McCain issues whining: ‘”There will be no cooperation for the rest of the year’
“There will be no cooperation for the rest of the year. They have poisoned the well in what they’ve done and how they’ve done it.”
– U.S. Sen. John McCain. R-AZ
So having lost, Johnny and his angry friends are going to take their ball and go home. Petulance will take precedence over the best interests of the country. The Party of No is announcing its intention to become the Party of Hell No. With a heavy and quite important agenda yet ahead — financial regulation, immigration, long-term solutions to our budget problems, the economy — “there will be no cooperation for the rest of the year.”
Well, let’s see how that sits with the American people who pay their salary.
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kayaker 71
March 22nd, 2010
5:04 pm
Doggone,
You might ask Mr. Lincoln. The numbers don’t lie and there are a lot of very pissed off people in this country. Or haven’t you noticed? Or do you even care? You and Bozo don’t care what the majority of the people feel about this health care fiasco, which, BTW, passed by only 7 votes. The most important thing is to enshrine this egotistic jerk in the God Hall of Fame and make his legacy one of perpetual bliss. No one, including you, is listening to what the majority of people are saying. In a country of over 300M, the majority are very happy with their health care and don’t want it changed, especially if it is government run. And this is just the first step, as Bozo has continually said in his attempt to “permanently change the face of America”. Most of us don’t want the face of America changed, especially by this Chicago hack politician and his gang of thieves.
Mr. Right
March 22nd, 2010
5:05 pm
I got it figured out how to stop abortion once and for all! All you have to do is abort all the babies that in the future would have an abortion then soon there would not be any more abortions!
Congress
March 22nd, 2010
5:06 pm
Bosch:
Only if you can be drafted into the infantry !!!
jefferson:
Does a man under U.S. law have control over his own body?
dork mcgee
March 22nd, 2010
5:06 pm
these democrats are idiots!!!
AmVet
March 22nd, 2010
5:06 pm
“Not sure Bud, why don’t you ask Bush, he seemed to do it every other day while POTUS.”
To the tune of 800 times!
EIGHT HUNDRED TIMES.
Yep King George single handledly blew past every single US President before him. COMBINED!
And talk about the luck of the Irish!
To our grave misfortune the slimeball had the enormous luck of being enthroned over a gutless US Congress headed by Pelosi/Reid/Obama/Clinton et al who took impeachment “off the table”…
jewcowboy
March 22nd, 2010
5:08 pm
Congress / kayaker 71,
With an obesity rate of 27.9% in GA you’re going to have to pry the Cool Ranch Doritos from their pudgy hands and get them to do a few jumping jacks before they are ready for a revolution.
WideAwake
March 22nd, 2010
5:08 pm
No Work No Pay. That is the American Way….
The GOP must GO.
Dave R.
March 22nd, 2010
5:08 pm
Bosch, the right to bear arms is not restricted to guns. And I CAN always decide to make one myself. But one thing I cannot do is perform health care on myself. It takes the active participation of another. Keep trying.
M Percy
March 22nd, 2010
5:08 pm
This column was in a magazine I read today. I have replaced the actual topic with __ and made a few word substitutions to mask the real topic. Can you figure out the real topic? Hint: it’s an area where the Obama administration set aside $7.2B last year in stimulus funding, and is certain to be one of the next “rights” that everyone will have. It seems pretty clear that the topic is being treated with the same logic that health-care was presented as a “right.”
——————————————————
According to Congress, the National __ Plan must “seek to ensure that all people of the United States have access to __ capability” at affordable prices. As if that’s not enough, [the plan] must suggest strategies to improve consumer welfare, public safety,[…],education, job creation, economic growth, and a slew of related imperatives.
Those hoping for an entirely market-based solution to fill current gaps in __ will hope in vain. As [a government agency] recognized in comments filed prior to the __ plan’s release, and as __ reform advocates have long recognized, there are problems with market structure and market failures that have affected the U.S. __ system.
