rpmcestmoi's Comments (42)

“Government involved in health care up to eyeballs: Medicare. Low overhead and it works. No 5million dollar insurance pimps involved.”

“Disapointment is a proper response to Larry Summers and company and the finance cabal. And if I hear Summer referred to as an economic geniu one more time I am going to throw up.”

“W woulda dunnit without thinking. Good at that. Look arounja. His work. Woops, I'm going to Craford.”

“Smart. Thanks.”

“TOE the line.

The question is not party, per se, but rationality (make health care available at reasonable cost to all, as in the rest of the world where shoes are regularly worn) or feed insurance pimps who so nor add anything to human well being.
Joe Lieberman is a bad guy. He is the toady of the insurance industry..­.that's all Connecticut has besides grassy lawns, insurance companies.
I think we might be able to buy him off if we approve all of the present and future illegal (by Israeli law) and throw in a few passes on bombing non-Israelis.
And not only am I not an anti-semite (a misuse that is common, given that most of the folks in the area, Muslim and Jew, are semites, but all Jews are not semites) but a supporter of the great Israeli journalist Amira Haas who has just won an award for her courageous reporting.”

“Is everybody having affordable health care bad for the American people? The American people overwhelmingly think it is a good thing.”

“What the hell is iz Cheney besides the daughter of that awful couple celebrated by the booboisie? She has no background that allows here to comment on anything of significance.”

“I have to agree.

Arianna's fans say "spot on!" I say, slow down and keep your eye on the ball. Let's support Joe Biden and push the president but this is not Nixon and Watergate and Eliot Richardson time.”

“Feinstein is an unreliable senator, one of my two, and she has a fondness for aggression and insurance companies. Bad taste. Bad hair. Bad Senator.”

“McChrystal is a head case. You need that kind of insane dedication when you are leading troops over a hill toward a fortified enemy position, but the absurd monkishness of the true believe in a guy driving a nation's efforts and leaking his views before sharing them with the President is wrong. This guy needs therapy, not adulation.”

“Very smart analysis. Thanks.”

“TIME has no reason to exist any more. It was once a stronger Newsweek with excellent young writers and great warhorses covering stories and beats very well before the new emphasis on radio and tv news (tv news in the present is a joke, however, and less relevant than even TIME) and th advent of the internet and interested people having access to the world's best journalism minute by minute.
It is a badly written and edited corporate rag. Even in the days of right wing Henry Luce it was a beautifully crafted if often twisted magazine, but it was never a joke. This kind of thing around Beck is a commercial, for criminy's sake. Polite company would turn its collective back on this guy who is both cynical manipulator and three bricks shy of a load. I think he and the florid "leader" of the Republicans in the house ought to get together for a weekly cry-in. After lunch is the best time for the representative, when his tears are fortified.
My guess is that TIME will not be around within 18 months.”

“Baucus is just trying to hold this thing up, confuse the populace, and feed the avaricious medical-insurance complex that has all of the power of the military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned us about. see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-filipowicz/health-insurance-industry_b_246523.html for the sympathy these folks have for each other. Let's cut Baucus's national insurance we are paying for, and that of every other sob decrying the high cost of doing what is right.”

“No compromise on a public component. What the president needs to say tomorrow:

I am pleased to be speaking to the two august legislative bodies of this great country, here in joint session in the place of the people, the capitol building of the United States.
And I am pleased to look around me and see the robust and healthy congress that you are, supported in your maintenance of health by the finest health system in the country, one made and administered by the government, of which you are all members, and paid for by the American people.
Though some are rumored to take a different view, that such health care is beyond our means as a nation or that our government would not be able to run it if such health care existed, we here are living proof of the fallacy of that rumored view.”

“Dear ALY, You don't think that the bail-out was not necessitated by Friedmanesque notions and the love of the "free" market? Clueless as hoover.org.”

“I think maybe he needs to wrestle the mob to the mat and ask them whether it is E Pluribus Unum or I've Got MIne, Mac.

I think he has to tell them that they don't want 22% of the population without health care.
"We're too good to be that mean. We need what congress gets for everybody. We don't want our uncles and cousins and friends who have suffered financially from illness, from lost jobs, who have lost houses and gone without and had their kids' illnesses become family crises; I don't think you want that to continue. I think all of us in this room want the right to good and steady and affordable health care for all of us, not just the people in congress, many of whom think right now that you have to wait... while they do not. If I am wrong about what you want for yourselves and every other American, then I think you may have voted for the wrong man to be your president.”

“You haven't seen my hamster, have you? CANDLEPINS ONLY.

You are right. You never go broke underestimating, etcetera. If we get through this thing with a bill that makes these sick sobs healthier, that will be the downside.”

“Liked him He had weight, part of which was that voice and that friendly "good uncle" brow. There were good people in the business which has not become strident and partisan and just plain stupid in some instances. The people running the business are as bad as any businessman cynically playing the public at the end of the electronic line.
Even Brinkley, who was not a particularly nice man, had a solid professionalism about him. You had to take him seriously. Rather as a younger man was solid, a real reporter. He stayed to long at the game and wanted to please his masters; that was when he got that "pleaser" look about his eyes, when it was clear he was looking for corporate approval.
Journalists are best when they are outsiders working inside, preferring not to please their too damn rich bosses, having a notion that getting a piece of what is true beats getting invited to dinner.
As Saul Alinsky once said to me, he only went to the establishment parties to piss in the punch bowl.”

“Cme on, Bob, you're evaluating him as if he were an ordinary human being with morals, scruples, empathy, a sane sister. You have it all wrong.
He is a tremendously cynical guy who stashed his real car and drove something tres Americain when he wanted to be in public office, feigned populism and concern for the working man, and generally insinuates himself wherever the check will clear.
He is a bad person pimping himself. Short story. Bad man posing for a dollar.”

“Re the mortgage problem, what would happen if the US simply told the banks to renegotiate at a given percentage and pay one half of the difference to the banks?”

“Spot on, Arianna, As usual.”

“And Arianna, of course, is Spot On to host you!!!!”

“And you, good sir, are Truly Spot ON!!”

“The writer of the piece indeed missed the point.

The Reader's subtlety is strong, the moral ambiguity is mostly on the part of the reader who does not clearly enough see his moral responsibility to save the life of another victim, an illiterate peasant who "had a job." It mirrors our own moral ambiguity, culpability, and amnesia related to so much horror that we, as people who "had a job" have allowed to be done in our names.”

“Amazing that not one of the jackals voted in the House of Representatives for the vital spending. Perhaps it was a lack of a promised body count at the end of the day. They like the boom-book stuff, the cops and robbers, the spending money on death. No a lot of personal warriorship there but they love the tv game war.
"millions for death-dealing but not a penny for nation improving.­"
An interesting party, the weepublican party.”