WHITE HOUSE HEALTH CARE MEETING - LIVE THREAD

The White House ^ | 2/25/10 | Blueyon

[blueyon]

Televised Meeting to talk about healthcare..........

[maggief]

Did you catch McCain’s look, er sneer?

Priceless!

[sodpoodle]

WOW Almost 173,000 views - this might be a new record for one day!!!!!

[TomGuy]

If Nancy talks any stronger, her hands are going to fly off....and she’ll need medical care.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

They lie and lie and lie baldfaced!

[LaybackLenny]

Pe-lousy now flirting with Coburn and McCain...LOL!

[CharlesWayneCT]

Obama counters by saying everyone wants all the individual items in the bill...

That is a lie. What is true is that for MOST individual items in the bill, a majority of the people think they sound good.

But first, it isn't ALL the items in the bill -- it's only the benefits, not the taxes, and not even all the "benefits" are polled.

Second, and maybe more importantly, each one is polled by itself -- nobody is asked if they like ALL of them.

It would be easy to make a list of 8 items, each of which gets majority support. But if you put that 8 together, it is likely that only 20% support ALL of them, and it could well be that a large majority would rather have NOTHING than those 8 things together.

For example. Suppose you have 10 people, and you are trying to make an entree for dinner for all of them. 7 choose chicken, 6 choose a white sauce, 8 choose rice, 6 choose broccolli, and 6 choose raisins.

Sounds good, right? 60% must be completely satisfied.

But then you look at this: 2 are allergic to raisins, 3 hate brocolli, 2 are vegetarians, and 2 are lactose intolerant.

And it turns out that 9 of the 10 people can't eat the entree that had NO ingredient with less than 60% approval.

Of course, in the Senate health plan they also threw in a dozen ingredients that had no support at all, and charged you a hundred bucks for it.

[CaliforniaCon]

Re: “That’s all they got, emotional appeals.

Conservatives think.

Liberals feel.”

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Exactly. That’s it in a nutshell!

[pillut48]

She's been drinking--she's slurring and incoherent and stumbling all over herself. Anyone got a breathalyzer? Talking trash about R's, and eviiiiiiiiiiiiiil insurance companies.

They're going nuclear.

Lying about taxpayer funded abortions and medicare.

[RWGinger]

Pelosi is lying
her lips are moving
but Boehner should call her out

[PghBaldy]

pelosi now contradicting boehner (abortion) and camp (medicare cuts?)

[Moonlighter]

What is with all the “so close” lingo the Dems keep spouting today in regards to a deal being met between the two sides? Has anyone heard anything even remotely suggesting that in these proceedings? Are they talking about the same “summit” I’ve been following?

[The Shrew]

Would sum this up by saying the Republicans brought their “A” Team and the Dems including ZERO brought their “C” Team at best. All the DemocRATs had was sob stories while the Republicans had the facts.

Isn't it obvious that the Dems brought their voices based upon seniority instead of by ability? We brought our Doctors. They brought Rangel, Dingell, Durbin and Nostrils.

To the dems this was all politics as is exemplified by Pelosi's closing statements. The Republicans did much better than I expected.

Regards,

TS

[onyx]

Oh yes I did, because she is lying.

No funding of abortion in her bills.

Where’s the lightning strike?

[Cheerio]

Obama is such a child! He can easily be beat in 2012. Just pull his chain like McCain just did. He cannot take criticism.

Man-child cannot be beat in 2012 if the GOP runs another McCain. John stood up for the fine character of man-child rather than speak truth. NOW, a year later he wants to puff out his chest and show all the conservatives back home in AZ that he is really tough on man-child. As an AZ resident I ain't buying it for a minute. All McCain wants to do is reach across the aisle any chance he gets.

JD Hayworth for the "peoples seat" in AZ 2010.

[Gator113]

I just hope that at her hanging, Pelosi is not allowed to give her last words.

[Cricket24]

What happened to C-Span...I just lost it!

[philetus]

She is trying to paint the Repubs as liars and they won’t be able to rebut.

[RckyRaCoCo]

"social security is"...broke

"medicare is"...broke

[happygrl]

Caption: “I didn’t expect this blowback...”

[FOXFANVOX]

John Dingell bemoaning all of the sob stories. The fact that he wants to MANDATE what American citizens do regarding their own health care is the true tragedy!