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PREPARE FOR ARMAGEDDON ON HEALTH CARE REFORM
It's become clear beyond any reasonable doubt that the GOP has no interest in issues, no interest in solving problems. Their sole interest is in destroying Mr. Obama.
Armageddon? Bring it on.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 19.08.2009 @ 07:58
HEALTH CARE REFORM TEETERING ON THE EDGE OF FAILURE
Lionheart:
I'm flattered you read my book, GONE. Don't forget, the second one, HUNGER is out now. And LIES comes out in fall of 2010.
And check out THE MAGNIFICENT 12, coming fall of 2010. To a store near you.
Oh, wait, that looks like advertising. Let's disguise that with some politics so Rick won't notice:
Republicans eat too much soup!
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 17.08.2009 @ 08:25
Lionheart:
Well, I guess we'll see, won't we?
By the way, here's the opening graf of Obama's speech on the signing of the health care reform bill:
"I am very pleased to sign this landmark bipartisan legislation today. From this day forward health insurance will be available to almost all Americans. Never again will you hear the words 'pre-existing condition.' Never again will you have to fear losing your health insurance when you lose your job. The days of Americans being bankrupted by health expenses will be over. And I have kept my promise to make this bill bipartisan and to avoid any tax increases on the middle class. This bill was not everything we wanted, but it is most of what America needed. And we will revisit the issue as necessary in the future. For now let's celebrate a great day for all Americans."
They'll call it the Ted Kennedy Health Care Reform.
The whole country will breathe a sigh of relief that the fight is over. And the takeaway will be that things are better because of Obama, despite the screeching townhall loons of the GOP.
But don't believe me. Wait for the poll numbers in a few months.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 16.08.2009 @ 21:15
I've suspected from the start that the public option was trade goods. It's not an original idea with me, though I can't remember who was suggesting it many months ago.
But you'll notice that opposition is centered almost entirely on the public option.
In the meantime we've all more or less coalesced around portability, no pre-existing conditions, transparency, vouchers for the poor, modification of the tax deduction system and tax increases on the well-off and maybe a national as opposed to state insurance market.
I liked the public option because I like more choice rather than less. But I always thought that's what we'd be willing to give up to get 75% of what we wanted.
So now we can drop the PO, the Blue Dogs can come rushing back and claim victory. We'll probably get the Maine women, too, and maybe a random GOPer here or there. The bill will pass. It will be the Obama health care reform, it will be arguably bi-partisan.
It will do little or nothing to bring down costs. For which we can conveniently blame right-wing GOP intransigence and scare-mongering. (The Blue Dogs will be forgiven and forgotten.)
Then, in a few years, we'll add the public option.
Obama doesn't care who gets credit, or what people say about him. He only cares about what he gets done. He will have gotten done what he needed to get done.
Nothing left to do then but get those death panels up and running.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 16.08.2009 @ 15:33
Woodstock meant much more to rightwingers than it ever did to the left. For liberals it's a bit of nostalgia. Whereas conservatives have been freaking out about it ever since.
We moved on. It's the conservatives who are still stuck in the 60's.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 16.08.2009 @ 09:15
I'm afraid I would never enjoy an event that involved mud, pup tents and porta-potties.
I'm all for pot, naked chicks and rock and roll. But if I'm going to stay overnight I really insist on room service, a minibar and up-market toiletries.
So, in the modern day if you were to get, say, Green Day, Rancid, Hollywood Undead, and Eminem to play at a Four Seasons I'd be all over that.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 15.08.2009 @ 18:56
Palin is the GOP. She's ignorant, demagogic and hypocritical. That's the essence of the GOP. That and bigotry.
Now, Rick is none of those things. He's not ignorant, he's not demagogic or hypocritical. He's not a bigot.
It's beyond dispute that the set of all Republicans is closer to Palin, and that only a subset of that set is closer to Moran. The question is why Rick would rather be part of a powerless and despised minority within the party of Palin, rather than declaring himself an independent, or joining a new party effort, or even aligning with Blue Dog Democrats.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 15.08.2009 @ 10:20
Lionheart:
Go back and read what I said: I said "rational Republicans." A tiny subset of Republicans.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 14.08.2009 @ 13:07
Yeah, she'll be kicked out. By the rational Republicans. Who at the moment could hold their convention in your garage.
It was a win for stupidity. A win for fear. A win for lies. It was modern Republicanism in action.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 14.08.2009 @ 10:11
THE LOGICAL FALLACY OF SOME SLIPPERY SLOPE REFORM ARGUMENTS
C3:
At least you didn’t call them evil this time just passe.
Actually I never called them evil.
Are the failures of employee-based health care such that we should leave them behind and start from scratch.
No one is proposing any such thing. Can you point to any of the bills that make that suggestion? It's a straw man, and you're presumably well enough informed that you know it.
So you engage me on the subject by misquoting me, condescending to me as regards said misquote, and then throwing up a straw man.
Dishonesty, arrogance and manipulation. Yeah: I can believe you work for an insurance company.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 11.08.2009 @ 19:46
