GOP’s ‘Repeal and replace’ slogan has no grounding in reality
AJC editors and columnists just finished a pretty wide-ranging 80-minute interview with Sen. Saxby Chambliss and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and I took the opportunity to ask a question that had been nagging at me for a while.
Both men stressed that on health care, “repeal and replace” would remain the GOP message into the fall elections. However, both also acknowledged that they would like to retain some aspects of the Democrats’ plan, such as coverage of pre-existing conditions.
I’ve seen that goal expressed repeatedly by Republicans, but I’ve never seen an explanation of how they would accomplish it. Hated as it is, the “pre-existing condition” exclusion often serves a legitimate purpose. Insurance companies use it to discourage “free riders” who would otherwise choose to go without coverage for years, buying a policy only when they come down with a serious illness or injury.
If you somehow tell companies they can no longer deny coverage of pre-existing conditions, you need to provide them another way to eliminate free riders. Under the new law, individual mandates are that tool. As long as everyone is required to have coverage, nobody can game the system and there’s no longer any justification to deny coverage based on pre-existing conditions.
So if the GOP plan is going to ensure that pre-existing conditions are covered, as Chambliss and McConnell suggested, how would they do it without individual mandates? What mechanism would they use?
Chambliss and McConnell had no answer. Literally.
After Chambliss fumbled an initial response, McConnell broke in with a long and familiar condemnation of the Democratic plan, including its failure to include tort reform. After a few minutes, I interrupted and brought him back to the question: OK, but how are the Republicans going to cover pre-existing conditions?
“The premiums are going up either way,” he said.
OK, I responded, a little stunned. That doesn’t explain how the Republicans intend to cover pre-existing conditions.
“The premiums are going up either way,” he repeated.
That was that. We moved on, and I still don’t have my answer.
Actually, I guess I do. Republicans clearly understand that the American people want the problem of pre-existing conditions to be solved; it’s also pretty clear that they have no idea how to achieve that goal. In fact, while they campaign on “repeal and replace,” they intend to keep that whole “replace” thing as vague and ill-defined as possible. In response to another question, McConnell said explicitly that the Republicans would not be drafting a specific plan on how they intend to replace ObamaCare. Instead, he said, individual GOP candidates would each be offering their own ideas of what a good replacement might look like.
Those ideas will no doubt include pledges to address pre-existing conditions, even if they don’t have the vaguest idea how.
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Who dat?
April 6th, 2010
5:44 pm
“Wright’s one thing, but Ima Gonna ain’t no Marxist…a left wing justicialist maybe, a Jacobin, definitely, but not a Marxist….”
Sure he is.
Who dat?
April 6th, 2010
5:46 pm
“If the rightists know that, why is there such vehement hatred directed at Obama as opposed to Congress?”
Congress will be voted out in November. We still have two more years of Mao.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: Impeach Drunken Fool obozo! Just sayin...
April 6th, 2010
5:46 pm
ATT took a One Billion dollar hit on future medical liabilities thanks to the obomination and the stooges harp in that tort reform wouldn’t save any money.
Have these people no shame?
You could you rent your skull cavities out dudes, just sayin…
josef nix
April 6th, 2010
5:47 pm
POGO
Yep, free universal health care…either blank or get off the pot…it’d be a h3lluva lot cheaper than what’s coming and a whole lot better for the public at large than what we’ve got now…
Who dat?
April 6th, 2010
5:47 pm
“I expected SOMETHING.”
I said the same thing when I went to see Avatar. Instead I got a crappy movie about Dances with Wolves.
getalife
April 6th, 2010
5:48 pm
The cons are not taking this report on their failed party too well.
Did you know they created a shadow rnc and rove begged the cons to fill out the census?
Too fun.
Who dat?
April 6th, 2010
5:50 pm
“The cons are not taking this report on their failed party too well.”
See ya’s in November!
@@
April 6th, 2010
5:53 pm
Southern Comfort:
Obama doesn’t lead, he follows. I’m tellin’ ‘ya….the guy is in over his head.
