HEALTHCARE THREAD

because you have more than two brain cells to rub together

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.

On my motorcycle journeys in the Texas hill country, sometimes I pass the Norris compound north of Camp Wood on Texas Ranch Rd 335. The surroundings are cattle grazed but not too far from wilderness. Mesquite stakes supporting barbed wire by the roadside. Norris's compound is 9 foot plastered concrete block, with broken glass all accross the top.

You can't miss it. He's the only landowner with that sort of defence.

is it octagonal?

No. It is almost perfectly square, following the lines of the original survey.

those Chuck Norrises will allow you guys to continue to vote Democrat as the party gets even worse, until you die.

I think this "compromise" has made plenty of people happy, plz look for them at $100,000-a-plate congressional fundraisers.

or, you know, receiving subsidies for healthcare in 2014

but i wouldnt want to let the fact that this is the largest social welfare bill since LBJ prevent anyone from feeling really good about their cynically smug adherence to know-nothing orthodoxy

it's the "cynically smug" Daily Double!

oh no! insurance companies are happy! because hundreds of thousands of uninsured people will now receive government subsidies to purchase insurance!! how terrible it will be, for those people to receive low-cost healthcare!!

*lower-cost

is "the largest social welfare bill since LBJ" the new "israel's the only democracy in the middle east"?

max, I heart you, but if you're speaking in an Iowa twang next time I seeya I'll know you've turned into Tom Harkin.

max I know you know what is wrong with that insurance companies are happy equation - basically its just funnelling them taxpayer dollars

fuck subsidizing such a bloated, inefficient private industry

max why are you arguing when it makes you feel bad, don't do that to yrself man, take it from a dude who knows you gotta break the cycle of arguing by listening to smooth jazz, it just fixes everything

here comes the smooth jazz hippies

we can't be stopped

sweet

actually we can probably be stopped if we're bumming people out but we would prefer not to stop because our groove is solid

how did you evade the ilxor saxophone defense system?

J0hn how can you defile the memories of all the punks who fought and died against the smoothness

man i knew that program was straight pork :(

how did you evade the ilxor saxophone defense system?

they were distracted by our bitchin members only jackets in muted pastels

gonna go put on some metheny

*taps toes*

I hope the Christmas album is shipping

xxp

A Smooth Christmas is in stores now

reviewers are saying it's totally smooth

metheny & mainstream dem policies are pretty milquetoast ; )

Metheny needs more roughly accurate unmanned drones

"&(*@#@^&-up and smooth, just like Obama-care"

- - R. Christgau

if max could only see the similarities between avatar and obamacare then he would understand

this is why us grouchy types are trying to rebrand it by dropping the "e" - obamacar = rhymes with "avatar" = how'd you feel about "avatar" = cool, maybe you should listen to some smooth jazz

Obamacar will turn you into a blue-skinned CGI Dem voter who repeats "Politics is the art of the possible" whenever Rahm Emanuel pushes a button

yes but then I will hack into the supercomputer that allows evil Rahm to carry out this scheme and then when he pushes the button it will make people buy A Smooth Christmas and I will share the wealth with all my ilx bros

A Smooth Plan, from a Smooth Man

http://jazzstation-oblogdearnaldodesouteiros.blogspot.com/2008/10/pat-metheny-on-barack-obama.html

You guys got onomatopoetic while I was at a two-hour meeting!

my man Al Franken tells Lieberman to shut the fuck up

The Corner is, predictably, outrated. They quote John McCain approvingly:

Rising to defend Lieberman he told Franken that in 20-plus years in the Senate, he’d never seen a member denied an extra minute or two of floor time.

“I don't know what's happening here in this body,” McCain said, “but I think it is wrong.

Well, did Lincoln Chafee ever oppose the GOP as shamelessly as Joe?

LOL then another senator got up and told McDementia that they'd curtailed someone - oooh - about two hours before.

“I don't know what's happeninghere in this body,” McCain said.

grassley's "republican position" that leads the latest issue of NEJM is pretty dumb

MoveOn.org is pushing for Bernie Sanders to drop his support and demand some version of the public option (good luck with that guys)

yeah, let's push for something that has even less of a chance of passing.

i 4 1 welcome our insurance overlords

good luck lolmerica

watching kuttner and taibbi on moyers last night, :(.

why do some folks who say this bill is not obama's fault because he doesn't have the real power to craft, promote, and pass legislation also argue that the bill MUST pass or else obama will have no chance to craft, promote and pass subsequent crucial reforms?

whos arguing that? my take is that congress should pass this bill so that in the future congress can improve on it. i dont know that obamas influence has anything to do with it, beyond quibbling about how much more he could have done to encourage the legislation.

that's my take too, but kuttner was big on the political optics/fallout for obama. he also said he's hopeful that obama will promote a more anti corporate/anti wall st agenda after the midterms. hope, change, obama's very new to this etc. taibbi was politely "why on earth do you think that based upon everything that you've seen"?