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    America's New Politics: Dildos, Mistresses, and Sex Hotlines for Uninsured Children

    The Quiet Death of the Public Option

    The Senate Health Care Bill and the Stupid Politics of Printing

    Listen To People Read You Legislation

    Impressively Evil: Health Care Lobbyists Busted Writing Speeches For Congress. Literally.

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    Image of Swifter Swifter
    12/05/09

    In reply to America's New Politics: Dildos, Mistresses, and Sex Hotlines for Uninsured Children
    Congratulations, Foster, on your bi-partisanship. Also, I hear Republican sex toys will be all the rage this Christmas.
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    Image of ParahSalin ParahSalin
    12/05/09

    @Swifter: It will be fascinating to see if Republicans try to make this Max Baucus thing a huge deal, as was their wont in the past. By the way, he's a DINO - Democrat in name only. He's been bought and paid for by the insurance industry for years, and you deep thinkers are known for letting industries regulate themselves. It worked out so well with the banking and energy industries, I can't imagine it won't work out with the health insurance industry. Because in the long run we all know that businesses always do what's best for freedom, public health, economic security, and the little autistic Palin children.
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    12/05/09

    @ParahSalin: Uh...I'm not a Republican. #labelfail
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    12/05/09

    @Swifter: Oh please they were all the rage last year. My rubber fist McCain is splendid!
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    Image of ParahSalin ParahSalin
    12/05/09

    @Swifter: Sure, neither is Glenn Beck. I don't doubt that you're just as much of an Independent as he is.
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    12/05/09

    @ParahSalin: Whatever. My citizenship dues are paid in full, which is more than most of those jokers can claim.
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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    12/05/09

    In reply to America's New Politics: Dildos, Mistresses, and Sex Hotlines for Uninsured Children
    Max Bacchus, one presumes.
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    Image of eatsshootsleaves eatsshootsleaves
    12/04/09

    In reply to The Quiet Death of the Public Option
    Haven't most actual experts on health policy agreed that higher subsidies are both more important and more effective than the toothless public option they were going to pass?
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    Image of mimigoliath mimigoliath
    12/04/09

    In reply to The Quiet Death of the Public Option
    So being a moderate means not making policy decisions and just shaking your head saying "too changey."
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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    12/04/09

    In reply to The Quiet Death of the Public Option
    Some brave senator needs to attach a rider to the health care bill mandating that Congress health plans are voided for any congressmen voting against the Public Option.
    Since Government-Paid Health care is such an abomination, of course.
    I wouldn't mind seeing the same thing for Medicare recipients supporting plans to kill the Public Option, same rationale.
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    Image of sarrible sarrible
    12/04/09

    @Trai_Dep: I support this plan! And he's not a senator, but I think Alan Grayson is the man to do it.
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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    12/04/09

    @sarrible: Senator Franken has already made the GOP senators sad by mocking them for their support for the Contractor-Rapist Protection Bill. It'd be great if he made them downright unhappy.
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    12/05/09

    @Trai_Dep: God, I love that. It'll make my year if he gets up on the floor and tells the gentleman from Texas to pull up his big-boy pants and stop crying like a slapped child because votes have consequences.
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    12/04/09

    In reply to The Quiet Death of the Public Option
    The uncoupling of insurance from employment and some type of public option are absolutely INEVITABLE in the long term.

    The only questions left are how we get from here to there. Getting those things will be a lot easier if we can get some kind of reform accomplished this year.

    So don't go jumping off bridges just yet, libtards!
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    Image of Unsolicited Advice Unsolicited Advice
    12/04/09

    In reply to The Quiet Death of the Public Option
    Art of the possible my eye, Rahm. This is why you needed to go big, or go home. A psuedo-agency birthed out of a failure to realize a comprehensive state-run solution is exactly what everyone fears, the exact opposite of the transcendant social commitment to health care that a real reform would have represented. They should have dug in on a single-payer plan or done nothing; declaring victory over a private subsidy requiring that everyone pay for care will be as hollow as it gets.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    12/04/09

    In reply to The Quiet Death of the Public Option
    So I guess more kids will die this particular quiet death?

