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  • Just before I die I will become a republican, that way it will be one less.

  • found a healthcare plan posted on the gop website

  • Yet another moron who just don't realize that the DEMS DID NOT NEED ONE FRIGGIN REPUBLICAN VOTE TO PASS THE BILL AND STILL CAN'T GET IT DONE. GEEZ I SUPPOSE IT'S BUSHES FAULT THEY COULDN'T PASS HEALTHCARE.

  • THANK GOD the Senate is going to kill the health care bill passed by the House.

    Its really really obvious to anyone who has ever studied economics at a middle school level why this and all the other bills passed by Democrats since Obama took over are terrible. The Dems are doing their very best to hand conservatives back control. They usually never take to long to do it.

    All you socialist, big government loving fools can go to Europe if you want to sink into economic despair.

  • Yeah it's great over here you totally should come over.

  • been there done that, nice scenery, some neat buildings, but everything else is shitty.

  • everything else is shitty well i guess the old saying is true

    "you can send a donkey around the world but it'll still come back an ass"

    oh and so as to illustrate your stupidity in that comment you should said the world renowned hotties of europe are shitty that the best beers in the world are shitty that the best cars in the world are shitty that the sexiest accents in the world are shitty name any field of human endeavour (good ones) and europe CRUSHES america in it.

  • Europe has hot girls. Every country has hot girls. 2% of the female population in any country is not the basis for such claims you have made. The beer is good, but the America's have better liquor. The accents? I know your not talking about Brittish accents. Definitely not German, maybe French? Hopefully not. They all sound silly. Cars? Who doesnt love a Ferrari or a Lamborghini ect. Oh thats right, the 99.9% of people in the world who cannot afford they're ridiculous price tag.

  • I can't think of a single decent american beer and don't go robbing canada's rep for beer as for accents i was talking mainly about the Irish accent which has been officially voted the worlds sexiest accent this year scotish is 2nd french 3rd italian 4th and as for price what a stupid point when is the best in the world ever cheap you idiot oh and one more thing if your white your almost guaranteed to be of european ancestry so stop being a dick to your homeland.

  • Healthcare for all that actually decreases the deficit by nearly 200 billion(CBO forecast)... wow, how fuckin' heartless the Democrats are! Bunch of assholes. GOP's invisible plan works for me.

  • @Mplay1983

    Yeah, I prefer we pay 2.5 trillion dollars in health care like we did last year. That sounds better then decreasing the deficit. The GOP plan has convincened me with their great invisible plan. Woohoo! You know, the invisible plan that Boehner told us in that news conference? That invisible plan?

    Why is the GOP so ridiculous? The "no" party who puts the American people first, yet denies unemployment benefit extenstions to pay for a war we should not be part of. It's unbelievable.

  • Whoa look at the size of that bill, The republican plan, check this out its pretty amazing, Actually Charge the bail out banks 3.5% intrest on the money they loaned rather than playing daddy you have been bad like obama is o you cant have bonuses wtf is that? Socialism little? ? Really Next take our 3.5% of 700B per year and Zamo FREE healthcare for all Americans Free is a way better plan demo plan make healthcare industry rich.

  • No plan is better than Bad one, I am laughing this one up you fucks are going to totally ruin it and the republicans will have the white house in 2012, mark my words You will

    Run even more jobs over seas

    Ruin even more lives, people who can afford healthcare cant afford it regardless if you force it on them your just going to make them foreclose but hay they got healthcare You are stupid fucks.

  • As an independent, it is these types of comments that lean me more towards the left. The only arguement I ever see against health care only ever include "Dems are fucks. Obama is a socialist. He lies. He hates the country. Yeah. Health care is bad. You will see in 2012." THat is all I ever read, and I have to agree that the GOP is pretty much pathetic for giving people such as you this type reasoning. Last I checked, the stimulus plan provided tax savings for up to 95% of American. Ouch?

  • yea yea say i am wrong who just won 2 back-to-back victories? The red team please omg please pass this diabolical plan, healthcare reform haha please call it what it really is for anyone who isnt stupid, its the Healthcare industry bail out. I hope you bankrupt the country so we can hang your asses from the trees in the white house lawn. obama will be moving out in 2012 prepare yourselves.

  • Fuck the republicans!

  • goofy libs want this 1900 page health care reform passed before anyone gets to read it

  • Similiar to the stimulus, and we all saw how well that worked out hey guys!

