Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act
 

Are you kidding me? This is what is going into the history books? :p

From the same @ssholes who brought us the Patriot Act. What a bunch of jingoistic dickheads. This is certain to appeal to their base, however.

Absolutely correct.

They are simply throwing red meat to the least astute section of their base, the one's who don't realize that this has no chance of passing.

Chas

So the bill title, besides being dorky, is legal even though it is an outright lie is and at best considered an opinion?

Sure. When did it become illegal for Congress to lie?

Yep, those are pretty much the facts I remembered Factcheck.org putting forth and I suppose it is possible that some employer(s) might let some go without any real grounds to do so but certainly nothing like what these factless opponents make it out to be.

Children. The immature antics of their pundits have reached Capitol Hill. I can't help but think our new congress is going to do nothing but make complete asses of themselves.

If you think it's been bad up to this point, you aint seen nuthin' yet.

Congress has been a zoo for a while. But, now the monkeys have taken over.
The acidic hate spewing internet blog troll, and the imbecile who thinks God punishes sodomites with earthquakes are now our congressional representatives.

Get yourself a funnel cake, step into the big tent, the show is about to begin................

Dave

Don't you love farce.:p

Come to think of it, I thought Ears and the Donks were going to repeal the Patriot Act and close Guantanamo, among other things.

Looks like they're moving in the wrong direction.

Chas

They were against it before they were for it.

Pete

Seems to work both ways for the long ears.

Chas

Lifted from the NYTimes:

"Those who had hoped to see a glimpse of the much-advertised Republican plan to revive the economy and put Americans back to work will have to wait at least until party leaders finish their Beltway insider ritual of self-glorification .... The Republicans’ antics are a ghastly waste of time at a moment when the nation is expecting real leadership from Congress, and suggest that the new House leadership is still unable to make tough choices. Voters, no less than drama critics, prefer substance to overblown theatrics."

QFT.

I'm glad they're not wasting time with symbolic votes.

Considering that during their eight years the GOP amply demonstrated that they can't find their collective arse with both hands and a flashlight what else do you guys expect?:D

But they sure are pleased with themselves, aren't they?

Pride goeth before a fall.

Sounds familiar....

Pete

After the GOP's recent antics, methinks Obama will rise up from the ashes in 2012. Bet on it.

Interesting who they had as the favorite for the GOP presidential nomination. Maybe that's why they had Obama as such a big favorite overall.

Regards,

D-Ray

Blocked.

It's all about the economy, and how the public perceives the healthcare thing imo.

Gosh, for a party that was finished in 08 we're really causing you guys a lot of trouble :)

Pete

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so, other than Obie, Sarah and Hillary are the favs.

I'd love to see these two run against each other.

It would be the ultimate catfight.

They would clearly bring out the worst in each other.

Hillary would make Sarah cry lol.



Today's news:
Yeah, sure mac. :rolleyes:

The paper said this was one of the better years and that costs had only risen 4%.

The problem is that they now have to pay 80% of the premiums toward health care costs, and they want to make their 20% bigger.

Regards,

D-Ray

I know it has been 70% here. VA does administrative costs for 7% like the rest of the world, private industry 20-30%, and then some want to tell me the government can't do anything efficiently and expect me to believe it?
Yeah, sure mac. :p

Government health insurance.

I favor single payer, (my lib buddy looked at me like I had two heads when I told him this...he had preconcieved notions), but we may as well come to the conclusion that it will have to be a two tiered system.

Basic healthcare for all, you can see a pill roller, if your appendix has to go, so be it.

Half a mill liver transplants, bone marrow transplants, things like that, I'm not so sure about. People need to come the the realization that they're going to die, and life ain't fair.

Personally, I have less fear of dying than letting the sawbones TRY to fix me.

If the rich want to be rebuilt as many time as my old Dodge, that's fine with me.

I only hope that when I've played my last card the game ends quickly. Or being stuck in a nursing home QUICKLY draining the assets of my loved ones. Or even the taxpayer...I don't deserve it.