Matilda
April 6th, 2010
5:53 pm
“Actually he is a product of Rev. Wright and Karl Marx.”
“You leftists do know that Obama is just window dressing for a corrupt congress, don’tcha?”
*****YAAAAAAWWWWWWWNNNNN!*****
Nope, no answers here, either. Just the usual mas-tur-ba-tory rile up.
josef nix
April 6th, 2010
5:54 pm
“If the rightists know that, why is there such vehement hatred directed at Obama as opposed to Congress?”
Cause a moving target is more challenging?
AmVet
April 6th, 2010
5:55 pm
josef, just like your Jaden/Sybil, this one is fixated on me.
josef nix
April 6th, 2010
5:57 pm
Don’t much care for the current head cheerleader’s policies, but as far as window dressing is concerned. he’s a heap sight easier on the eye than his predecessor…
Who Cares ?
April 6th, 2010
5:57 pm
This guy tried to eat a sandwich and he “double-dislocated” his entire jaw. Now the sandwich shop wants to re-name it… “Double-Dislocator”, “Jaw Wrecker”, “Lock Jaw”…. It happened here in metro Atlanta area. This is a funny story !
http://www.ajc.com/news/north-fulton/wicked-sandwich-leads-to-440313.html?cxntlid=thbz_hm
josef nix
April 6th, 2010
5:59 pm
AmVet–
Kinda scarey, ain’t it…but as Unmentionable says, at our age you takes your compliments where you can get ‘em and be grateful…!
BTW–haven’t heard from Sybill in a while…have I been jilted?
Paul
April 6th, 2010
5:59 pm
josef nix
[[You leave Abba out of this… signed, Dancing Queen]]
Well, Knowing Me, Knowing You, it doesn’t have to be The Winner Takes It All. ‘Cause it’s never about Money, Money, Money, is it? And that, my friend, is The Name of the Game.
AmVet 5:25
Never knew you had such a temper! Does Your Mother Know? Keep it under wraps or somebody’s gonna call a Super Trooper and you’re gonna have your Waterloo!
But as you asked real nice, I’ll honor your request. ‘Cause that’s The Way Old Friends Do!
Who dat?
April 6th, 2010
6:00 pm
“Have these people no shame?”
Left wingers hate companies. So no.
@@
April 6th, 2010
6:02 pm
josef:
I’ll take a man’s man any day of the week.
(ISH)
Who dat?
April 6th, 2010
6:02 pm
“Nope, no answers here, either.”
Not that anyone expected Matilda to have any answers.
@@
April 6th, 2010
6:04 pm
ANA World’s Fair of Money in Chicago for 2013-2015–Summers Larry?
Kinda funny considering.
@@
April 6th, 2010
6:05 pm
Rumor has it that Larry Summers is on his way out. He’s pithed.
josef nix
April 6th, 2010
6:07 pm
WHo Cares
Thank you! This is just too good…and the fellow’s name! And to have such a sense of self-irony about it all….
Kamchak
April 6th, 2010
6:08 pm
AmVet
I have some crushing news. Your leg-humper is two-timing you. He’s been on Granny Godzilla all day next door at Cynthia’s.
josef nix
April 6th, 2010
6:10 pm
@@
“I’ll take a man’s man any day of the week.”
Unmentionable says to tell you I’m already taken….
ISH
Bosch
April 6th, 2010
6:12 pm
Why is Mrs. G at Cynthia’s?
josef nix
April 6th, 2010
6:13 pm
PAUL
Thank You for the Music
Paul
April 6th, 2010
6:22 pm
josef nix
I say ‘you’re welcome.’
I Do, I Do, I Do.
@@
April 6th, 2010
6:22 pm
There’s just something very insincere about Obama. His cabinet members get recognition before the miners who lost their lives?
BTW, what is he doing talking about his faith?
Let’s hear the outrage from you leftists….the same outrage you displayed when Bush did it.
