AJ39's Comments (225)

“The Govt. Option wasn't yet taken out in writing.

However, it was PROMISED that it would be taken out.
Landrieu and Lincoln WON in the end. That was the only way for Reid to get the bill into the discussion phase. It would still need 60 votes to get out of discussion, although individual amendments only need 51 votes along the way.
So Landrieu gets to keep her 300 million and gets the G.O. killed at the same time!

Read the 3rd line from this Politico story:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29795.html

"The Govt. run insurance plan effectively Died in the Senate Chamber tonight"”

“Yes we can!”

“Ain't that the truth, but it's the way Democrats operate.

When the GOP was in power, the message given out was:

Go perch & rotate, we outnumber you. Deal with it!”

“Just my opinion, but Contessa just reads the questions and doesn't appear to digest the answers. sometimes she looks like she is in over her head....Bu­t, Hey! Not everybody likes Rocky Road Ice Cream. That's why they got different flavors. I do agree that Ashley Banfield was treated badly.”

“LOL”

“I did not know that!”

“LOL!!! Excellent!”

“Now that makes sense.”

“You don't see how not voting Democratic Party again will help?
How bout this...per­haps we NEED another decade or so of Republican rule (though I'm beginning to wonder if there is much to choose from between them) to really drive this country to desperate straights, desperate enough that we get the change we actually need?
This bill is a travesty, it certainly isn't "reform". A mandate to purchase health care insurance from the very companies that are the cause of the problem? Yeah, that works great.”

“The families who couldn't afford it still can't. There is no cap on premiums- only no rejections. It is worse than nothing in that it takes more money away when they had none.
This bill has the potential to be crippling to so many.”

“that's not the problem. All governments have to form coalitions from different views and tendencies to be able to function.

The problem is that the us goverment only serves corporate interests. Behind closed doors, the reform was negotiated and watered down to be exactly the bill the corporate interests wanted.. And as distraction, we get a side circus of radical politics playing 24 hours on cable. Ignorance, racism and xenophobia are equivalent to patriotism and love for america.”

“Maybe his golf game got better while the were troops getting all blown up.”

“Agreed. Don't let this be the deal breaker. Besides which at the prices mentioned only the super rich or the government would be able to afford these drugs anyway.”

“God how statements like yours make my blood boil.

Protecting Big Pharma profits when it bankrupts and murders thousands/hundreds of thousands of people can hardly be characterized as 'the perfect being the enemy of the good'.

And if you or someone you loved had breast cancer and could not afford a biologic to keep you alive....y­ou wouldn't be so darned flip about it either. This amendment is wrong, it is evil, it will cause Americans irrevocable harm and even death. It does not belong in a "reform" bill period.”

“There is NO point in keeping those seats if they ALWAYS have to vote Republican anyway.

If they want to vote against gun control, fine.

If they want to vote against health care, it is NOT fine.

The liberals will keep their jobs, but good luck winning in a conservative district without a strong liberal base.

That is how Blue Dogs win, they have a strong liberal base and peel away some votes from the GOP....as hard as it is to win without peeling away as many of those conservative votes.....­the Blue Dogs are dead in the water without the silent liberal minorities in their districts working for them.”

“and does not give his guests time to reply but talks over them frustrating”

“A.J., you just got fanned. My daughter lost her job a few months ago and she isn't into politics like her mother, but she said the same thing about Chris answering his own questions. In fact, she won't let me watch it anymore when she is in the room,

I don't know what has happened to Chris. He declaried the public option dead and I think he is trying to help kill it to make his point. I wonder if he is going to the right because Ed is so far to the left. (I can't watch him anymore.). But he is going off the reservation more every day. And I am so sick of Pat. Who cares what he thinks?”

“Smugly sitting back? He tried to finish it by August but it was ble dogs who have delayed it. No matter how much Obama spoke with them. We don't know what he's been doing behind the scenes but whatever it is, I am pretty sure he was not just sitting back.

Lieberman's a hack to hates Democrats ever since they dumped him and ran an awful candidate in the Connecticut primaries. Ever since he seems to be free to sh-t on everything he wants.”

“You truly, truly don't understand the process.

Please read: http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2009/10/26/13159/249

This summer was about letting the looney tunes voices crest and ebb. Pushing back against folks like the teabaggers only gives them momentum -- if you wait them out, they eventually run out of steam.

So now, on the eve of actually getting working legislation, the public option is more popular than it's ever been.”

“He is still being blamed entirely by the right for introducing the term tea bagging, and it is common for his sexuality to also be explicitly pointed out by the writer doing the blaming and for commenters to make a lot of comments about his sexuality and hoping his show goes off air.

It is not "playing the gay card" when the role of sexuality is blatantly obvious. The only right wing article I have seen that didn't blame him for being the source of "tea bagging" was one months ago that claimed "tea bagging" had been hatched as a gay/lesbian conspiracy between Cooper, Maddow and blogger Andrew Sullivan.

The tea bagging label, as you may have noticed is REALLY resented by the right wing and a lot of them hate him now and have been salivating over any evidence of his downfall directly because of their associating him with tea bagging thing. I have noticed a lasting ratings drop since he made the tea bagging joke and was blamed for the phenomenon because he a gay man. People like you were never watching so you are not relevant, but there were moderate republicans who were watching and stopped and have tried to get others to stop.”

“We are talking about ratings falls over recent months (i.e ratings Cooper used to have that he does not now). You have never liked his show and were not a viewer who has left in recent months. The complaints you have (promoted too much too soon, not a serious enough journalist, not Aaron Brown) are not complaints someone who was a 360 viewer would suddenly have in recent months.

I may have expressed myself too quickly and briefly, but I was describing what actually has happened to him in regard to the right wing. He made a quick, relatively subtle joke one night "it's hard to talk when you're tea bagging" in reply to Gergen saying the republicans weren't offering policy alternatives. Tea bagging jokes about protesters had been made extensively already for weeks on various websites and by multiple MSNBC TV personalities, but the right wing blogs and press have continually wrongly credited Cooper with coining the term "tea bagging" for protesters, bringing it to TV and popularizing it. He was immediately attacked when he used the term by right wing blogs saying explicitly it was a gay term he knows because he's gay, and they provided pics of him on the cover of the gay magazine the Advocate in their posts to drive things home. There were a lot of republicans at that time who not only declared they would never watch his show again, but also tried to get him fired.”

“Please don't leave out Brooksley Born who, as head of the CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission), warned the financial holy trinity--Greenspan, Rubin, and Summers, in the 1990s that they needed to regulate the derivatives market. She's another American woman who has spoken out for the consumer and who knows her stuff.

Check out the Frontline video that outlines her efforts here:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/view/”

“Try being less divisive. We all breath, we all dream, we all bleed, we all die.

Build from the common ground. Divisiveness gives the monied interests their power. Divide and conquer

Robin Hood Sheila has been flatly complicit in her duty to shutdown insolvent institutions immediately, and at enforcing reserve requirements at them before they got to the point of insolvency. She is also lying about the solvency of her own damned organization.

FDIC will be hat-in-hand to congress shortly.”