…and he just did.
“I know some of my Democratic colleagues had been thinking about ways to, in effect, get around the results by working in various parliamentary ways, looking at the rules, trying to get a health care bill passed that would have been the same bill that would have passed if [MA AG] Martha Coakley [D] had won, and I think that’s a mistake,” Frank said. “I will not support an effort to push through a House-Senate compromise bill despite an election. I’m disappointed in how it came out, but I think electoral results have to be respected.”
And if you’re wondering why Barney Frank did this, it’s because he can read a map. He’s the only member of the MA Congressional delegation whose district went completely for Coakley [UPDATE: Actually, no, that was Capuano's district. OTOH, Rep. Frank is one of the safest Members of Congress right now, so the point fortunately still stands], and at least two of them are personally sweating the election results right now – so if anybody’s going to be taking the lead in walking back from the precipice, it should be the guy who can take the hit and still be favored to keep his seat in November. Mildly disappointing, from a Republican point of view… but killing this abomination of a health care bill is the best thing for the country, which of course should be our paramount concern.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
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Steve Maley
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Dan Spencer
Dan McLaughlin
Lets be frank, Barney
wolfster38 (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 9:40AM EST (link)People understand that you, one of our elected employee have damaged this country more than most others.
Two words:
Fannie & Freddie.
We know what you did. You will be voted out and nothing will stop it.
Get some teeth, you slob.
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
I *definitely* want
rec0n Wednesday, January 20th at 10:03AM EST (link)Barney Frank to go down. And Waxman, and Markey. The lefts little un-sung heroes. But both Waxman and Frank have reigned in their districts for a very long time. Probably Markey too, but I haven’t looked at his history.
Frank's district was very close
wayneinnh (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 10:02AM EST (link)Barney Frank is one of those VERY gerrymandered districts. I went through all the towns in the 4th CD and the results were not what you think.
Brown Coakley
Acushnet 2138 1627
Berkley 1614 746
Dartmouth 5812 5110
Dighton 1770 829
Fairhaven 3045 2834
Fall River 7489 10341
Freetown 2220 1189
Mansfield 5909 3045
New Bedford 7828 11754
Norton 4424 2209
Raynham 3574 1687
Taunton 8925 6586
Westport 3203 2898
Newton 11352 23456
Sherborn 1269 1061
Brookline 5217 15264
Dover 1888 1058
Foxborough 4821 2465
Millis 2430 1383
Norfolk 3308 1394
Sharon 3536 4461
Wellesley 5922 5934
Halifax 2147 992
Lakeville 2348 1259
Marion 1332 1002
Mattapoisett 1834 1317
Middleboro 6158 2615
Rochester 1671 776
Wareham 4628 3128
Totals 117812 118420
Jon 14:6 –
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.”
It’s not intellectual to believe we evolved from hydrogen gas.
Frank doesn't have a Boston-based district
scarlos (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 10:05AM EST (link)His stretches from New Bedford in the Southeast around to some of Boston’s Western suburbs, and was probably pretty close (being D +14 and therefore a little more democratic than the state as a whole)
Mike Capuano’s district is the Boston-based one (the 8th) and is the only one Coakley probably won by more than 5 points.
Either way, not exactly a confidence builder for their congressional delegation.
Socialism is Oligarchy in disguise
Last night was the worst and the best night
davidstone Wednesday, January 20th at 10:11AM EST (link)for the Democrats. While the country will benefit greatly from the bill not going through (assuming it doesn’t), the Democrats will no longer be committing political suicide Rahming it through Congress. It will be more difficult for Republicans to tell voters what Democrats were “trying” to do versus what they actually did.
Long Term, Better Off With A Dead Bill
DavidSage (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 11:02AM EST (link)I agree Republicans would do better in 2010 if this health care bill passed, but I would still prefer no bill pass at all. The “blue dogs” have been exposed, and most of them are toast anyway, it’s now really just the margin of victory.
If a red district goes for the Republican by 10 points instead of 15, that’s a trade off I’m willing to make. Also, this has essentially made Obama a lame duck for the rest of his term. More Democrats are going to be fighting with Obama, jeopardizing his reelection chances substantially.