And should I go to the grave without so much as a cul-de-sac named after me...does it really matter?

Homo sapiens are probably the most disposable asset of the Planet Earth.

Problem is, we're too smart to realize it.

Hell, we think we're important!!!

Chas

i.e., Death Panels.:eek:

Of course this is essential to affordable health care. However, it's such a volatile issue that it would provide the necessary ammo for opponents to kill the reform without breaking a sweat.

Remember Terry Schiavo?:rolleyes:

I remember...one of the most disgusting examples of assholes butting into someone elses business I've ever seen.

I can see why our masters travel in armored limousines.

Had anyone done that to me, they would have damn well needed one.

Chas

South Park gave their own special touch to the Schiavo story. It's a little over 20 minutes but some darn fine satire.

Regards,

D-Ray

Yes, that poor woman.

I can't imagine the indignity of having that grinning asshole Hannity use such misfortune for his feigned concern and blatant political grandstanding. Her husband should have driven to New York, barged into the FauxNews studio and busted a cap in his ass in front of the cameras. I would have crapped my pants from laughing so hard.

Dave

Regarding transplants has it ever occured to y'all that there is a slight disconnect between them urging the public to sign the organ "donation' part of their driver's license and the outrageous charges the doctors and hospitals make? You might think that they could do a little donating also.

No I did not sign mine, by the time I am through with my organs they will be so used up a dog would not want them.

Bill Frist's (R-Tenn) diagnosis from afar was the icing on the cake. It's silly stunts like this that drove me away from the GOP about 10 years ago. They've taken pandering and manipulation to new lows and their message seems to be designed for clueless people of 7th grade mentality. Whenever I think they can't go any lower insulting peoples' intelligence with their drivel, they serve up something else.

Now, it seems there's a new GOP rule that they have to use the words "job-killing" in every sentence. Give it a friggin' rest, gents.

At least come spring they will have provided enough fertilizer for the kitchen garden that I will not need to buy any.

Why (job killing) what are you (job killing) talking about, Finn? (Job killer.)
Are you seriously saying (Job killing.) that the GOP would resort (Kenyan) to such a thing (Socialist)? I mean, I have seen no (Muslim) evidence of such a thing. I mean President Barrack (HUSSEIN!) Obama loves his country (KENYA!) just as much as I do. Are you seriously suggesting (Stalinist!) Conservatives would smear (NAZI!) and spread falsehoods (JOB KILlING COMMUNIST NAZI!)? That's ridiculous, they just (Job killing) love America and want the best for our children, (You baby murdering, left wing radical, America hating, sodomite who wants to build death camps and gas all of the white folks.:eek:).

Dave

I'll cop to a bit of plagiarism on my "job-killing" rant. It appeared in a Steve Pearlstein piece that Rob mentioned earlier:

"Type "job killing" into Google and you'll get more than 1.2 million hits. On the Factiva news database, it comes up 11,115 times during 2009 and 2010, compared with 1,373 times during the previous two years. A Republican talking point, a Fox News broadcast or a Chamber of Commerce press release is now incomplete without it.

What's so curious is that it's hard to find almost any Republican concern about employment homicide during 2008, when George W. Bush was president and the economy was shedding 4.4 million jobs. Given the lag with which economic policy works, the biggest net job loss that could credibly be assigned to Obama during his two years in office would be less than a million."

I guess job-killing was OK under Dubya because it was patriotic, God-fearing job-killing.:cool:

Shh, let them keep up their inane blathering, accomplishing nowt and come 2012 we can watch the bloodshed. It will make 2008 look tame.:D

Maybe they had better appeal to O'Donnell, a little witchcraft might help them out about now.

That's right. You've got it.

Dave

So I was looking at the news this morning and saw this
And so I thought I would look for a same Jan 7 article at Fox and saw this
Not a peep to their tea bagger public how much pushing the GOP agenda will cost the country and how their bagger reps would break the tea party agenda to vote for it. :p
It will be interesting to see if these baggers do what they say they came to do or follow into submission to Lord Boehner and vote to increase the deficit which they promised not to do.