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Republican Resistance to Health Care Reform

13 Aug

The sad but true thing about Republican resistance to the “socialism” of health care is that the more they deny we need it, and the more they support the cost of health care to sky rocket, the quicker more and more people will be losing their health care.

What happens when more and more people lose their healthcare and begin using the Emergency rooms that we allready spend billions on?  The greater the need for health care reform.  And not only will we need it more, we will be deeper in a hole for not having it to start with.

And need for the erroneously so called  “socialism” they so desperately run from will be greater and more costly

The “I have my healthcare and I dont care about anyone else” routine is wrong.  I talk to several republicans on the yahoo message boards and they all state categorically that they have their insurance and they dont care about others.  And the thought of helping others is absolutely abhorrent to them.  What has happened?  Is this the party of moral obligations or the all for me and fuck you party?

America is like a factory, the military, a doctors office, an engineering firm, a work cell or a firemans group.  You have to depends on everyone else.  if you don’t or cant, then its no longer a country.  Period.

Republican Resistance to Health Care Reform Will Bring health Care Reform that Much Quicker.

 
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Investor’s Business Daily Flops Hilariously

10 Aug

An editorial from the above rag seems to indicate that Steven Hawking would have no chnace to live were he in Britian.

People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.”

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY

The fact of the matter is, Stephen Hawking was born in Oxford. He currently teaches at the University of Cambridge. Oxford and Cambridge have something in common: They’re both in England. Which makes this editorial in Investor’s Business Daily unfortunate indeed.

Which leads me wonder why they never put the names of the person writing the editorial in the footnotes. this is just one more example of the lies being spread by people who oppose healthcare reform.

Sarah Palin was recently caught lying about healthcare saying it supports and encourages euthanasia which couldnt be further from the truth.

But what makes me the happiest? The fact that healthcare costs are rising so fast that soon more and more people will be losing their healthcare. And the costs will spiral even higher and the need for public healthcare will be even greater.

Thanks wannabe Republicans. The dems wont have to do a thing.

UPDATE 8/15/2009:  Hawking has since refuted the article stating:

“I wouldn’t be here today if it were not for the NHS,” he told the Guardian. “I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.”

One of the most brilliant men that has ever lived is far from worthless in any country. Its sad that republicans have to continue lying to run from the fact that we are our brothers keeper. And they also run from the fact that someday the Health Care providers they so aggressively support will turn on them

 
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Activist Wannabe Republicans

04 Aug

This morning, Politico reported that Democratic members of Congress are increasingly being harassed by “angry, sign-carrying mobs and disruptive behavior” at local town halls. For example, in one incident, right-wing protesters surrounded Rep. Tim Bishop (D-NY) and forced police officers to have to escort him to his car for safety.

This growing phenomenon is often marked by violence and absurdity. Recently, right-wing demonstrators hung Rep. Frank Kratovil (D-MD) in effigy outside of his office. Missing from the reporting of these stories is the fact that much of these protests are coordinated by public relations firms and lobbyists who have a stake in opposing President Obama’s reforms.

The lobbyist-run groups Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks, which orchestrated the anti-Obama tea parties earlier this year, are now pursuing an aggressive strategy to create an image of mass public opposition to health care and clean energy reform. A leaked memo from Bob MacGuffie, a volunteer with the FreedomWorks website Tea Party Patriots, details how members should be infiltrating town halls and harassing Democratic members of Congress:

Tea Bagger Memo

– Artificially Inflate Your Numbers: “Spread out in the hall and try to be in the front half. The objective is to put the Rep on the defensive with your questions and follow-up. The Rep should be made to feel that a majority, and if not, a significant portion of at least the audience, opposes the socialist agenda of Washington.”

– Be Disruptive Early And Often: “You need to rock-the-boat early in the Rep’s presentation, Watch for an opportunity to yell out and challenge the Rep’s statements early.”

– Try To “Rattle Him,” Not Have An Intelligent Debate: “The goal is to rattle him, get him off his prepared script and agenda. If he says something outrageous, stand up and shout out and sit right back down. Look for these opportunities before he even takes questions.”

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The Man That Murdered Thousands

15 Jun

The moron who would be king cant leave well enough alone.

From MSNBC

WASHINGTON – CIA Director Leon Panetta says former Vice President Dick Cheney’s criticism of the Obama administration’s approach to terrorism almost suggests “he’s wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point.”

Panetta told The New Yorker for an article in its June 22 issue that Cheney “smells some blood in the water” on the issue of national security.

Cheney has said in several interviews that he thinks Obama is making the U.S. less safe. He has been critical of Obama for ordering the closure of the detention facility at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, halting enhanced interrogations of suspected terrorists and reversing other Bush administration initiatives he says helped to prevent attacks on the United States.

Last month the former vice president offered a withering critique of Obama’s policies and a defense of the Bush administration on the same day that Obama made a major speech about national security.

Panetta said of Cheney’s remarks: “It’s almost, a little bit, gallows politics. When you read behind it, it’s almost as if he’s wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point. I think that’s dangerous politics.”

Asked if he agreed with Panetta, Vice President Joe Biden told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he wouldn’t question the motive behind Cheney’s criticism.

“I think Dick Cheney’s judgment about how to secure America is faulty,” Biden said. “I think our judgment is correct.”

 
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Cuba

17 Apr

I want to go on record stating my approval for normalizing relations with Cuba. The advantages are clear in my mind.

First, relations will not be normalized without deep concessions from Cuba. Castro number 2 has allready stated he will discuss anything the US throws on the table. Improvements in the lives of the Cuban people could be forthcoming from these discuassion and the vitality of Cuba itself as an American ally could be greatly enhanced.

What I do not understand is those from the Rights need to bash this initiative. Whats up with that? Are they afraid we will acheive this without having to murder thousands of people and put a few thousand in prison to torture?

Or is it just that they dont want the Obama administration to be successful at something their president had no intention of doing?

Offering a new relationship to Cuba will go a long ways towards refreshing our relations with South America, a territory we are losing to China and relations that the Bush administration for all practical purposes ignored and partially destroyed.  This may alos support the people of Southern America to help us combat terrorists from entering the US and the countrys involved.

Encouraging Cuba to treat its people differently will help end the suffering of those who try to get here and endure dangerous boat rides only to be sent back or killed enroute.  Cuban music is incredible and should be free for the world.

There are no viable reasons why we cannot open our shores to LEGAL Cubans and improve the lives of the Cuban people at a very small cost to us.

 
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Immigration Reform?

15 Apr

What is Immigration Reform?

Immigration Reform is defined as:

The need to allow people who are in this country illegally stay here for the purpose of getting votes for either party. It has nothing to do with the needs, requirements, and wishes of the people of the United States of America. This is strictly political in nature and do something that the people of this country will have no say in.

It doesn’t really matter who is in office. John McCain was all for immigration reform, Obama is all for immigration reform. Bush was all for immigration reform, and all three of them want as many illegals in this country as possible. Why you ask? Read the above paragraph.

And to hell what it will cost us in tax money, right?

 
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