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  • John Boozman!

  • lincoln does not care about arkansas she has lied to us here back obama in health care hurt the old people we need to vote her out and get new blood in office halter he sucks just like lincoln

  • 80% of Arkansans support the public option? Bullshit. That poll was taken in September of 2000. 10 years ago. When we had a surplus and were in a position to eliminate the national debt. Do a current poll and see how many Arkansans support a public option. This misinformation is absolutely pathetic, not that I expect any better from stoned-ass hippie liberal groups.

  • Way too much of a centrist, even for Third-Way Democrats like myself.

    Throw the fakes out. Lincoln and Stupak both need to either work with their party, or join the Republicans.

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  • A conservative minded state, which is one of the poorest states in the USA. Isn't that crazy? I live in Arkansas and has all my life, as an African American, I am disgusted with our representatives. Posing as democrats is a bunch of bullchit.

  • blanche lincoln is a fucking scumbbag cunt that needs to be driven out of arkansas on a a rail!

  • US citizens need to take back their government by infiltrating it with any means possible. Change it from within. Just look at how other groups or individuals have done it; Monsanto, Goldman Sachs, NRA, Joe Lieberman, Blanche Lincoln, Max Baucus, ect.

    Then, after taking back the government, have public stonings of these traitors

  • Blanche Lincoln, is a greedy corrupt Conservative Democrats supporting pro health insurance reforms. Reforms the industry would be okay with -- healthcare reform is about people not the for profit private health insurers. We need to pressure Lincoln to support the public option or have someone contest her in the primaries and remove her from office with a true progressive.

  • New title-

    Tell Blanche Lincoln and Mike Ross to Act Like - Human Beings

  • THANKS MIKE

    BLANCHE, YOU ARE FINISHED

  • thanks, firedoglake, keep it up

  • Max Baucus and Mike Ross: Sell-Outs to the Insurance Cos. Both men sold out our right to choose a public option or not, after receiving huge ins. contributions. Not only that, their bill will force all of us to by private insurance whether we want to or not. Not a bad return for buying two politicians.

    Remember these two men when you vote next time: Max Baucus and Mike Ross, corporate whores.

    And I'm a Democrat saying that.

    Fight now or you'll NEVER get Insurance cos. off your back.

  • gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme I want I want I want I want I want freebies freebies freebies freebies freebies help help help help help I can't take care of myself I can't take care of myself I can't take care of myself I can't take care of myself LACK OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY is all I hear when you people type.......................

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  • Blanche Lincoln is a traitor and needs to be fired. Check out John Gray of the Green Party. I've pledge my money and time to Mr. Gray, a true progressive, who will running for the traitor's seat next election.

  • Blanche Lincoln is a greedy, self-serving, profiteering sack of shit who cares nothing for her consituents or the people of America. Kiss your ass goddbye in the next election, bitch!

  • This message is great for Conservatives! The spot covers more of the protests against government take-over of our health than does our local or national news station. You are also able to see how desperate the Dems have gotten to pass this thing at the expense of EVERYTHING, even their own party.

  • Lincoln, Conrad and Baucus are are the only democratic senators in the various committees to have voted against the public option. You might say five, but Nelson and Carper voted against Rockefeller's amendment as they and the others should have, because it might cause medicare payments to be less than regular payments. The finance committee does not write the final bill. 60 - 3 = 57 votes for a health care reform bill which includes the "public option".

  • I say--GOOD FOR YOU--Sen. Lincoln...

    This whole left-of-center crew in the Democratic Congress has gotten so out of hand...with this ramrod style of pushing anything that has the National Government in everyone's backyard!...

    From these jackass ads from the left--you'd think Blanche Lincoln was some right-wing Minuteman! What a bunch...

    Now it's on to cap and trade--ANOTHER DISASTER IN THE MAKING..Especially when India and the rest will sit by idly while jobs are lost here!

  • This is a democracy and the majority party sets the agenda in congress. You had your eight years of fun.

    Government in your backyard? Have you heard of the Patriot act? Literally sent to a vote overnight with no chance for anyone to read it?