If, however, you feel he’s not being sincere, you get a passover.
@@
April 6th, 2010
6:23 pm
Whoops! forgot the link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaSU-nhf5_g
Paul
April 6th, 2010
6:24 pm
@@
Very ecumenical of you.
Rather like the Pres’s Easter remarks.
Ask them next time Jay
April 6th, 2010
6:28 pm
Jay next time you talk to them, ask them if they insist on calling people here without documentation illegal aliens, will they at least be consistent and call the employers who hire them criminals.
Or is it ok to break the law as long as you refer to each other as “a great American”?
josef nix
April 6th, 2010
6:29 pm
@@
Yeah, I’m a leftist. I heard him on his faith, too. Prop 8. Him and Palin same song and dance…at least Cheney has stood up and said… jus’ sayin…
Southern Comfort
April 6th, 2010
6:29 pm
Congress will be voted out in November.
Which part of Congress? You only have 1/3 of the Senate up for election and the House. Due to gerrymandering, you’re not going to have too much change in the House. So, once again, where is the hatred for Congress? It’s so easy to name call and stuff, but to present actual information, not so easy, huh?
@@
That he is which I believe is part of his plan. He gets credit for anything good but can deflect criticism towards Congress. Perdue has pretty much done the same thing.
Kamchak
April 6th, 2010
6:29 pm
Bosch
I’m not sure of her motives, but she is raising the level of conversation over there.
Soothsayer
April 6th, 2010
6:29 pm
At the heart of America’s problems is an economic policy which is designed to keep wages down but consumption up. That necessarily means more bubbles, more debt, more wealth and income inequality, and consequently more strife and social unrest when the gravy train ends. You cannot expect to hollow out a country’s manufacturing base, set up a bunch of McJobs to replace it, and still have consumers spend to support the economy. This is what we are now starting to realize.
Voila. This is why the Fed and Treasury’s “recipe” for “renewed prosperity”– leveraging more debt off stagnant or declining incomes–cannot succeed. Not only are incomes flat, but consumer collateral–home equity and financial wealth– is off a staggering $10 trillion from 2005, even as the stock market has risen 75% off its March 2009 lows and housing in some regions has bounced (temporarily) off its 2009 lows.
The “trick” which worked in 2001-2003 was to drop interest rates to near-zero and eliminate any restrictions on borrowers. The policy “worked” in blowing the housing bubble, but with home equity at a pathetic 38% of real estate owned (and that includes the 30% of homes owned free and clear, without any mortgage debt at all) and financial wealth off $5 trillion, the collateral to back up renewed debt is gone.
josef nix
April 6th, 2010
6:31 pm
Ask them…
Jay evidently ain’t goin’ anywhere near the illegal alien-undocumented worker one…and me and SoCo have been ready and rarin’ to square off…
josef nix
April 6th, 2010
6:33 pm
I miss Granny G but not bad enough to go calling at Sister C’s…the Romany lady would put a curse on me…
Who dat?
April 6th, 2010
6:35 pm
“Jay evidently ain’t goin’ anywhere near the illegal alien-undocumented worker one”
Maybe they cut his yard?
Bosch
April 6th, 2010
6:35 pm
Kamchak and josef,
Yeah, and I saw where the resident leg humper is all decked out in his usual glory.
Bosch
April 6th, 2010
6:36 pm
josef,
Maybe Jay’s waiting until it comes back into the political arena. Who knows? But he’s definitely broached that topic before.
@@
April 6th, 2010
6:36 pm
If the yearlong congressional saga that produced the sweeping insurance remake was murky and confusing, Sebelius vowed that her process for putting the law into effect will be the opposite — understandable to a typical consumer. “As soon as we know something, we’re going to tell you,” she promised Tuesday.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gxHvN7vnHWa2cgFgqGdlDxFeMgwwD9ETQ8380
I thought they already knew.
Pelosi and Sebelius….two peas for the pods.
Midori
April 6th, 2010
6:38 pm
Hi Bosch,
nearly impossible for me to participate in the “debate” during the day.
