These are different times. Harry & Louise could then fool some of the suckers (some of the time) but everyone knows all too well how HMO’s worked out & how the insurance companies behaved afterward. Economic gain in the ’90’s has turned into economic pain. Anxiety and uncertainty has resulted in ‘change you can believe in.’

I have broadcast my concerns about Obama and the Democrats on this site for quite some time & they’re busily living down to my expectations. However, anxiety works both ways. In the last few days, I’ve received e-mails & telephone calls from the local Repubs (Bill Young R-yeuk, Putnam R-puke, etc). Guess all my nefarious comments about Bush 43 really were monitored by the NSA! I have been in my current residence >20 years – how did they get my e-mail address? Guess my e-mail to Sen. Nelson (D-liar) about voter payback for his blue-dogness really did some good!!!

Under a single payer health plan, every one would get their choice of doctors and hospitals. It has nothing to do with nationalizing these assets. It has everything to do with eliminating moral hazard, information asymmetry, and the adverse selection problem which creates the single most expensive health care and 37th most effective health care delivery system in the world. We simply pay too much in this failed market.

I don’t need to resort to personal attacks when people use fallacy and fantasy to make their arguments.

Fortunately the American people are smarter than Obama, Pelosi and Reid, and the likelihood of this disaster becoming law is dying quickly.

Now that a conservative has thrown his two cents in, feel free to use personal attacks; its what liberals do best these days.

P.S. — There are 50 Reasons to Stop Obamacare:

http://pastehtml.com/view/090728AE3C8LCP.html

Yeah, I’m RIGHT there with “Waterloo” Senator Jim DeMint. I mean, where did moving forward ever get us but in unfamiliar territory, and then what, “Single Payer?!?” Conservatives are RIGHT about HEALTH CARE Reform killing off the old people, poof Alzheimer’s, all gone. Like my daddy told Truman, “Harry, what in God’s name is the hurry? As far as I can see, throughout the Halls of Congress, everyone is covered, at least their asses.” “To the right, ever to the right; Never to the left, forever to the right; May our creed be never to exceed; Regulated speed, no matter what the need.”

Now all of a sudden our HEALTH CARE system isn’t good enough. This is all the fault of FDR giving LBJ “Great Society” ideas. We’ve always been Great for the RIGHT people. Next thing they’ll be drudging up JFK and claiming that HEALTH CARE too, “is a moral issue as old as the scriptures and as solid as the Constitution.” The Declaration of Independence may offer “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, but the Constitution says nothing about HEALTH CARE for all Americans. Getting a Driver’s License is the RIGHT way to think about this: HEALTH CARE is a privilege (not a right) rewarded by locals, and we can trust them (a lot more than some foreigner from Hawaii) to get it RIGHT.

RIGHT now, healing HEALTH CARE is just way too reckless and painful an adjustment. Isn’t it enough we can’t use the N word in public anymore. I mean being Red is RIGHT as long as you stick to the code: “To the right, ever to the right; Never to the left, forever to the right; We have gold, a market that will hold; Tradition that is old, a reluctance to be bold.” Now being RIGHT may sound like FRIGHT, but those that’s got the Gold makes the rules, and what’s RIGHT can always scare up enough frantic support. Reagan was RIGHT: the economy can take care of itself. The best thing our Government can do is allow America’s major corporations to boost the American economy from the top down. Obviously Corporate leadership knows the RIGHT way to take care of the Middle Class and lower income citizens; RIGHT people don’t need government. They stimulate the old fashioned way, by investing their Golden Parachutes in as many yachts, mansions and high tech obsolete war munitions, as possible. Then the rest of us will see some money. Now, in your heart of hearts, you know that’s RIGHT, RIGHT?

“Change” is a foreign concept to the institutionalized, be they Bankers, Insurance & Pharmaceutical Boards, or even those who’ll do all the RIGHT things to maintain their Capital Hill employment security. Besides, when did Progressive thinking become a good thing for real Americans. What’s wrong with being RIGHT all of a sudden? I mean, where would we be now if it weren’t for such great Americans like war mongers Rumsfeld & Wolfawitz, or Defenders of Justice Gonzales & Addington, or Constitutional script doctors Yoo & Rove, or the out of sight, but not out of commission, shell game artist: Tom DeLay; not to mention my personal favorite for whom we’ll all end up bending over to support — Super Dick: Cheney. Now that’s what’s RIGHT about America!

RIGHT now I’m certain Mitch McConnell, John Boehner and Bill Kristol already know what The C Street FAMILY has decided is RIGHT HEALTH CARE for the rest of us. “The FAMILY” is the proof of the Righteousness of the RIGHT. “Cancer on the Presidency” be damned. Doug Coe and Family are now RIGHT in the Congress: “Boil, Boil, Toil and Trouble.”
“Come ye cool, cold conservative men; The likes of which may never be seen again (don’t bet on it!); With our land, cash in hand; Self-command, future planned; And we’ll hold to our gold; Tradition that is old; reluctant to be bold. “To the right, ever to the right; Never to the left, forever to the right; May our creed be never to exceed; Regulated speed, no matter what the need.”
Signed: Not so Stupidly Yours, Cause we’re insured under the Right FAMILY plan,
Conservatives: The RIGHT People

Comment By: MARCELLO ROLLANDO,
(with all due respect to Sherman Edwards)
A Reasonable Voice for a Rebirth of Freedom, Honesty and the Rule of Law = This is what it means to be a Progressive American!
Thursday 30 July 2009

Personally, I think the Blue Dogs are Republicans. We should kick them to the curb, cut our losses, and rebuild the Party without them while the Republicans are still weak and in the rebuilding process themselves.

If we don’t do this, then vote after vote, year after year, we can expect the Blue Dogs will continue to blackmail the Democratic Party and the 10s of 1,000,000s of voters they (the party) represents.

I did not say I preferred the Baucus bill to none at all, I said that stopping that travesty is not enough. We must have something better – for the people, for the party, for everyone except the insurance companies and their lobbyists.

Why do we continue to get these failed old policy suggestions?

FDR was pushed to the left by liberals, and as a result he became one of the greatest Presidents ever. Just like the companies that spend time and money to influence politicians, ordinary voters expect that politicians they supported will be effective advocates for them. President has the momentum and the support. Will he take the current when it serves? If so, he could also be be one of the greatest.

If President Obama really wins this battle for the American people, maybe it will do what the National Labor Relations Act did for FDR. It might restore people’s faith in the process, and encourage them to become more involved.

It is a fact that health care reform will have both winners and losers. If we are successful, a few health insurance companies will lose but every other American company and citizen will win. We will be able to compete on a more even playing field with other developed nations.

I proudly voted for Obama. In fact, during his inauguration, I had tears of joy running down my cheeks. I truly thought we all got together to accomplish something great, something once in a generation. But, after only 6 months in office, and after repeatedly giving Obama the benefit of the doubt (he’s much smarter than me; he must know something that I don’t; I just gotta let him do his thing), I feel duped.

I didn’t vote for Hillary. While I do think she’s brilliant, more than qualified for higher office, extremely hardworking, and truly patriotic, I had a real problem with her (quoting Carl Bernstein) “Lifelong difficult relationship with the truth.”

Well, I made a mistake. I now believe that Hillary was right. Obama is just pretty words. If Obama thinks he can keep getting away with appeasing everyone in the country but the people who worked so hard to put him in office, I think he’s going to be greatly surprised come next election.

Hillary 2012