kdubbg's Comments (335)

“sent from my iPhone.”

“Like my dear old dad used to say, "If they had two brains they'd be twice as dumb." In this case it might be literally true.”

“that's the last time I try to comment from my phone. Huffpost iPhone app fail.”

“is ther
anything she won't quit?”

“*click*

IGNORE.”

“Great misuse of logic. One side is saying Obama=Hitler and you demand that we who oppose the protest address their "substance"?

There is no "substance" with which to debate. The protesters are the misguided victims of a propaganda machine, pure and simple.”

“where were these d bags the last eight years?”

“where”

“The biggest flaw in your argument is that you think that progressives want something for nothing. That is not the case. We all pay taxes and we all pay into insurance plans of some kind, so we statistically are healthier than conservatives.

What we progressives want is to be able to obtain the largest possible risk pool as well as be able to keep our coverage when we lose our jobs. We want to have better health outcomes without going bankrupt. If the private insurance industry could provide that then we wouldn't object to it continuing.

The last time I had to go to the emergency room the first person who sat down with me wasn't an MD, it wasn't a nurse, it was someone whose job it is to check to see what insurance I have. That is literally "someone between you and your doctor." The current model is obviously broken and getting worse with each day spent wasting our energy over 'death panels.'

The fact is that government is already paying for some of the sickest and least able to pay individuals in Medicaid and Medicare while private insurance is cherry picking who can get treatment from among the least risky. Insurance companies know they have us over a barrel and are making astronomical profits doing it. And you want that to continue.”

“Why is Henry Waxman even in the picture on the front page that's linked to this story??”

“srsly.  FTW!”

“And also uses periods to represent spastic twitches.”

“The CIA has done tons of awesome stuff. It's just that it's a secret. So you can't know about it. Ever.”

“We're just calling you on your lies. The president has been trying to get cons on board to provide ANY ideas about health care and your puppets can't do it.

You people who believe these malicious falsehoods have been sucking on the teat of Fox News for so long you don't know anything but what the propaganda machine tells you. Everything you said was wrong. factcheck.org”

“Lies:
Cap & trade merely monetizes the reduction in CO2 released into the atmosphere, meaning that it creates a market. That isn't going to kill jobs, because it will add jobs in other sectors like alternative energy and retrofitting.

The stimulus package has been responsible for saving over 1 million jobs that would have been otherwise lost.

The health care debate has been going on for about a hundred years, and in its current form for the past sixteen, which is plenty of time to understand the issues.

Also the House voted against the planes. So there.”

“Rush and his Ilk get way too many pixels here on Huffpo.”

“It's what's known as a term of art or nomenclature, a word or concept that has a specific meaning to that area of interest.

Here is the definition of eliminationism:

Eliminationism, often playing a key role in fascist ideology, is the attitude that those who disagree with you on some fundamental issue are not simply wrong-headed but, rather, an enemy which needs to be "eliminated" somehow.”

“That is just plain misinformed and wrong. He has the power to hold down costs with many mechanisms, some of which are in the bill. Increasing the risk pool of government plans will decrease costs. Adding more results-based care (the Mayo clinic model) will also decrease costs. Adding negotiating power for drug prices decreases costs. The fact is that our whole health care system wastes a huge amount of money without a commensurate increase in results. We can achieve better health outcomes AND spend less, but there must be some driving force behind the cost reductions, because the insurance companies aren't going to do it on their own.”

“Nothing's preventing you from reading it.

Except either laziness or the inability to read.

http://docs.house.gov/edlabor/AAHCA-BillText-071409.pdf”

“Straight up lies! I've read the text of all the different versions of the bill and it says nothing of the kind! And the thing is he acknowledges what the end-of-life counseling actually is and then still perpetuates the myth.

I call shenanigans.”

“Too soon?

Yeah.”

“You've obviously never had Mitch McConnell's Moon Cheese lasagna. Dee lish.”

“I just found out that medicare covers Amputations!

Run for your life Grandpa!!

The're is coming for your legs with a chainsaw!!!!

Obama is Leatherface!!!”

“The answer is in the question. Intelligent, self respecting Republicans are a dying breed.”

“You're bought and paid for by the health insurance industry. Do they pay you in 30 pieces of silver or just the regular dirty money?”