Private [funding] alone, in the current regulatory climate, cannot overcome [corporate] dominance and engender robust competition to benefit consumers. Neither can market forces alone extend [coverage] to [consumers] where there may be no business case to do so. Nor will such forces subsidize __ for people who would benefit from [access], but who cannot afford __.
The [government] cannot hope that __ will trickle down from entrenched incumbents. Therefore, its plan must reform universal [coverage] to promote efficient __ and adoption with the aim of closing divides that make __ more costly and less appealing to people who are in underserved [markets].
It should also revise access and __ allocation policies to eliminate bottlenecks that arise from monopoly pricing and inefficient use where [government intervention could] lead to greater gains. And the plan should strengthen __ consumer protection rules to require greater accuracy and transparencies in disclosures to new and existing customers about [benefits] and prices.
Finally, the plan needs to preserve the open [market] and promote [portability] so that users retain the freedom to access the [provider] of their choice and gain flexibility to switch providers.
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Another hint, the magazine was EE Times. Of course, the topic is high-speed internet access, coming soon to a theater near you as an “entitlement” to which you have a “right” to force others to provide for you. Just like health care!
Congress
March 22nd, 2010
5:09 pm
Doggone/GA:
But that’s the point. Only a small minority (extimated about 10%) actually had the guts to physically take up arms and found this country.
jewcowboy
March 22nd, 2010
5:09 pm
Bosch,
Good night and good luck.
DoggoneGA
March 22nd, 2010
5:09 pm
“The numbers don’t lie and there are a lot of very pissed off people in this country”
Yep, that’s what I meant by a “noisy minority”
“You and Bozo don’t care what the majority of the people feel about this health care fiasco, which, BTW, passed by only 7 votes”
And your point is? Obama ran on a platform that included healthcare reform. He won the election by a sizable majority. He delivered healthcare reform…and I’m supposed to be upset about it just because a noise minority says so? Nope, I’ve alread said I prefer to make those decisions for myself.
“In a country of over 300M, the majority are very happy with their health care and don’t want it changed, especially if it is government run”
Then they should be fine with this bill, since it does NOT institute “government run” healthcare. Problem solved.
“Most of us don’t want the face of America changed,”
SOME of you don’t, a lot of us DO. And since Obama won the election running on that platform of change, why would you expect those of us who want change to be upset when he delivers it?
josef nix
March 22nd, 2010
5:10 pm
Doggone–
One of the interpreters’ entertainments is to pass around some of these machine translations…”our records show that your child has not filled 6 a$$holes as of Sept 1..” and the only thing that was lacking was the tilde over the n!
Kept to a simple subject-predicate-complement structure, these machines work pretty well, but don’t try a complex-compound structure or subtlety of syntax–and stay the h3ll away from metaphore, idiomatic expressions or slang!
For “rush jobs” we will use the machine and then take the text for human editing. It cuts the time down to about half of what it would take if we did it “cold.”
jewcowboy
March 22nd, 2010
5:11 pm
Congress,
“Only a small minority (extimated about 10%) actually had the guts to physically take up arms and found this country.”
So you feel that 10% of the country should act for the other 90%?
DoggoneGA
March 22nd, 2010
5:11 pm
“Only a small minority (extimated about 10%) actually had the guts to physically take up arms and found this country”
Yes, maybe, I haven’t seen that particular figure before…but they profited from the support of many who were less active. I don’t know that 10% would be enough to overthrow our government today. Of course, I also see no need to do so either.
md
March 22nd, 2010
5:12 pm
“The question was, how many hours do you work for what you purchase?”
The question was actually how could $88000 be considered a threshold of poor.