    Really can have faith in an Administration that cannot handle it's trillion dollar bills..

  • Epic fail

  • Damn GOP I love you more and more everyday this is truly the party of idiots.

  • there are no examples. it's complete word vomit. so cliche and paranoid... (sigh) they can't even come up with anything substantial so they regurgitate whatever beck et al spew out. like i said, pure word vomit.

  • Looks like Boner was twisting in the wind for a minute till he regained his composure. Of courrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrse they don't have a plan- Jayar nailed it on the head-

    "Sure, we wanna responsibly reform health care..." *wink wink*

  • Resonsibily, you call the public option a respoonsible reform option??

  • willsbanana

    If you've got a better plan, I'd love to hear it- besides, that last quote was a sarcastic poke at the GOP-they have no plan other than to maintain the status quo to keep enriching the insurance companies at the expense of regular Americans.

    I see from your profile that you're young, only 18, so you're probably from a conservative household and if so, God bless- But do me a favor, please- don't act like you understand how the world works till you've been out in it a few years, okay?

  • their a waist of political spaces.

  • 'A waist of political spaces,' woah, and this is the liberal talk shows fan base, man i would be proud.

  • ... I'm more moderate, but the GOP is only getting in the way, they can easily get more people to join with the GOP by helping the Democrats, but at the same time put a conservative spine onto the things they do. yet the consistently say no to the democrats who are trying to save tha USA, at the same time the GOP give so other strategy to help. their like a little kid going limp on the floor for they don't want to go to their room.

  • I was pointing out how retarded you were. Mispelling waste..?

    Didn't notice that?

    Yeah, that was my point about the liberal fanbase..

  • I'm Dyslexic... asshole.

  • You should probably work on that.

  • ... your a moron.

  • Says the dyslexic guy who can't spell 'you're'

  • i am a transgender hippopotamus. just kidding, but i bet you're curious now

  • Stupid GOP "DON'T" have a plan, lol, this is so much fun.

    Did you mean: Republican's DON'T have a plan, or the GOP "DOESN'T" have a plan, it almost too easy with this guy, lol

    I'll send you my new book "Steps to writing good"

    And on the topic, if you ask 2 people whe sky is blue, and one says "Faries paint it blue every morning", and the other says "I don't know", Who would you want to lead?

    Not having an answer isn't always worse than having a bad one.

  • Perhaps you should read your own book. What you wrote had several grammar and spelling errors. Also having a stupid answer based upon fairy tales (like religion) is always worse than saying "I don't know" because the person saying "I don't know" can always learn the answer while the other person just "knows" that they are right and all the evidence in the world won't convince them otherwise.

  • Pretty embarrassing huh..

  • why do the democrats refuse to show the people this bill that will take millions of their lives, are the dems really such hypocrites they attack bush for being too secerative, but they create their holocaust behind closed doors, and the republicans have plans that increase treatment, lower cost, and do not compromise our god given freedom, none of which the liberals obama KKKare does

  • Do you actually know anything about history or are you just an stupid ignorant Kool-Aid drinking right-wing troll ?

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  • Firstly, the Reps. from back then were completely different than the current reps, and though they were anti slavery, it was merely political, they personally were racist themselves too.

  • Wow you are very ignorant, the parties are completely different now. All of those "pro slavery" southern dems switched affiliation to the republican party when the dems passed the civil rights laws. So you basically just owned yourself, congrats.

  • well i dont live in your racist country so i don't know the entire history obviously.

  • willsbanana

    If you don't live here, then what right do you think you have criticizing us? Your profile says you're from Australia- do you not have racists there? What about the way the Abos have been treated there since Cook found the place? I'm sure they don't think their country is racist at all. What about the Aussie gov't doing nuclear tests in the 1950's and covertly using the Abos as guinea pigs to determine the effects of fallout on humans? Before you criticize, you really should reflect-

  • have you got a degree of any kind. If so from what university and what degree..

    i beat anything i know more on the subject.

  • OMFG.

    Very isolated incidences. You guys had wide spread lynching. Segregation. The disgusting recent history of your countries inhumanity toward blacks. Think it is much worse. And my best friend is an Aboriginal so fuck you

  • willsbanana-

    Well, looks like I touched a nerve. damn...

    To answer your previous question, I hold no degree from any University- but does that make me an idiot in your eyes? Jeez, I'm crushed.

