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Yea Paul Ryan. I wish we had

Jim Schulz — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:12:50 +0000

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Yea Paul Ryan. I wish we had more just like him. You Socialists have no clue.

Stay classy.

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:48:22 +0000

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Stay classy.

Yeah. When the President let

scofflaw — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:37:59 +0000

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Yeah. When the President let us liberals down on arbitrary detention, extraordinary rendition (to torture), Presidential power and gay rights, I assumed he was keeping his powder dry for the big health care battle. Now where are the firebreathing speeches? The powerful emotional appeal? Yes, the Cambridge cops were stupid to arrest Skip Gates for allegedly yelling at them and calling them racist, but could President Obama please speak as plainly and passionately about getting us health care that works?

I'm starting to worry that his most passionately held political principle is bipartisanship -- he's willing to sacrifice whatever liberal principle to get a few Republicans on board. I wish he would spend his political capital on whipping the Blue Dogs into line on Democratic party policy. And let the partisan obstructionists go to hell. (Where they'll end up sooner, thanks to the short lifespans that our glorious private health insurance have given Americans. Compare our life expectancies to Canada, Western Europe, Oz, NZ or Japan. People in other rich countries live 10 years longer than us.)

Paul Ryan writes of his fear

acanuck — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:50:26 +0000

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Paul Ryan writes of his fear of losing "the principles of free market democracy which protect and preserve ... the American character."

There's the underlying problem with your dysfunctional government: "free market democracy!" Where exactly in your constitution or bill of rights does that invidious phrase occur?

Nowhere. But it increasingly describes how the U.S. system of government really works: supply and demand. Lobbyists supply politicians with funding, and demand legislation that increases their profits in return.

"Free market democracy!" Which is to actual democracy as "processed cheeese food" is to cheese.

one last thing. obama has

Deadman — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:38:47 +0000

In reply to amen, sister. when we have

one last thing. obama has been a poor advocate for reform so far. he certainly has been out there enough discussing the issue - but his language hasn't been nearly as direct and forceful as it should be. He's said the right words, but not emphasized them enough. my god, if there is one subject where obama's flair for eloquence and emotional heft should come in handy you'd think it'd be health care. people deep down know the system is broken. you tell some of these heartbreaking stories, you lay out the dire consequences of what will happen should we choose to do nothing, and then you hammer out some real specifics. and the vast majority of americans would quickly understand that reform is a necessity.

amen, sister. when we have

Deadman — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:33:22 +0000

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amen, sister. when we have one heartbraking story like your family's, the system is not doing its job. when we have thousands of stories like that, which we do, the system is completely broken. as DF says, we dont really have a health care system.

Instead we pay more for health care per capita than any country in the world and for those dollars get generally subpar results. If a regular business were seeing those kind of results, they'd send in the consultants and turn it inside out trying to fix it. Yet when it comes to something as crucial as our nation's health care, we wring our hands, and hem and haw, and put it off for another day.

btw, I'm not even certain the democrats have the right plan. I'm not sure what it is. I don't think the public option is a panacea, but i think it could help. t would certainly seem that other countries have working models out there that we could at least model our reform off of.

All i know is O is right, health care reform is needed ASAP, and if we waste this opportunity because of POLITICS, then we deserve our fate.