$88000 is a long way from “poor”, and to many would be downright living high on the hog.
jewcowboy
March 22nd, 2010
5:13 pm
The 21st century “Freedom” fighter:
http://www.filehurricane.com/viewerthumbnails/619200820544PM_american_fat_soldier.jpg
woo hoo
March 22nd, 2010
5:13 pm
About 30 people held a recent protest at the Chamber of Commerce in Jonesboro over the plan to end Clayton County bus service.
30 people? That’s the Tran’s total ridership. Good riddance, C-Tran.
DoggoneGA
March 22nd, 2010
5:14 pm
“and stay the h3ll away from metaphore, idiomatic expressions or slang! ”
Yep! No doubt about that. If you’re involved (as I am) in a fairly unusual endeavor (in my case the “dog fancy”) translators can be even more frustrating…as the terms used are pretty specific. As in the term “get” – which in the “dog world” means the offspring of a male dog.
josef nix
March 22nd, 2010
5:15 pm
Dave–
You raise an interesting point with ramifications far beyond this particular issue/topic at hand. I’m going to have to give it some thought…it will require more attention than I am prepared to give it right now, so forgive me if I don’t respond just yet…
DoggoneGA
March 22nd, 2010
5:18 pm
“You raise an interesting point with ramifications far beyond this particular issue/topic at hand.”
Dave…in reference to this, and before the discussion gets too fractured…what do YOU consider to be the “rights” to which we are entitled?
M Percy
March 22nd, 2010
5:19 pm
josef nix “I am not going to be satisfied with anything short of free, universal health care as a right”
Please, then, answer me a hypothetical question. It’s the end of the world, and you find yourself amongst a small group of survivors. None of them is a doctor or nurse. How will you exercise this “right” to health care then? Let’s assume that one of them *is* a doctor, but he (or she) wants nothing to do with your group and wants to just be left alone to live out the remainder of his (or her) days. Will you use force to make this doctor treat you? It’s okay if you do, but at least have the balls to call it what it is.
Congress
March 22nd, 2010
5:19 pm
To Doggone/GA and jewcowboy:
Neither would I participate in a physical revolution ………. not over healthcare ……… but maybe a bigger issue someday – depends on what it is.
My point was ………. noisy people (usually the minority) always run things. That goes for families, church committee’s, neighborhood groups, and government. It’s just the way it works.
md
March 22nd, 2010
5:19 pm
” Obama ran on a platform that included healthcare reform. He won the election by a sizable majority. He delivered healthcare reform…and I’m supposed to be upset about it just because a noise minority says so? ”
Again, operating off the wrong assumption that everybody was voting FOR Obama and his entire agenda. Not what happened.
Dave R.
March 22nd, 2010
5:23 pm
Basic ones, Doggone, Life, liberty, the PURSUIT of happiness. Freedom of speech, assembly and worship. The freedom to defend myself and my family when in danger.
Basically, a right is what you can do without the help of anyone else that does not harm anyone else.
GOP is Gone
March 22nd, 2010
5:23 pm
To think I once respected John McCain, and had a good chance of voting for him until he picked that ignorant Wasillian as his running mate. And him having had multiple bouts with melanoma, I quickly had to change my vote to the intelligent, Harvard educated, calm YOUNG man. The NOP party is falling into an hysterical abyss, lets hope they stay there. Say adios to Senor Rush, that is if Costa Rica will allow in illegal aliens to use their Universal Helathcare coverage.
AmVet
March 22nd, 2010
5:25 pm
“CHICAGO, March 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Yesterday was an historic day in Washington for a different reason than the passage of a healthcare bill that essentially goes into effect some four years from now. All over national television, throughout the day and into the night, the leadership of the Democrats and Republicans proved that the two party system in America is fatally flawed, hopelessly deadlocked and terminally dysfunctional.”
http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2010/03/tri-partisan-group-to-explore-third-party-option-in-illinois/#more-13822
M Percy
March 22nd, 2010
5:27 pm
Bosch “Dave R. – just like the other rights we have in this country. You’re right to bear arms depends on somebody making your gun and selling it to you — unless your like me and have gun making equipment in your attic, but I’d still have to buy the metal and stuff.”