    No, sport, I'm just a regular guy with a public school education who at age 45, still values knowledge, and tries every day to become more enlightened. You seem very quick to judge people you know only through TV and movies; so tell me- have you ever been to the US? If so, when and where?

  • I don't think it matter does it?

    I mean i am interested in all politics, and i do enjoy American politics. The sad thing is stupid American's on either side who make judgements without any knowledge of the issues. And no degree huh?

    I am not suprised you are not of high intelligence, enjoy your lowest common denominator share with the hicks of your country.

  • willsbanana

    Again, your disdain for both myself and my country only serve to expose your own ignorance, but I doubt that's important to you. Sad, because till now I've liked every Aussie I've ever met (I was in the Navy, so I've met quite a few)

    You're only 18 y/o, but you presume to call me a stupid hick, and why? Because I never graduated college? Because I live in the Midwest? That's pretty feeble-

    Jeez, boy, you'd better get a clue soon or your life's gonna be really tough-

    Ignorance=FAIL

  • willsbanana-

    We Americans aren't even close to being perfect, but our Founding Fathers knew that; and that's why our Constitution says "in order to form a MORE perfect union. That's also why it's a living document, open to change and amendment, to make the US a MORE perfect union.

    The America we have today still has problems, but we're like a big family here, and even though we may fight amongst ourselves, we take a very dim view of strangers butting in, so won't you kindly butt out? Seriously-

  • I just told you that all of the racists are in the republican party which isn't the majority of the country. So you can take your stupid foreign elitism and shove it, jackass.

  • If youpaid attention, you would have heard Cenk say that the Democrats agreed and ARE putting the bill online, for more than 72 hours. Meanwhile I'd like to hear what you think of the fact that the Repubs refuse to publicly publish their plan (if they even have one), and what do you think of the fact that, in this video (if u actually watched it) The Repubs said they cant tell us what their plan is until the Dems tell them what their plan is?

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  • In the same way the government the police force, fire departments and public roads are?

    If you read up on things a little bit, you would know that "public option" is not equivalent with "government controlled health care". Something being OPTIONAL is the opposite of being FORCED.

  • Yeah but the mandates. They are an option huh.

    And when private insurers are killed off by the public option, there will be so many options...

  • oh noes....the public option could be so efficient that it will be so cheap it kills off private industry!

    what an unmitigated disaster cheap healthcare would be.

  • Fuck, it is economic illitirates like you that make this thing so infuriating. Do you know the difference in cost and prices?

    The option is subsidised by the government...

    As in, a massive, massive tax drain. 1 trillion dollars in fact, and that is on the basis that only like 5% turn to the public option. So yes it would be a disaster.

  • obama is not in support of a public option that adds to the deficit, he said so in his speech to the joint session. therefore, cheaper price must necessarily translate to cheaper cost if there is no subsidisation. however, with subsidisation to poorer families you are correct that it wont be tax neutral. but if it costs small business less then i think its still worth it, as it takes the burden of healthcare provision away from the people who actually contribute to the economy.

  • What, you still believe what Obama says. so you think that van jones, Biden, Holden, Clinton, the 787 billion stimulus, gitmo, solving iran, iraq, afghanistan all played out like Obama said they would..?

    Anything who thinks the public option is tax neutral or virtually tax neutral is an utter moron.

  • Hahahahha whatever you say clown, you haven't read the plan so where is you proof? Oh thats right, you have none... you are a liar like all of the republicans.

  • Utter utter morons. It is just common sense you fool.

    It is weird that some people can be so politically incorrect without even having any basic understanding of the porcesses or the costs or any degree of detail. That's Obama's America for you mmmm mmmm mmm

  • Waiting for something to which they can say "no"...that's the dark heart of the republican party leadership collectively.

  • Oh man. Why in the hec didn't MSNBC run with that story and cream Bohner. That would have made a great story for countdown.

  • Countdown!

    Jesus.

  • Whats wrong the countdown?

  • Spose it would be ok for the lowest common denominator. Just weird that the lowest common denominator is interested in politics. I suppose it is sensationalised a fair bit so there could be some entertainment insentive there..

  • Fuck I hate Progressive but that chick in the commercial is 100% fuckable.

  • yeah, i'm in ny so no worries here. we'll get the public option no doubt, but i'm not even sure what the public option is! i mean, is it just like medicaid or is it just like private insurance and will still cost a shitload to get? medicaid is awesome if you can get it. i can't. i make too much to qualify, but not nearly enough to afford any other insurance. $200/mo is absolutely not an option for me. i hate the mandate w/o knowing the details of the public option.

