Elmendorf: Two Weeks Until Crucial Health Care Analysis

[jasonsadventure]

ah, wait.

they have done this before haven't they? i mean, this is not the first time they've finalized legislation and needed it scored before voting on it, is it?

[danbreindel1]

I'm a democrat all the way & i'd LOVE universal healthcare, but Kent Conrad is definately a liar. you can just tell by looking at him

[darkforestzero]

I like how some goof ball is typing away on her blackberry while Sen. Conrad is talking

[terpis]

Baucus thinks he's got himself a clever analogy there...we're in a "box," apparently.

Q: "What's the Box?"

A: Uhh...the thing set under the guillotine, for catching yr head?

Pompous, disingenuous asshole "A" with 640,000 people in his ENTIRE STATE, & pompous disingenuous asshole "B", with 970,000 people in his ENTIRE STATE scapegoating the CBO bean counter (w/ the inevitably flawed computer model) as the latest ploy to strenuously serve up the healthcare lobbyists' their 'druthers.

[macks3123]

You can't read it unless you have the Annotations/codes and other abritrarily placed Literature, Purposely Put into Complex jargon that A lawyer would need Help Deciphering. H.R. 3200, I read it. Thanks, Big Bro, for putting you best "GUYS" on the bill. We are indebt to you for Infiuencing/Manipulating every Aspect of our Lives. God Bless Corporate Facism...... I mean Democracy!!!

[animeownage86]

A ten thousand page bill loaded with tyranny that no one is allowed to read until just before the voting, also time is needed to threaten or bribe everyone into voting for something in which they have no idea what's in it.... stupid fools sign away our future because of blind faith in the government and greed. and of course the sheep will cheer when a bill which all they know about comes from the government owned media passes. Look into the Baxter avian flu mix up then tell me you trust them.

[xeroone1]

How do you know its full of tyranny if you have not read it yet?

[animeownage86]

Do you seriously think that these basterds have your best interest at heart?!? Their one and only goal is to screw the people they are nothing but con-artists that play the foolish masses against each other using a false left-right paradigm. The politics you watch on the news are no different then watching the WWE it's all staged.

[TheWayISeeIt1982]

Single Payer NOW!!!

[spikesmth]

If it takes two weeks for it to be done properly then give them the two weeks! Baucus needs to stfu and wait for good information before passing epic legislation... either that or rush it so we all get more than the GOP is comfortable with.

[flyyspit]

Good luck my American friends....... :(

[PotheadPundit]

find dirt on baucus. trash him

[doink1422]

gee do you think this is a stall tactic

[FixedNewsChannel]

Baucus YOU are the box for trying to promote crap legislation.

Shame on you.

[dkkght46]

Reid is threatening to use reconciliation -- the "nuclear option". Go nuke Harry, if you're ready for the fallout! Their jobs are finished. They are seriously underestimating the anger of the public. This might even spark a real revolution. You better call Allied Van Lines now and make a reservation with them to

move your sorry butt out of D.C. in Dec. of 2010. the kind of man that results from too little testosterone and too much Aqua Velva. Apparently they want another civil war.

[charbroiledmonk1033]

You seriously have no idea what ur talking about. 80% of the american people support the public option. There would be riots if they DIDNT pass it. Have a heart attack already old man, nobody wants ur srry ass around any more.

[hoff100]

reconciliation isn't the nuclear option...the nuclear option is to change senate rules to make a filibuster virtually impossible....like the republicans threatened to do in 2005

[SamariaTV]

War and abortion are forms of murder. In some instances, ie - if a woman is raped it is neceassary. It is never necesary to murder for monetary gain - for christians that defines an act of sin.

[Innize]

Abortion is not murder- if it was, a bunch of OB/GYNs would be in jail.

And I don't really understand the arguments against abortion, because they're all arguments based on your religion. But if you can't even prove your god exists, and other gods do not exist, why should I give a flying fuck what your "god" thinks?

[SamariaTV]

We must use our maternal gifts to create and heal and release those who instinctually want to murder. Senate and congress will be removed. All those who have demonstrated a confict of interest will be replaced.

There is no reason to have months of debate, this is not complicated.

How long did it take Bush to declare war?.. without the support of Americans?

We must use our maternal gifts to create and heal and release those who instinctually want to murder.

[SamariaTV]

Senate and congress will be removed. All those who have demonstrated a confict of interest will be replaced.

There is no reason to have months of debate, this is not complicated.

How long did it take Bush to declare war?.. without the support of Americans?

[ehkinoh]

Baucus' bill was crap and yet he complains with how long it's taking to pass a quality health care bill?

How about not wasting our time with your lazy ideas.

[JamJells]

Now. Not later, or after another vacation or break. Now.

[FixedNewsChannel]

Well said sir.

[WKaliberr]

Łukasz is my name, sucking dick is not my game

[lamouchemorte]

???

[lamouchemorte]

delay delay delay. Get to it, you corrupt lazy pansy asses!

[someperson111]

Committee mark up wasn't going to be finished until about a month ago.

[slimydick23]

From what I hear, a lot of democrats would like to see Baucus helped put IN a box.