However, it’s a blessing as “Who Dat” is a complete moron who posts completely moronic crap.
Southern Comfort
April 6th, 2010
6:39 pm
Bosch
Ya think this is his favorite beer:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jthearn/386517867/
Who dat?
April 6th, 2010
6:40 pm
“However, it’s a blessing as “Who Dat” is a complete moron who posts completely moronic crap.”
Jay, I’ve asked you repeatedly what you consider to be a personal attack. Now, if I went and called Midori a complete moron etc.. you’d ban me.
Just curious because you once stated that personal attacks were not welcome here.
Who dat?
April 6th, 2010
6:41 pm
I always find it interesting that Midori only shows up to call me names.
Who dat?
April 6th, 2010
6:43 pm
“nearly impossible for me to participate in the “debate”
impossible for me to participate in the “debate”
FYT
Kamchak
April 6th, 2010
6:44 pm
Do I hear a whaaaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmbulance?
Who dat?
April 6th, 2010
6:45 pm
“Do I hear a whaaaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmbulance?”
Well, you do shoot yourself in the foot……..
Just sayin
md
April 6th, 2010
6:46 pm
“As soon as we know something, we’re going to tell you,”
I guess we won’t ever get told.
josef nix
April 6th, 2010
6:46 pm
Who dat…
I don’t know if they cut his yard or not, but I do know they serve his meals and cook his dinners and clean up behind him (got my spies in his crowd!) and odds are they do the janitorial work down to the AJC…but before somebody calls me a hypocrite, I benefit from the Ole Plantation mentality, too…
As Al Stewart would say, “…ah, the more it changes, the more it stays the same, and the hand just rearranges the players in the game…”
Bosch–
It IS an issue…it’s been touted as next on Fierce Advocate’s agenda…
Who dat?
April 6th, 2010
6:46 pm
“I miss Granny G but not bad enough to go calling at Sister C’s”
Well, she does like being around people who hate whitey.
Who dat?
April 6th, 2010
6:47 pm
josef nix
true.
Who dat?
April 6th, 2010
6:48 pm
“I’m not sure of her motives, but she is raising the level of conversation over there.”
The level was at Pre-School. She took it up to Kindergarten.
Who dat?
April 6th, 2010
6:49 pm
“Why is Mrs. G at Cynthia’s?”
Because commies like to converse with each other?
AmVet
April 6th, 2010
6:50 pm
For all you Democratic Party loyalists out there, you should be toasting long and loud Michael Steele and the bumbling RNC.
Talk about bad timing!
Leaked PowerPoint presentations.
Bondage-themed Hollywood nightclubs.
Challenging Rush Limbaugh (publicly!).
Steele’s chief of staff resigning under fire yesterday.
The political consulting firm that’s been advising the RNC skedaddling outta town.
And just this week the Man of Steele saying he has a “slimmer margin for error” because he is an African-American running the RNC.
I can feel that good old GOP circular firing squad cranking up just in time for summer.
josef nix
April 6th, 2010
6:50 pm
“Well, she does like being around people who hate whitey.”
She ain’t overly sensitive to the Romany either…
Who dat?
April 6th, 2010
6:51 pm
Gotta love the Left Wingers.
Black conservative tea party backers take heat
They’ve been called Oreos, traitors and Uncle Toms, and are used to having to defend their values. Now black conservatives are really taking heat for their involvement in the mostly white tea party movement—and for having the audacity to oppose the policies of the nation’s first black president.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9ETR1380&show_article=1
josef nix
April 6th, 2010
6:53 pm
Commies like to converse with each other, others like to converse with themselves…
Bosch
April 6th, 2010
6:53 pm
SoCo,
Oh, I definitely think so, but he’d probably drink one and fall into a swoon.
Midori,
It’s only a matter of time before the leg humper implodes and gets banned again, in the meantime, it’s like dealing with a really irritating foot fungus.
josef,
I didn’t mean to imply it isn’t an issue, I’m just saying that maybe he’s waiting until it comes up again on a national scale, or rather full docket. I mean, the haters are in such full swing now, it’d be almost nuts to bring it up for the sake of national security.
