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it is stressing me out but really only to a point, because, ultimately, fuck it, if we lose insurance then we get divorced so my wife can go on medicaid, plus, none of her doctors will refuse her treatment for an inability to pay. the worst that owuld happen would be...what? we don't pay our bills? who fucking cares? my credit gets ruined? well then we just won't buy a house, I really couldn't give a shit. as it is we have insurance and still owe upwards of 10k for this year of medical treatment alone, and we just informed the hospital that they can have fun trying to get this money since we don't have it. they said they'd let us know.

akm, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 23:21 (fourteen years ago) link

but you know, yeah, I'd rather this bill pass and they use it as a foundation for improvement. people who disagree with this want the sun and the moon.

akm, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 23:22 (fourteen years ago) link

it distresses me mostly because a Democratic president with Democratic majorities in both houses of congress, with huge public support, following on the heels of the most disastrous administration in history STILL could not pass a single-payer healthcare plan or even anything remotely resembling it. cue Kent Brockman: "I've said it before and I'll say it again, democracy just ... doesn't ... work"

Magnolia Caboose Babyfinger (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 23:26 (fourteen years ago) link

and they think they're gonna pass an even more contentious climate change bill next year? yeah fucking right.

Magnolia Caboose Babyfinger (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 23:27 (fourteen years ago) link

yeah it's the senate that is disappointing in this case, on the other hand, Dems only barely have a majority, and in fact, in reality, don't, because Leiberman is barely there for them. Give us a real Dem majority and this would have gone better.

akm, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 23:30 (fourteen years ago) link

just think: if we had a house of representatives with no senate, obama would have signed into law a bill with a public option a couple weeks ago

max, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 23:30 (fourteen years ago) link

tbf there are a lot fewer loonies in the senate than there are in the House tho

Magnolia Caboose Babyfinger (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 23:42 (fourteen years ago) link

key # is loonies per capita, tho

standing on the verge of getting it rong (m bison), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 23:46 (fourteen years ago) link

well i'm just glad that cunt lieberman got to be the belle of the ball one last time.

anyways, fuck these guys. i want to see the GOP RUINED. should i start campaigning for wingnut 'conservative party' candidates now?

you want a war on christmas i'll give you a fuckin war on christmas (will), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 23:46 (fourteen years ago) link

GOP's gonna pick up seats - will be interesting if Reid gets voted out. He hasn't been a very effective Senate leader imho.

Magnolia Caboose Babyfinger (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 23:50 (fourteen years ago) link

plus he's basically a holdover from the "let's appease Dubya" era

Magnolia Caboose Babyfinger (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 23:51 (fourteen years ago) link

yeah he sucks.

akm, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 23:52 (fourteen years ago) link

short of raising LBJ from the dead im not sure who would make a more effective leader given the sad mix of crybabies and primadonnas us democratic party members have representing our interests in the greatest deliberative body in the world

max, Thursday, 17 December 2009 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link

chuck schumer?

max, Thursday, 17 December 2009 00:04 (fourteen years ago) link

Barbara Mikulski!

Magnolia Caboose Babyfinger (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 December 2009 00:06 (fourteen years ago) link

lol like joe would listen to barbara mikulski

max, Thursday, 17 December 2009 00:07 (fourteen years ago) link

Joe's gonna lose his reelection bid, I imagine

Magnolia Caboose Babyfinger (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 December 2009 00:08 (fourteen years ago) link

joes got jobs and directorships awaiting him i imagine

nostragaaaawddamnus (Hunt3r), Thursday, 17 December 2009 00:10 (fourteen years ago) link

I'm sure Pfizer would love to have him

Magnolia Caboose Babyfinger (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 December 2009 00:11 (fourteen years ago) link

i have felt this disgusted in the american political process since at least 1984

Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 December 2009 00:34 (fourteen years ago) link

really? do tell

Magnolia Caboose Babyfinger (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 December 2009 00:35 (fourteen years ago) link

For me, the end of Reconstruction.

nostragaaaawddamnus (Hunt3r), Thursday, 17 December 2009 00:40 (fourteen years ago) link

Nelson has met three times in the past nine days with Obama. His Nebraska-based chief of staff, Tim Becker, spent the day in Washington in discussions with administration officials on details of recent negotiations between his boss and the president.

While Nelson is seeking stricter curbs on abortions in the insurance system the bill would establish, he also has raised issues in his home state that are unrelated to the health care legislation, according to an official with close ties to the senator.