If we treated guns the way you’re treating health care, we’d have government panels to determine the proper price we should have to pay, and which would provide “affordability credits” to subsidize our purchases. And gun ownership would be required, so as to ensure that every one has the same level of self-defense capabilities. And the government would have to consider created a public-option gunsmith to provide competition for the evil for-profit gunsmiths so as to encourage competition. And the ammunition makers would have to pay additional taxes, like the medical device manufacturers, but the costs to the consumer for ammunition would be covered by the subsidies. Since there would be no rationing, we could all expend as much ammunition as we needed to to retain a healthy level of marksmanship, with a tiny co-pay for any range time.
Dave R.
March 22nd, 2010
5:29 pm
Never happen, AmVet. There are too many obstacles at the state level that keep third parties off the ballot.
Georgia is one of the more restrictive ballot-access states in the nation. You think the yahoos at our State Capitol are going to relax their rules for a third party?
Never gonna happen.
jewcowboy
March 22nd, 2010
5:29 pm
I think I’ve come up with an idea to rectify the state budget…how much do you think GA would get for naming rights to the state? Instead of GA it would be Delta, or Coca Cola or Samsung…
Perhaps you could sell naming rights to the Gold Dome…perhaps the Goldschläger Dome…
We could be out of this budget snafu in a pinch…
md
March 22nd, 2010
5:29 pm
” Say adios to Senor Rush, that is if Costa Rica will allow in illegal aliens to use their Universal Helathcare coverage.”
Actually, it is big business in Costa Rica, they call it “Medical Tourism”. Darn that capitalism.
M Percy
March 22nd, 2010
5:32 pm
WideAwake “No Work No Pay. That is the American Way….The GOP must GO.”
No work, no pay. Too bad you don’t really believe that, or I doubt you would have supported this increase in the welfare state.
TGT
March 22nd, 2010
5:35 pm
Scott Brown won in The Peoples Republic of Taxachusetts campaigning as the 41st vote against Obamacare. As Bill Kristol pointed out today: “Repeal is the heart of the matter. It should be the heart of the message. Think of it this way: This year Obama has handed Republicans a one-item Contract with America, an item a majority of the public supports–opposition to, and therefore repeal of, Obamacare.”
If Brown carried the day in deep blue Taxachusetts, how do you think “Repeal Obamacare!” is going to fly with the rest of the country?! (The dems are already doing damage control.)
To the libs: Bring on Cap-and-Tax, bring on Amnesty, (and throw in gay marriage if you particularly sadistic). The rout is on.
Dave R.
March 22nd, 2010
5:36 pm
Must . . . feed . . . now.
Enjoyed it folks.
Stay tuned for the always exciting legal round in the next few months.
josef nix
March 22nd, 2010
5:37 pm
M Percy
March 22nd, 2010
5:19 pm
Now this is something that really intrigues me and I don’t say that in snarky fashion.
“Please, then, answer me a hypothetical question. It’s the end of the world, and you find yourself amongst a small group of survivors.”
If it is indeed the end of the world, then the rest is a mute point!
But given that I find myself among a small group of survivors, I shall go on…
” None of them is a doctor or nurse. How will you exercise this “right” to health care then?”
If we have reached the point you postulate, and there’s no reason to assume it couldn’t happen, then society as we know it has vanished and with it the “rights” we associate with a developed civilization.
” Let’s assume that one of them *is* a doctor, but he (or she) wants nothing to do with your group and wants to just be left alone to live out the remainder of his (or her) days. Will you use force to make this doctor treat you?”
Not at all. If the self-centered and supposedly self-sufficient sob wants to be left alone, then that’s one less mouth to feed or cantankerous voice to be heard in the councils being called to determine the future (if there is to be one) of the species…same could be said for teachers, lawyers, and store clerks (and newspaper columnists in case the Bruin is amongst the survivors!)
