MAX TARDCORE Wrote:
harry Wrote:
"this is not healthcare reform..." is bandwagon analysis founded on strict lens control. Nicely positionally affirming, but crackpot.
Addressing pre-exisiting conditions and CAPs to coverage, and mandating coverage for 10s of millions (that still leaves 10s of millions with only emergency rooms as alternatives) are accomplishments that were unthinkable even two years ago. All three will be in final legislation in some form.
American health care's increase in costs projects to be more than US GNP.... used to be within 50 years, but recently numnbers mark a year sooner than that. And we suck on the meme of "democrat fucktards stealing our money"... I actually saw a commercial again on CNN Sunday from the healthcare plutocrat tea bagger wing that said... again... again, jeez.... "keep your government hands off my medicare."
And Joe? He may well believe some of what he says, but the way he has played both sides have nothing to do with ideology and everything to do with his deep love for Joe.
60 vote closure, like California's 2/3 requirement for a budget in legislature but 51% budget requirement in initiative process, is residue of a view of governance predicated on a world that no longer exists, or is poisoned by what's possible now ... much of our governance is broken.
Second'd.
& excellent use of teabagger.
2 things - #1, if you can't explain it in simple terms, people aren't going to buy it. (See: "Hope," "Change")
and you are dead wrong on the cloture issue -- if it wasn't for this in the last 8 years, think of what all the Republicans would have done when they were in control. Was "The Nuclear Option" of The Bill Frist Era (good band name, btw) wrong? Ok, then so is reconciliation.
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harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.
FT Wrote:
LooGAR (the straw that stirs the drink)