Repealing this bill also could have potentially been a nightmare. I have no doubt Republicans will make a comeback, but to have a 60 seat majority in the Senate, occupy the White House, and have control of the House only happens a couple times a century. Americans simply don’t like one party rule for very long.
I still think 2010 will be like 1994. Even though Hillary’s health care bill failed, it still destroyed Democrats.
Aw, come on, what fun are lemmings when they don't jump off the cliff
tankertodd (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 11:03AM EST (link)Lemmings who don’t do the Thelma and Louise bit are, well, hamsters. So what?
Come on Barney, never surrender, never give up! Fight that good fight! Who cares what 70% of the country thinks! The 19% of you liberals know what’s best for us! Stick it to us! Stick it to us!!!111!!
Oh crap, not exactly what one should say to Barney Frank.
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The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race – Chief Justice Roberts
This monster has come back from the dead
orwell (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 11:19AM EST (link)This monster has come back from the dead so many times that I am skeptical, but I just can’t wait to sing:
“Ding, dong the witch is dead . . . “
BArney Frank
10ksnooker (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 11:26AM EST (link)Must think the voters in Massachusetts voters are coming for him?
Or do the progressives plan to break up the health care bill into little pieces and get those passed over time?
So, where does my daughter get health insurance?
dell49 Wednesday, January 20th at 11:45AM EST (link)She’s 22, about to graduate college and go on to law school. Oh, yes, she is also a Type I diabetic.
Under existing law, there is no health insurance company in the land that would sell her an individual policy, including coverage of her diabetes and the manifold, consequent related conditions. And she will come out from under my group policy coverage on January 31, 2011. And I live in TX, where universal coverage will never happen.
The reform legislation would have let her buy affordable coverage, by removing the pre-existing condition bar.
Any ideas?
Whatever the solution is, it will be provided by
eburke (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 11:58AM EST (link)private industry far cheaper and better than by any governmental agency.
Step 1, IMHO, is to allow policies to be purchased across state lines and for states to stop mandating that every policy sold in the state *has* to contain all sorts of extraneous coverages that *everyone* has to pay for.
You would see a flood of policies into the marketplace which would be tailored to fit virtually every scenario there is. That, along with tort reform, would go a heckuva lot further than *anything* the government will come up with ’cause with them, the solution is *always* worse than the problem.
“All that need be done for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”
Unified Patriots
I looked at your profile. You're a mgt.side labor lawyer?
janis (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 12:00PM EST (link)And you’ve waited 8 months to make this one lone comment. Not sure I believe your story about your daughter, but, if true, you surely must realize that by taking away a private company’s ability to make a profit, then that company will cease to exist. And that’s the whole purpose of removing the pre-existing condition bar. It was unrealistic to begin with.
From the date you give, you have two years to tackle and solve this problem. Check with the American Diabetes Association, check with local diabetes groups, talk to your insurance carrier. But until you’ve exhausted those avenues of information, it’s ludicrous to show up here the day after Scott Brown’s victory and expect RedState readers to take you seriously and solve your personal problems.
Full disclosure: My husband is Type II Diabetes.
There are otherwise unaddressed problems
dell49 Wednesday, January 20th at 12:16PM EST (link)From my meetings with their chief lobbyists, the health insurance companies were not worried in the least about making a profit or ceasing to exist in a reform setting: what’s not to like about 30+m new customers coming in the door?
The bar against pre-existing conditions and recissions is about having individual risk assessments or policy-wide (or society-wide) risk assessment. If the bill passes, we will end up with a national system like that in Massachusetts. I forget reading about all the insurance companies pulling out of MA.
Or going out of business in Switzerland and the Netherlands, both of which also have universal coverage through private insurance.
The truth comes out
wolfster38 (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 12:27PM EST (link)You are a strawman. I’ll bet you don’t even have children. Go back to the KOS kiddies. Easy to pick you people out.
