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Back up, jackass: 1. There

JNagarya — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:51:22 +0000

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Back up, jackass:

1. There are FIVE -- 5 -- FIVE proposed bills in the House.

2. There is one proposed bill in the Senate.

Until the Five in the House are boiled down to one, we won't know what's in it, let alone what the public option -- it will be in it -- will look like.

Except for you, of course: you can predict the unknowable future.

Pelosi obviously meant it

JNagarya — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:47:33 +0000

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Pelosi obviously meant it when she said, "Impeachment is off the table."

The reality is that she rarely commits herself publicly; but when she does, it turns out to be her actual position.

And as she's the House speaker, she directs the tenor of legislation.

It's entirely possible that

Mr. Conspiracy — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:05:15 +0000

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It's entirely possible that he never was smart enough to whip the Clintons and the repubs. It's entirely possible that we were subjected to a USAID National Endowment for Democracy color revolution. And has been the case in all their other color revolutions, what the people joyfully elect never turns out to be what they thought they were voting for.

But don't listen to me. I'm just a conspiracy theorist.

Well, if we account for 4%

matyra — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:13:07 +0000

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Well, if we account for 4% inflation, then that's a reduction, right?

Sigh. This rose-colored glasses crap doesn't work. Still, I'm a bit more optimistic than you that we'll get something. I just hate this bullshit Democrat feeling of defeat when we ought to be taking the f'n ball and running down the field.

It's just 3rd down and this running game isn't working. We need a zig-zagging receiver running down the field now.

Maybe I was being a bit

Libertine — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:43:59 +0000

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Maybe I was being a bit optimistic. I was thinking they would have to show something in terms of savings to keep the sheep happy. And then once the 'furor' is over the premiums will continue their upward march...but you may be right and all that will happen is they go into a holding pattern.

Exactly. However, I don't

Mr. Conspiracy — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:57:18 +0000

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Exactly. However, I don't expect a reduction in premiums. I just think they'll stop going up for a couple of years.

My bet is that she caves and

MiddleClassBill — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:13:02 +0000

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My bet is that she caves and goes with the "trigger option" such that there's no public option until some later date. That would be a complete cop-out on her part, but I see it coming...

It is just bizarre. For 20

Azdak — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:24:30 +0000

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It is just bizarre. For 20 months, I listened to a guy tell me he was special because he was not a Washington insider. I was willing to "roll the dice" on Obama because I thought that, while we might get a few more "rookie mistakes", at the very least we would get a different tone and a little more honesty than from a second Clinton administration.

The instantaneous transformation of Obama into DLC lackey has been nothing short of breathtaking. The eternal optimist in me keeps hoping that, any second now, candidate Obama is going to pick himself off the canvas, like Rocky in the final round, and start whuppin up on Ivan Drago, but even that is flickering out.

I still can't understand how a guy who was smart enough to whip both the Clintons and the repubs could have lost his way so quickly.

because the truth is the

CharlesBrown — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:33:06 +0000

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because the truth is the Obama administration doesn't really want to do a public option.

Thank you. I was beginning to think that I am the only one who sees this. I am so suspicious of Obama right now that I half expect him to even veto a bill with public option.

It is BS oleeb and it is time

Libertine — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:02:01 +0000

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It is BS oleeb and it is time to call it what it is. I think they really do prefer to be in the minority...they still get all the corporate $$ and don't have the pressure of having to be in charge. Change we can believe in? I am going to Washington to change the way it works? Unless he delivers on real health care reform he will join a long list of disingenuous politicians who lied through their teeth just to get elected. What change? It is still the same business as usual...and even worse. I am betting short of a public option/single payer this so-called 'health care reform' will be the biggest corporate giveaway EVER. All it will be is trying to force the uninsured to buy insurance on the private market.

I can see the future now...there will be modest (maybe 5% to 10%) reductions in premiums right from the get go which everybody will laud as the reforrm 'working'. And in 3-5 years premiums will be higher than they are today...except everybody will be mandated to buy private insurance.