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- Insightful, on 11/06/2009, -21/+164First GOP was for bank bailout i.e. TARP (34 R voted for it vs 15 no) requested by President Bush.
Then it sabotages America's recovery with 0 votes on the stimulus bill although they happily inserted pork and crowed back home about how much they brought back to Washington.
Then they try to derail the healthcare reform by making up stories to scare granny.
Yesterday they had a big poster up comparing the Nazi Dachau concentration camp to the healthcare reform. Way to endear the Jewish voter guys. What's next, have a sign of an All American Minuteman Patriot shooting dead Speedy Gonzales and family for immigration reform?
Now they are skipping environmental legislation and national security legislation meetings and votes.
Seriously - do they planned on getting elected again or do they plan to Scozzafava every other one of their candidates? - ebfalls, on 11/07/2009, -8/+129I am glad that they were sipping tea with rest of their ignorant constituents. The Patriot Act was one of the worst pieces of legislation in history. It has not solved any problems and stole rights that were granted to all of us in the Constitution.
- AlaskanDad, on 11/07/2009, -8/+69GOP the GRAND OLD tea PARTY, I hope that this trend continues, I feel safer knowing that the GOP is not voting!
- ParticleMan420, on 11/07/2009, -11/+66on another note: 95% of conservatives just make up their statistics on the spot to support whatever delusion that have in their heads!
- martoq, on 11/07/2009, -9/+60Yes they will get elected again because people don't educate themselves...or think for themselves for that matter. They rely on entities like FOX to do the thinking for them.
- theseventhdawn, on 11/07/2009, -3/+46Maybe one of you smart Diggers can help me here;
- All these senators and congressmen are covered by government run health care program, which includes costs of running a start of the art hospital and an emergency room at the Capitol Hill
- All the soldiers are protected by a government run health care program that Bill Kristol admitted on daily show, was the best run program ever and we samartians don't deserve it
- Fox mughal Bill O'Riley came out on his show that a government run program is not necessarily bad for the country
Yet, neither these senators nor the soldiers were put in front of the death panel (i wish they would put the senators, would love to vote on this one)
To my questions,
- How does the healthcare issue threaten our security?
- Insurance industries some how makes only 6% profit, which is in-align with insurance profits around the globe. Somehow the cost has tripled, people are layed off; so less covered, health operating costs have increased but not tripled ... yet somehow such low profits ... how is it possible without lining the execs pockets with bonuses?
- How does this make us like Cuba? When leading developing nations including Britan, Canada, almost the entire EU are pro government run healthcare
- Why doesn't high tax refund to red states that pays lesser in taxes, count as socialism?
- Why doesn't federal funds in billions diverted to faith based initiatives considered as socialism? Where is the tea party for this?
- Iraq invasion that costed $1T and still costing us, is somehow more important than the health care reform? Where was the tea party then?
- White collar crimes that put investments in danger, why is this not a crime? And why is rescusing these criminals more important than the citizens? Where was the tea party when $700 billion was distributed without proper accounting?
I am not the smartest just wondering .... - TheSwashbuckler, on 11/07/2009, -8/+50Party over country? That's the standard GOP position.
It's why McCain picked Palin... - orangefly, on 11/07/2009, -4/+42did you forget about almost 70% of the electoral votes....???....fox must not have mentioned that....
- workfaster, on 11/07/2009, -1/+35OK, so let's plan another tea party during the Healthcare Reform vote.
- clouds31, on 11/07/2009, -13/+46Stay classy GOP.
- Swift2, on 11/07/2009, -3/+35And the scoring for that bill? It will save NO money in the next ten years, and insure fewer people.
- swantamer, on 11/07/2009, -7/+38ebfalls (above) has it right: the Patriot Act was & is a disaster for civil liberties and necessary freedoms.
- rocknog, on 11/07/2009, -1/+28I am so torn here - on the one hand, I am mortified that they are encouraging that ***** lunatic Michele Bachmann. On the other hand, I am very much grateful that in supporting her, they weren't able to vote for expansions to the Patriot Act.
- homercles337, on 11/07/2009, -3/+29Why do you dopes insist on ignoring facts? Tort reform has already been tried with detrimental effects. Costs have gone UP with tort reform, why would you want to do something so stupid on the national scale?
