The closer to passage of a health insurance reform bill, the uglier the debate will get. We’ve still got a ways. The GOP has started attack ads on Dems who voted to prevent filibuster.
Can’t help it, I sort of wish some family member of all the GOP would develop some condition and need treatment their insurance won’t cover. Or their insurance company drops a family member because they actually received medical care the prior year.
@ BCS I know what you mean even though its not just the GOP:
“In a tough economy Congress wants to hit your pocket book by increasing your taxes and making a tough economy worse. Call you Congressman and tell them NO on healthcare reform. Ad paid for by some special interest group posing as a legitimate non-profit organization.”
Well, the economy wasn’t all flowers and candy for everyone when Bush’s tax cuts went mostly to the rich, so it fully stands to reason that if their taxes increase everyone suffers.
You know, I think economists can spin (and substantiate) even bigger lies than statisticians.
MichaelRupp - You’re right on. The reasons more people identify themselves as “conservative” than “liberal” is because conservatives have spent thirty years defining “conservative” to mean “common-sense and respectable” and “liberal” to mean “psychotically anti-human”. When you ask focus groups how they feel about specific proposals without telling them the party label, Democratic proposals get approved of far more often than conservative ones.
Republicans talk a good fight - every single one of their principles has been proven disastrously wrong over the last thirty years, but they still have most of Americans convinced that doing something different is recklessly dangerous.
I always think of Teddy Roosevelt when I think about what the Republicans should be.
He was pro environment (look at how many national parks he founded), he was anti big business (he had the name “trust buster”) and he was pro on a strong America.
Sure could use more folks like him in Washington.
The Republican mantra used to be:
Fiscal responsibility (Cutting spending, not just cutting taxes)
Small government.
Keeping the government out of your private life.
Avoidance of foreign intervention.
What of the above are they keeping to?
Cheers!
believecommonsense over 14 years ago
The closer to passage of a health insurance reform bill, the uglier the debate will get. We’ve still got a ways. The GOP has started attack ads on Dems who voted to prevent filibuster.
Can’t help it, I sort of wish some family member of all the GOP would develop some condition and need treatment their insurance won’t cover. Or their insurance company drops a family member because they actually received medical care the prior year.
(I don’t really wish it, but it is a fantasy.)
Motivemagus over 14 years ago
Remember when Nancy Reagan came out pro-stem cell? Nothing like a personal interest, as they say.
d_legendary1 over 14 years ago
@ BCS I know what you mean even though its not just the GOP:
“In a tough economy Congress wants to hit your pocket book by increasing your taxes and making a tough economy worse. Call you Congressman and tell them NO on healthcare reform. Ad paid for by some special interest group posing as a legitimate non-profit organization.”
4uk4ata over 14 years ago
Well, the economy wasn’t all flowers and candy for everyone when Bush’s tax cuts went mostly to the rich, so it fully stands to reason that if their taxes increase everyone suffers.
You know, I think economists can spin (and substantiate) even bigger lies than statisticians.
Copperdomebodhi over 14 years ago
MichaelRupp - You’re right on. The reasons more people identify themselves as “conservative” than “liberal” is because conservatives have spent thirty years defining “conservative” to mean “common-sense and respectable” and “liberal” to mean “psychotically anti-human”. When you ask focus groups how they feel about specific proposals without telling them the party label, Democratic proposals get approved of far more often than conservative ones.
Republicans talk a good fight - every single one of their principles has been proven disastrously wrong over the last thirty years, but they still have most of Americans convinced that doing something different is recklessly dangerous.
tomcib over 14 years ago
I always think of Teddy Roosevelt when I think about what the Republicans should be. He was pro environment (look at how many national parks he founded), he was anti big business (he had the name “trust buster”) and he was pro on a strong America. Sure could use more folks like him in Washington. The Republican mantra used to be:
Fiscal responsibility (Cutting spending, not just cutting taxes) Small government. Keeping the government out of your private life. Avoidance of foreign intervention. What of the above are they keeping to? Cheers!4uk4ata over 14 years ago
And you don’t have any sense if you are not a sceptic when you are older.
Then again, I think Churchill, for all his success, was a bit biased in his political views.