Comments on: Time To Hold Progressives In Congress To Their Promise

By: rexmundi

rexmundi — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:55:55 +0000

Well Happy Holidays to all of us. Barack Obama has just sold us down the river. It hurts — really hurts — to admit it, but this Chicago hustler has taken our good hearts and played us for complete suckers. Why do I feel like Tiger Woods’ wife?

This bill is worse than the status quo; it is an abomination. (Again I cannot easily express my disgust that the teabagger crackpots who called it an “Obamanation” apparently knew something that we did not.) $1000000000s to insurance companies courtesy of this smooth talking empty suited liar from Chicago.

KILL THIS TRAVEST OF A PAYOUT TO INSURANCE COMPANIES ***NOW***.

By: socks

socks — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:18:39 +0000

Jyrinx, I agree.
No need to make people that can’t pay have to buy insurance that will skyrocket in price (along with everything else).
The measures in the Senate bill, minus mandated buyin, are the very things that reconciliation wouldn’t be able to touch.
so drop the mandate and do single payer vs. Public Option vs. Medicare by-ins, do a CBO on each of them and punt for the goal of the best CBO report.

By: timbo

timbo — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:50:36 +0000

Oh, the monster will grow if the economy keeps plunging. No one will be happy with this bill if it increases premiums to prop up profits for insurance company owners while at the same time we’re all being thrown out of work. It’s getting more and more obvious who is running things in Washington…and it isn’t us and it isn’t any party platform that dictates what does or doesn’t get done.

By: georgewalton

georgewalton — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:00:57 +0000

Forget Obama. In a single year he has proven he didnt deserve the job so why waste any worry on his not being rehired 3 years from now

Papa Obama has a talk with his daughter Malia about health care.

Malia:

Daddy, I’ve been reading about health care on the web. How do we get ours?

Papa:

Well, Honey, the government taxes the people. And because Daddy works for the government we get our health care paid for by them.

Malia:

Does it work for everyone like that?

Papa:

Well, uh, we’re working on it.

Malia:

And I read in school how in America over eight million kids like me don’t even have health care. How come?

Papa:

Oh, that’s because of the evil Republicans, Honey. Remember when we invited Mr. Lieberman for dinner the other night and he explained all about them? But we are going to change all that…

Malia:

When?

Papa:

Well, someday for sure.

By: letsgetitdone

letsgetitdone — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:45:42 +0000

If the bill is killed in the Senate, they can start another in the House using reconciliation, as Dean said. With reconciliation we’re more likely to get a good bill. Dean’s right.

By: hazmaq

hazmaq — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:58:06 +0000

Saw Woolsey a bit ago and she wouldn’t commit to saying NO. Not a good omen.

Here’s what i would say to our Congress:

-Vote YES for the horrible Lieberman bill? NO support of any kind in 2010 leaving you as targets for Republican whackos.

Say NO to the bad Senate Bill, come back to the table later as Dr. Howard Deans suggests?? AND WE’VE GOT YOUR BACK.

Let’s show the voters this group of Democrats won’t give one more dollar than necessary to the same industry that left them all out in the cold for years.

By: AitchD

AitchD — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:43:10 +0000

Right, I’ve been lying in wait for like two years, also left a trail of contributions and petition signatures here, ready to ‘permeate’ when the time was right. Anyway, no insult taken, but you wasted a comment.

By: sunshine

sunshine — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:34:51 +0000

Jane, you are awesome. You work tirelessly for us and I appreciate it.

Why don’t we pay for health care with a VAT tax? From a reader of the UAW’s Solidarity magazine:

Level the playing field
Fifty-eight countries tax imported products with a value added tax (VAT). Three do not: the United States, Gibraltar and Saudi Arabia.
The VAT ranges from 5 percent to 25 percent and must be paid the moment the goods are imported. Level the playing field on trade by imposing the same VAT tax percentages every country levies on our products and use their system.

The United States should charge a VAT tax on all imported products, and then President Obama can pay for health care with this revenue.

http://www.uaw.org/solidarity/09/1209/letter01.php

By: scrowder

scrowder — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:09:04 +0000

ahh, I see the White House PR team is trying to permeate this website as well.

Unfortunately, you’re not fooling anyone around here, go back to DKos jerk.

By: scrowder

scrowder — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:06:53 +0000

I just called Jim McDermotts office and came away quite outraged. The lady on the phone pretended she didn’t know what pledge I was talking about or what Lieberman bill I was referring to. Even when I explained, she kept acting like she hadn’t ever heard of any of these things. Like she didn’t even know what the healthcare debate I was referring to was about.

So I called her a liar. I asked how was it possible for her to work for Mr. McDermott and not know the first thing about the largest political debate in this nation for the past year?

So she hung up on me.