    Lost jobs overseas? What about tax incentives for corporations to close shop here and open in third world nations? Or an executive which sits on its hands while other nations subsidize their corporations' pump and dump schemes?

    Gee what tyranny we face now.

  • mike ross has sold arkansas out. making $750grand on a piece of property worth $250grand. who bought it? his pals at usa drug.

  • If the Democrats don't vote for the will of the people I will donate to those canidates that wish to replace them.They were sent to washington to vote for us,if they can't remember that we need someone new.

  • I wonder who the censor is here? It was getting amusing. I was accused of being a racist black man and a democrat because I pointed out to timm the twit that as a group percentage, whites actually receive more government benefits. I said this because he was raving about having a job. (Reminds me of a Shania Twain song.) Anyhow he implies that anyone who disagrees with him doesn't have a job and that us minorities want government handouts. Yeah really. So why was is this censored?

  • Rachel Maddow just demonstrated what a Pharma shill Mike Ross is.

    People like Ross, Grassley, Hatch, Baucus are shameless, .

    These people get voted in by ordinary Americans, and they give the people who put them in office the sh-a-ft, in order to line their qwn pockets.

  • Let's hope that Mike Ross and Senator Lincoln don't misbehave on the House and Senate floors like Joe Wilson calling people "liars". They need to wake up and listen to their own people from Arkansas! The people of Arkansas support the public option. Oh, by the way, PEOPLE vote. Insurance company lobbyists can't vote. Maybe they need to understand this fact of democracy!

  • @antonscottgoustin

    The people of Arkansas did not want obamacare in the first place. Don't tell me - I live here. Joe Wilson, however loud, was indeed telling the truth. Obama is, was, and will ever be - just as the two-faced (at a minimum) Lincoln - a liar. I've heard her say completely opposite things - depending on where in the state she is interviewed. Little Rock: Hope/change/obamacare. Rural: I hear my constituency. Well, no more she doesn't & bye-bye obama in 2013. Thank God!

  • Vote these shill politicians out. regardless of their political party they should support what their supporters want. if the supporters want a public option they better fight for a public option.

  • yea medicar and medicade are good ,BUT THEY ARE IN DEBT 57 BILLION DOLLARS.!!!THE SAME PEOPLE WANT TO TAKE OVER YOUR CHOICE!!!.they will TAX your ass 8% MORE every week to pay for somebody that WILL NOT work.!! it is WELFARE and you will pay.just like you pay now. so they can get THEIR CHECK.?? the government owes nobody a living and damn sure dont owe you a free doctor on my TAB.plain and simple SOMEBODY HAS TO PAY and it will the ones PAYING NOW,SAY APRIL 15 AND GET MAD AT EM!!!

  • yea but not 80% of arkansas does .only 80% of democrats if you can trust their numbers .how many politicians do you trust ??thats because this state is a welfare state ,guess who pays -the ones that work. medicare ,medicade and S.S. are 57 billion dollars in DEBT.and they want to run your insurance in the ground with it...go down to the county hospital and have a look at your new system

  • All those who opposed the public option need to be kicked out - be they Republican or Democrat.

  • Please Arkansas, vote them out...

  • Excellent ad. Thank you.

  • "What the Gov. gives the Gov. can TAKE BACK".

  • Like we want the GOV to come in run Health Care like they did with Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare.

    The GOV is ONE FAILURE after another.

    If they fix Social Securty, fix Medicare and fix Medicaid - then we can begin to talk PUBLIC OPTION.

  • Well said, FreeAgain2

    Americans no longer stand for freedom. They rarely stand for anything. Instead they prefer to sit with a hand out begging for the government to care for them.

    Every time we accept a hand out we are moving another step closer to slavery.

    I have worked my butt to get where I am today. Anyone can do the same. I have no insurance. I want no government hand outs. I'll stand or fall because of my own choices. I am personally responsible. I accept that responsibility. I'm FREE

  • ...and when you or your spouse or child gets a tragic illness or ends up in an accident, you'll wish you did have insurance. you're just mind boggglingly dumb if you can afford insurance but don't have it.

    You accept the personal responsibility of not having insurance... priceless.

  • Until you get a major illness, and then you are chained by the debt you incur.

