"I expect you support the troops, eh? Did you have the sticker on your SUV? Did you drive that SUV to vote for Bush, who put the troops in harm's way...for...oil? If so, dude, you might not hate the troops, but you sure don't give a shit about their eyes and their genitals and their limbs and lives, all of which were lost to your votes."

Well gee, since I've BEEN to Afghanistan and was one of those troops "in harms way", you tell me how much I care " about their eyes and their genitals and their limbs and lives"!

"What I hate is the waste. And I hate that our military plays corporate cop. And I hate that hundreds of billions go to evermore weapons, taking food from children's mouths and books from their hands, while, decade after decade, no defending has happened. The Department of Defense should be renamed the Department of Imperialism and Corporate Meddling."

Oh geez, here we go again. FYI guy, you have to have a strong military. As for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, we don't make policy, we enforce it. You don't like what the military is doing, tell your Congressmen. But don't put down the military just because we're carrying out orders...that's our job.

"And I don't hate my sister. I'm disgusted by her hypocrisy. If she were a woman of honor, which is what the military was supposed to teach her, she wouldn't take from my purse and your pocket and the purses of little, old ladies after wiping Rush's ejaculate from her lips, the federal milk from her chin, and then voting to keep aid from others."

Sorry but to me your sister earned her paycheck, whether you know it or not. Tell me, did you even ASK her if she was in combat? Did you ask her why she has migranes? Does she have a medical condition that you know about? She did her time in the military, which isn't the easiest job in the world...why begrudge her the money she earned, per the contract she signed when she joined up?

"till doesn't make any sense. The Dems are offering me a reduction in my healthcare costs in exchange for my support. The GOP aren't offering me squat for my support. Why should I give it away for free? If the GOP wants my support against healthcare reform, they need to give me something in exchange. Ain't nothing free in this world, son. Frankly, I think the guys giving away their support for free are a bunch of suckers and dumbasses. I need to get paid! Dolla dolla bill, y'all!"

Sure it does. The DNC wants to have your medical bills paid for you. The GOP doesn't. So if the bill fails, then the only way your medical bills get paid is if the DNC pays for them. Get it?

"xactly my point - the GOP wants support just like the Dems. But at least the Dems have something to offer me in exchange. The GOP just wants me to support a status quo that doesn't actually benefit me. That's just fucking stupid."

Oh the GOP has something to offer you...lower taxes and the ability to keep your money. Guess that didn't click, huh.

"Sorry, dude, I'm just not as cynical as you are on this score. Besides, if Obama wanted to really collect from the lobbyists then he would just let things ride and clean up from the insurance lobby without having to expend any political capital whatsoever... Your allegations just don't add up."

Sorry but I've lived long enough to know a politician when I see one. Obama is a politician, after what he wants and not that concerned about anyone else, unless it directly impacts him.

Agreeing with Barney Frank???

BWHAHAHAHAHAHA! HARDLY!

I'm simply showing you that he KNOWS what he's doing...and is in fact pushing for single payer. Obama did the same thing.

What's funny is, people are saying it won't happen when their own leaders are TELLING them that's what they are after.

LOL

"Um, that's not actually in the current version of the House Bill. Moot point."

It was in there on the last one I looked at. Must have been cut out when enough people complained about it. Maybe it'll happen with the public option too...one can only hope.

"Um, sorry, but I call bullshit on this. People who in the UK with private health insurance who need "immediate catastropic care" don't fly five hours across the Atlantic Ocean to get it."

Sure they just pull up the money (if they can, considering the tax rate in England) to get private insurance which is incredibly expensive, or they pay for it themselves...or they die. Or as is the case in the dental area, they sometimes do it themselves.

Canadians, on the other hand, have the luxury of living close to the US and so can just cross the border.

"She was a lawyer, dude. A lawyer with headaches. Spin your stories like a spider spins its webs, but it doesn't change the fact that she was a lawyer with an occasionally achy head far from an IEDs. And now she's a lawyer with two pensions to supplement her salary, so she can drive her BMW home, listening to Rush, one fat cat who hid from war, but drapes herself in the alleged glory of war, listening to another."

Ah me...you really HATE the military, don't you. SO sad. BTW, there ARE JAG (Judge Advocate General) officers in country over there. They HAVE to be there. And they can get hurt same as any other soldier.

"I haven't seen her for years. I just don't have the stomach. Would you?"

Wow...your hatred is so thick! I suspect she's better off not having you come for a visit. Your hatred and envy of her is so obvious, even I can see it over the internet.