Well, that’s one way to try to downsize the military.
Plus, it’s the next best thing to billing families for the bullets.
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Comment by Dash Rendar on 3/12 @ 8:15 pm #
That’ll teach them to vote against me 2-1. Right? Right?
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 3/12 @ 8:16 pm #
Would the private insurance even pay for such a thing to begin with?
I seem to recall that most policies specifically exclude acts of war.
Comment by Hadlowe on 3/12 @ 8:16 pm #
But, see, we’ll all be on government health care by then, so really it’s the same thing.
Comment by Dan Collins on 3/12 @ 8:16 pm #
I think that was one of those inartful thingies.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 3/12 @ 8:18 pm #
The man’s just tired is all.
He’s only had five vacations in the last two months. He’s not Superman, people!
Comment by Jeff G. on 3/12 @ 8:18 pm #
If their insurance costs go up, tough! Tell them to pick a less repulsive line of work. Like, say, President.
Comment by Dash Rendar on 3/12 @ 8:18 pm #
Free nationalized healthcare for all Americans? Check. (except soliders, fuck ya’ll whiteys)
I think we can burn down Washington now.
Comment by Jeff G. on 3/12 @ 8:18 pm #
Maybe they came up with this at one of those Wednesday night bashes while doing upside margaritas with Stevie Wonder.
Comment by Dash Rendar on 3/12 @ 8:21 pm #
So, any takers on what newspaper is gonna cover this? No? Yea, that’s getting kind of old now.
Comment by router on 3/12 @ 8:23 pm #
i like stevie wonder leading the nation
Comment by Rob Crawford on 3/12 @ 8:24 pm #
Didn’t the lefties try to savage Bush for not increasing VA spending fast enough? Didn’t they claim that proved he didn’t give a rat’s ass about the troops? Didn’t they claim the state of buildings at Walter-Reed proved Bush didn’t care (never mind that Congress could have paid for the repairs for the cost of one of Murtha’s earmarks)?
So what does this policy proposal say about Obama?
Comment by The Obvious on 3/12 @ 8:25 pm #
Health Care, soldiers don’t need health care. The Red States breed like flies.
Comment by blankminde on 3/12 @ 8:26 pm #
I’m boiling on this one. I’ve got quite a few friends with serious burns from Al Fajr that are going to be receiving therapy for years. Is this even real? I’ll tell you what, I’ll consider this a reasonable decision if the President looks even one person in the military in the face that can’t feel shit from the waist down and explains to them how awesome this idea is.
Comment by The MSM on 3/12 @ 8:26 pm #
Rob,
Nothing at all if I can help it.
Comment by JimK on 3/12 @ 8:27 pm #
These people must be on drugs. Nothing else would explain their total denial of reality.
Comment by blankminde on 3/12 @ 8:28 pm #
11. Bush increased VA spending by something like 53%. I despised his social policies…I was concerned about some of foreign policy decisions…but the military? The man was like our patron fucking saint.
Comment by Dash Rendar on 3/12 @ 8:29 pm #
@ 11. Yea I’m pretty sure the Dali Bama explicitly campaigned on those talking points. “We’re gonna take care of teh troops,” and such.
Comment by Dash Rendar on 3/12 @ 8:30 pm #
But I guess that might have been before he called them air-raiding baby killers and such.
Comment by MarkJ on 3/12 @ 8:32 pm #
CNN? Come on Jeff. This, to me, sounds like yet another manipulative media ploy to demonize ‘private’ insurance in the hearts and minds of most Americans, so that ‘the one’ can say (magnaminously, of course) “See. The Government should provide everyone health care” So let it be written, so let it be done…
Comment by The Obvious on 3/12 @ 8:34 pm #
Stevie Wonder isn’t leading the nation?
Comment by Rob Crawford on 3/12 @ 8:37 pm #
Yes, and ISTR the lefties screeching that it should have been increased by 153%.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/12 @ 8:39 pm #
Is this the Crusader of veteran’s healthcare?