    Do you have auto insurance? are you any less free because of it ?

  • Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare are not failures. they work just fine...

    it's the funding that's at issue. don't confuse the two (or are you just obfuscating the issue like your friend 'hairmagic'?

  • The FRAUD in each of these programs is overwhelming. Any corporation with this level of fraud would be shut down in a week.

  • True enough. well perhaps legislation is in order to reduce the fraud then. I would agree to that. but I wouldnt make it conditional or we won't get anything passed.

    With any law there are always going to be people who break them.

    We know that murder is a law. how many were committed in your state just this week ?

  • Far too much murder - no argument from me.

    I would like to see 99% of the fraud in these programs stopped. AND they need to be fiscally sound - no small task.

    ONLY THEN would consider some other massive government program.

  • Anytime youtube has a video about healthcare, the criminal, blood sucking leeches called health insurance companies, which don't put a frickin' band-aid on anybody, have to have their shills there to try to brainwash and intimidate gullible Americans, which they know is easy to do. But not so for a lot of us. So GTFO you coporatzi fascists! Single payer now!

  • True.

  • Here is a radical idea. Rather than crying for big government to take care of poor, pitiful, sick you...why not take care of yourself? Stop filling your face with deadly junk foods that poison your system and damages your heart, even causes cancer.

    Stop sitting on your fat butt in front of the TV...get some exercise.

    Many Americans are fat, lazy, apathetic hogs who want government to care for them because they are too stupid to do so on their own. Have some self control.

    Wake up America.

  • You've answered your own question:

    "Rather than crying for big government to take care of poor, pitiful, sick you...why not take care of yourself?"

    "because they are too stupid to do so on their own."

    So this being said, you need to get onboard, right ? Don't you love your fellow Americans ? - or do you just play a patriot on Youtube ?

  • Would you give money out of every paycheck to a known drug addict so they can spend it on more drugs?

    If so, that doesn't make you a patriot. It makes you an enabler and an idiot.

  • No, I'd pay to get an addict the help they needed.

    You assume too much.

  • If someone is too stupid to do what is right, then let them suffer the consequences of their choices and actions.

    If you eat like a filthy hog and develop heart disease, and you can't afford health insurance, then suffer the pain YOU caused for yourself. Don't expect me to pay for your stupidity.

    Let every man and woman stand against this freedom destroying push for governmental control. Let those who lack the willpower to care for themselves play the cards they deal themselves.

  • You keep saying that. There are many, many causes to cancer. Some of which you have no control over. There are many genetic diseases your own parents could have passed on to you that you do not know about. Anyone who walks drives or bikes anywhere in public is at risk of an accident caused by someone else. Keep on judging until your karma catches up to you. Noone lives forever andy everyone gets sick or hurt at some point. I hope that when that happens to you people are kind to you.

  • Savebury, I am all for all people receiving emergency care i case of accidents or catastrophic events. I am NOT in favor of supporting people who have not made strong efforts to support themselves. I have no problem with coming to the aid of mentally ill people or severely handicapped people. But for me to be expected to pay for those who eat themselves sick, no way. I work with cancer patients on a daily basis. I have a clear understanding of the problem and causes. I stand by earlier comments.

  • Risk factors for metabolic syndrome, such as obesity, high blood pressure, and elevated blood lipid levels, can increase a person's healthcare costs nearly 1.6-fold, or about $2,000 per year. For each additional risk factor those costs rise an average of 24%, according to an illuminating article in a recent issue of Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders,.

  • And obviously you feel it is much better to spend 30% of your healthcare money on the insurance company and you do not mind paying the salary of the guy who may someday decide to let you or a loved one die and you would much rather spend money paying insurance companies to kill people than paying doctors to heal people. Congratulations, I hope when you get sick the guy at the insurance company doesn't want a vacation in rio.

  • How utterly selfish and inhuman of you. why don't we take away Medicare, Unemployment and Education too. Just because you don't care about anyone else doesn't mean we all don't.

    Stop and think... have you heard the words 'prevention' surrounding this debate or do your ears close up everytime the conversation starts to make actual sense ?