KOSling
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
One's 25, one's 22...
dell49 Wednesday, January 20th at 12:39PM EST (link)I doubt if we agree on much in politics, but I was, I thought, raising a point respectfully: universal coverage IS needed (heck, even Taiwan has it) and insurance market regulation/reform IS needed . And while I am registered at Kos as well, I don’t find their “hooray for our side” comments at all enlightening, and so almost never even visit there, let alone comment.
Move to Taiwan
wolfster38 (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 12:47PM EST (link)Or Cuba, Or hang with Hugo. I hear Russia is nice at this time of year Don’t move Taiwan here! Free Market!
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
Skip law school and get in a union apprenticeship program.
Achance (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 12:13PM EST (link)That way she’ll have good group H&W and no tax on it. She also won’t need student loans for the apprenticeship and will probably make more money as a journeyman in a skilled trade than in just being another liar for hire.
In Vino Veritas
Touche
dell49 Wednesday, January 20th at 12:17PM EST (link)But her tastes don’t run that way–she likes prestige…
She likes prestige? Does she like it more than her life?
janis (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 12:25PM EST (link)That was the dumbest thing you could have said. Achance gave you valuable advice, true advice. The economy can certainly live without one more lawyer, but it could sure use people who can actually produce things, fix things, make systems run.
As far as Massachusetts health care is concerned, it’s one of the reasons why so many there voted for Scott Brown. The cost increases are staggering since it was instituted. They know what a nation wide program like that would do to the already crippled economy. And I think you’re a troll.
Yeah
The_Rebel (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 1:18PM EST (link)A co-wrker’s spouse just got a 40% increase in his B/C B/S plan in MA, so now they are downsizing the plan with high deductibles and higher co-pays. That’s the great MA universal healthcare!
Kowalski
The_Rebel (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 1:20PM EST (link)And Blue Cross was one of those 15 lobbyists who met in Washington about 10 days ago with Martha Coakley. That did them a lot of good.
Yeah, and lots of tradespeople drive those declasse trucks, too. nt
Achance (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 12:50PM EST (link)In Vino Veritas
And She Could Help Gubbermint Motors Build 'Em
Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 12:52PM EST (link)That way Daddy-Troll could still love her and be proud.
” I side impenitently with the human race against the modern reformer.” – C.S. Lewis
I've known lots of mgmt. side labor lawyers,
Achance (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 12:55PM EST (link)hired and fired a fair share of them, but you’re the first one that wasn’t fresh out of law school I’ve ever met who supported socialized medicine. Most management representatives I know, whether lawyer or layperson, don’t even like Taft-Hartley trusts because the emplloyer has so little control over costs. And you represent management and want to give control over health care to the least competent organization in the US, the federal government?
In Vino Veritas
it's so funny
wolfster38 (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 1:05PM EST (link)That these people want what other Countries have. If you go to Russia and get sick make sure you go to the American Hospital in Moscow. Thats where all the Russian Fat Cats go! They don’t go to the Russian Hospitals.
Ya thats right, The AMERICAN hospital.
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
So Art, how do you size up this idiot?
Richard Mullins (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 1:10PM EST (link)Besides the fact that he has a daughter that wants to be exactly like her dad. I guess the apple isn’t going to fall far from the tree. While she should take the smart route and apprentice, she still with have to be burdened with lots of debt. I have considered in the past of going in an apprentice program with the IEBW, but I never filled out the application for it. Get skills with no debt is the way to go.
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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.
Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.
Troll or fool, you pick it.
Achance (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 1:22PM EST (link)One thing I’ve always like about Alaska is that tradespeople and blue collar workers generally live very well here once they establish themselves. Entry level and unskilled wages are pretty low and even on union jobs there is NO job security until you’ve established yourself as being reliable. But once you get established as a good hand and get to journeyman level wages you live well, as in nice house, new cars and trucks, and a boat or airplane well by the time you’re in your thirties if you work all the hours you can get and can resist marking off when it gets cold and laying around in Mexico or Hawaii drawing your unemployment.
Even when I was the State’s director of labor relations, if I showed up in negotiations with our Labor, Trades, and Crafts unit or either of our licensed marine units I could be confident that I was the lowest paid person in the room.
