Journal damn_registrars's Journal: Unsurprising Conservative Media Move of the Week 13
Since they don't have anything else to go for at this point, a conservative group funded by the Koch Brothers has decided to go full-on partisan with their attack on the health insurance company bailout act. They realized - even though some congresional conservatives have their own heads too far up their own asses to realize it - that the bill will go into effect. So what to do then? Apparently, they decided that the best thing to do is to encourage youngsters to break the law.
That's right. Since the conservatives can't defeat it any other way (in spite of the fact that it was their own fucking insistence that made a mandate a pivotal part of the bill) they are now encouraging people to break the law in order to (hopefully) make it insolvent.
It is really sad that the republicans are so desperate to prevent a democrat from being remembered as a successful president that they are willing to encourage unlawful behavior in youngsters in order to further their aim. The irony here though is that the republicans set themselves up for this failure; this bill has this structure because of their actions and became law because of the same. If they spent half as much time trying to do meaningful politics as they do trying to discredit 1600 Pennsylvania Ave they wound't be consistently rated as one of the worst congresses of all time.
The thing that keeps congress going on this path, of course, is obvious. While most voters believe congress to be deeply dysfunctional, very few voters believe their own congressperson to be part of the problem.
That's right. Since the conservatives can't defeat it any other way (in spite of the fact that it was their own fucking insistence that made a mandate a pivotal part of the bill) they are now encouraging people to break the law in order to (hopefully) make it insolvent.
It is really sad that the republicans are so desperate to prevent a democrat from being remembered as a successful president that they are willing to encourage unlawful behavior in youngsters in order to further their aim. The irony here though is that the republicans set themselves up for this failure; this bill has this structure because of their actions and became law because of the same. If they spent half as much time trying to do meaningful politics as they do trying to discredit 1600 Pennsylvania Ave they wound't be consistently rated as one of the worst congresses of all time.
The thing that keeps congress going on this path, of course, is obvious. While most voters believe congress to be deeply dysfunctional, very few voters believe their own congressperson to be part of the problem.
The Health Care Bill (Score:2)
Is Welfare for Insurance Companies.
How can you support a plan that was developed by the Heritage Foundation?
Or do you love Fake Black Barry that much?
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Is Welfare for Insurance Companies.
Make no mistake about it, I do not like this bill. I have for a long time been calling it the "Health Insurance Industy Bailout Act" as it is really just a massive handout to the HMOs and their bretheren.
How can you support a plan that was developed by the Heritage Foundation?
I would have voted no if I was a congressperson. If I was in congress I would have actually urged the people with power to write a bill that actually reformed health care, instead of one that just reinforced the current broken system.
Or do you love Fake Black Barry that much?
Obama has screwed up plenty, and there are plenty of things that he w
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Kill the bill.
Before you have to rent your health, from a megacorp, every day of your life - backed by garnishing wages or prison.
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Before you have to rent your health, from a megacorp, every day of your life - backed by garnishing wages or prison.
How is that different from what we currently have? If we kill this bill we end up with the same crap that you just associated with it. This bill basically just assigns a partisan name to the current system and calls it reform. The only people who benefit from it are the people on the payroll at the insurance companies - but they managed to set themselves up a can't-lose scenario by buying out damned near every elected official in Washington. You'd be hard pressed to find an elected official who wasn't
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Right now, you don't need to be insured, and take your risks...
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I agree. Kill the bill. I don't care how many republicans say it.* I will stand with them. I find it deeply offensive that we will have to show "nachweis einer versicherung" to the IRS, of all people. We are being forced to make a declaration simply because of our existence, where before, you had to make a minimum income before signing zee papers [youtube.com].
*They don't really mean it, not with the windfall that will come from it. I think it's a ploy to make anybody who actually opposes it look like a fool.. The entire
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Right now, you don't need to be insured, and take your risks...
However that path will still end up leaving you eventually indebted to the insurance industry. On top of that, there are many life choices that are not available to you (one significant one that comes to mind is public education - most colleges will not allow students admission if they cannot demonstrate that they have health insurance) if you opt not to carry insurance. Many employers also won't take full time employees who do not carry or purchase insurance.
Hence we really weren't to any great exte
Don't take it so literally (Score:1)
This little circus show is simply designed to keep the 85 billion-a-month "asset purchase plan" (the artwork formerly known as "quantitative easement") off the front page. It will be a real disaster if people start adding up the numbers.
Come on (Score:2)
so desperate to prevent a democrat from being remembered as a successful president
I just don't grasp what you could possibly mean here [wordpress.com].
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so desperate to prevent a democrat from being remembered as a successful president
I just don't grasp what you could possibly mean here.
That is a nice collection of craftily drawn figures, but they are drawn for people like you who already hated Obama before seeing him, or knowing his name - knowing nothing but the party he was running under. They won't sway independents and anyone who isn't a conservative can see some of the obvious mathematical tricks and errors that produce those figures.
The GOP is more concerned with Obama's long term legacy, and doing everything they can ahead of time to discredit it. They would of course do thi
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The GOP is more concerned with Obama's long term legacy, and doing everything they can ahead of time to discredit it.
The Progressive GOP elite is getting chewed up by the cognitive dissonance of
(a) having played Obama's statist game for decades,
(b) seeing the logical result of what happens when too much power is concentrated in DC over decades,
(c) the rectal boot of the conservatives who read the GOP platform and can't figured out how these purported conservatives could snort so much Drano without having their heads 'splode.
As an example, stand by to see Senator Pom-Poms get primaried by Nancy Mace [nancymace.org].
All of which is t
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Fucking hilarious! You guys are exactly alike. This has to be a gag.