    [www.washingtonpost.com]
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    Image of Magister Magister
    12/04/09

    In reply to The Quiet Death of the Public Option
    I don't know about everyone listed, but Arlen Specter was on television last Sunday and to me, he sounds unequivocal in his support for the public option.
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    12/04/09

    In reply to The Quiet Death of the Public Option
    You know who wasn't there? Diane Savino. Because she rules.
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    Image of formergr formergr
    12/04/09

    @DahlELama: Well that, and she's a state senator, so she wouldn't be too welcome in a U.S. Senate meeting...
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    12/04/09

    @formergr: Yeah, right after I wrote that, I thought, "Oops. Well, someone will call me out on this shortly." I just really like writing "Diane Savino rules" wherever possible, and I feel creepy doing it on Facebook now because we're FB BFFs.
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    Image of daveyjonesisdead daveyjonesisdead
    12/04/09

    In reply to The Quiet Death of the Public Option
    Commentators have been calling the death of the public option for months and months. And yet, it lives. You're being led astray by noise and shadows and people who make a living out of making things dramatic. Look back at what's happened since this all started, appreciate the process and come to the only reasonable conclusion: there will be a robust public option in the legislation Obama signs.
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    Image of Hockeymom Hockeymom
    12/04/09

    @daveyjonesisdead: from your lips to God's ears. Or someone's ears. Seriously.
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    Image of marin79 marin79
    12/04/09

    In reply to The Quiet Death of the Public Option
    Mark Warner was there? WTF. Guess my parents will be taking his bumper sticker off their cars (finally).
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    Image of Helio Helio
    12/04/09

    @marin79: Warner was a cap in many NoVa people's cap but he's a business man first.

    Mark hasn't made much noise since he's been inaugurated and he's never been much of a liberal. This seems like a clear attempt to maintain his centrist credibility (Virginians love them some moneyed centrists!) and considering his lowly position, and his longer term goals, he's not going to start calling out for single payer.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    12/04/09

    In reply to The Quiet Death of the Public Option
    Maybe Canada will take us all as refugees. Bacon, Maple Syrup, Elk...
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    12/04/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Or Mexico. I hear they have public health insurance.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    12/04/09

    @braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.:

    Yes, but... I think it's all just a big scam to harvest organs.
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    Image of FitnessMadeSimple FitnessMadeSimple
    12/04/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Beavers, Swedish Fish, Alanis Morissette...
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    12/04/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: That would be hilarious.
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    12/04/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: my friend just went down south for a $1500 nose job (very subtle, well done) and he still has his kidneys and he didn't have to dodge any bullets.
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    Image of La Mareada La Mareada
    12/04/09

    @braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.:
    The Mexican government is working on making their public insurance plan available to Mex citizens for treatment in the US next year. After all the fuss about "illegals", many will have a public option. Too bad for the rest of us.

    In the meantime cross over to Mexico with a bag of cash or credit card for the treatment you need. Or buy into public insurance with a resident visa in Mexico.
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    12/04/09

    @FitnessMadeSimple: Ketchup chips, poutine, Club Super Sexe, Don Cherry...
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    Image of Helio Helio
    12/04/09

    @braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.: the daily show has a sort of funny segment about this.

    [www.thedailyshow.com]
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    Image of paxcincinnatus paxcincinnatus
    12/04/09

    @Botswana Meat Commission FC: La Fin du Monde, Hockey Night, newfies . . .
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    Image of benjwah004 benjwah004
    11/23/09

    In reply to The Senate Health Care Bill and the Stupid Politics of Printing
    Have Democrats ever contemplated just leaving the country to the Republicans for ten years and then returning and conquering the decaying rubble?
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    Image of dissentingopinion dissentingopinion
    11/23/09

    @benjwah004: remember 200o-2008?
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    11/23/09

    @dissentingopinion: Exactly. It was 8 years instead of 10, but still ... been there, done that.
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/23/09

    In reply to The Senate Health Care Bill and the Stupid Politics of Printing
    Apparently the Republicans want to kill more trees as well as people.
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    11/23/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: Whoops! Missed the comment by simplicissimus, which contained the same joke. Apologies.
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