Washington Post:
Six months into his presidency, Barack Obama may have no greater test of his ability to translate personal popularity into a successful legislative agenda than the upcoming two weeks.
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rich misty I'm a Fan of rich misty I'm a fan of this user permalink John Stuart Mill (1806"1873). On Liberty. 1869.
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I have read Mill... He is rather bizzare, certainly radical. And not American.
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You should read Sinclair Lewis instead.
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Which one?
My goodness, Obama taking the lead on Health Care? What a novel idea. I just hope it isn't too late.
It's not like he had a ton of other crap to deal with as well.
The health care plan being offered is convaluted with many miles of small print and arcane regulations that will require fact checkers and paper pushers in addition to those now being employed by the insurance comapnies. And this is at inception, it will only get worse.Why not use that waste of money to pass a simple clear coverage that ensures everyone no matter their employment, means, age or previous condition .?
In addition it will put small businesses in danger ofc ollapse and take money from the medicaid sick to cover the walking well.
making it healt insurance mandatory for everyone is a boon to the insurance agencies, ensuring that they no longer have to truly compete.
Actually, the public option is what creates the competition. And for the public option to be competitive it means that the young and healthy need to be part of the pool.
One of the many failures of for-profit insurance is that the only pool they cover are the healthy. They weed out everybody else in order to reap huge profits as they never have to pay out.
In any case, reforming health care is never going to be simple. It will always be a complicated process that will continually need tweaking.
no thanks
Reality does not have a liberal bias, it is an outright conspiracy against Republicans.
Whatever happened to progressive republicans?
"Defenders of the short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things sometimes seek to champion them by saying the 'the game belongs to the people.' So it does; and not merely to the people now alive, but to the unborn people. The 'greatest good for the greatest number' applies to the number within the womb of time, compared to which those now alive form but an insignificant fraction. Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wild life and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method."
A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open, 1916
Teddy Roosevelt
Drill baby drill.....
"Whatever happened to progressive republicans?"
They left the Republican Party about the same time Dixiecrats left the Democratic Party.
Lilith33
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Theodore Roosevelt
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COVERME 's Corollary
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a Health Clinic; but if he has a (FREE) university education, he may steal the whole Health Care System.
Barack Obama
We can only hope. Robin Hood always was an appealing character.
AXIOM: A man who has never completed public education may post on H P as COVERME.
Come on!
That was pretty good!
Boy your mom must be so proud....
She loves her baby boy!
The insurance companies already beat him to it.
We're currently trying to recover it.
Excuse me for being off-topic, but isn't your avatar a picture from the movie "Zardoz?"
That was a great flick. Loved the soundtrack.
Whatever happened to progressive republicans?
Square Deal
"Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsens
New York State Fair, Syracuse, September 7, 1903
Teddy Roosevelt
Progressive Republicans have, unfortunately, gone the way of the buggy whip.
Conservatives like the buggy whip...I hear.
And what of the "Conservative Democrats"?
COVERME: You're a psych0logist? Or just psych0tic?
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David Frum ^ identifies the Republican base as a cult, pg. 4, bottom.
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John Batchelor ^
Both Frum and Batchelor are life long Republicans, both have identified the Republican base as a cult. Bill Schneider, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute agrees:
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"John Batchelor ???
Sure it's a cult!
Anyone that criticizes or obstructs same~sex anything is a CULT!
I've yet to hear a reason against it that wasn't based on occultism.
DistressedGenes: Interesting projection, that is exactly the tactic being used by the left to seize 20% of the economy and it's associated private industry.
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First there was a plan ^^ Drown the Government, and take an enormous profit in the process.
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With government broken ^ they were able to get to the money tap directly during the ensuing crisis.
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By increasing the spreads ^^ as wide as possible, and selling the country short... They steal from the market as well, and maximize their gains.
Blame Democrats, and that is pretty much the GOP plan.
What do Republicans wish for America, besides to destroy it?
qdog112 I'm a Fan ofqdog112 I'm a Fan of qdog112 I'm a fan of this user permalink The GOP "SKY IS FALLING" approach to every mandated reform effort has played out. It has served to hasten their inevitable irrelevance and reinforced their lying ways.
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The GOP "SKY IS FALLING" approach to every mandated reform effort has played out. It has served to hasten their inevitable irrelevance and reinforced their lying ways.
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Did you cut and paste this from Al Franken's website?.
A Harvard Graduate(graduating cum laude).
Yeah, right.
Why are Republicans hysterical and Freepers saying they are going to revolt?
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They are already pretty revolting.
I have read two of his books, but have never visited his website. If he said something similar, you might chalk it up to GREAT MINDS THINK ......
GREAT MINDS THINK ......
Sometimes?
Not often enough?
Too much?
Sounds like Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine."
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Theodore Roosevelt
People should eschew higher education, it's a moral hazard.
Still scared of Evolution, are ya?
Now why doesn't it surprise me that this is your position?
Sarah Palin proves you wrong with every breath she takes.
That's what Karl Rove said.
Yay education!!
John Stuart Mill (1806"1873). On Liberty. 1869.
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I have read Mill... He is rather bizzare, certainly radical. And not American.
http://en.
You should read Sinclair Lewis instead.
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
Theodore Roosevelt
I wonder what he was talking about....
Invisible Malthusian aliens that control the world. Christians call them angels I think.
they became the republican party.....
"No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee."
-- John Donne
Universal Single-Payer Health Care now.
I love that quote! Right on, Balancement.
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Health Security is a civil right that should be guaranteed and protected by our representative government . Just as it was once time to declare our other civil rights, it is now time to declare our right to Health Security for everyone
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"Health Security is a civil right "
So the US is in violation of the Constitution?
13~14th amendments?
Civil Rights Act of 1964 ?
Do tell!
Not what he meant, but I suspect you already knew that.
"Health Security is a civil right "
What part did I miss?
I'm not sure coverme really knows the things you think he does.
Truth be told, the US was founded in violation to the Constitution.
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First Posted: 07-19-09 08:21 PM | Updated: 07-19-09 09:40 PM