Comment by Vermont Neighbor on 3/12 @ 8:43 pm #
Just constant headlines that scream for attention, from FBI raids to broken campaign promises. Is Barry straight up nuts? Even for Alinsky Jr., this veterans thing is way out there. A dem, Patty Murray, is making more sense than our Pretender in Chief.
Comment by pdbuttons on 3/12 @ 8:45 pm #
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one eight seven cars for kids
get ur flibber jibbert on
for kids..
one ate goldilock bears for kids
one adult diaper smell the skids
ahh
corperate my…
one eight seven scars i fib
o-o- seven eleven ty tales i fib
i’m done
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 3/12 @ 8:54 pm #
A dem, Patty Murray
Not a Blue Dog, either. She’s a full-bore moonbat on most issues.
Comment by The Obvious on 3/12 @ 8:58 pm #
I’m afraid that with Barry the Alinsky isn’t as big a problem as the stupidsky is. That worries me.
Comment by pdbuttons on 3/12 @ 9:00 pm #
i often confuse patty melt murray w/ cantwell
name dropper!
i’m a c-span fool
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 3/12 @ 9:00 pm #
Yeah, The Obvious. It’s becoming painfully obvious that the man simply isn’t very bright.
He’s good at saying what one particular audience wants to hear, not so good at making actual decisions.
Comment by SmokeVanThorn on 3/12 @ 9:02 pm #
Yeah, but this is nowhere near as offensive as Bush asking James Webb how Webb’s son was doing. Right, Jimmy?
Comment by The Obvious on 3/12 @ 9:05 pm #
That’s why he needs the teleprompter. All his life he’s been what he’s been told to be. That got him into college, into law school, into good jobs, into politics and into the White House. That’s cool, but the Presidency isn’t a role. If we’re lucky the economy finds some sort of stability and nothing too challenging happens internationally…
Comment by dicentra on 3/12 @ 9:07 pm #
I’ll tell you what, I’ll consider this a reasonable decision if the President looks even one person in the military in the face that can’t feel shit from the waist down and explains to them how awesome this idea is.
He’s a grandiose narcissist, which means he lacks empathy, so he could tell the injured to pound sand without breaking a sweat.
As long as cameras or other recording devices are not present. If they are, he’ll cheerfully B.S. them from his teleprompter lines and move on to the next Fawning Crowd.
Comment by geoffb on 3/12 @ 9:09 pm #
Every time you figure they have bottomed out, Barack finds a bigger shovel and keeps digging.
Either he will manage to socialize the entire nation in a way that can’t be undone, or he will bring the Progressives down to where that ideology will never rise again.
So wonderful to live in interesting times.
Comment by router on 3/12 @ 9:09 pm #
?
Comment by Sdferr on 3/12 @ 9:12 pm #
Wasn’t a role, I think. Things change. You gotta roll with the times.
Comment by apotheosis on 3/12 @ 9:13 pm #
#14: Usually I’d agree, but…CNN reported this?
That seems significant.
Comment by router on 3/12 @ 9:13 pm #
?
Comment by The Obvious on 3/12 @ 9:15 pm #
Sdferr
No it’s still not. Never has been, never will be. People can try and make it one, as in this case. We will all pay for that in the end, too.
Comment by Sdferr on 3/12 @ 9:17 pm #
Perhaps I mistake Mr. Obama then, Obvious. Cause I’d a sworn he is faking it.
Comment by router on 3/12 @ 9:18 pm #
commie singing freedom like pol pot
sing it hollywierd loser
Comment by The Obvious on 3/12 @ 9:20 pm #
Sdferr,
He is. He’s not going to get by with it for long, either. The world doesn’t afford leaders that luxury.
Comment by Pablo on 3/12 @ 9:20 pm #
Don’t y’all worry ’bout nothing. Guns Obama is on the case.
