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I believe the US should have universal health care. There are some things that have been bothering me, so I wonder if there are some intelligent answers out there.
Perhaps someone would explain to me why there is not more attention by the press has not picked up the fact that the US pays more for health care and gets less than other industrialized countries. This is a mystery to me. The politicians certainly don't want to bring this up. Are they just too rich to understand the implications?
The other thing that is a mystery to me is why large legacy corporations are not screaming for this. The large airlines (like United used to be) and automobile companies (like Ford) have huge costs insuring their retired workers. Universal health care would do a lot in "leveling the field" for these companies. Why are they not demanding this of the politicians to whome they have contributed so much? Do they hate socialism more than they desire their own survival?
Secretary of State is the best job for Bill Clinton.
He knows the issues. He knows the people. He knows how to get people on our side. Everyone in the world likes him (except Faux Noise watchers, and we all know how often they have been right).
Bill Clinton for Secretary of State.
The Bush gang has repeatedly lied under oath.
What on Earth would prevent them from lying when they are not under oath?
Finally the Dem Congress shows something like guts.
Of course Bush will veto it, but now everyone is on record of where they stand at this time.
As for emboldening the enemy, that was done several years ago when it was clear Bush had no idea what he was doing.
Bush never had a Congress even attempt anything like actual oversight.
Like a young person on their first night, there are bound to be a few embarrassing moments.
What role does Congress have to play if the President is has a 6 year record of proven incompetence?
What is the proper role for Congress WHEN the president has a Six year record of proven incompetence at every level?
BWWWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAH!!!
even though she is a babe.
I thought it was only me.
I thought the Neocons were ALWAYS saying, "We are winning. We are doing better than last month." No matter what month of what year, that is what I heard.
I am glad others noticed it, too.
Isn't that how the cold warriors described the Soviet Communist Party?
What is the proper role of Congress, especially the Speaker of the House, after the President has demonstrated incompetence and failure for six years?
Competence is not a requirement of the job.
Nor is honesty.
The Democrat Senate is just a hapless group of whiners against Bush.
Terrorism really works.
Fear does really rule the lives of these right wingers.
I would say it was pathetic, if it didn't really make these people so dangerous.
Get used to it.
Since we have guns, we will have mass killings every now and then.
Can't legislate it out because we can't enforce it. We don't strictly enforce even half the laws we have now. I am not sure we enforce 10% of the laws we have now with any consistency.
So accept reality. Even the Second Amendment is repealed, the mass killings will continue for a long time.
If it wasn't so tragic.
Bring Competency Back to the White House!
Neither Competence nor honesty nor intelligence are standards for an AG.
In fact, there are no standards for being appointed for the office, except Presidential nomination and Senate Confirmation. And Fredo has both.
What is the role of Congress when the President demonstrates six years of continuous and total failure and incompetence?
Asking Tony Blair, "What does it feel like to be Bush's poodle?"
US MSM has no guts.
Reid and others need to reference the arguements made by Gen Odom (ref: WaPo and Hugh Hewitt) when they talk about the state of this war.
I find Odom's line of thought so compelling that my automatic rejoinder of "the catastrophe that will happen if we leave" is "it is going to happen whatever we do, anyway."
Without the political component that is just not happening, we just are not going to win this war. It is not about supporting the troops, it is about supporting the diplomats, and the Bush Admin is not doing that at all.
Wouldn't that be total 5 year incompetence by the opposition, even to the point of getting the local populace to oppose the terrorist?
Wouldn't that be coming in to a peaceful population and watching it devolve into civil war?
Wouldn't that be sending untrained, unarmored troops, that speak no more than a few unintelligible phrases in the local dialect, into an area where the main idea is to win the hearts of minds of the locals?
Some fool politicians two continents and an ocean away? Who cares?
Does the White House Press Corps know any real journalists?
Why would I believe anything this toady sycophant would say?
He won a Medal of Freedom. What is he whining about now?
Then they wonder why documentaries like Bill Moyer's on PBS question their credibility?
Do they know any real journalists?
By putting the war budget into his annual Fed Budget.
But that would mean that he could not claim the Fed deficit was going down.
What is more important? Fund the troops, or get to say the deficit is going down?
Gee, everyone knows that Bush would not play politics with the lives of our troops.
Gross incompetence will do that to delusional bubbleheads.
What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
- Patrick Henry – Radical Lib
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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