…except, you know, for the popular provisions of a centralized, state-run, top-down authoritarian health care system run by bureaucrats. Those could be part of a common-sense replacement program. Offered up by Republicans. Who really do care about clean air and vibrant senior citizens and the horrors of autism. Really. So says House leader John Boehner on Face the Nation.
Just before he broke down into little orange tears. For the children.
McConnell was better on Fox News Sunday when pressed as to how he would rescue every pre-existing conditioner and 26 year old tyke after taking Obama’s candy away from these poor babes: “Let the states handle it.”
The two things he would do: Allow interstate insurance purchase and tort reform.
We’re even better sitting at our kitchen table: get the hell out of our lives!
No one ever brings up the great unwashed tide of gang-bangers and drug addicts that suck up tremendous amounts of healthcare dollars.
“If your a drug dealer and you chose not buy insurance…”
“If you’re a crack whore and you chose not to buy health insurance while having scads of drug addicted babies on our dime…”
It’s always “If you do something stupid (break an arm, get double pneumonia)…” as if those are remotely comparable.
A rare moment for Mitch.
Mitch redux on FNS today. He’s basically telling Chris Wallace the same thing. Also, that CW is a lying liar what lies and is twisting his words, so stop it.
Who could have possibly seen this coming?
I do have to admit there is a little satisfaction in this for me, the Visigothian naysayer that I am. If I don’t stroke my ego who will?
– If you must stroke anything, at least close the curtins. Some of us are trying to eat our health care plans.
What would a Republican spirited Congress do?
Remove John Roberts from the bench for failure to uphold his duties.
He’s a lot like Maverick in that regard. He’s often absolutely right, when he’s not ridiculously wrong.
– It’s too late. He pissed in the Constitutional corn flakes and ran away to Malta.
– The only recourse now is carpet bombing.
Mitch is a fine senator and a piss-poor leader and an even worse advocate
why can’t our coward senators find one of their number with a sense of urgency and a bit of passion for salvaging something of this diseased and suppurating cowardly little country and put that one in charge?
Huh?
He told Chris that the uninsured are to be left up to the discretion of their respective states, Pablo.
If the States already possess the sovereign powers (granted to the States by the people thereof, from whom all State powers arise) to see to the interests of their citizens, then the Federal government need have nothing to say about the matter, let alone do about the matter.
Exactly.
Republican dignity would demand the impeachment of Chief Justice Roberts.
That’s disturbing sdferr. If true, that a sitting Justice, let alone the Chief Justice, would allow himself to be swayed by outside sources, it is indeed an impeachable offense.
It’s been a very long time since that happened.
So, we impeach Chief Justice Roberts.
Who gets to name his replacement ?
The new President, come next Jan. 20.
The SCOTUS doesn’t meet again until this coming October, wouldn’t that give Obama a shot at naming a CJ before the U-Hauls pull up to Big White?
No.
Good. I had a little chill of fear hit me for a moment.
Given that the new Congress would begin its work on Thursday, January 3, 2013, it appears to me quite conceivable that Republicans in control of both the Senate and the House would indeed have enough time to begin and finish the entire process of budget reconciliation concerning Obamacare just before a Romney swearing-in as President on Sunday, January 20th. In other words, the 17-day period between January 3 and January 20 should be enough — possibly even more than enough — time for the Republicans to get a reconciliation bill through both Houses and submitted to a “President Romney” by the afternoon of the 20th.
After all, if we look back to the Democrats’ budget reconciliation process in March 2010, which resulted in the passage of Obamacare, that process actually took LESS than 17 days. In early March 2010, Democrats were threatening to use reconciliation but had not yet embarked on that course. By late March 2010, they not only had embarked on that course but had gotten a reconciliation bill through both Houses of Congress and submitted to President Obama for his signature. So, when it comes to timing, this March 2010 fast-track used by the Democrats would appear to be the key thing to take note of.
……
So if Romney were sworn in during a private White House ceremony on Sunday, January 20 (just as Eisenhower and Reagan were for their second terms), he could sign the reconciliation bill almost immediately after being sworn in that Sunday, given the fact that his Inaugural Address and all the other traditional events held on Capitol Hill (such as the Congressional Luncheon, the Inaugural Parade and Inaugural Balls) would not happen until the following day, Monday the 21st. He could literally go right to work immediately that day immediately after being officially sworn in during the private ceremony.
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Thanks, Fred W!
Thanks, John B!
I’m reminded there’s a reason I quit reading at NRO.
Oh. That means we must support Romney.
Damned either way with bad choices!
“That means we must support Romney.”
Nope. Nothing so particular as that. The possibility remains, for instance, that a large majority will arise in the interim to toss his useless ass on the trash heap, to nominate a better candidate to the office and elect such a person. These are questions of politics, not of mechanical physics.
It could be that the last 3 1/2 years have all been a bad dream from which we will all awaken. I don’t think that will happen either.
Yes, I’d certainly like to see Sarah Palin come save Christmas, and this Republic. But the chances of anyone blowing Romney out at the Convention are, I’d guess, less than 5%; and that’s after a 3% additive because he’s likely to choose a moderate goober as running mate, ticking off even more of us who already look at him like he’s got three heads.
The Republic can only be saved in the minds of the people who constitute it. If the people think of their government as a Republic, they can make it so. If, on the other hand, the people choose to live under a tyranny, they can accomplish this as well.
I know it, sdferr. And I’ve little faith in whomever allows this President and his Party to ‘community organize’ them, persuading them to vote ‘in their best interest’ even when to do so is detrimental to this Republic’s continuity. That ‘best interest’ attack is a ploy Conservatives haven’t yet learned how to overcome. It’s difficult to tell the average ‘Dancing with the Starz’ addict that he or she should choose the Conservative path over the ‘hey! look! free shit, vote for me!’ carrot. Those, the “ME FIRST!” circle jerk, just don’t have that much individual foresight. And collectively, they rally ’round the prettiest, most promising faces.
I believe the people have already chosen tyranny.
they sure as fuck haven’t chosen freedom
Rasmussen isn’t even showing a dead cat bounce in the polls for Bumbles today. Tied dead even with Romney.
Chosen freedom, ‘feets? You’ve much room to yap! The best chance we had to keep ‘freedoms’ was with Sarah Palin as GOP nominee. But, nooooooooooooo! Any one gets between you and a good [insert your own graphic same-sex-act thinger here] time gets called umpteen-million times a ‘hoochie’ &c. So, you just about fit yourself into that ‘in my best interest first, screw the damned Republic!’ category that I so highly disfavor.
Put that in your non-Hobbity pipeweed-consumin’ device and smoke it~!
They chose … poorly.
Put that in your non-Hobbity pipeweed-consumin’ device and smoke it~!
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