Posted on 01/24/2010 7:04:57 AM PST by truthandlife
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We still have much to do before November, and time is running short. Every race has unique characteristics, but there are a few general things that Democrats can do to strengthen our hand. ad_icon
-- Pass a meaningful health insurance reform package without delay. Americans' health and our nation's long-term fiscal health depend on it. I know that the short-term politics are bad. It's a good plan that's become a demonized caricature. But politically speaking, if we do not pass it, the GOP will continue attacking the plan as if we did anyway, and voters will have no ability to measure its upside. If we do pass it, dozens of protections and benefits take effect this year. Parents won't have to worry their children will be denied coverage just because they have a preexisting condition. Workers won't have to worry that their coverage will be dropped because they get sick. Seniors will feel relief from prescription costs. Only if the plan becomes law will the American people see that all the scary things Sarah Palin and others have predicted -- such as the so-called death panels -- were baseless. We own the bill and the health-care votes. We need to get some of the upside. (P.S.: Health care is a jobs creator.)
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Alinsky ..Isolate and attack.
This is the guy Zero is bring back to straighten things out? Talk about out of it! These guys haven’t a clue!
What page# is that on in Rules for Radicals we must source it?
See post #42. LOL
Truly, liberalism is a mental disease.
“After they create 118 new agencies to run hospitals and medical services, they will all be appointed to jobs they can never lose.”
No agencies will be created if the anti-Obamacare people take over and refuse to fund those agencies.
May I suggest athat they try amnsty for illegals. Also make sure everyone understands how the schools are being used by Kevin Jennings to “queer them.” Go ahead and try. you just try.
Laughing out loud here while trying to say what I am thinking the pronunciation of Plouffe sounds like. No crude comments on FR or I’ll be kicked off. tee hee
I wonder if it passes would the SCOTUS declare it unconstitiutional? A week ago that would have seemed unlikely but they actually kicked parts of McCain-Feingold to the curb, a major rebuke
How many agencies did the GOP de-fund or eliminate between 1995-2007?
How many did they create?
Of course, the leftists don't understand economics at all, so the plan they support is doomed to inefficiency, waste and failure. The problem for Zero, though, is that he is starting to lose his base. With Bush, he lost a lot of his base, and that's why his ratings plummeted. In Massachusetts, Zero lost the gays, the unions (how can you lose the unions when they were the one group that got more swag than anyone else?) and the people who demanded the "universal option" in health care.
The universal option, of course, would have been the money pit.
Lies to be effective have to be believable.
What have they got to lose? They already are going to pay for pushing health care. Might as well pass something. All they have to do is look at US history to know that once they get their toe in the door, it's a matter of time before they can walk on through.
Naturally, the first reaction to such a sentence is "denial" (which is delusion) and that is exactly what we are seeing.
This brings to mind Chris Matthews interview last week with Howard Dean in which Dean insisted the public wanted more leftward movement not less.
When Matthews (in his only decent interview of recent times) disagreed with Dean and told Dean he was "whistling past the graveyard," Dean responded by telling Matthews he was a "crazy person."
BTW, the next stage after "denial" is "anger" and later "depression."
An angry response by Obama will serve only to seal his fate.
It’s amazing how much babbling still comes from proponents about what a great thing this is budget-wise. Massaging the figures by collecting taxes/fees for 10 years and paying out benefits for 6?! Usually goofy apple to orange comparisons are a little tougher to spot. And then there’s the Massachusetts universal health insurance “test run.” Forecasts and reality aren’t matching up. Color me surprised...
Don’t remember what year it was (probably in the late 90s), but I think the Medicare budget was $90 billion or so in a year that, when Medicare was passed, was only projected to be $9 billion or so.
Considering how bad the numbers look before the thing even gets passed and then looking at track records...
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