  • You gotta fight for a public option that gives you a good deal man, try writing some letters to NY politicians telling them that if they don't look after your interests you are going to take your vote somewhere else. For that matter you could write a letter to Obama saying the same thing.

    If you want to go an extra step maybe look at donating some money to progressive orgs that are running ads to support the public option.

  • Jayar keeps making good points on here.

  • And to think they could have just expanded medicaid or medicare to more poor people, or let people buy into them. But no, then the insurance companies would have had to compete with an actual health care provider, and that just wouldn't be fair.

  • yeah, but at least your brother had an alternative- juice. the repubs don't even have that much. all they can muster is "no spaghetti". then they pick apart every thing that is "wrong" with spaghetti- it was made with bugs (death panels). ok, then the tomato sauce is too thick, the pasta is overcooked, etc. distracting everyone. instead of trying to convince them the spaghetti is fine, the dems need to say, OK, fine. we're having spaghetti and if you don't want it, don't eat it.

  • What a shit allegory. You suck.

  • that's what she said.

  • exactly what i was thinking zander73! nicely done.

  • man, are you ever naive!

    a "public option" that includes a Gov't run insurance competing with private cos will ultimately drive private cos out of business with arbitrary rules and regulations forcing all to join the Gov't plan, meaning an eventual single payer system and total takeover

    gov'ts are all about Power!! you're too green around the gills to know that??

    Obama knows that and has even said this would happen. I SAW THE GD SPEECHES!!

    wise up idiot!!!

  • that's right... because if we have socialized medicine, what's next??

    socialized military?? socialized schools?? socialized police?? socialized fire department?? socialized science???

    oh wait... too late..

    lol!

  • you freakin idiot, you forgot to mention the Federal Post office, which is broke and can't compete with cos like UPS when in fact law protects the PO from competition!

    as for public schools, they're a cesspool of dropouts, crime, drugs and low scores of learning. Take a close look at Detroit's public schools before you open your trap

    as for military, they're run by career generals and admirals and are controlled by strict discipline, as are police and fire depts, UNLIKE FEDERAL BUREAUCRATS

  • Oh yes you forgot to mention our Social Security system which has unfunded liabilities of over 60 TRILLION, and our medicare with unfunded liabilities of over 27 TRILLION

    Both are run as gigantic PONZI SCAMS

  • That won't happen. The government it owned by private companies. The public option won't drive them out of business. Its not full government healthcare. Its more like public/private colleges.

  • The public option is not competition....

    When the government covers the cost of the public option so that it remains ridiculously low and people move away from their private insurance yet those companies costs remain high, those companies will collapse, the public option will generate trillions of dollars in debt, it is worse than anything i can imagine.

  • but the public options is paid for by premiums... its not going to be subsidized....

  • In reality, noone knows how the public option will affect spending, its all speculation, and once in place, if it isn't deficit neutral, it will be too popular to pull. We may need to raise taxes, and its political suicide for Dems to admit that, because Americans are too pigheaded to accept reality in their politics. But, I don't care, raise taxes, especially on high earners like me. I can afford to not have a new tv so someone can get basic medical care. Only a selfish asshole disagrees.

  • This is a very complicated piece of legislation. This has to cover ALL ilnesses, ALL medical conditions, ALL medical insurance plans, I would EXPECT this bill to run to a thousand pages or more.

  • jayar for senate lol he nailed it

  • Also, the republicans do not have to have a plan, they are not the fucking government, both parties are sitting on trheir hands, but the problem is, the democrats are in charge

  • The 72 hours minimum is a step toward the transperancy that Obama campaigned for. I think it is a good idea so that everyone, analyst, opposing parties or just citizens have the oppurtunity to read these bills before they get rammed through. How is that a bad thing in any way?

  • What Obama is attempting is the equivalent of a coup de tat. Yes he is in office via an election and yes, he controls both houses of Congress. However, his socialst objectives are so anti-American that not even main stream Democrats would support his true plans, if they understood them.

    Thus, deception, speed, and thuggery when needed are critical. Once his plans are revealed he has to confuse and move quickly, becasue what he is proposing is so radical he really only has one shot at this.

