[.cnI redruM]

This is treason. It seems like Newt has 'grown', just like David Gergen.

[isthisnickcool]

OK! Anyone that has commited adultery shake hands!

Screw Newt! He says "it's inevitable". That reminds me of when Clayton Williams was running for gov. of Texas against Ann Richards. The weather was bad and Williams said: "The bad weather was like rape. ``If it's inevitable, just relax and enjoy it.''

Gee Newt, the morons in Washington decide on more socialism which is taking my hard earned money and giving it to others and I'm supposed to "enjoy it"?

Gingrich is just another ex-politician turned hired whore for whomever will pay him the most money. Screw him!

[joesnuffy]

Newt's a third wayer...read his book

[Recovering_Democrat]

Newt is correct. Look, voting YES on this bill will get the ball rolling on making the Medicare program into a competitive arena.

Like it or not, Medicare is here to stay. It ain't goin' away. What needs to be done is to make it competitive--as more people choose PRIVATE plans, the need for pure government subsidies will shrink.

Now, this bill has a problem in that it pushes off for SEVEN years a plan for partial competition between Medicare and private plans. BUT this isn't the end of the story! The President knows private competition is the way to go: once he wins another term, and if there is a cooperative Senate (hint hint: www.nrsc.org), he will be able to revise this law and make competition happen faster!

Consider what the Democrat Party Operatives would want: confiscatory taxes, huge government subsidies, eliminating competition, and soaking the companies and people who put their capital at risk trying to find life-saving drugs. The Republican plan, as flawed as it is, moves us--gradually--away from the Socialism of the 1960s.

[reelfoot]

IMHO, this confirms that Newt has gone over to the Dark Side.

[Fledermaus]

A "decisive shift to medical savings accounts"? Is Newt on acid. I don't find that anywhere in the bill.

I find "experiments" in 6 cities to give options to Medicare starting in 2010. That's all I see and even that has the Dems crapping in their Depends.

I hate this bill. I hate all of it. It's just more of an injection of big government and socialism into our lives. As Hillary knew in 1993 and 1994, if the government gets control of healthcare (after the media and the airwaves and the press...free press my butt) they can totally control our lives all the way down to what we eat and how much we excercise.

Fortunately, they'll screw up and ban beer and then there wouldn't be a gun law on the books to stop the revolution. ;-)