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Politico outlines what Obama will say in his Wednesday speech:
| Politico | Translation |
| Obama will lay out a specific “President’s Plan,” even if he doesn’t call it that. | More "goodybag" |
| "He will not confront or scold the left….The politics of triangulation don’t live in this White House.” | Yeah, we know how to read a poll, thanks. |
| He will make an overture to Republicans. | Olympia Snowe? She’s a Republican, right? |
| He will make it clear that it’s better to get something done than nothing done. | If I don’t pull this out, PhRMA’s gonna leave me for Boehner. |
| Obama will try to reassure the left about his commitment to a public option, or government insurance plan. Aides said they are rethinking what he will say about this. | What’s Portugese for "trigger"? |
| “He has consistently said that he thinks the public option is an important way to make sure that there is both cost and competition control….He’s always said he’d be happy to look at any proposal that gets to these goals, but that he thinks this is probably the best better way to do it.” | Someone who doesn’t worry about poll numbers gives Grandma the bad news. Compromise…triggers! |
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Portuguese for trigger is “disparador,” apparently.
If we have to wait until 2013 anyway, isn’t that a trigger?
From Think Progress:
Grassely is being dishonest with his Senate collegues. Big Surprise.
Exclusive: Grassley Attends Secret Miami Fundraiser And Touts Opposition To Obama Health Care Plan
I’m wanting to hear Obama explain to everyone why he thinks process is more important than results. And while he’s at it he can explain why the parasitic health insurance racket is more important than everyone in the United States.
Ooo,Ooo, I know.
It’s because when the really big, important, planet-saving bill comes up, the Republicans will back him 100%.
Thanks, that one had me scratching my head for hours.
In the long run, we’re all triggered.
The trigger was the first person denied coverage. That many have died or lost homes is overkill trigger. That is all.
No, that’s a delay. A trigger means that the plan wouldn’t be available unless and until the insurance cos. failed to meet certain standards (not yet specified, AFAIK). I assume that this test would be applied separately in each state, but I don’t really know that.
ya know, even though I have a pretty sharp tongue, there are a few pejoratives i try not to use because they’re just so offensive.
But reading the list Jane provides above, the timidity is striking.
I thought I had voted for a fighter. Maybe he was someone who saves the fight until he REALLY needs it, a velvet glove cast in iron, a happy warrior, whatever you want to call it, but still a fighter.
So I’m gonna pull out one of the big ones.
Obama is not a fighter. He’s a pussy, and not the good kind.
Hmmm, disparador… phonetically in English, Despair Adore.
Yep, Triggers = I love despair
; )
So, if by some miracle Obama insists the final bill must include a public option, what would need to happen to get that passed?
- Tom
Mike Pence: The public option will be too good, and all the employers will want it too. (Therefore we can’t have it)
I see that Axelrod is being weasely this morning, the public option is not the core of health care reform. Gibbs avoids the question of vetoing a bill without it.
Bob Dole admits the truth: Republicans are opposed to a popular public plan because it would hurt the insurance companies.
They say the Insurance cartel will have five years to clean up their act. Ha! What they mean is they’ll have five years to kill the public option.
Heh! Oh, Pence can smell the Big Pharma money in his nostrils already.
totally weasly
For realz? Not that this surprises me, but you’d think he’d know not to be so honest about it.
Are you sure it’s “disparador”? Cuz the best translation I’ve seen is “falência.”
Ive never said this before, but i think i’d really like to see this whole thing go down the toilet. Insuance and drug industry has probably spent a billion or so on this, let them lose it all.
Don’t say that. That’s exactly what the ins cos want. They will just continue to profit from “death by spreadsheet”. Reform is desperately needed, no other way to put it.
So, let’s see. It’s ok for the O-team to renege on many major campaign promises, for Rahm to scream “fucking stupid” and show his utter contempt for us progressives, for the Repugs to bitch-cry-moan-obstruct and lie, etc., but a promising bright light in the administration has to be let go ’cause he signed a 9/11 investigation petition five years ago. This is so wrong!
Dean: Van Jones resignation a ‘loss for the country’
BY DAVID EDWARDS AND DANIEL TENCER Published: September 6, 2009 Updated 2 hours ag
“The resignation of Van Jones from his position as the White House’s green jobs czar is a “loss for the country,” Howard Dean told Fox News Sunday morning.
“The former Vermont governor and chair of the Democratic National Committee told Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace that Jones had been essentially tricked into signing a petition in 2004 asking for an investigation into the possibility of US government involvement in the 911 attacks.
. . .
“Dean added that “this guy is a Yale-educated lawyer, he’s a best-selling author. … I think he was brought down, I think Washington’s a tough place that way. I think it’s a loss for the country.”
More.
One more horror-story, this one from McCain-land.
And this says it all for me.
What will Obama say? How about, “I surrender so that we may have healthcare in our time.”
The process is more important because through the process the status quo can be maintained. Will the revolution be televised?