In Vino Veritas
I thinking more like the former but seems to be that the latter works well too
Richard Mullins (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 1:39PM EST (link)You can always be a trollish-fool. The smart thing is always to look for someone that pays for your education and not to waste your money when you can use someone else money for education. Sure, you don’t start with the big bucks out of the apprentice program, but if you’re patient you get there in time. Besides, after Law school, if you do get hired by a union, you’ll still start at the bottom and make little money. Plus, you’ll have lots of debt. Also, you might have stupid on your forehead as well.
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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.
Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.
I hired quite a few young lawyers right out of school.
Achance (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 1:45PM EST (link)The law degree met the minimum qualification for my journey-level job classification. It was a hard to fill job, so I could give them higher than the Step A starting salary and that would put them in the top 10% of all the State’s white collar employees. All of them had so much student loan debt that even at that wage, they lived like rats because of the burden of student loans.
In Vino Veritas
I don't support "socialized medicine"
dell49 Wednesday, January 20th at 1:53PM EST (link)Nor do I support Medicare for all. Nor do I support adoption of the British system.. And that’s not what has been on offer, despite all the rhetoric about “gov’t takeover”: who has ever proposed buying up the hospitals, physicians’ pratices etc.?
After a good bit of study and thought about the issue, I do support universal care on the Bismarckian model: e.g. along the lines of Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, etc.: universal coverage through a government regulated, but nevertheless private insurance system, with care provided by the private sector. And that’s where the bill(s) in Congress have been headed.
Costs won’t get controlled, in the American system, unless and until the problems that Atul Gawande has highlighted get addressed–until, for instance, all markets in TX have per patient costs like the Smith & White Healthcare system in Temple.
nearly every university offers health insurance to students
Beaglescout (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 1:03PM EST (link)How about she uses it?
“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.”
we're not taking the troll bait
thurman Wednesday, January 20th at 1:27PM EST (link)– every university has insurance as mentioned. My med school MANDATED we buy insurance from them to keep costs down (mini-Obamacare?) unless we got it from our parents. So your little fake post is exposed right there.
– Texas has a high risk pool. She could buy insurance from there
– Texas has one of the best individual insurance markets in the nation. She can shop for an insurance policy that will cover pre-existing conditions. Texas actually has these, unlike the overregulated Northeast. I put patients with serious conditions on them all the time. BCBSTX is popular, for one
– She can get on a discount health plan from her community hospital or county health plan. Very affordable and offer good coverage.
– apply for Medicaid
People are just too lazy or ignorant to look, there are literally dozens of options for people to get health coverage in this country with just a modicum of effort
we're not taking the troll bait
thurman Wednesday, January 20th at 1:27PM EST (link)– every university has insurance as mentioned. My med school MANDATED we buy insurance from them to keep costs down (mini-Obamacare?) unless we got it from our parents. So your little fake post is exposed right there.
– Texas has a high risk pool. She could buy insurance from there
– Texas has one of the best individual insurance markets in the nation. She can shop for an insurance policy that will cover pre-existing conditions. Texas actually has these, unlike the overregulated Northeast. I put patients with serious conditions on them all the time. BCBSTX is popular, for one
– She can get on a discount health plan from her community hospital or county health plan. Very affordable and offer good coverage.
– apply for Medicaid
People are just too lazy or ignorant to look, there are literally dozens of options for people to get health coverage in this country with just a modicum of effort
Thank you
dell49 Wednesday, January 20th at 1:39PM EST (link)Some of these possibilities might work, maybe. We’ll see; but I still can’t help but think that simple, universal care would work a lot better.
That's because it's the only reason you're here.
janis (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 1:42PM EST (link)To keep banging that stupid drum. If dell49 is your twitter name, as it’s your user name here, are you Wendell Bell?
Yes
dell49 Wednesday, January 20th at 1:55PM EST (link)So?
So, does BNSF participate in joint H&W trusts,
Achance (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 3:40PM EST (link)do the unions have their own, or does the company provide H&W? I’m used to liberal labor relations people in the public sector, in Blue states they’re just co-conspirators with the union, but I’ve never run into one with a private company and based in a very Red state, so I’m intrigued.