  • again, you dumb, ignorant, brainwashed, far-left lunatic!!!

    the Dems have a clear majority to pass anything they want, so what's this constant shit about the GOP. Dems don't need a GOP plan, fuckass!!!!

    as is so typical, the gd Dems are political cowards!!! they need some partisan support so that they don't get all the blame for the fiasco that's coming

    too fuckin bad!!!

  • True.

    Why this blame pushed onto the GOP and Bush for god's sake. Like it is their administration...

  • man stop with the fox gop talking point. There is no proposal for a government take over. I'm also against an alien take over and if you poll all of the americans i bet you the majority of them will be against an alien take over of earth. But to misprepresent something as being something it is not and them poll people on the misrepresentation doesn't mean anything. because the majority of americans are for the public option. But those same people are probably against a total take over. get it?

  • It's been established that tort reform would save a very tiny fraction of the healthcare waste. State restrictions is not republican plan, they tried to steal it. Same goes for regulations and subsidies.

  • "all the good ideas are used up"....what a sad reason for the RepubliKKKant...boohoo you guys don't even have a plan in the first place you douchebag!

  • Don't throw out figures like that without sources. Source it.

  • er small but vital point to consider about France..you claim their economy is stagnating(and has been for decades) BUT(and this is a damn BIG BUT!) if tha is so how come they make more cars then the USA does? how come they have a far better health care system then the USA does? how come all their electical power is nuke generated?...they are not at the beck and call of the arabs unlike the USA are!

  • France produces more cars than the US? don't make me puke with laughter! Much of Canada's production, Germany's production, Britain prod, Brazils, China's etc is done by US cos you idiot!

    as for UN ratings of health, it's all bogus shit. Canada is rated 30th behind Columbia and MOROCCO?? UN uses very biased suspect parameters. US and Canada's health systems make France look primitive

    as for nuke plants and ME, France does not have the asshole far-left environmentalists blocking everything

  • How can a foreign countries production be done by the US?

    What are these suspect parameters that the UN uses?

    also.. lol at the US making Frances health care system look privative comment.

  • give you a hint, dummie! GM and Ford are US cos producing cars in Canada. GM owns Saab and Opal in Germany. Opal even builds a cadillac. GM owns about 9 cos in China. the Pontaic G8 is built in your fuckin Country

    as for the UN, what has that fucked up Organization EVER done that's worth a pinch of coon shit??

    as for France, Princess Diana died in a French hospital from injuries that any trauma centre in the US could have fixed. Even the driver's autopsy was botched!

    dog shit is big there!!

  • ermm.. you do know that most of the cars sold in the US are made foreign manufacturers? so you can make the exact same argument about heaps of countries.

    and yes the UN does suck.. but thats not the point. i was asking what was wrong with the parameters used by the UN to rank health care systems. learn to read.

    and that princess diana thing is pretty anecdotal. why don't you look at actual statistics like say... infant mortality. France is 4.2 while US is 6.3 per 1000.butofcourse you dontcare

  • strangely genie0390 France DOES make more cars(and sells them around the world) then the USA does! Britain does not really have much of a car making base anymore!(most of the UK's car production is either German,French or Japanese(last outpost of british car makers is MORGAN)

    their was a time when the USA did have a stake in car making in the UK(G.M and Chrysler) but Chrysler sold out to the French years ago,G.M has stoped making cars in the UK,and sold the Saturn name brand last year to China)

  • and as for Ford... remember they have sold Jaguar,Land-Rover AND Aston Martin(all British brands they once owned)

    any way Ford does not make cars in the UK anymore and has not done so since 2002,when the Dagnham factory stoped making cars to concentrate on making engines for German and Spanish Fords!

  • you are so full of shit you smell

    where do you have to go in the world to buy a French car? Canada, US, Mexico, brazil, Germany, Japan, China?

    for your info GM sold Saturn to a NASCAR racer

    but the deal fell apart when GM was not able to assure the buyer of parts supply

    Hummer( the civilian version) was sold to China

    before the meltdown GM was ahead of Toyota as biggest auto make in the world with well over 10 million cars per yr

    France? don't make me puke

  • ah resorting to cheap personal attacks eh genie0390 old son..proof indeed that i have you on the ropes with my devastating logic!you say that GM sold SATURN to a NASCAR racer but the deal fell through..er NO what i believe you tried to say was "GM tried to sell SATURN to a NASCAR racer but the deal fell through.. face it old son that was never going to happen..China took Hummer off GM's hands and right now also have SATURN in their back pocket..as for OPAL(Germany GM branch..) sold to a RUSSIAN!