“It’s okay if you do, but at least have the balls to call it what it is.”
As I said, I don’t mean to be snarky. For a really intriguing contemplation of just this question, read (if you have not already done so) Walter Miller’s “A Canticle for Leibowitz.” His vision is pretty much mine, and, I am the Old Jew Benjamin–I’d go off to a mountain top, raise blue-headed goats, chunk rocks at anyone come calling and periodically come down to see if the latest contender is, indeed, the Messiah. Meanwhile, “tents mended here.”
DoggoneGA
March 22nd, 2010
5:43 pm
“Again, operating off the wrong assumption that everybody was voting FOR Obama and his entire agenda”
I never said that. I said he ran on a platform and he won. I didn’t say everyone that voted for him agreed with him on everything. I didn’t, so why should I think everyone else did? But you know what, if they DISAGREED with him so strongly on THIS issue…they always had the option to vote for his opponent. He made a pretty big issue out of healthcare reform during the campaign, it’s not outside the bounds of possibility that the majority of those that voted for him agreed with that issue. If not, too bad…they should have voted differently. He certainly made no secret of his intentions. They can’t say they weren’t warned.
josef nix
March 22nd, 2010
5:43 pm
md
Costa Rica and health care…I have a friend whose business is catering to just such…he’s living in high clover…
DoggoneGA
March 22nd, 2010
5:44 pm
“Basically, a right is what you can do without the help of anyone else that does not harm anyone else”
Ok, how to you protect your “right to life” when you are too young to survive without the intervention of others?
josef nix
March 22nd, 2010
5:48 pm
TGT–
Quite frankly, I’d just as soon gay marriage be left out which, given Fierce Advocate’s record so far seems to be a given…I’m not that masochistic and the last thing I feel like being right now is a birdie for this badminton horsesh*t from the polarized…the blue-headed goats up on Turrialba are looking better by the minute…
AmVet
March 22nd, 2010
5:48 pm
“Never gonna happen.”
Yeah the DNC and RNC with their army of lawyers who they can send out to harass third party candidates and make them jump through expensive hoops and the American Politburo, aka the Commission on Presidential debates, established by the same corrupt, self-serving duopoly and the corporate owned “free press” (HAH!) who allows NO other voices to be heard, you’re right.
Which thrills the haters of a competitive democracy to no end, I’m sure…
md
March 22nd, 2010
5:50 pm
“Ok, how to you protect your “right to life” when you are too young to survive without the intervention of others?”
Interesting – with roe v wade, the gov’t took away the right of life and with this bill gave the right of hc.
Life, liberty and pursuit of happiness…………hmmm.
We the people
March 22nd, 2010
5:50 pm
…voted for Barack Hussein Obama and a democrat majority. He is fulfilling the promise of
health care reform that we voted for, from sea to shining sea. The only “poll” that matters (on health care) is the one that was taken November 5, 2008. No matter how much noise the minority makes, majority still rules in the good ol’ USA. God bless President Obama and Nancy Pelosi for not being intimidated or swayed by the immoral minority. Support President Obama and our troops !
md
March 22nd, 2010
5:52 pm
“Yeah the DNC and RNC with their army of lawyers who they can send out to harass third party candidates and make them jump through expensive hoops and the American Politburo, aka the Commission on Presidential debates, established by the same corrupt, self-serving duopoly and the corporate owned “free press” (HAH!) who allows NO other voices to be heard, you’re right.”
Third Party? They don’t even play fair within the Two Party, especially during the debates.
Right to life
March 22nd, 2010
5:53 pm
If you support the “right to life”, then you surely support health care for all, food stamps, children’s health care, education funding etc. Or do you just support the right to life for an embryo?
Once they are born, the “right to life” no longer exists, huh?
md
March 22nd, 2010
5:54 pm
“The only “poll” that matters (on health care) is the one that was taken November 5, 2008.”
