420's Comments (523)

“Just so you know. Dubya did not spend much time in church on any day of the week and Muslims revere Jeebus.

You're no Edison, are you?”

“So you know BOTH Christians and Muslims (Islam) originate from the "God of Abraham", they are RELATED!”

“Actually, Bush did not go to church. But I take your point.”

“What does having auto LIABILITY insurance have to do with this health care fraud?”

“I'm a Independent and I disagree with you 100%. Don't do my talking or thinking for you me. I voted for Obama and other Democrats this time, it won't happen again. So please don't be speaking for everyone else because you say so.”

“yes,obama can only do so much...yet i dont see him doing "so much"...nothing close to so much.seems closer to "so little"...

it seems as if theyre so afraid of turning off centrist moderate independent whatevers....

yet bush went in,and basically pushed through their most important ideas.w/ no regard for the middle.and as close as the 04' election was,he did get re elected,no?

i understand that he cant simply push through every progressive aspect of the platform in the first yr,but this-healthcare-was the no.1 reason i voted for the man.it was what i used to sell his candidacy to others.

i actually convinced my mom-a lifelong cons.,who happens to be a christian,but a christian w/ a conscience who views healthcare as a moral obligation.
she basically disagreed w/ obama on every other issue,yet i sold her based on his plans for hc reform.and now this...”

“He can do more than he has done on health care reform. He can be a leader. That's what we expected, no?”

“Please remember that both the House and members of Congress were outraged that Obama held secret meetings and guaranteed deals with Pharma and the insurance industry at the very start of things, tying their hands to do more in their bills early on, such as drug re-importation. Obama and his admin (Rahm) have strong-armed progressives from day one, while praising Republicans who where obstructionist and calling the process death panels, instead of pushing for real reform and standing up to support HIS campaign promises. While Reid and others in Congress have been wimps, the White House has completely propped up those who have threatened to filibuster or block real reform.

This recent survey doesn't reflect anything less than what the majority of Americans have wanted from the beginning, which has been ignored from the outset.”

“While the core of the matter is in congress, Obama sure can do more here!

He can immediately...

1) Declare the "must haves in a bill coming his way"
2) Threaten a presidential VETO on any bills short changing the declared must haves
3) Tell his staff to stop slamming leaders in his own party who are now opposed to this travesty of a reform bill.
4) Get withthe business of reform rather than "deal brokering" as the WH priority!
5) Stop listening to Rahm's bad guidance on this matter!

The President is too consumed with wanting a bill to sign, rather than consumed by the language in the bill. It seems he wants to be seen too much "backing the winning horse" bill rather than acting Presidential and weilding the power of his office to say "look, the bill better contain the following, and if it does not my VETO pen comes out!"

The President needs to spend less time brokering a deal and more time driving defined reform on behalf of the people or his popularity will continue to slide (only faster) and the Dems will lose some seats at the midterms. His WH staff made the wrong bet on this and now team WH is paying consequences.”

“absolutely, i am disappointed with some of Obama's actions BUT HE IS INFINITELY BETTER THAN THE REPUBS”

“Then put it up for a vote and let the repubs, Lieberman, Nelson et.al.
vote it down and let them take the blame.”

“Amen

I really didn't expect too much from Obama. Just that he wouldn't take us any further down the wrong road than the Bush Crime Family did. But Afghanistan, big Pharma, HCR and Don Siegelman (among others) have all been big red signs than it's the "SOS."”

“I agree but until we eliminate private contributions and go to public funded only we will never see it. The two parties are too attached by their money belts to their corporate masters and will never vote to close the campaign funding flow.”

“Ever wonder why campaign reform is the worst nightmare of lobbyist?

Dem and GOP.... equal the same traitors to democratic processes.

I had hope, now I don't... the war escalation put me on the edge, with Obama's support of no public option, I'm no longer buying he is our President. He is the President of Corporate America. I'm not a citizen of that.”

“I honestly think this country is ready for more parties in the midst of this fiasco. The interests of neither progressives nor conservatives have been represented for a long time. If one major group gets the nads to split off, I think all h3ll will break loose, and maybe we can all get some representation, instead of just big business.”

“why are you blaming bush;the same reason they are ididots”

“Why is he standing there lying through his teeth that all of the elements he wanted in the bill are included? Where are the provisions ensuring that insurance companies will be reined in from increasing premiums to astronomical heights?

This is certainly his Misson (Almost) Accomplished moment. This bill has some good components but he should NOT be presenting it as if it is true reform or what he meant to achieve all along. We are NOT stupid. This kind of stagecraft and empty rhetoric dimishes the President.”

“The other side gets to vote too. I'm sure they might take issue with the "kill off the GOP" routine.

Progressives seem to think they are the majority. It's cute, really.”

“Oh the American people are going to be dumping quite a few incumbents in 2010... and replacing them with republicans.”