Sen. Lindsey Graham was one of the Republicans answering the President on Sunday's Meet the Press, and he had a good talking point. At least he must have thought so, because he kept using it during the discussion of the health care debate. The president could keep going on TV, Graham asserted, but it won't do any good, because the public isn't buying what he's selling.
Then, moments later, the subject turned to Afghanistan, and the very same Senator said he was proudly siding with the president even though the idea of sending more troops over there was broadly unpopular. Meaning, I somehow thought, that the public isn't buying what either of them is selling.
Cognitive dissonance? Lack of petty consistency? Lindsey, you're a JAG, you be the judge.
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Its becoming quite clear that Republicans are oblivious to the millions of Americans without healthcare and those that can't possibly afford any insurance.
For them to have the BEST healthcare plan available and yet oppose anyone else having a CHOICE (Public Option) is the worst form of HYPOCRACY
It is horrible because it is racist and a few rich people control the legislature and will never premit an adequate educational system, good roads or adequate healthcare.
Just because Lindsey is an attorney does not make him competent or bright. I remember his stellar performance during the impeachmenty rial and his backing a sure loser in the previous presidential campaign.
If you can persuade yourself that John McCain should be president of any nation on this planet , let alone ours, you are not truly sane.
That said . . .
The cost of a hospital stay in France was raised from $24 a night to $29.
That's the price you pay for being a "surrender monkey." ;)
Is it strange that they have the best healthcare on this planet but spend about 50% of what the US spends? If we cut that much off we'd have over $1.6 trillion to play with. I think that might cover the deficit all by itself.
(At least that's what it seems to the rabid right?)
He says we need to increase our presence in Afghanistan, because Americans might get killed by terrorists in the future if we don't.
This, "fighting them over there, so we don't have to fight them here," philosopy, has cost us a trillion dollars and tens of thousands of our troops killed or maimed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
However, this past week's estimates of over 40 thousand deaths and a million bankruptcies due to lack of health insurance, are, apparently, seen as no threat at all to this man.
It is obvious, that we are only peasants to this Senator. Good only for keeping the terrorist boogy man away from his door, but not deserving of the basic right to health care found in every civilized nation except this barbaric corporatocracy.
From what I'm seeing in the polls, the people aren't buying the Afghanistan surge policy, and they very much want a public option in the health care reform bill. That makes it very clear that Mr. Graham has no intention of serving the people, only his corporate masters.
Graham and Wilson represent a very small State, and they have a Governor on the brinks of Impeachment because of his extra-marital affairs. Nothing like good ole Southern Values to get America back on track? I'm being sarcastic here.