And historical data indicates the pendulum is in motion.
Bosch
March 22nd, 2010
5:55 pm
“But one thing I cannot do is perform health care on myself.”
Sure you can. You can decide not to smoke, eat bad food, exercise, drink in moderation and even do surgery on yourself if you want – I’ve performed medical procedures on myself – it hurt, but I did it. I’ve even performed minor surgery on my family members.
jefferson
March 22nd, 2010
5:55 pm
Why have political party or unions. Why not just have candidates? Top 2 have a run off. Winner takes it. Too simple.
md
March 22nd, 2010
5:58 pm
“Once they are born, the “right to life” no longer exists, huh?”
Do we choose to be poor since we choose everything we do?? If one individual is lazy and the other is not, do they have the same rights?? Just because an individual has earned more money, are his rights diminished??
Rights – hmmm……………
josef nix
March 22nd, 2010
5:58 pm
Gone upstairs…same thread, but less to scroll through to keep up…
Bosch
March 22nd, 2010
5:58 pm
jewcowboy,
Thanks. It’s weird to find out news like that on a day like today. I decided to check back in as a distraction.
M Percy
March 22nd, 2010
5:59 pm
josef nix: I know the situation is far-fetched, which allowed you to sidestep the question without actually answering it, but it’s hard to otherwise fashion the question. It’s my fault for not being able to bound the scope without seeming ridiculous.
How can you exercise a “right” that pretty much by definition *requires* some else to provide the materials and services which constitute that “right” (unless that person is willing to provide them voluntarily)? And if the person is not willing to give them to you voluntarily and if you’re willing to force them to, well, as I said, there’s a name for that. The same can be said if you’re willing to force others to provide these service by proxy (i.e., if you’re not willing or able to convince the provider to provide his services and materials at a cost you can afford or are willing to pay, but are able to force others to cough up on your behalf).
The Constitution does provide one instance when, in the 6th Amendment, it provides for the right to counsel (but only in capital cases). The Father’s felt this was important enough to call it out specifically. They had doctors then too, but didn’t seem to think that there was a reason to list access to a doctor (at public expense) among those other rights.
md
March 22nd, 2010
5:59 pm
“Why have political party or unions. Why not just have candidates?”
Finally figuring it out? Do you think the 2 parties would go along? Hmmm………
M Percy
March 22nd, 2010
6:02 pm
Other than a stupidly placed apostrophe, I can’t see why my 5:59 is in moderation?
M Percy
March 22nd, 2010
6:07 pm
Enter your comments here
AmVet
March 22nd, 2010
6:17 pm
The odd thing is that the American people are VERY competitive.
Except when it comes to our government. Where we sit stupidly by and allow the Repdem (or is it DemRep?) Party to completely monopolize arguably the single most important aspect of our very country
There are many great ideas to correct these injustices and travesties.
As Jefferson referred to – Instant runoff elections.
Elections on Saturdays or Sundays (sorry Jews & Christians, its a secular nation), not during a working day. We should b elooking for ways to getting MORE Americans to vote, NOT less.
We could implement the National Initiative.
We could reform our corrupt and pernicious campaign finance system.
We could set term limits for members of Congress.
We could expand citizen standing rights.
We could regain control over “taxpayer assets.” On behalf of the American people, the U.S. government owns and manages a wide variety of taxpayer assets: national forests, grazing lands, mineral deposits, power projects, information resources, research and development rights, broadcast frequencies, among others. The Reagan and Bush administrations boasted of their intention to run government “like a business” before proceeding to host a massive fire sale of taxpayer assets to assorted corporate interests. Here, too, citizens and taxpayers must be empowered to stop the widespread abuses of government stewardship of publicly owned assets.
We could reclaim the public airwaves.
We could create shareholder democracy.
We could establish a new model of consumer representation via Citizen’s Utility Boards.
