dagblog - Comments for "We Need the Stinking Mandate"

Hey, that's not how we do

Michael Maiello — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:50:30 +0000

In reply to Or at least to filibuster a

Hey, that's not how we do things on our side, Flav. We'll filibuster, lecture people about civility, and then allow half of the bill to be repealed, with the other half repealed last minute, as a rider.

Or at least to filibuster a

Flavius — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:09:21 +0000

In reply to Now comes the work to get the

Or at least to filibuster a repeal.

Now comes the work to get the

Elusive Trope — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:21:48 +0000

In reply to MANDATE SURVIVES IS

Now comes the work to get the people elected who are going to improve it rather than undermine it.

MANDATE SURVIVES IS

tmccarthy0 — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:10:47 +0000

In reply to We Need the Stinking Mandate

MANDATE SURVIVES IS CONSTITUTIONAL! WOOT!

What happened in Washington

Resistance — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:41:22 +0000

In reply to Jolly, actually I do mention

What happened in Washington gives us a view into the future, I think that is worth discussing. I also thought it was worth people knowing. Knowledge could help us avert some of the possible consequences.

"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past." http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Patrick_Henry

Knowledge could help us avert some of the possible consequences.

You got that right TMC .....The Obama experience could have been averted ?

http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/we-need-stinking-mandate-14070#comment-158126

Had candidate Obama kept his promise; the Battle for Wisconsin, may never have happened?

Detroit may not have needed a bailout?

I could a memory to that

Peter Schwartz — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:42:31 +0000

In reply to I am serendipitously reminded

I could a memory to that one...but I won't-:)

I don't know about that -

Elusive Trope — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:28:48 +0000

In reply to I thought if you're not part

I don't know about that - since us tropes are just a singular tangent space of a quartic surface, they don't give us that kind of information.

I always thought that the

jollyroger — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:27:40 +0000

In reply to Jolly, actually I do mention

I always thought that the idea would be to drive out private carriers through medical loss ratios combined with rate regulation, and thus backdoor single payer by building on the initial very limited public option as then raised. Alas, premium regulation was still left to the states and they strangled the baby public option in its crib. So much for eleventy dimensional chess.

In general these fights break

Elusive Trope — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:24:59 +0000

In reply to Jolly, actually I do mention

In general these fights break out over and over again because it the haggling over the nuances of history. Bring up the Civil War and see what kind of brewhaha breaks out in the thread. Some people are more entertained by this kind of wrangling than others.

In particular, people I think are just in a holding pattern because the decision hasn't come down yet. Once it does, then people can start bickering about next steps (with all the finger pointing and flame wars about who is to blame, etc).

I thought if you're not part

jollyroger — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:19:52 +0000

In reply to Or: If you're not part of the

I thought if you're not part of the solution you're the precipitate.