O RLY. Too bad yr anti-choice amendment already got voted down you piece of shit

Magnolia Caboose Babyfinger (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 December 2009 00:51 (fourteen years ago) link

this is bummin me out

being being kiss-ass fake nice (gbx), Thursday, 17 December 2009 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link

left is pissed

and I am too. I don't think the bill should be killed per se, but unless the left threatens to abandon it the only people getting concessions are gonna be jackasses like Droopy and Nelson

Magnolia Caboose Babyfinger (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 December 2009 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link

and they think they're gonna pass an even more contentious climate change bill next year? yeah fucking right.

I think both bills will pass, and both will be weakened and sabotaged by zero GOP support and idiotic democrat "compromises" that they won't be nearly as effective as they can and should be. The difference is that weakened HRC will affect the lives if millions of Americans, while weakened climate change action will affect the lives of the whole goddamned world.

Everything in life is real....EVERYTHING (Z S), Thursday, 17 December 2009 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link

one thing that bugs is that going into this whole thing, my opinion was "one outcome that i definitely DONT want to happen is to have a mandate with no public option." thats medicare part d all over again, and will end up breaking the system down the road. plus i think it is very bad policy.

i mean, it was an outcome i specifically did not want, and now several scolding sites are all "ha u didnt know that could happen? why u play this game, u STUPID, scrub losers!" guys, i totally knew that insurers would want to make this happen. i specifically did not want this to happen. so pardon me, pass the fucker, but brother plz.

nostragaaaawddamnus (Hunt3r), Thursday, 17 December 2009 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link

one outcome that i definitely DONT want to happen is to have a mandate with no public option

^this. i really thought the stars were aligned, not necessarily for a perfect - or even great - bill, but at least THIS wouldn't happen. ugh.

you want a war on christmas i'll give you a fuckin war on christmas (will), Thursday, 17 December 2009 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link

The ONLY way "the left" is going to have leverage with Dem give-the-store-away leaders is to show that they'll vote for (and contribute to) parties to the Dems' left. Deny it all you want, and watch let every major issue go down the drain like this one.

Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link

watch THEM let

Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link

yes, that strategy worked well when it gave us 8 years of the worst president of all time

max, Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link

yeah, it is all ralph nader's fault

nostragaaaawddamnus (Hunt3r), Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link

supporting unelectable left wing candidates to hammer home the point that you dont like the healthcare bill is going to get you no health care reform at all, instead of partial health care reform

max, Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link

you know what forget i said anything this is an argument i have no interest in engaging in

max, Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:12 (fourteen years ago) link

is there a term for a compromise that angers everyone and pleases nobody

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Magnolia Caboose Babyfinger (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:12 (fourteen years ago) link

yes the term for that is "compromise"

max, Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:12 (fourteen years ago) link

Al fucking-coward Gore gave us 8 years of the worst president

Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link

What if Mother Mary Had Obamacare?
by Chuck Norris
12/15/2009

Washington is up to its old political shell game again, this time in an unprecedented way.

While Americans are focused upon the Christmas season and the mainstream media on health care and President Barack Obama's two trips to Europe (last week to Oslo and this week to Copenhagen), the Democrats in Congress have slipped major pro-abortion legislation under the radar.

First, last Monday the Senate rejected the health care reform bill amendment introduced by Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., and Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, that would have banned federal funds from providing for abortion.


Then, on Thursday, the House of Representatives rushed the clandestine approval of an overinflated $1 trillion omnibus bill, which includes 5,224 earmarks -- costing about $3.9 billion -- and an underhanded provision that would overturn a long-standing budget ban in the District of Columbia (whose budget is overseen by Congress) for federally funding abortions.

Then, after the Democratic-controlled Senate cleared a procedural vote on Saturday needed to end a Republican filibuster, in yet another near-secret Sunday afternoon session, the Senate passed the omnibus bill and the provision for Washington, D.C. Tragically, the bill also would appropriate $648.5 million for "international family planning" funding (an increase of $103 million over 2009) and would give funding for Planned Parenthood and the United Nations Population Fund, both of which have pro-abortion agendas.

In short, while President Obama was accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, the Democrats in Congress drove a sword through the womb of the unborn.

Congress' latest pro-abortion strategy is a radical divergence from -- and sheer contradiction of -- Obama's Sept. 9 promise that under Democrats' health care reform plan, "no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions."

But the big question and bottom line, as Hatch asked, is: "Why should people of conscience be forced to participate in any aspect of abortion?"

Washington certainly has reached a new low by forcing American citizens who oppose abortion to pay for abortions via their taxes in this massively comprehensive way. Is it intentionally trying to spark the next Boston Tea Party? When our greatest values are thrown under the omnibus, how do they expect us to respond? (Washington's wild spending and abandonment of traditional values and our Founders' vision is what prompted me to add a 64-page expansion to the new paperback version of my New York Times best-seller Black Belt Patriotism, being released in January through Fidelis Books. See the new Web site at http://www.BlackBeltPatriotism.com.)