  • trash the bastards

  • I love how this video limits the sides to only two options, either you're for the public option, or you're paid by the insurance companies. Gee there couldn't possibly be another option could there? Oposition to this bill couldn't possibly stem from the failure of medicare, the VA system, or multitudes of other failed government run programs like welfare. It couldn't possibly stem from the fact that dems have been quoted time and time again to be in support of universal medicine. Hmmm...

  • 1) stop taking sedatives

    2) wait til you're in your late 40s

    3) lose your job

    4) try to get private health insurance at any price, even if you're NOT sick

    5) come back and admit that you're a fool for thinking this has ANYTHING to do with left, right, dem, repub, white, black ... we are ALL going to need healthcare - it's the one thing bonds us together - it's not political - it's a matter of life and death. We - all of us - are getting screwed by the health insurance industry. WAKE UP!

  • 1) stop taking my name seriously.

    2) stop taking my name seriously.

    3) been there done that.

    4) been there done that TOO!

    5) I live day to day without health insurance. I also have the common sense to recognize that health insurance, and healthcare as a whole is NOT AN INALIENABLE RIGHT. You have a right to emergency care, THAT'S IT. The rest of your healthcare is up to you. PERIOD. I have lived long enough (trust me on that one) to know what can and cannot be trusted to the government.

  • Oh, so you're part of the OLD school crowd with huge distrust of the government.

  • I didn't know that was an old school mentality. o.0 I could swear that I've heard thousands of different kinds of people accross the nation saying that it was our civic duty to question the motives of the government. My distrust is not blind. I have seen the government bungle enough pet projects to know that they have a very bad track record. Insurance reform is all fine and dandy, but this public option is not the way.

  • If you live day to day without health insurance, it's only a matter of time until you lose your house, your savings and your credit rating, and healthcare IS, and most certainly should be, and inalienable right in most of the free world, and drawing the distinction at emergency care is arbitrary and ridiculous.

    You're headed for a miserable, impoverished death in the poorhouse ... period, end of report ... and on your deathbed, you'll curse Max Baucus to hell and back again.

  • Mike Ross sucks. He is not a democrat and is owned by the insurance industry. I will donate to get this guy out and get someone in who will be for the people

  • Fifty-six percent (56%) of voters nationwide now oppose the health care reform proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. - 18 SEP 2009 RASMUSSEN

    Hmmm, seems "for the people" enough for me.

  • Blanche Lincoln is in the pocket of the Insurance Companies.

    i don't care if a Democrat or Republican defeats her, just so long as she is defeated in her next election!

  • obamacare = epic fail

  • Now we Got Libs. hate bashing people in their own party....Is this bringing people together???

  • When are you morons going to see that it's not about political parties. It's about YOUR HEALTH and YOUR FAMILY'S HEALTH. It's about, life, death, bankrupcy. The health insurance industry is a mafia protection racket and YOU are the victim. You and your teabag are going to get cancer and heart disease, even if you listen to Rush Limbaugh all 4 hours a day. You and your teabag are going to have your little teabag job sent to China and have to go mano a mano with Blue Cross on your own.

  • Well, I dont live WAY above my means and work full time unlike some today so I have VERY good HEALTH Care I already like and I dont eat fastfood and junk food all the time and I do work out 5 days aweek and both of my Docs. said I'm in VERY VERY VERY VERY very very GOOD TOP HEALTH.

  • This is great because every time you pay your premium you pay the wages of the guy at the health insurance company who gets bonuses for denying coverage to people like you who have paid their premiums. If you or a family member get sick he will get a bonus for denying you care. Since the rest of the family will still need healthcare they now have the privledge of paying the bonus to the guy who killed their loved one. Happens every day.

  • Of course the people who HELP take care of my healthcare get part of the money I pay for it....No ALL my family is covered as I said I went to school and WORK FULLTIME so I have good health insurance that I like. My family also does not DRINK & SMOKE and in the past 20 years ONLY had just the common cold. Of course no one lives for ever and the Gov. sure cant make u live forever also we all have a time when the maker says thats it and its UP. Sorry, The Gov. cant make u live forever.