Martindale’s says you’re the director of arbitration; do you actually appear? I’ve alway’s found the appellate nature of arbitration under the RLA interesting. We’re constantly fighting with unions trying to incorporated the Seven Tests of Just Cause into state law arbitration practice based on the LMRA. One of my highlight film moments was getting our SC to reverse an arbitrator who while resisting the union’s attempts to have the 7-Tests applied articulated her own Just Cause standard, which our SC concluded she then misapplied. In my work world, not many things are more fun than that.
In Vino Veritas
Not exactly
dell49 Wednesday, January 20th at 5:46PM EST (link)The railroad industry’s national health plan for unionized employees has a joint policyholder structure, labor and management equally, a relic of its formation in the Fifties.
(My second arbitration argument was before Daugherty. He made me read my brief aloud–and it was something like 60 pages of medical terms. There are things that are more fun than that: my throat about seized up.) The 7 tests applied nicely to the railroad industry, where there is an on-property investigation, held by a company officer (and with union representation). Then, the arbitrator reviews the transcript of that hearing, and, to that, is supposed to apply a substantial evidence standard. In the real world, they actually apply a preponderance standard: does the transcript support the idea that it is more likely than not that the charged party did thus-and-so? (Go back and see how well the tests apply in that setting.) He should NEVER have set them forth in a NLRA setting, with a de novo hearing before the arbitrator, where the best that can be said is that they are a VERY bad fit.
I’m the department’s house Democrat (but there are a surprising number of others; they’re just not public about it), and get bashed at departmental staff meetings. When its deserved, I try to take it manfully. (It doesn’t hurt my credibility at the negotiating table though.)
I came into the collective bargaining world on the union side,
Achance (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 6:07PM EST (link)though I don’t believe it is the best place to learn anymore. Armed with the courage of my connections I left that sort of stuff and went into private business for several years. When the economy crashed here in the mid-eighties, I was mindful of the fact that the government got the money first and went to work for them and ultimately wound up doing labor relations work for the State of Alaska. I was still a Democrat back then but when AFSCME came on the scene and turned labor relations into politics by other means, I didn’t stay a Democrat much longer. My decision on that was aided by the fact that they put a hit on me and several of my co-workers when their Democrat flunky got elected governor. They never got me, but I quit and went to work for the Republican Legislature with their misery as my mission. I’ve singlehandedly cost them hundreds, maybe thousands, of members and millions of dollars and I celebrate every one! Anyway, I went on to become Alaska’s director of labor relations until I retired in July of ’06. I keep my hand in it a little bit still, enough to buy boat gas. Actually, mostly working for some of those unions that loved so much to hate me, but in that capacity I can pick and choose what I’ll do for them. Kinda miss doing hearings all the time, but don’t miss it enough to go back to work fulltime.
In Vino Veritas
Oh, and sitting on the shelf just above my computer
Achance (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 6:16PM EST (link)is a Japanese brass, ’70s vintage, HO scale Southern Railway Ps-4 Pacific in “Crescent Limited” colors and markings and another brass USRA 2-8-2 lettered for a fictional model railroad I once had that presumed that the Copper River and Northwestern, the Alaska railraod from tidewater at Cordova to the Kennicott copper mine, had continued to operate on into the early ’50s. Built it back in the ’70s and dissassembled it when I sold my house in Anchorage. Building another one is on my “bucket list.” Also, out in a box in the garage is a brass and stainless HO “Burlington Zephyr.” It is old and doesn’t run worth a damn but it still looks cool. Don’t know why I bought it forty years ago, just one of those cool things, I guess.
In Vino Veritas
Ever hear how it made its first record run?
dell49 Wednesday, January 20th at 6:19PM EST (link)They cleared the track something like 100 miles ahead: effectively, it was the only train running on the system.