Obama and Congress' pro-abortion steps are being taken despite a recent nationwide survey that revealed that 4 in 5 U.S. adults would limit abortion's legality. One in 3 would limit abortion to rape, incest or the saving of a mother's life. One in 3 also would limit abortion to either the first three or first six months. Only 9 percent said abortion should be legal for any reason at any time during pregnancy.

Now is the critical time for action. If you haven't done so, contact your representative and senators at 202-224-3121 or through http://www.house.gov and http://www.senate.gov and then the White House at 202-456-2111 or http://www.WhiteHouse.gov/contact.

Tell your representative and senators to quit fast-tracking these momentous bills without periods for debate and during secret sessions on weekends, when America is least attentive.

Tell your representative and senators of your extreme disappointment in their approving the outrageous omnibus spending bill, spending frivolously under America's recession and adding more to our national debt.

Tell your representative and senators to support the Stupak-Pitts amendment and the Nelson-Hatch amendment in the House and Senate health care bills, thus preventing the federal funding of abortion via Obamacare.

Call or write the White House and demand that President Obama veto the outrageous omnibus bill (with pro-abortion provisions and more than 5,200 earmarks).

Join the 300,000 people who have signed The Manhattan Declaration to fight for the unborn (http://www.ManhattanDeclaration.org).

Share this column with your pro-life clergyman, family and friends, and encourage them to mobilize the troops on these pieces of legislation.

Get involved with a local pro-life organization, like my wife, Gena, who supports the Dallas Council for Life and the Dallas Pregnancy Resource Center.

Lastly, as we near the eve of another Christmas, I wonder: What would have happened if Mother Mary had been covered by Obamacare? What if that young, poor and uninsured teenage woman had been provided the federal funds (via Obamacare) and facilities (via Planned Parenthood, etc.) to avoid the ridicule, ostracizing, persecution and possible stoning because of her out-of-wedlock pregnancy? Imagine all the great souls who could have been erased from history and the influence of mankind if their parents had been as progressive as Washington's wise men and women! Will Obamacare morph into Herodcare for the unborn?

America doesn't need to turn the page on culture wars, such as the one on abortion. It needs to reopen the pages of its history to our Founders' elevated views of and rights for all human beings (including those in the womb), as documented in the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. We need to revive and re-instill their value of humanity back into society, our children and our children's children.

And most of all, Washington needs to run our government as Thomas Jefferson outlined in an 1809 letter: "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government."

(Don't miss my Christmas column next week, titled "Away With the Manger," about how the feds are whitewashing America's Judeo-Christian heritage via a progressive, politically correct and pro-Muslim platform.)

max, Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link

to be totally fair, american voters gave us 8 years of the worst president ever

max, Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link

while u were out i drove a sword through the womb of the unborn

harbl, Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link

does that even make sense??

harbl, Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link

the womb of the unborn? n/m it's chuck norris

harbl, Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link

is there a term for a compromise that angers everyone and pleases nobody

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― Magnolia Caboose Babyfinger (Shakey Mo Collier),

yes the term for that is "compromise"

― max

^^^^ lolol

WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link

In short, while President Obama was accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, the Democrats in Congress drove a sword through the womb of the unborn.

what kind of sword - like, a samurai sword? excalibur?

I need to know

Magnolia Caboose Babyfinger (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link

If the unborn already HAVE a womb, what do they want MINE for???

WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:17 (fourteen years ago) link

I'm with the progressive opponents. Anything that forces me to buy into present for-profit insurance options without offering an opportunity to pair a fair rate for minimal base coverage via medicare extension doesn't interest me.

My sympathies to those of you with dependents. As someone with none, I'll continue to self-insure and maintain membership in a PPO via a discount card program. And I'll never, ever, send another dime to support a blue-dog Dem in a contested race.

Derelict, Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:17 (fourteen years ago) link

What if that young, poor and uninsured teenage woman had been provided the federal funds (via Obamacare) and facilities (via Planned Parenthood, etc.) to avoid the ridicule, ostracizing, persecution and possible stoning because of her out-of-wedlock pregnancy?

why do i feel like many of chuck's fans would think she totally deserved that treatment
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nostragaaaawddamnus (Hunt3r), Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link

because you have more than two brain cells to rub together

Magnolia Caboose Babyfinger (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link

to unite the compromise theme and the chuck norris sword to the baby theme, you know what compromise i liked? when king solomon decided to split the baby in two, i thought that was a great idea.

nostragaaaawddamnus (Hunt3r), Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:31 (fourteen years ago) link


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