  • The factyou work fullt time and have good insurance now is no guarantee of future results. You have NO SECURITY - no job security and no health insurance security and you don't even realize it. Smart people are working overtime to figure out how to outsource your job. The cost of your health insurance to your company is going up 30% a year. Every year older you get, the most ridiculously expensive your actuarial tables get. You are on a collision course with total ruin.

  • Your a JOBLESS person bit9hing about what the world owe you....Got news for ya the world owe u NOTHING most of all when y are just taken!!!

  • Nothing guarantee in life buddy....get some thick skin.

    When are people like u going to understand in true bad times the Gov (Katrina) or a building (911) cant save u! When its your time its your time!

  • You're using Katrina to argue for Republican policies on government and corporations? You're either the cleverest snarkmeister or the stupidest wingnut who ever lived.

  • You missed the point....The Gov. cant save u from all lifes problems!

  • What a stupid arrogant pig turd to assume that someone you don't know doesn't work. And awfully suspicious that a person with 3 jobs has time to troll as much as you do. Yeah, timm9, I'm talking to you; get a job. While you're at it, learn a language for god's sake, any language. Just learn how to say something coherent. And you might want to learn to spell while you're at it. Its not why, its while, not laber, its labor, not tax payers, its taxpayers, not ungreatful its ungrateful... ect

  • He said he did NOT have a Job!!! I did at one point work 3 jobs!!! Read!!! You made a fool of yourself!

  • But I say YOU don't have a job. You obviously have too much free time or you wouldn't be able to troll on youtube, plus you're too stupid to have a job. And if you had a job, so what? You want a medal? I suppose you are going to tell us now that you have a car or that you own your home. I bet you think the health bill provides for death panels or giving benefits to illegal aliens. Brilliant. No faith in democracy but blind faith in faceless insurance company bureaucrats.

  • Did I ask U? I could care less what YOU think. I have free time because I DID worked 3 Jobs for Years! I'm proof hard work pays off not free hand outs to the fat and lazy. illegal aliens KIDS will get benefits read the Bill!

    I back what I said dont tell me you are JOBLESS (timbacontent) and DEMAN that Others SHOULD pay your bills. SICK!

  • You have free time because you are welfare trailer trash. The only thing that you are proof of is that life in the U.S. is too easy if idiots like you can survive. Fact: a higher percentage of whites receive welfare benefits than any other racial category. Yet scum like you brag about working and always accuse others of not working. You can't even write and you think I'm going to believe that you read the bill? Oh really? On what page does it say give illegal immigrants benefits? LIAR

  • Leave it to Dems. to HATE BASH and Judge people who may live in a trailer. For you info. you cant have "trailers" in the area I live in. Leave it to Dems. to also be racist. You dont know illegal aliens KIDS will get benefits??? LMAO!

  • FYI, "its" means "belonging to it." If you mean the contraction version of "it is," you need an apostrophe ("it's"). Assuming that you're (your? ewer?) interested in improving your (you're?) language skills, given your lecture to another. Oh, and to both of you: calm down and stop promulgating hatred.

  • Correct! You win a gold star from Miss Peebles.

  • How old are you? I'm in absolute perfect health, but I'm 54, got laid off and they will NOT give me a policy. Why? Because people who are 54 have a nasty pre-existing condition called "you're going to get old and die".

  • alot of people your age are retired so its clear u did not work as hard or smart as alot and now paying the price.

  • Listen, you arrogant fool. I've owned my $800k house free and clear for 15 years. I don't have a penny of debt, and I've got about half a mill in the bank. I don't smoke or drink. I've never had a major illness or spent a day in the hospital. My cholesterol is so low you need a microscope to measure it.

  • And I can't get insurance, and I'm quaking in my space boots that I'm going to go bankrupt. I'm fifty-four years old, and the health insurance problem has gotten geometrically worse every freaking one of those 54 years. So if you can't put two and two together and straighten you pathetic and arrogant misconceptions about reality, you don't deserve the air you're sucking down.

  • Dont call me names your the 54yo dead beat LAZY,jobless loser not me.

  • ok then pay 4 your own health care and dont be looking for kids to pay higher taxes to pay 4 your health care.....if u got money u can buy anything trust me stop feeling sorry 4 yourself and get out and get a damn job....there was just a case where a 70yo lady went to college and got her masters....stop being lazy.