- pocketjacks, on 11/07/2009, -2/+28Like the one in the article that failed 15-15?
- Paranor01, on 11/07/2009, -1/+27facts are "gotcha journalism" ?
really ? - milkmit, on 11/07/2009, -6/+31Go play in traffic.
- Ghostalker, on 11/07/2009, -7/+29Is this surprising? Election season JUST ended, nobody is going to remember this by the time their terms are up for renewal.
- letdowntourist, on 11/07/2009, -2/+24good thing obama won both by a considerable margin, eh?
- Catmomma, on 11/07/2009, -6/+27 It's enough to put you off drinking tea.
- 4321234, on 11/07/2009, -1/+21A++++ amusing comeback. Would bury again.
- Ghostalker, on 11/07/2009, -6/+26Glad to see they have their priorities straight.
- Maddoktor2, on 11/07/2009, -13/+32The Republican party is sabotaging America's recovery for political gain.
- ParticleMan420, on 11/07/2009, -2/+20glenn beck is sketching away as we speak!
- macfan93, on 11/07/2009, -4/+21"What's next, have a sign of an All American Minuteman Patriot shooting dead Speedy Gonzales and family for immigration reform?"
Shhh... don't give them any ideas! - ParticleMan420, on 11/07/2009, -2/+18they dont have time to do anything but try and make up ways to make democrats look bad. That is their job now. not proposing and voting on bills. not coming up with ways to help the country, only trying to make democrats look bad.
thats what our leaders should be doing, talking ***** about the other side instead of their actual jobs. But really, why would they when the lobbyists pay them 10X more than their salary AND get them re-elected - orlandogeek, on 11/07/2009, -1/+16Anyone who bitches about bills being 1,000 pages long only proves they have little to no understanding of this key thing called the law. The reason it's so long? In every code and section and subsection and addendum that a process, procedure, or law is changed must be written in specific terms what is changed, how it redefines the previous law and how the changes address certain other factors.
There's simply no way given the number of laws in this country over the 234 years of our existence that a bill could every be even close to being short winded enough to please these people that have no clue about that which they are complaining. - Mejari, on 11/07/2009, -2/+17Did you read the article? FYI the amendments that got passed because the republicans weren't there /reduced/ the violations of civil liberties in the Patriot Act.
- 4321234, on 11/07/2009, -1/+16Falling back to McCain/Palin '08 slogans. You get that quite a bit when you don't add water and stir, as per the intructions on the Kool Aid package.
- rednip, on 11/07/2009, -0/+15The often cited non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has scored the republican plan as being more expensive and leading to more uninsured.
Also the 'tort reform' would only save at best 1.5% even if you eliminate nearly all of the lawsuits. Considering that the only way to get a bad doctor to quit practicing medicine is to sue him out of business, it would likely mean more injury. Tort reform would need to be combined with better licencing and monitoring for it not to be a net loss to society. - Moralogic, on 11/07/2009, -2/+17These people make me laugh. Saying most people are against health care reform with a public option, when that was Obama's main platform he was running on, and why people voted for him.
- Moralogic, on 11/07/2009, -1/+15Why do facts and reality freak out far right republicans and religious people? I just don't get it.
- Paranor01, on 11/07/2009, -2/+15didn't you just reverse something ?
- Paranor01, on 11/07/2009, -2/+14huh ?
- Beonarri, on 11/07/2009, -1/+13I may not like the Patriot Act, but it seems like every time any Republican does anything, it feels like a "dick" move. Like, they can't grasp what the country wants anymore, so they're just going to throw tantrums hoping someone will listen to their ramblings. And, usually those ramblings involve words like "freedom", "communist", "communism", "government take over", "not what 'real' Americans want", etc.
It's something like 65% of Americans want a public-option, it's a definite majority, yet they can't seem to get out of the minority crowds that are paranoid about anything the government does (regardless of what the issue is). They just can't let go of the base. - toddmusic, on 11/08/2009, -3/+14Tea parties are for children and their imaginary friends so this works out perfect.
