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August 23, 2009 at 6:59 am #592029
JanSParticipantI have to share this (and admit that I stole it from a friend’s facebook page) :
http://incredimazing.com/page/Just_Say_No_to_Obama_and_Socialism
August 23, 2009 at 7:51 am #675399
WesCAddleMembergotta love /b/
August 23, 2009 at 8:43 am #675400
pigeonmomParticipantHa ha!
August 23, 2009 at 4:15 pm #675401
JoBParticipantglad you stole it.. he never would have posted it…
August 23, 2009 at 8:35 pm #675402
dhgParticipantGet away from the window, Gladys!
August 24, 2009 at 12:36 am #675403
CaitParticipantLOL!!! I love it.
August 24, 2009 at 1:59 am #675404
pigeonmomParticipantAbner!!
August 24, 2009 at 2:46 pm #675405
KenParticipantOn the same topic…
Another classic “Hunter Rant” from dkos
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/8/24/771484/-Keeping-the-Powder-Dry
Excerpt:
Now, if we play our cards right, and with the help of our 60-seat Senate majority, we can boldly reinvigorate the collapsed American healthcare system by passing a “reform” bill that mandates everyone in America purchase underregulated products of record-profitable insurance companies that have proven unable to provide basic services to millions of Americans or even perform competent administration of their own products, but which provides only token efforts at reining in the worst of the worst abuses of the public by those companies. We need not provide any measure of “socialized” insurance, as most of the rest of the civilized world does. And we need not particularly worry about the poor and uninsured, because this is a recession, and it wouldn’t be cost effective.
August 24, 2009 at 2:58 pm #675406
JoBParticipanttoo likely to be make me smile this morning :(
September 2, 2009 at 5:13 pm #675407
dawsonctParticipantCall your Senators and Representatives.
Murray and Cantwell need to be dragged out of their centrist (also known as a pre-1980’s Republican) rut in which they seem to be so cozy.
September 2, 2009 at 6:32 pm #675408
KenParticipantI am still in wait n see mode but
Cantwell seems to be coming back onboard from her visit to Max Baucus’s crazytown of co-ops and bipartisenship… Thank your local hard core Dems for reaching out to her continuously and emphatically by phone, email and in person.
http://www.dailykostv.com/w/002093/
transcript from link.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/9/1/1001/61198
CANTWELL: Well, I would say to my Republican colleagues that when you think about how you control costs and you think about what a public option can do in controlling costs, it’s a very key component to it.
Right now, there’s insurance across the country where in a couple of states you only have one or two insurance providers, or they might have as much as 50 percent of the market. So if you want to get costs down and reform the system, then deliver health care at what it takes to deliver that health care cost. And both Senator Hatch and I come from states that are very efficient health care states. We provide good health care delivery with good outcomes at very low costs, and that’s what I’d like to see the rest of the country move to.
KING: Is there any chance, despite the passing of your friend, is there any chance that a bill with a public option is going to pass the United States Senate?
KING: Joe Lieberman, who’s a — you know, caucuses with the Democrats, was here last week and he said that’s not the way he would prefer it, but he believes, given the political climate, given the deficit numbers, that everyone should call a time-out and do this incrementally, pass a bill first that deals with the biggest problems in the system, and prove that — the Democratic Party should prove we are bending the health care cost curve; now you can trust us when we come back to do the other things like universal coverage and a public option.
Is that the way to go, maybe, in this political environment?
CANTWELL: Well, you’re not going to get an argument about bending the cost curve from me, because my state almost subsidizes the rest of the health care system because we’re so efficient and the rest of the country delivers more inefficient care.
But the bottom line is that health care costs, which, right now, are about one-third of our federal budget, are going to double if we do nothing.
So doing nothing and thinking that we’re going to get out of this expense is not really an option. So coming to the table and saying, how can we deliver lower-cost health care is critical to the equation. And so I think getting true competition into the system and giving consumers choice is what the Democrats and Republicans should be joining ranks on.
KING: Has the president failed the leadership test? Or, at least, does he need to lead better now?
CANTWELL: No, I think the president timed it perfectly. And coming in, in a new administration, he wanted to show that he was going to work with Congress. And he said this is a priority.
And the president, I think, has basically held the discussion for members to come together to discuss what they’d like to see in legislation. And I know that he’s been on the phone a lot. And I’m sure, when we return in session, he’s going to play a very key role in all of this discussion.
Who knows where Patty is for sure. She has the history of doing the right thing after every other option is exhausted
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September 2, 2009 at 7:29 pm #675409
JoBParticipantwe can only hope
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