not as much of an asshole as GetRefresh, but can you really be that dumb? Also the lack of spelling ability seems a little forced, like maybe it's someone else trolling.
- TheBlueOne0
"...when we talk about helping the poor, we're called Christians. When we actually help the poor, we're called Socialists."
- Rev. Jim Rigby, http://www.alternet.org/authors/…
- designbot0
whoah...been insanely busy at work so my QBN'ing has been cut way down :)
Thanks for your response on the previous page TBO. I quite like your zeal on the whole health care mess. I've been through some tough times with having no health care coverage, but nothing to the level of your experiences. Props on making it through.
Honestly I've been so tied up with life lately I've barely had a chance to follow what's been happening with O's proposed reform. Anyone care to enlighten me?
- DrBombay0
"roll over and play dead eurotrash hipster", TBO that was fucking crazy!
- designbot0
About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier
'A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government'
'A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury'
From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.
'The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years
'During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. From bondage to spiritual faith
2. From spiritual faith to great courage
3. From courage to liberty
4. From liberty to abundance
5. From abundance to complacency
6. From complacency to apathy
7. From apathy to dependence
8. From dependence back into bondage'
- DrBombay0
TThis bliznutty dude is a goof cock.