Comment by The Obvious on 3/12 @ 9:21 pm #
And duplicating the template they brought Obama to power will be a disaster for the nation, but before that I hope it will be a disaster for the party that tries it.
Comment by Sdferr on 3/12 @ 9:23 pm #
Ah, well then, Q.E.D.!
Comment by The Obvious on 3/12 @ 9:23 pm #
Oops that should be “that brought”
Comment by router on 3/12 @ 9:24 pm #
are there nice houses on the south side of chicago not gov’t owned ?
Comment by router on 3/12 @ 9:26 pm #
guns and obama: sounds like a group
Comment by The Obvious on 3/12 @ 9:27 pm #
Sdferr,
Sure, so long as you over look the harm he’s done to this point and the harm he’s going to do. You manage that, it’s a great example to copy, I guess. Uhm, but isn’t this election thing about finding competent leaders? And if we’ve decided it isn’t any more shouldn’t we let the people we’re trying to bullshit into voting for us on the joke?
Comment by pdbuttons on 3/12 @ 9:27 pm #
i’d like to teach the wurld…
[tele-prompter update]
the-ha..girls to swing…
[update]
in …perfect..uhhh
harmony
stock ..uhh..market…
uhh
toned arms,,,uhhh
can we get back to what the american..uhhh
people…want…uuh
Comment by fmfnavydoc on 3/12 @ 9:30 pm #
Shinseki was AFU as a General and is still AFU as VA Secretary – wanting to FUCK vets for medical care (I’m a vet). The military has been a unwilling participant in “socialized medicine” called TRICARE, which reimburses physicians in the network at a rate WORSE than Medicare (and Medicare sucks at reimbursement). Tricare also attempts to collect through Third Party Reimbursement (going after other insurers – like spouse has you on his/her medical insurance through their employer).
You don’t want Obambi’s/Donks plans for medical insurance/care via the state…its a fucking mess….
Comment by maggie katzen on 3/12 @ 9:30 pm #
Berets for everyone!
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 3/12 @ 9:31 pm #
You know, some of the more disingenuous left complained about Bush in regards to matters such as this. I wonder what their thoughts are now?
Comment by Sdferr on 3/12 @ 9:31 pm #
Obvious, you’re reading into my remark much more than is there. I’m not claiming that the current condition is now for all time. I was trying only to point out that I think he’s faking it. What the next gent or lady will do is another question altogether. That’s it.
Comment by George Orwell on 3/12 @ 9:37 pm #
President Waffles said everyone was going to have to sacrifice something. His Holiness had to spend over a trillion dollars in the spirit of fiscal responsibility. So he’s got to pick up savings wherever he can. Now I know you may remember leftards howling about how the troops never got enough body armor, but that was just a distraction and a mistake. Only five percent of the Taliban aren’t moderate, so Barry can cut back on the armor, the medicine and the VA nonsense. He’s gotta pay for those cocktail parties somehow. They are of vital national importance.
Comment by router on 3/12 @ 9:40 pm #
if i fart in O’s general direction will i be taxed?
Comment by happyfeet on 3/12 @ 9:45 pm #
I don’t know anyone what’s enjoying this whole Baracky is president thing. None of my Baracky voter friends want to talk about him anymore.
Comment by The Obvious on 3/12 @ 9:46 pm #
Sdferr,
I wasn’t trying to imply a position on your part one way or another. If I did, I’m sorry. I’m just saying the Barry Template is to be destroyed not copied.
Comment by Dan Collins on 3/12 @ 9:48 pm #
But Barackopolis is going to be a cool city, hf!
Comment by Sdferr on 3/12 @ 9:49 pm #
No worries TO, none whatsoever. I’m thinking I’m going to warp Dan’s tag that it better comport with my mood these days. Goes like this:
CI-LIVITY NOW!
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 3/12 @ 9:51 pm #
That’s why he needs the teleprompter.