We could much better protect victims’ rights.
We could ensure an hospitable environment for whistle blowing.
These are but some of the tools for democracy.
In other words we could reclaim our sacred sovereignty and shift the power back to the people, who rightfully own it, instead of abdicating it to the highest bidder…
http://www.failvote.com/issues/political/shift-the-power/#46869
josef nix
March 22nd, 2010
6:44 pm
M Percy–
I don’t feel I side-stepped. I approached it from the same perspective you put forth…now as far as we are concerned in a civilized state, as a teacher employed in the public sector, I don’t get to pick and choose who I will and who I will not serve…I have the public welfare in my hands…I feel much the same way about the medical profession…
Mike
March 22nd, 2010
7:45 pm
Dave R — If 75% of Americans REALLY don’t want health care reform then the Democrats will suffer a major defeat in November and the House Republicans with their 326-109 majority (more or less) will have no problem following American’s wishes in 2011. In the meantime, the GOP was fired (voted out of office) by Americans not that long ago and will have to live with what they have sowed. And the way they are going that 326-109 majority I threw out above will be with the Democrats.
albanynyguy
March 22nd, 2010
8:21 pm
No more mr nice guy…
Dawgs88
March 22nd, 2010
9:48 pm
We’ll see who’s whining come November there Mr. Kiss Ass Liberal. I think you might need to get a pair of balls before you start criticizing the Republicans. Seems like they’re the only ones up there that will tell you bleeding heart liberals where to stick it.
Much Needed
March 22nd, 2010
10:22 pm
John McCain is just pouting because he lost to President Obama again. Losing hurts.
L7 World
March 22nd, 2010
11:19 pm
How can you people be so oblivious!?
McCain didn’t say “he” would cooperate, he said “There will be no cooperation” obviously referring to GOP, which he does not control. It wasn’t a threat. He was expressing his opinion of things to come. I realize tone can be hard to understand from text, but it’s damn near impossible when you aren’t even listening to the other side.
Tracy
March 23rd, 2010
5:42 am
I almost feel bad for McCain.
That guy was a war hero and look at what he’s become now. In 2000 he was a very level headed moderate-right Republican who was always willing to attempt to work things out between Party lines. Bush (Rove really) played the hard-right card and he didn’t get the nod, although the McCain in 2000 I felt would have been an excellent President.
In 2008 he runs again, but this time he seems a little sour. Almost like he was angry about 2000 and he plays the hard-right card to ensure he takes the nod that time. He loses the election and ever since he’s been like a spiteful angry 8 year old.
It’s like we’ve watched him fall from grace and become nothing more than a burden to our system now.
jspurr01
March 23rd, 2010
9:03 am
Is he in the 4th grade?
Haha_John
March 23rd, 2010
10:29 am
“Let me just make this point, because we’re not campaigning anymore, the election’s over.”
-PRESIDENT Obama!
Ed Stone
March 23rd, 2010
6:26 pm
How many different ways can you say “the party of NO.?”
NPS
March 23rd, 2010
7:06 pm
Dave R: 75% of people in your circle may be against it… I see the direct opposite. Most APPROVE widely of the healthcare provisions. Those disapproving have no real clue what the heck goes on in hospitals, clinics, and the real world. Making people depend on state backed emergency rooms for their sole primary care is KILLING the system and has been for years. Get off your high horse and admit that…
WideAwake
March 23rd, 2010
9:28 pm
M Percy : I guest you republicans enjoy paying your senator and congressman when they say they will not work….in the “Peoples Seat”.
Taxpayers Welfare for the Republicans–they will not be working this year?
Donna
March 24th, 2010
3:02 am
Let’s stop paying these cratchity old men – they are worthless – I demand a refund.
If John McCain threatens no cooperation for the rest of the year – then we should stop paying his salary and benefits.
I may not have voted for him but he still works for me and I demand that these losers get back to work and find Americans jobs.