The "Zephyr" was the cutting edge of land transportation
Achance (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 6:35PM EST (link)technology back in, what was it, early to mid-’30s. They couldn’t be entirely sure that it wouldn’t somehow warp the space-time continuum. Back in the early ’70s I had to go from Atlanta to New York a lot for business. Flying was a get up at 3AM drill and you still didn’t get anywhere until afternoon. The Southern was still running “The Crescent” and we took to taking it to NYC. A Pullman was about the cost of first class airfare and you could still have real linen, real silver, fresh flowers, a real, cooked for you meal, and Yessir, Nosir, May I Help You, Sir, followed by drinks in the club car. You pulled into Penn Station late morning, took the tunnel to the Statler Hilton, ably assisted by the RedCap, had lunch and were ready to do business right after noon. Loved taking the train. I think people abandoned it to “go fast” on airplanes for the same reasons that they act important by saying or typing unimportant things on cellphones.
In Vino Veritas
Well Cheers
dell49 Wednesday, January 20th at 6:16PM EST (link)You have a lot to celebrate today. Me, not so much.
Slavery is easier than freedom
Beaglescout (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 1:53PM EST (link)Nothing in the world easier than letting a master make all your decisions for you. But why would you want to force everyone else into slavery, even if you choose it for yourself?
“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.”
solution: tell her get a job, hippy, with a group plan; or pay for it yourself...
DONTREADONME (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 1:28PM EST (link)harsh and unfair? Life’s harsh and unfair get used to it!
well,
dell49 Wednesday, January 20th at 1:37PM EST (link)I don’t think it has to be…
You won't find
wolfster38 (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 1:55PM EST (link)Unicorns or pixxie dust here. Life is harsh. But not as harsh as it was for our Founding Fathers. You should read about them and you will learn nothing is free. Not even freedom. If you really want communism move to Cuba and take your freeloading family with!
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
"Life is harsh"
dell49 Wednesday, January 20th at 2:07PM EST (link)But does it have to be so much so, or can some (different) public policy choices have an ameliorative effect?
I am fairly well-read and well-versed on the founders and the Federalist Papers: my favorite has been Hamilton.
And aren’t there some choices other than the policy approach of the Bush/Cheney administration (YOYO) and Cuba? Like any number of European solcial democracies?
And, in what respect am I, or my family, a freeloader?
Ha
wolfster38 (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 2:26PM EST (link)Bush and Cheney? is that the best you got? It’s getting very old.
You want free health care? Want free hand outs. Oh and free advice. Go to the KOSlings free pixxie dust!
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
"well, I don't think it has to be" - YOU ARE NAIVE or 12 years old-nt
DONTREADONME (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 2:56PM EST (link)wake up, life is going to be tough for you, because you will always expect it to be easy.
Sounds like he's already used to life being unfair
jayburd (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 3:16PM EST (link)Thus the call for SOCIAL JUSTICE!
Life is neither fair or unfair, it’s our thinking that makes it seem so.
One of my heroes- Ralph Smeed’s blog- http://smeedonstate-ism.com/index.htm
“What’s the matter? Don’t you want to win the war?” – Capt. John Birch
“If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill.
The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The
difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the
money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%.Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People.” – Thomas A. Edison
Cuba Strawman
wolfster38 (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 11:54AM EST (link)I hate to be so crude
Cuba free health care there. If you want Cuban style health care go to Cuba.
Sounds like a KOSling
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
Well, here's something y'all will enjoy:
dell49 Wednesday, January 20th at 2:19PM EST (link)http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/01/placing_a_call_part_ii.php#more?ref=fpblg
Ya got anything better that
Richard Mullins (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 2:22PM EST (link)because that seems to puts you in a light as a progressive and a leftist. That is 2 things we don’t like around here.
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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.
Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.
Getting back to topic....
jayburd (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 2:56PM EST (link)Didn’t I just see a video yesterday where Barney said “God didn’t create the filibuster”? Wonder what else he does out of both sides of his mouth?
One of my heroes- Ralph Smeed’s blog- http://smeedonstate-ism.com/index.htm
“What’s the matter? Don’t you want to win the war?” – Capt. John Birch
“If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill.
The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The
difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the
money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%.Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People.” – Thomas A. Edison
Maybe Frank and Obama can afford to be
vech Wednesday, January 20th at 7:24PM EST (link)gracious because the 60th Senate vote has already been bought. Their behavior is atypical.