  • as for the UN's health ratings you are living in cloud Cookoo land!

    the USA rating is way behind that of the rest of the 1st world's countries!(and i now live here in lovely Canada(which it might surprise you to hear has a health care system for ALL!)

    you DO have a small point about France not having the envirnmentalists black every thing but then France and the French always make sure they are well looked after!

  • Cenk,

    Did you hear Palin calling this a "game changer" on her facebook page?? LMAO!!!

    PLEASE MAKE FUN OF HER THIS WEEK!!!

  • The GOP & DNC are both pathetic epic failures, and combined equal the DC Mafia.

    It's "divide & conquer" the left Vs right side show, a circus to entertain the masses... get people to pick a side and argue about endless 2 party stupidity, rather than looking at the big picture.

  • Govtflu - get people to pick a side and argue about endless 2 party stupidity - financed largely by corporate lobbyists who are afraid of having to run their businesses properly, honestly, following clear rules of conduct. The majority of the cons are clearly bought by these people and a lot, but not all, of the dems as well. Force them out via vote and public outrage. Get those who will actually work for the people like Grayson and Ron Paul. Demand a separation of corps and state.

  • But saying "no" to things they don't like in the bill is not a "plan" or an alternative bill. it's just a reaction to the bill! republicans are like 2 yr olds at a restaurant. you can give them a choice of everything on the menu and they will say no to each and every item and when you finally just ask, ok, what DO you want?! they still don't know and end up throwing a tantrum until the parents give up and go home. democrats better stand firm and not go home.

  • The Republican Party is a joke...20% in the poll for the Republican? Mind as well die out quickly...

  • You cannot trust Obama or anyone else in this administration. They will say anything to get their way, truthful or not, and then if confronted, they deny. Its the old political two-step. Lie, get confronted, deny, if proof is submitted against you, change your story, say you were misquoted and go back to step one.

  • Wasn't democats spotted at like 37% in that same poll, i think that poll was skewed, or they are both in trouble.

  • Republicans are dumb terrorists

  • Mr Bone-er needs to stop getting any coverage as he has never had anything constructive to say. people need to stop watching politicians for just the wow factor, it inflates them into thinking people give a shit what they have to say.

  • good call, jayar. hes absolutely right... the republicans just want to be the opposition and have things to say no to, and not actually think of any ideas.

  • TyT , you have a false report.

    The Republican health care reform plan is simple,

    Proposal 1- Don't get sick.

    Proposal 2- If you get sick, die quickly.

    Alan Grayson covered this a while back.

  • Yeah Alan Grayson is a real clever, civil guy..

  • lmao...Go J.R. Nice one lol

  • The republican health care plan:

    404 - Page not found

  • For christ sake. Why would you expect the republicans, the opposition, to draft their own bill on healh care??

  • When did being an opposition party suddenly relieve lawmakers from the responsibility of doing their job?

  • the repugs should stop wasting paper. Wasn't he the one talking about how hard it was to read 1000 pages the other day? Shaking the bill dropping it on the floor? did you see the pile of paper on the podium?

  • Is that a surprise? They are coming with their best material for denouncing the current healthcare objective, that they shouldn't have an idea for health care.

    That makes a lot of sense. They just want to be in the same place that it has been in, so that it can fail.

    They are thinking outside of the box so much so, that they forgot their papers.

    classic conservative ideals.

  • Which was already keenly pointed out in this liberal forum, by a liberal. Quit accusing people of bandwagon jumping when you clearly are riding one yourself. And the bill is mostly shite anyway, which might have been why a majority of Repubs didn't get behind it and submit it in any seriousness.

  • Why didn't Boehner then mention that??

    Is he part of the liberal propaganda too?

    lolzz!!

  • The party of NO.

  • I've been wondering...how is it effective to have people in our government that always believe gov is an epic fail? I mean seriously, why vote for people who claim up front that they can't be successful at their jobs?

    Seriously, if I went to a job interview with the attitude that corps can't accomplish anything good, who would hire me? Nobody, and rightfully so. Time to "fire" repubes.

  • What? How are repubes representing the public? The majority is against you. My argument is perfectly meaningful, and I said nothing specifically about programs. Even so, other countries obviously have governments that can handle this job, why can't republicans? Dems are at least willing to try to compete with countries that are currently blowing us away in health, education, and quality of life. Too bad they can't get any MEANINGFUL help.