  • God you're stupid. Don't you get it? I could have 10 million in the bank and it still wouldn't be enough if I get cancer or heart disease. Don't you get it? Every year it gets 30% worse. Factor that out over your worthless lifetime. By the time you're my age, you are so screwed. Reagan set it up so that you don't have a PRAYER. When I was a kid you could work at a freaking gas station, buy a house, have your wife not work and send your 4 kids to college. Look around, moron. U R screwed.

  • If this If that....Got news for ya u are not going to live forever u are going to get cancer or heart disease or something and die like ALL.

    I have a Home Ect,but I also work FULLTIME!!! Try it u may have something then...

  • Okay, let's review:

    1) you own your house free and clear with no mortgage and no debts

    2) you have a job with health benefits that you're certain will continue to employ you, with your current benefits, until you're 65

    3) you abbreviate "etcetera" as "ect."

    Tell us more, timm9. Maybe you're the visionary who will lead us from darkness. What is this lead pipe lock of a job you've secured for yourself?

  • Dem or Rep doesn't matter. Are you going side with us and our families or are you going to side with the corrupt corporate crooks who are gaming system to screw us all?

  • govt can't run anything

  • Compare the government's handling of WWII to Blackwater's handling of Iraq. The point of capitalism is to use financial gain to inspire people to innovate, and it works. But if you instead leave loopholes for them game the system, you're using the same irresistible motivation of financial gain to motivate them rob their fellow citizens at the expense of the nation. That's what's happening in health care and if you can't see it, you're a lamb to the slaughter my stupid little friend.

  • Those loopholes are created by existing government regulation of the healthcare system. Deregulation may not be the end all be all, but it's certainly a better option that MORE failed regulations.

  • Imagine that you have a health insurance business with no regulations. If you took a person with a pre-existing condition, you'd be screwing your shareholders. If you failed to use rescission to drop sick clients, you'd be screwing your shareholders. How much do I have to spell it out for you? If there are no regulations, the insurers use the power of life and death to rob everyone blind - white, black, dem, repub. And if they don't they're being negligent. What part of that is lost on you?

  • Not one thing you just said is backed up by precedent. Everything in my comment is backed up by precedent in other industries. The part that you don't seem to understand is that if you continue to run a business the way you explain people will refuse to buy from you. Then the competition will gain new clients thus SCREWING YOUR SHAREHOLDERS. It's not all as black and white, "fear big pharma", as you paint the picture. It's actually much more complicated. What part of that is lost on you?

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  • They're going down.

  • Ah hello, no one wants to be seen standing with a democrat

  • THeDINGOMAN where do you get the idea that they were elected to stand with the dems,\? All lawmakers take the oath to uphold the consitution, this bill is unconsitution.

  • That's funny, they know what the bill will do to the country, good for then

  • BLUE DOGS: you are going DOWN!!

  • rate sub spread

  • Those who're in the pocket of the Insurance Companies & therefore won't support the Public Option MUST BE DEFEATED - BE THEY DEMOCRATS OR REPUBLICANS.

  • Looks like I have some e-mails to write and I live in Iowa! Am contacting EVERYONE including Republicans that are not doing the JOB they were elected for!

  • Yea, baby! Liberals smackin' down the conservadems. Go FDL!

  • This is great and I hope that others will stoke the coals under the feet of the other blue dog conservative Democrats. These people were elected to stand behind the Democrat party and they obviously do not give a crap about the people who put them in office.

  • Let's set these two as examples for the rest of conservedams. I'll send money to both of their opposition and get anyone I know to do the same. Let the voice of quiet Americans be heard

  • kick ass

  • great ad. Hope it sets a precedent for ballsy primary challenges amongst other Dems who go against their real constituencies

  • That is beautiful. Keep it up and don't slow down, FDL!

  • I'm gonna have to give Rahm the finger here.

  • yeah business as usual, the highest bidder wins. After all its such a great job, it all about getting re-elected, fuck the people they dont matter just me. Revolution time!

  • Exactly.

    Primaries primaries primaries.

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