Heartlight3's Comments (634)

“Only insofar as 60 votes being needed to pass it. I certainly didn't care for any of their "ideas".”

“It's already deadlocked, haven't you noticed?”

“How can you say we have been dictatorial about the whole thing when everything we wanted has been removed from the bill to try to make the conservatives happy? Actually, I think the Repubs said in the very beginning that they wouldn't vote for it even if they got everything they wanted. Would you care to bet it still doesn't get any Repub votes even without any of the provisions the Dems have compromised out?”

“I have an idea. Let's scrap the Senate and start over.”

“Barbara may not have been able to twist her colleagues' arms to get a good health care bill passed, but how do you think Carly will help that situation?”

“Exactly HOW is this bill going to reduce the cost of Health Care in this country? These Senators keep saying that, but they have dropped everything that might have controlled costs. The only thing I can see that's left is 30 million more customers for the insurance companies in exchange for not denying people because of pre-existing conditions or dropping people once they have the insurance. (Unless they can no longer afford to pay their premiums and choose to pay a small fine rather than buying insurance instead of food. This sucks.”

“If you call for it three months ago and last week and against it now consistent.”

“If Reid doesn't take his chairmanship away, then I guess I'll be one of those voters Obama talked about who have realized that congress is useless, and just given up on politics.”

“We have already given up almost everything in hopes of getting a Republican vote or two, which we will end up not getting anyway. I hope the people of Connecticut are smart enough to vote him out next time around. Too bad that day is so far away.”

“If we persist in the idiocy I am seeing from our congress on just about every issue they are dealing with, how can we expect the world to take us seriously about anything? Our two party system has undermined itself into total ineffectiveness. I have been an activist for many years, but what is there to be excited about these days? Nothing can get accomplished when all anyone seems able to do is argue against whatever the other party wants. I don't see how I can participate in this government when it does not have the best interest of the people of this country at heart and all that is being done is squabbling like kids in a sandbox. I am thoroughly disgusted.”

“We need to stop all this ridiculousness and get single payer like every other civilized country that cares about it's people. This is appalling. What a waste of time, money and energy.”

“Is there anyone in either house of the congress who is interested in addressing the issue of corporations buying congresspeople? It seems like every controversial issue comes down to the fact that the congress is bought by corporate interests. Bribery is illegal if you call it bribery, but apparently not if you call it lobbying.”

“Those may be big cost control measures, but I don't think they will control costs for me. I would bet that even if my insurance company begins to use 90% of the premium dollars for actual health care, they still won't lower my premiums.”

“If you don't have enough money to feed your family, how do you propose they pay for health care? I guess compassion is not in your vocabulary.”

“Maybe they are all still in the closet.”

“So I don't see anything in the article or the comments that actually explains how this is Obama's fault?”

“Are you talking about Americans of Asian ancestry? Many, if not most, Asians in Hawaii are Americans.”

“I watched three of these Sunday morning news shows and in all three the hosts kept trying to get the Secretaries to make concrete statements about the exit strategy in Afghanistan. I got really irritated with all of them. You can't project anything concrete based on hypotheticals. They kept pushing and pushing for a definite in an indefinite context. It was as if the hosts were trying to get the officials to say something that they could throw back in their faces if things turn out differently than the plan. It reminds me of what they are doing with the unemployment issue. Back when he was trying to sell the stimulus, Obama stated a goal of keeping unemployment under around 8%, based on the best estimates of his advisors. Now that unemployment is at 10% everyone is screaming that he "promised" 8% and he didn't keep his "promise". There is a big difference between a hope or a goal and a promise. These hosts were pushing for the secretaries to say something that if things turn out differently than the President hopes and believes they will, the critics can rant about how he "promised" that we would leave in 2011, and he is going back on a "promise". I think the whole exercise in manipulation sucks, and these show hosts should be ashamed.”

“Maybe by the time 5 years is up people would like it so much that they would have to keep it.”

“You mean there are members of the Senate who don't ALREADY know the rules? What are they doing there, then?”

“Too bad Canada doesn't want us. They have good health care and a sound economy.”

“Good luck. It looks like they are diminishing the public option to the point that only a very few people will be eligible. From what you say about your current situation, you probably won't be one of them.”

“The "climategate" emails are irrelevant. Whether the planet is warming or cooling is not the main issue. The main issue is that we are polluting our planet. I don't think anyone can deny that. If we kill our oceans, pollute our water supply and deplete our aquifers, the only people who will survive are those who can adapt to poisoned drinking and irrigation water. As far as I can see it is a race between melting glaciers reducing the water supply that irrigates the world's food supplies and pollution and overextraction of our natural resources. Either way, it is unsustainable.”

“It does if you are one of the ones who won't be able to afford the price increase.”

“"The firm has since returned the funds with interest and reported record earnings for the first nine months of the year. "

If they aren't lending money, how do they make "record Profits"? Doesn't a bank have to do something to earn profits? Is money invested by private individuals called "profit'?”