Comments on: Health Care

By: Take it on the Chin! « Topical Limerick a Day

Take it on the Chin! « Topical Limerick a Day — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 06:06:03 +0000

[...] Health care reform they find they can’t spin, Or even repeal, So how does it feel, When reality finally sets [...]

By: Michael O'Hare

Michael O'Hare — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:10:35 +0000

those go on the praise, not the speaker

By: jwg

jwg — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:39:11 +0000

“Nancy Pelosi, with whipped cream and a cherry on top”
Not a pretty picture.

By: Barry

Barry — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:35:53 +0000

Brett, nah. We’re not f*cking stupid, and we know the general shape of mid-term elections. But lie away – I’d have for you to strain yourelf with the truth.

By: Brett Bellmore

Brett Bellmore — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:04:53 +0000

You won, indeed. I expect you’ll be eating that, this fall.

By: Barry

Barry — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:12:46 +0000

Seconding Leo – fear of being ‘an*l probed’ by Latino aliens there, Brett?

In the meantime, we won and you lost, so eat it.

By: Leo

Leo — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:14:35 +0000

“I hear next you’re going to cram immigration ‘reform’ down the public’s throat”

This image says way too much about conservatives’ inner lives and anxieties for my taste.

Anyway, I hope that they do go for immigration reform. Substantively, I think it’s good policy. But more importantly, I think it will be extremely entertaining to watch the Republican party try to appease the Know Nothings in its coalition without alienating it’s financial base by appearing obviously racist (or worse from the perspective of the financial base, anti-cheap labor). I expect it to be hilarious to watch actually.

So my slogan: Immigration reform–do it for the laughs!

By: anonymous

anonymous — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:44:47 +0000

Brent’s just pissed that the Dems were able to up the GOP’s 2003 health care bribe.

By: darek

darek — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:17:52 +0000

“Maybe the Republicans CAN retake both chambers, if you keep this up.”

Right. Our countries problems are not that we only had just over a year of Democratic leadership, its that we didn’t have just over 9 years of Republican leadership.

Cry me a river.

By: Brett Bellmore

Brett Bellmore — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:43:02 +0000

And now we get to find out how much was paid out to buy the votes. I’m guessing Stupak and company didn’t really switch sides for just a promise of a worthless executive order, but what DID they get?

Again, enjoy the carnage this fall, you worked for it. I hear next you’re going to cram immigration ‘reform’ down the public’s throat; Maybe the Republicans CAN retake both chambers, if you keep this up.

By: David Schutz

David Schutz — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:41:50 +0000

I’m running for First Skunk at this garden party. I think this is a huge missed opportunity to reorganize how we do health care, and puts us on the path to more of the same, but more expensively done. It will be very hard to change it, unless the Reeps actually get it repealed. A historical analogy to the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage act of 88 seems plausible, as does an anology to the (Mike, your remarks about sprawl and preferences seem useful here: http://www.samefacts.com/2010/03/policy-analysis/sprawl-and-preferences/) disastrous choices we have made in allowing people to deduct their mortgage interest from their taxable income. I’m a big believer in path dependence, and this is a path which looks bad to me. I hope I’m wrong. Meanwhile:

Dave Schutz for First Skunk!

By: Karlos

Karlos — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:33:53 +0000

My sentiments exactly. We need more of THIS Obama. Any argument that this somehow hurts the Dems in November is laughable. Nothing would hurt more than to say “we’ve been in control for two years, and we have nothing to show for it.”

By: ACLS

ACLS — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:11:46 +0000

Frankly, I’d prefer if, in 120 years, she was still Speaker.