  • Saying that Medicare is bankrupt is like saying a non-profit charity is bankrupt. That's partially the POINT. They're supposed to use all the money they get to help people. If they WEREN'T bankrupt, there'd be a problem.

    Also, do you know WHY Social Security is bankrupt? Cause someone decided it was a good idea to put the social security money into private industry, which is very successful at ripping people off.

  • S.S.I. isn't bankrupt, supposedly it's on the way to bankruptcy. NO social security money goes to private industry, all 401k money and such is taken out of your pay BEFORE hand and is used as a secondary retirement plan. The reason Social Security might go bankrupt is because in a few years they are projecting more retirees and handicapped people taking money then working people putting money into the system.

  • Actually there is money given to private insurers who take Medicare Part C contracts.

  • WTFE! You just don't like what they have to say....ummmm maybe because it's THE TRUTH....and Republicans can't handle the THE TRUTH OR FACTS!!!!!!!!!!

  • The reason why the GOP keeps on getting voting because they appeal to the hatemongers in America.

  • Jayar was spot on. Excellent comment.

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  • If it wasn't for Obama's stimulus plan the US economy would have gone to the wall.The stimulus is not perfect but it's way better than the Republican's who have no plan, and no idea.

  • correction, the repub plan was to do nothing because the market is so good at self correction that many conservative / libertarians actually believed that the recession would have ended in a month or 2 and millions of jobs would pop right back up and angels would sing and make the US whole

    All by the gov doing nothing

    Oddly, they spout the nonsense of a miraculously self healing system thats made up of people with power, but they think the gov, nade of people we elected, cant do 1 thing right

  • Your 100% right,

  • The GOP need to cut the bullshit and say "we don't have shit man!". Don't have nothing? Then you need to get your ass off from office GOP.

  • Is not boener ,call him as he looks like Boner..

  • They brought a stack of paper to show how ridiculously large the health care bill is, but all they managed to show was how much more work the Democrats have put in on the issue than they have.

  • GOP

    EPIC FAIL

  • I'm transferring uni's to an American college next year and I have to say, from a foreign perspective, that this insurance bollocks is a fucking amateur way to protect the people that have to live in the USA from illness.

    I am suprised how many people can afford it in the first place. I bet most of them are broke trying to afford it, too.

  • Medical costs are one of our leading causes of bankrupcy in the US.

    People without a job cant usually get insurance because individual plans (not employer subsidized) are of course very expensive even compared to employer subsidized plans.

    I feel bad for the self employed unless you happen to be in a high profit business.

    Many companies cant even provide insurance at all now andmore dropping it all the time

    Our uninsured are likely to keep rising every year as rated rise faster than inflation

  • at least the Dems are trying

  • You are thinking of the senate bill, and maybe this is a press conference about the senate bill, but the representatives bill is the better one which covers 95% of america.

    Ignore the senate bill, and work hard to get your senate and rep or senator to fight to make sure the reps bill is the primary one chosen to send to the president.

    Its much stronger.

    Now, if you are against the single payer then at least be honest and dont act like the crappy senate bill is the only one there is

  • how doe's that make cenk stupid. you just agreed with him. i'm pretty sure that ron paul can get in contact with others from the gop.

  • As was pointed out, When the GOP starts listening to Mr Paul we will care what he has.

    conservatives have alot of ideas, but they dont help unless they are put down in writing to be discussed and possibly voted over.

    Mr Paul needs to find a way that his people will listen to him, or he needs to jump over to libertarian or independent status and find his own membership to influence.

    Til then allhis ideas cant go anywhere.

  • All of the countries rated as having a better standard of living than the USA, by the UN, have state run healthcare. Healthier people perform better and create a better society. This is unbelievable to the GOP who like the highest cost in the world for healthcare and poor healthcare, because it makes a lot of money for all the insurers. Do the GOP work for Americans or the K Street whores? Yes, the GOP can draw in corporate money but can they help Americans achieve a better life?

  • GOP owned...again.XD

  • They do have a plan. Alan Grayson's been telling us what it is for weeks.

  • Is it the GOP or poor people who actually vote for the GOP who are stupid? If you ask me the GOP are smart because they somehow manage to get people to not vote for what is not in their best interest.

  • They might not have a plan, but at least they have a Boehner to play with tricky words..