Democrats on the take and in the dead of night pass an execrable piece of legislation that they haven’t read, the public doesn’t want and only socialists could love.
By Johnny Roosh
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December 22nd, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Barack Obama. Will not go. On his family holiday vacation. Until. The Senate. Completes it’s work. Poor little Sasha and Mailia. Festivus. Will have to wait.
December 22nd, 2009 at 3:54 pm
If it weren’t for Mitch McConnell the bill would have been voted on during regular business hours. Pardon the dems for staying up late and working to get something done while the GOP works as hard as they can to do as little as possible.
December 22nd, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Um, it was Nebraska Democrat Ben Nelson, getting his cut of the pork that took so long, AB. Harry has had a 60 member majority all year long.
Blaming the GOP might feel good, but it’s bullshit and you should be smarter than that.
December 22nd, 2009 at 4:08 pm
How much discussion has taken place for each page of the ObamanationCare bill(s)?
December 22nd, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Sorry AB that dog don’t hunt. They ought to slow down the whole damn thing by reading it, and ALL its’ ammendments, openly, aloud, and line-by-line before the whole senate. That will give the american people a chance to understand what an utter piece of crap this bill is. A 1 to 2 trillion dollars farce and NOBODY knows what’s really in it. I don’t give a damn if these part time workers/full time thieves get their Xmas holiday.
December 22nd, 2009 at 5:06 pm
“They ought to slow down the whole damn thing by reading it, and ALL its’ ammendments, openly, aloud, and line-by-line before the whole senate. That will give the american people a chance to understand what an utter piece of crap this bill is.”
I guess I’d be surprised at how many Americans watch C-SPAN for 144 consecutive hours at a time.
“Um, it was Nebraska Democrat Ben Nelson, getting his cut of the pork that took so long, AB. Harry has had a 60 member majority all year long.”
I tend to agree with you on these more than I would care to admit. Nelson’s a dog. He should have stuck with his guns or gone along with it in the first place. And I’ve never accused the Democrats of expediency.
The Democrats and Republicans both share the blame for health care reform taking so long (and for the incompetencies of our government to accomplish anything meaningful in general). But I’m a liberal, so its my job to blame the Republicans. You guys blame the Democrats and we can all pat ourselves on the back for due dilligence at the bar after a long day of commenting (and whatever it is that Terry does).
December 22nd, 2009 at 5:24 pm
I’m a conservative so I blame both Rethuglicans and Democraps.
Obviously the Democrats are in the lead in the race to take our freedoms and liberties and replace them with Liberal Fascism.
December 22nd, 2009 at 5:30 pm
apathyboy Says: “I guess I’d be surprised at how many Americans watch C-SPAN for 144 consecutive hours at a time.”
The american people can take shifts. 144 hours = 6 days. Sounds good, let them start on Christmas day and finish just in time for New Years Day.
No readee, no votee!!!!!
If they don’t like that then they can go home, celebrate the holiday with kin, come back bright and bushytail, AND START OVER! The interim time will allow this BS legislation to be put under a microscope. I sense that the subsequent up-roar will be deafening.
December 22nd, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Even if nobody logged into C-SPAN, it would remind the Senate that there are 2000+ pages of consequences to their foolishness. Any bill that is 2000 pages and is not military appropriations in wartime ought to be rejected for that reason alone.
And there are enough policy wonks out there–paid and otherwise–who would dig into this stuff. If we can wait three years until most of this bill goes into effect, we can wait a few weeks to actually debate the bill.
December 22nd, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Star-Tribune said the “Franken gets a feather in his cap” for proposing an amendment (that passed) that forces insurance companies to limit things like pay, promotions, profits, etc. So Senator Useless can’t get the medical device tax blocked, therefore killing jobs in Minnesota, but he gets an amendment passed that attacks insurance ocmpanies, therefore also killing jobs in Minnesota. In all seriousness, how did this loser get elected?
December 22nd, 2009 at 5:46 pm
AB blames Republicans, I blame Democrats and we both get screwed in the end. Problem is, this time it is the Democrats doing the screwing, and they will pay for it.