- Mejari, on 11/07/2009, -1/+12Pelosi doesn't call for vote: DO YOUR JOB, PELOSI OMGOMGOMG
Pelosi calls for vote: OMG DIRTY TRICK NOT FAIR - Insightful, on 11/08/2009, -0/+11@theseventhdawn
Great point, You mentioned Canada, UK, and EU.
You also forgot to mention Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore all have some kind public/single payer/hybrid system that, while not perfect, is head and shoulders above what we get for our money in US.
They are doing just fine and is aghast to learn that kind of healthcare system we have here.
Seriously, there are only 30-40 countries in the world that are rich enough have a health care system. US is the only one of its kind where we pay much more than others while getting so little in return. YET we have poor/low/middle people defending being screwed over by them. How bizarre is that? - Moralogic, on 11/07/2009, -1/+12Is it talking about the bill that does absolutely nothing? Because last I checked, that is exactly what the republican bill does. It does nothing to keep the insurance companies from increasing prices, nothing to make them offer coverage to people with "preexisting conditions", and nothing to actually hold them accountable to what they tell people they cover, and con people to sign up for when it actually doesn't cover all of that stuff with the way they fancifully write up their contracts.
These hicks really need to learn what they are talking about before opening up their mouths and misinforming their brethren. - Hiwnes, on 11/08/2009, -0/+10These guys really need to find their own meme. The whole "tea-party" thing was cool in 1773 because, well they actually threw some ***** tea overboard. Likewise, they were protesting taxation without representation as opposed to taxation with representation.
That said, I'll be the first to cheer when the "Patriot Act" is repealed. I just wish the Democrats had the balls to take this opportunity to repeal the legislation. Of course, they're proving to be no better than the Republicans. - Mejari, on 11/07/2009, -1/+10Did you actually read the article? The votes weren't on the bill, they were on what amendments would be in the bill.
So if the whole bill is going to be passed regardless, wouldn't you think a lawmaker would want to make that bill as close to their own beliefs as possible? You're right, as a whole it's likely the bill will pass, and I'm glad these guys were too stupid to get in these amendments, but shouldn't people who want this stuff be angry that they lost the opportunity to have them in there? For the party that a) doesn't care about civil liberties when it comes to 'protecting' America and b) complains about 'liberals' not doing their jobs, it seems strange that they would choose to not do their job while at the same time allowing people to actually get some of their civil liberties back, which according to them will kill us all. - scottpigeon, on 11/07/2009, -0/+8I agree, as if they had voted, we all know which way it would have went. The thing bothering me is how much bipartisan support the Patriot Act has. One party claims it's for small govt, the other claims to champion civil liberties, and yet they both vote for this.
- Mejari, on 11/07/2009, -0/+8Not necessarily. You do know how mid-term elections work, right?
- cyberclown, on 11/07/2009, -1/+9How come I feel better if they don't vote.
- Moralogic, on 11/07/2009, -1/+8Yeah, that is exactly why it looks like we have a chance to have another Bill Clinton era when it comes to spending instead of another republican era of insane spending.
- chunkybeefstu, on 11/08/2009, -1/+8Obama supporting a public option was reaching across the aisle, you ungrateful bastard, you must have forgotten that.
If Obama was really the hard-left guy you try to paint him as, he would have supported a single-payer system. - mikemx7f, on 11/07/2009, -2/+9wait, what?
- fuzzynyanko, on 11/07/2009, -0/+7Bachmann, the woman that talked about freedom and tyranny didn't vote.
- theseventhdawn, on 11/07/2009, -1/+7Actually, if you read my points soldier is not the only point I make and infact it was Bill Kristol who siad is the best run plan ever ... if you like private insurance, I would be more than happy to support your move to private insurance .. may be you will more in touch with reality then. You would probably be dropped on more pre-existing conditions than you can imagine
I don't support Patriot Act; and I believe it was introduced in October 26th 2001 with an overwhelming support from GOP owned senate and house. So, if I make sense of this article; GOP is tea partying the amendment they introduced? and enforced warrantless almost like the Iranian regime? - orlandogeek, on 11/08/2009, -0/+4Just the kind of weak, attack-centric devoid of an actual answer to the original poster comeback I expected. Typical meaningless, unproductive drivel. Is your Facebook buddy Sarah proud of you?
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