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   GNWachs said, 3 months ago

   Time to go home and actually listen to their constituents. They just might want to get re-elected next year.

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   Anthony 2816 said, 3 months ago

   Yeah, and they can show their constituents this cartoon:

   http://www.gocomics.com/mikeluckovich/2009/07/24/

   Let’s not “RUSH” (Limbaugh) into a health care reform bill!

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   stealth6948 said, 3 months ago

   I would not count on Re-election for a lot of Politcians. One ( Tammy Baldwin, D-WI) came and walked in our 4th of July Parade. She was waving and smiling ect,, but No ONE was Waving or Smiling Back… There was a lot of worry in her eyes when I took a Picture.

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   BOB HASTY said, 3 months ago

   Tammy Baldwin must be a “Blue Dog.” We’ll replace her with a true Progressive next time!

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   dwyant said, 3 months ago

   YEA! They did listen to their constituents – some of the stuff they want to fix is NOT BROKEN!! It’s all about control.

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   Gary Kleppe said, 3 months ago

   Most anybody who’s ever had a serious illness knows how broken our system of health care financing is.

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   oldlegodad said, 3 months ago

   Just to get you all riled up, a heads up on Rameriz and blue dogs. Don’t bust a blood vessel libocrats
   http://ibdeditorials.com/cartoons.aspx

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   ezdeb said, 3 months ago

   See Bill Kristol on Jon Stewart. Bill enjoys much republican respect, but couldn’t back up any facts at all. Watch him discuss single payor insurance and our soldiers on ComedyCentral’s Jon Stewart. No, I’m not worshipping JStewart. I’m saying look at Bill Kristol.

   Don’t bust a blood vessel, oldlegodad.

9. 

   striper77 said, 3 months ago

   While Obama, Pelosi and Reid insist that “if you like your health insurance coverage, you’ll get to keep it,” it’s now very clear: once again, THEY’RE LYING.

   If the public plan is implemented as detailed in this bill, people with private insurance will be moved on a public plan, regardless of what they want, because their employers will make that decision because of the financial incentives in the bill.

   That’s not all: Yearly premiums for Americans with private coverage could jump as much as $460 per person as a result of more cost-shifting, which would stem from the public plan. Even doctors stand to lose thousands of dollars of income under the legislation. Annual physician net income is estimated to drop by 6.3 percent or $13.4 billion (coming in at an average $18,900 per physician) when compared with current trends.

   Throughout the last presidential campaign, Barack Obama repeatedly promised the American people: “If you’re a family that’s making $250,000 a year or less you will see no increase in your taxes. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your personal gains tax, not any of your taxes.”

   He lied. Just 15 days into office, President Obama signed a bill expanding the children’s health insurance program that was paid for with a 156% tax hike on tobacco. Since slightly more than half of today’s smokers (53%) earn less than $36,000 per year, Obama’s first effort at expanding government’s role in health care also became his first broken promise.

   But that first Medicaid expansion was NOTHING compared to the estimated $1.3 trillion health care plan Congress is considering now. And how is Obama planning to pay for it? Tax hikes – including employer health care mandates, which are really just a TAX on low-income workers, since employers will have to lower pay and cut jobs because of the tax penalties on them.

   Is THIS “change we can believe in”??? NO –

10. 

    Gary Kleppe said, 3 months ago

    Is there anything in the Terms of Service about spamming the same harangue verbatim into multiple threads?

11. 

    DrCanuck said, 3 months ago

    Gary, just flag this turkey and ignore him.

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    striper77 said, 3 months ago

    DrCanSuck,

    It is a double edged sword. If I state anything, people want the source. I state the source with exact verbiage. You state that you are not impressed with cut and paste.

    Why don’t you just say what your really feel. If you did, it would sound like this.

    I only care about myself. I do not care about cause and effect or the end result of anything.

    I want the government to pay for everything for me.

    I am helpless and cannot do anything on my own.

    Gary,

    Nobody is forcing you to read anything on this web site.
    If you do not like it or it does not fit your particular life style do not read it.
    Just go and pick up your local liberal, terrorist magazine and read it.

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    InspectorWingnut said, 3 months ago

    It’s obvious no one wants to fix anything. I guess there will be no one to vote for in 2010 and 2012. A government shutdown appears to be the only remedy. And this a party can’t advertise beforehand, or should they? Third Party Contract with America, please.

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    ezdeb said, 3 months ago

    Striper, it’s a real no-no to mess with people’s online names. Don’t do it. Besides, in your case, it just highlights your obsession with gayness. I’m not sure why you find it so interesting, but it even shows in your choice of words: “particular life style”. Tell us, what’s so compulsive about gay sex for you?

    Also, I’m surprised and delighted to know that I can get a liberal, terrorist magazine! Where can I pick one up?

15. 

    GNWachs said, 3 months ago

    @ezdeb

    Can I expect you to make the same comment about messing with people’s names to “DrCanuck”?

16. 

    David said, 3 months ago

    A decision made in haste can prove more disasterous than no decision at all.

    Wow…there might be time over this recess to actually read the bill that they are proposing. It would make a nice change.

17. 

    benbrilling said, 3 months ago

    By the time they get health care for everyone it will be too late, everyone will be dead. Great plan.

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    foxglove16 said, 3 months ago

    Stripper, you never give sources. You may quote them verbatim as you say you do, but you never give sources. And if it’s from your rightwing terrorist blogs, well, those statements are all make believe.