The next time some “progressive” makes a crack about Reagan being an actor, point out that at least Reagan could remember his fucking lines.
Comment by happyfeet on 3/12 @ 9:53 pm #
Marconi plays the mamba, Dan. Another thing, though. For all the changey changey, is it just me or is the Baracky administration thingy not particularly newsy? It’s very shallow message-wise, like they never want to get into any of the specifics. “Reforming healthcare” and blah blah blah … it all still sounds very campaigny. It’s boring.
Comment by Sdferr on 3/12 @ 9:56 pm #
Who’da thunk so many people could band together to elect a moron, SBP? I’m starting to believe I’m going to end up having to ask Baracky to change his ownself, forget about the rest of it, if he could just manage to learn a few simple things about the country he pretends to lead, that would be a great help. Change Baracky, I hope you change!
Comment by pdbuttons on 3/12 @ 9:57 pm #
ever fall?
on ur face?
my toned arms will break
the hurt…
ever climb?
used to call them monkey bars
my toned arms will lift.,..
ever stand still…?
my toned arms will…
Comment by Dan Collins on 3/12 @ 9:58 pm #
Yeah, it’s boring, except that the sheer depth of the stupidity is so alarming.
I thought that we had already moved into hopey-faileyness.
Comment by Sdferr on 3/12 @ 9:59 pm #
Hf, isn’t a mamba a deadly poisonous snake? So how does one play a snake? Or is there some other kind of mamba I don’t know about?
Comment by maggie katzen on 3/12 @ 10:01 pm #
but…but… he was a CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLAR!!! no signing statements!
oh wait…
Comment by happyfeet on 3/12 @ 10:05 pm #
discussion here, Sdferr. It’s … befuddling. They did a lot of drugs.
Comment by The Obvious on 3/12 @ 10:06 pm #
Maggie,
And Joe Biden taught Constitutional Law. Which, come to think of it, is something I wouldn’t want known if I were a teacher.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 3/12 @ 10:07 pm #
Sdferr, Starship, or airplane, would like you to be more familiar with their later shit. Thank you.
Comment by happyfeet on 3/12 @ 10:08 pm #
better discussion here… an exegesis, really
Comment by happyfeet on 3/12 @ 10:11 pm #
oh. simple as that
Comment by pdbuttons on 3/12 @ 10:13 pm #
mamba samba
u peeps should skip anything i spit out
i got a rhymin dick-ey
and -”amba”
gots like
a lots
dare me!
u could learn sumtin’
cuz i’ll burn
i will
Comment by Sdferr on 3/12 @ 10:14 pm #
I know and liked that Jorma Kaukonen tune on Hot Tuna, Water Song, but other than that plead ignorance.
Comment by The Obvious on 3/12 @ 10:15 pm #
What the Hell ever happened to Marty Balin any way? And did he have it coming?
Comment by Sdferr on 3/12 @ 10:16 pm #
No pictures though, whatever that says.
Comment by cranky-d on 3/12 @ 10:17 pm #
I heard that song oh so many times, and never understood a lot of the lyrics. I am now enlightened, but am I greater or lesser for it? Time will tell.
Comment by panther girl on 3/12 @ 10:17 pm #
@55 – Wishing that were so around here happyfeet. Everyone who voted for Obama here seems to be still singing his high praises. But I am mostly surrounded by academics and NPR groupies. The more he wrecks our country, the more excited they get. On the plus side, with all this excitement going around maybe some of them will actually get laid. They could use a little oxytocin to calm ‘em down a bit.
Comment by happyfeet on 3/12 @ 10:18 pm #
oh. hrrrm. brb.
Comment by pdbuttons on 3/12 @ 10:22 pm #
u peeps RCk
jorma?
jorma!
u slay me!
i got a box set of airplane
jorma freaks
start the revolution
thanks
Comment by happyfeet on 3/12 @ 10:23 pm #
no luck. I’ll get a photobucket account some day.
