camipco's Comments (158)

“Well said. The fact is , like it or not, Bush was a better President for his constituents than Obama is.
He got whatever he wanted passed(except soc. sec privatizing) . The hope I felt after eight long years of hell, has all but dissipated. I am a lifelong liberal, but I am so disillusioned and angry. I would like to start my anti depressants again, but they are too expensive!”

“obama is no progressive. he campaigned as if he were, but his true inclinations have since come out.”

“I think the problem Progressives have with this bill is that the money goes to insurance companies. The impression I have is that progressives would rather see insurance companies punished than the 30 million or so people get insurance.

This is more anti-corporation than pro-health care.”

“Money that is forced from our pockets through taxes and then given--by law--to private insurance companies who become even richer. "Subsidy" isn't a magic word that means free. It's another tax-supported give-away to the rich.”

“lol. I can't imagine the phrase President Santorum any better than President Sheetstain. *shivers*”

“Oh the republicans would never go for that. Sorry. That would be "socialism" for the people. In this country we only have socialism for the well-connected and the corporate whores.”

“Yup”

“No way Hugo, stop trying to get in our game. Only is the US can you have too-big-to-fail banks. You have been w@arned.”

“And the color scheme is totally ripoff Pan African.”

“general Welfare is not federal controlled health care...unless you are a liberal

To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers...but not if they were not delegated to the United States by the Constitution.

The US has had federal government provided healthcare since at least 1930 (the VA) and Medicare since 1965. Those haven't been ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, and they are both far more federally controlled than the voluntary public option the current bill proposes...

Medicare is unconstitutional, just because "Those haven't been ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court" does NOT mean they are NOT in violation of the 10th amendment.

"...voluntary public option the current bill proposes..." VOLUNTARY? peloci's bill will fine and possibly jail you if you don't participate.

So, yeah, you don't have a clue what you're talking about.”

“Another entitlement to further burden the middle class and reduce their standard of living. If you can't afford medical insurance for your children then you should not have had children. This will only encourage the poor to have more children to burden the working middle class.”

“I agree Camipco, it should be run something like a debate. Solo argument followed by questions, followed by other argument, followed by questions - each in proper order. If the other justices have not already made up their minds, then why don't they just shut up and let the lawyer finish his/her limited time to speak, and THEN ask questions? The justices are too aggressive with their questioning; only Sotomayor gets a pass for now until she has had time to get into the flow.”

“You cannot be serious - he's by far the worst justice on the bench, and in 99% of cases, you know exactly how he'll vote by simply listening to Scalia.”

“When are you folks going to wake up and realize that "Hey! I just got slapped upside the head again and it hurt!" and DO SOMETHING?
How much slapping upside the head does it take?”

“The nerve of these people. Not only do they want to do this to us and our children, but they want us to pay for the privilege!”

“NO MORE LIKE HOPING WE ARE”

“Perhaps someone should organize a campaign to send Senator Bogus copies of the Constitution.”

“Excellent!”

“Ha! Love the last line!”

“Peace?

That's a wimpy leftist point of view no?

War is what 'real' men (and pit bulls) do.”

“Put her in charge of fixing the mortgage/banking crisis? Are you crazy?

Put her in charge of everything. She's awesome.

At least get her a new picture for HuffPo. That floating head picture is disturbing.”

“Yeah, I need to get me one of those.”

“How can they make a studied decision, if they don't understand all the facts? And how can they learn the facts if they don't question? If they don't have all the facts, how can they apply the constitution and the law appropriately?

It would seem that the stuffy Supreme Court members have an inflated opinion of themselves, and apparently feel that they are above the rank and file... Did you see some of the comments they made after Ms Sotomayor was confirmed? Some of them were unbelievable! And some comments were close to sounding like a dysfunctional group. It is scary to think that the members are really so out of touch from reality due to the culture of academia which they have created, and into which they have retreated.

Furthermore, the Supreme Court has been stacked by Bush appointees, which have demonstrated that they are definitely pro big corporations.

As for Justice Thomas??? well, like all the others, he's there for life... no matter what.”

“You have a point.

Shouldn't repudiation of stare decisis automatically disqualify someone for the Supreme Court?”

“True.”

“Arguably, THIS is a public option proposal. Does 4 more proposals that look like this one inspire confidence?”