December 22nd, 2009 at 5:56 pm
I am just a bad poet & good operator of high-tech astrophysical equipment, but I can’t figure out how you can cover preexisting conditions and call it “insurance”. What are you insuring against?
December 22nd, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Terry Says: What are you insuring against?
PROSPERITY!
December 22nd, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Imagine if the gov’t treated car insurance this way. Employers are forced to purchase their employees car insurance. You can go without insurance, smash up your car in a drunking driving bing, then after the accident, go get some insurance that will cover this pre-existing condition.
December 22nd, 2009 at 6:36 pm
“Problem is, this time it is the Democrats doing the screwing, and they will pay for it.”
I find it a little ironic that the Senate Dems were tiptoeing nervously around the issue and slashing whatever they could when its the House Dems that really have their jobs on the line over it. Maybe they figured they’d lose the house anyway since its an off year and decided to go for it.
“I am just a bad poet & good operator of high-tech astrophysical equipment, but I can’t figure out how you can cover preexisting conditions and call it “insurance”.
I wouldn’t say that a ouija board is exactly high-tech astrophysical equipment, but I guess there’s no accounting for taste. [p.s. I’m probably a worse poet than you are.]
December 22nd, 2009 at 7:25 pm
What kind of bad poetry do you write, Apathy Boy? I specialize in bad lyric drama. I also write poems about beer.
I was sittin’ ’round one evenin’
Feeling mighty poor,
So I sold a pint of blood
And hit the liquor store.
A sixer of Bud was $2.89
I only had two bucks.
I swallowed my pride,
Hit the remainder aisle
And took home a five-pack of Fox Deluxe.
Now its bouquet was a little bit skunky,
But I thought I’d giver ‘er a go,
Cuz five cans of Fox River Valley’s finest
Is enough when your blood’s a pint low.
December 22nd, 2009 at 7:59 pm
$2.89 for a six-pack? Not in Minnesota.
December 22nd, 2009 at 9:29 pm
There was a feller down in Pahoa got himself killed in a fight over a can of Bud Natural Light. Swiftee’s brother lives around there, but I don’t think he was involved. The dead man’s nickname was “Scabby”.
December 22nd, 2009 at 10:13 pm
I wonder if he was offended by the label “natural”. Sounds like the dude was kinda peevish.
December 22nd, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Chuck, it’s really more like if your car had ever been in an accident, you could never get insurance for it ever again.
Of course, one can buy a new car. Good luck replacing your body.
December 23rd, 2009 at 9:57 am
Yeah, analogs between car insurance and “health insurance” are not really very close, but then many people think “health insurance” means “free health care you get from an employer with all kinds of bureaucratic red tape attached”.
Some of them also blame the “free market” for this government constructs failure to bring about health nirvana.
December 23rd, 2009 at 9:58 am
it’s really more like if your car had ever been in an accident, you could never get insurance for it ever again.
Except, of course, it’s not. You just can’t get insurance that will replace that smashed up front bumper. But you can get insurance that will replace the currently undamaged rear bumper, if you should get in another accident. Or you can get the front bumper repaired, and then get insurance on the now “like-new” bumper.
WRT health insurance, pre-existing condition clauses almost always have time limits. That is no coverage for 6 to 18 months for the pre-existing condition, but coverage for other conditions which were not pre-existing. Then coverage applies again. And of course, if you were “in the game” and had insurance prior to your condition, then pre-existing conditions clauses don’t apply.
People don’t want to place a bet on the table, but want to collect on a bet when they see a winning number come up.
December 23rd, 2009 at 10:16 am
Angryclown nears his lifelong dream of bathing in a hot tub filled with wingnut tears.
December 23rd, 2009 at 10:23 am
And probably farting in it.
Merry Christmas!
December 23rd, 2009 at 11:09 am
Those are too yellow to be tears!
December 23rd, 2009 at 4:59 pm
aw that’s cute. AC thinks those are only wingnut tears.
December 23rd, 2009 at 5:00 pm
I figure AC will be coming over to the dark side around 2012.
December 23rd, 2009 at 6:33 pm
I think Angry Clown has a “Cheney/Palin 2012” t-shirt stashed in drawer somewhere, y’know, just in case.
December 24th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
I’d vote for that ticket just to see Garrison Keillor’s head explode.