Comment by happyfeet on 3/12 @ 10:25 pm #
oh. panthergirl, that’s not good news. I was hoping it was a generalizable thing. I really was.
Comment by happyfeet on 3/12 @ 10:25 pm #
oh. there should have been a space between the panther and the girl
Comment by pdbuttons on 3/12 @ 10:29 pm #
bobby happy skate feet
orr
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Comment by Sdferr on 3/12 @ 10:33 pm #
Listened to that Built this city song. Meh. Whatev’s. I did note though, since I hadn’t heard her in a very long time, that Grace Slick did or does have a pretty strong voice, in her range and all. What with our electronic tomfoolery it ain’t always the case with singers these days. Not that she’s remotely in the league of an Ella, just that her pipes aren’t bad.
Comment by panther girl on 3/12 @ 10:35 pm #
I’m still optimistic hf. These Starbucks Marxists will start crying and whimpering the minute they realize that this is going to affect them. They’re all for Obama’s brand of “social justice” as long as A) they don’t have to pay for it (fat chance that) and B) it continues to keep the proletariat under their feet so they have someone to “save.” They won’t take too kindly to finding out that they’re not special in the One’s eyes.
Comment by happyfeet on 3/12 @ 10:38 pm #
they might be seeing the writing on the wall earlier here in California cause Baracky’s tax tax tax and spend is on top of Arnold’s
Comment by Bob Reed on 3/12 @ 10:41 pm #
Oh, so now captain Bullshit is going to go from damaging our country on a macroscopic level, to actually doing some folks that I know personally a grave in justice…
It’s simply stupefying; like a bad movie that makes little sense and seems to go on forever…
I Want him To Fail More Than EVAH! Now…
Friggin’ ObaMugabe…
Comment by Sdferr on 3/12 @ 10:42 pm #
maybe it would help them to know that Lord Keynes believed that the total portion of GDP going to government (all gov’s totaled together, city, county, state and fed) should not exceed roughly 20%. We’re currently verging on 40%.
Comment by panther girl on 3/12 @ 10:45 pm #
Plus some of the folks around here aren’t really the brightest bulbs, happyfeet, so it takes them a little longer. It’s from all the drugs and love-ins I think.
Comment by panther girl on 3/12 @ 10:51 pm #
Yea, Sdferr – I never got how they’re talking about this being Keynesian economics. But perhaps if a friend reads the cliff notes and then explains it to you in the 5 minutes before the exam starts, I suppose this might be what one could take away from it. And who am I kidding – most of the liberal folks get their knowledge of economics from sociology and ethnics studies classes. From instructors who never took an econ class either.
Comment by J."Trashman" Peden on 3/12 @ 11:07 pm #
Anyone else getting the creepy suspicion that there seems to be no one around in the Obama Adm. to even pull His strings?
Comment by Joe on 3/12 @ 11:09 pm #
Patty Murray may not be the sharpest bulb on the string, but she does have a lot of military families in her state so even she has figured this is stupid. Good move Team Obama.
Comment by Joe on 3/12 @ 11:09 pm #
Patty Murray is also not the brightest knife in the drawer.
Comment by J."Trashman" Peden on 3/12 @ 11:21 pm #
They’re all for Obama’s brand of “social justice†as long as…B) it continues to keep the proletariat under their feet so they have someone to “save.”
Thirty four years ago, I considered B to be one of my greatest realizations, even if possibly my only one. I remember exactly where I was when it occurred. Sigh…
Comment by J."Trashman" Peden on 3/12 @ 11:28 pm #
Ah, Patty Murray. Back in the days of Hillary Care, it was reported that Ms. Murray contacted Hillary rather anxiously to make sure that the Uterus would be covered. Impressive, eh!
Comment by J."Trashman" Peden on 3/12 @ 11:31 pm #
Now, if they could just keep it from wandering…
Comment by Joe on 3/13 @ 12:38 am #
Some counties benefit and some counties get the “benefit” of paying for those counties that benefit.
