Sen. Claire McCaskill: I'm Happy We're 'Handcuffing The Public Option'

[AlienTruth]

holy shit, tell me those two guys sitting next to Wilson don't look like clones.

[oppesdaman]

If a democrat had made such a disrespectful comment during a president's speech,..the republicans would have pushed and pushed until the democrat was forced to resign. There would be no forgive and forget talk. They would have gone for the throat.

[goldensextant]

She is not a DINO or a sellout like some people are saying on here. She is a senator for Missouri, a state filled with tons of racists, rural dullards, right wing nutters, and so on.

She is just trying to keep her seat in a very rabid state. She represents very liberal blacks in Saint Louis as well as very conservative white voters in southern Missouri.

[gisforgary]

Agreed -- Missouri is a hot mess. I remember happier times when the midwest was uniformly "progressive". Unfortunately Medicare aka socialized medicine has done too good of a job and keeps too many angry old people alive.

Amazingly enough the United States and France have something in common -- angry old people that keep progress in check.

[junkforkaryn]

she is so full of shit. he quickly tried to justify his "spontaneous" outburst. he did not say he was wrong. where are the adults? and why are these people running our country??

[fishhead06]

Unseat this DINO.

[47f0]

ahh, my fishy friend. You're suffering from a common misconception - you thought the (D) in front of her name meant Democrat. Actually, it stands for Dixiecrat, which is a different animal altogether. Maybe the media could help this confusion by changing the letter in front of the Dixiecrats' names. I suggest (X), as that's pretty much how most Dixiecrats sign documents anyway.

[MyImago]

National health spending is expected to reach $2.5 trillion in 2009, accounting for 17.6 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP). By 2018, national health care expenditures are expected to reach $4.4 trillion—more than double 2007 spending. (Sitka)

The Republicans and or Obama plan, is just more of the same. Plenty of profit for the greedy pharmaceuticals and the health care companies. We should model a European Plan, is just 10% of their GDP & we'll save 1 Trillion dollars a year.

[kusotarre]

OH NO, NOT A COMPREHENSIVE GOVT PLAN!!

[EricJaffa]

My main concern with limits on the public option is that big businesses won't be allowed to choose it.

Not the issue she talked about, that it wouldn't receive subsidies beyond what private insurance would get.

[boots920]

Shocking ??? Like WTF

The US Government has committed genocide against the Iraqi people (1.2 million slaughtered) turned their country into a depleted uranium glass parking lot the morons are about to proceed with turning Afghanistan into a parking lot, you know kill more women and children and some political fuck speaks the truth.

USA 2009 = Nazi Germany 1940

By the way when your dollar goes to 0 maybe it would be wise to pull out of the sandboxes.

[gisforgary]

While your argument has some flaws what you miss is most American's think they are superior by birth to anyone else in the universe. The world is watching and if we can't even get healthcare right, people will invest elsewhere -- other than china which probably has full rights to alaska and texas by now. I almost wish they would reel in the bad debt Bush and Co. sold them. I am sick of the partisan right arguing nothing is bipartisan. Give them to China.

[boots920]

What were the iraqi's people flaws born in the wrong place at the wrong time.

You haven't seen the US dollar go to zero yet, that's when the hamster taxpayers will wake up to an inflation nightmare similar to 1923 Germany but worse.

[3star2nr]

And to qoute Van Jones: "Republicans are assholes"

[3star2nr]

You see kids this is the difference between Dems and republicans.

If this was a liberal saying that to GWN they would bring the pitch forks and be calling for his impeachment

[Ed76638]

Someone needs to handcuff this bitch.

[austin9687]

The title of this video kind of distorts what Sen. McCaskill said.

[WinterHaven]

God what a big fat cow - go on a diet lady.

[WinterHaven]

GOP = torturing and killing animals to the fullest extent and skinning them alive for fur.

[WinterHaven]

GOP = Sarah Palin devotees - moose burgers and skinning wolves alive.

[WinterHaven]

GOP = God, Guns, and HATE GAYS.

[lamouchemorte]

Joe Wilson was just talking down to a 'boy.'

[wayindie]

we need a public option.

WHO benefits from having sick people go without treatment?

healthcare DOES need reform. everyone should have a form of insurance that's in line with their income & appropriate to the need.

conservatives are CRYING about death panels-there are deathpanels now! health insurance companies are DICTATING what's "treatable" & WHO gets treated. denying affordable healthcare is condemning the poor to death.

r the rich ENTITLED to health, education, safety the rest eat cake?

[sharinganclan213]

i dont see why he had to appologize. a man threw a shoe at bush and the libs were dancing with joy. a man shout's "you lie" and all of a sudden feelings are hurt.

[integral]

Bush is a mass murderer who's lies caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands.

The idjit from SC was not only wrong, he was wrong at the top of his lungs in the middle of Obama's speech.

There's no comparison between the two cases.

[sharinganclan213]

yeah....missed my point. you know, come to think of it, we are all mass murderers in a way. I can argue that I am a mas murderer too. I make money. I live an okay life life. But i know the profit i make screws some guy over on the other side of the spectrum. I have the luxury to provide money for starving children in other countries (even though i dont make much, but i still can), wouldnt i be considered a mass murderer too? If i can save a life, but i dont do it, would i be a murderer too?

[integral]

Um, my thought is that life is not a zero sum game (like poker for instance). Just because I win (make money, have a nice car or house) doesn't mean you (or someone else) must lose.

The gentleman of the Iraqi press who hurled the shoe is a national (and regional) hero because he displayed the feelings of millions in that area. Wilson is just a jerk with a short temper who would resign if he had a shred of decency. But alas, no decency.

[sharinganclan213]

i dont understand why any american would be happy someone thew a shoe at their president. put aside politics, we are talking about the leader of your country.

[AccidentalDem]

Is it acceptable to now say negative things about the current President or is there double standards which I have seen recently?

[theyellowlemon]

The sad thing is that it doesn't need to be this way. People don't need to suffer and starve. If all the Rockefellers, Du Ponts, Fords etc. of the world spread their money out..... no one would have to suffer. These greedy people with hundreds of billions and trillions of dollars are sick. There is no need for a single human being for having that kind of money while there are entire countries suffering.

[sharinganclan213]

it is capitalism. as long as they made that money through ligit ways, then who really cares. if you are so worried about it, why dont you become one of them and spread your wealth, instead of complaining about it in coments..

[ChunAsperEndao]

I'm beginning to realize how poorly I've been keeping myself informed on this topic. I don't understand how an option that doesn't use public money can be called a public option.

[someperson111]

This is who I wanted to be our first female President. Boy was I wrong.

[integral]

Claire, just join the GOP. You got all the chops for it.

[verstwo2]

As a Liberal I don't think there is anything wrong with what she said. What is wrong with making the public option self sufficient?

[salimma]

One wonders whether these Blue Dog democrats are actually voting their principles -- in which case they might as well join the GOP, yes -- or whether they are unprincipled and cowardly, in which case who needs them?