Comment by Rusty on 3/13 @ 5:11 am #
How I long for jan.19.
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Comment by N. O'Brain on 3/13 @ 6:22 am #
“Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 3/12 @ 9:31 pm #
You know, some of the more disingenuous left complained about Bush in regards to matters such as this. I wonder what their thoughts are now?”
They’re having orgasms because the Obama administration thought it up.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 3/13 @ 6:32 am #
As an aside, I always liked Jorma Kaukonen’s guitar work.
Live and learn, I guess.
Comment by LTC John on 3/13 @ 6:59 am #
#74 – in so many Dutch words – it is saying that you can’t get the picture off of the server from Eidnhoven Digital City – its a no go.
I had thought I had felt/seen the last of GEN Shinseki’s nutiness years ago. I guess he is just going to keep haunting all of us in uniform for years to come. Bah.
He always was tone deaf, this just confirms it is worse than previously exhibited.
Comment by SGT Ted on 3/13 @ 7:13 am #
This is for real. Go here http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=9925 and go into the pdf and search for tricare, veterans administration etc. They are wanting to fuck veterans. Thats how Obama shows us love.
However…
I have Tricare Prime as a retiree and my wife has Medicare B. Between the two our medical care has been completely covered. We pay between 3 and 6 dollar for prescriptions. The old Tricare before 2001(I think) wasnt as good. I should know, my wife and I have been dealing with them for 24 years. They don’t exclude for pre-exisiting conditions, which my wife had plenty when we got married.
If someone is bitching about Tricare today, they are doing it wrong.
Shinseki is now Obama’s bitch. What a cunt.
Comment by JD on 3/13 @ 7:26 am #
We can count on the MSM to question Barcky about this, right?
Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 3/13 @ 7:31 am #
This must be what they mean by supporting the troops.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 3/13 @ 7:42 am #
We can count on the MSM to question Barcky about this, right?
Sure…. right after they get done running puff pieces like this one.
Comment by slackjawedyokel on 3/13 @ 8:08 am #
This was a trial balloon. Just like Eric (“THE POOR MEXICANS ARE SLAUGHTERING EACH OTHER WITH AMERICAN GUNS”) Holder’s musings about re-instating the so-called “Assault Weapons” ban was a trial balloon. They are seeing how far they can stretch the envelope before anybody notices and/or calls bullshit on them.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/13 @ 8:09 am #
I think Gen. Shinseki is going to war with too few resources, myself.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/13 @ 8:12 am #
I wonder…if CSA naysays Obama/Shinseki on this one, is he automatically correct?
Comment by MarkD on 3/13 @ 8:14 am #
I don’t understand why the guy needs a teleprompter. His speech is always “I’m taking stuff from the other guys and giving it to you.”
That’s great, until you figure out you are the other guy.
It might play better if he said we’re going to take the stuff China makes and give them paper, and take the oil and give the Saudis paper. What could go wrong?
Comment by Ella on 3/13 @ 10:18 am #
Not that she’s remotely in the league of an Ella….
Sdferr, thank you. You’re too kind. ;-)
Comment by Sdferr on 3/13 @ 10:28 am #
De nada, mi ruiseñor.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 3/13 @ 3:53 pm #
I think Gen. Shinseki is going to war with too few resources, myself.
As the saying goes, he’s half-way armed for a battle of wits.
Comment by pdbuttons on 3/13 @ 10:52 pm #
charlie rose did frown…
and leaned,,,
forearm forward..;.
intense-a fy…
shinseucki unabrow ass fuck x mass
c’mon beetch us
i’ll start
u all suck
o come alito faithful
o cum all ye fateful
to dick cheney land
oh cum splat lawyer
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Comment by pdbuttons on 3/14 @ 10:20 pm #
how cum i’m not banned?
peace
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