AmVet
April 6th, 2010
6:54 pm
Southern Comfort,
My man, as a true beer snob, I must say that is superb!
And a robust porter no less!
Kam, any guesses on the over/under this time?
Who dat?
April 6th, 2010
6:55 pm
“It’s only a matter of time before the leg humper implodes and gets banned again, in the meantime, it’s like dealing with a really irritating foot fungus.”
Nah, I have fun watching you gals implode. Midori for instance. Instead of writing anything remotely intelligent, she name calls.
As for you, maybe you should join Granny over on Tucker’s blog. She could use a friend.
Midori
April 6th, 2010
6:56 pm
AmVet,
now why are you picking on that poor, misunderstood black man
you know, the one who has the revolving credit card?
Who dat?
April 6th, 2010
6:56 pm
“Kam, any guesses on the over/under this time?”
Better question: Have you figured out by now that Los Angeles is not a state?
Midori
April 6th, 2010
6:56 pm
Boschie,
at least a foot fungus has interesting qualities
Who dat?
April 6th, 2010
6:57 pm
“at least a foot fungus has interesting qualities”
You should know.
Midori
April 6th, 2010
6:58 pm
I must add, a foot fungus probably is more literate as well.
Who dat?
April 6th, 2010
6:59 pm
“I must add, a foot fungus probably is more literate as well.”
You ain’t none too bright is ya?
Who dat?
April 6th, 2010
7:00 pm
Awe, another bed wetting left winger bites the dust at PMSNBC.
MSNBC Suspends David Shuster ‘Indefinitely’
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/msnbc-suspends-david-shuster-indefinitely/
josef nix
April 6th, 2010
7:01 pm
Who dat
McGlowan is somebody to keep an eye on and Mississippi’s first district is full of surprizes…an ornery lot who ain’t afraid to march to their own drummers…
jt
April 6th, 2010
7:02 pm
A reporter even asking a federal politician about health insurance shows how far we have fallen.
Sad.
Regardless, McConnel and Chambliss are so full of federal corn subsidies, they will never answer anything coherently. If Jay were to ask the only honest federal politician, he would answer thus-
Frustratingly, this legislation does not deal at all with the real reasons access to healthcare is a struggle for so many – the astronomical costs. If tort reform was seriously discussed, if the massive regulatory burden on healthcare was reduced and reformed, if the free market was allowed to function and apply downward pressure on healthcare costs as it does with everything else, perhaps people wouldn’t be so beholden to insurance companies in the first place. If costs were lowered, more people could simply pay for what they need out of pocket, as they were able to do before government got so involved. Instead, in the name of going after greedy insurance companies, the federal government is going to make people even more beholden to them by mandating that everyone buy their product! Hefty fines are due from anyone found to have committed the heinous crime of not being a customer of a health insurance company. We will need to hire some 16,500 new IRS agents to police compliance with all these new mandates and administer various fines. So in government terms, this is also a jobs bill. Never mind that this program is also likely to cost the private sector some 5 million jobs.
Of course, the most troubling aspect of this bill is that it is so blatantly unconstitutional and contrary to the ideals of liberty. Nowhere in the constitution is there anything approaching authority for the Federal government to do any of this. The founders would have been horrified at the idea of government forcing citizens to become consumers of a particular product from certain government approved companies. 38 states are said to already be preparing legal and constitutional challenges to this legislation, and if the courts stand by their oaths, they will win. Protecting the right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, should be the court’s responsibility. Citizens have a responsibility over their own life, but they also have the liberty to choose how they will live and protect their lives. Healthcare choices are a part of liberty, another part that is being stripped away. Government interference in healthcare has already infringed on choices available to people, but rather than getting out of the way, it is entrenching itself, and its corporatist cronies, even more deeply.
Ron Paul
And the left is cheering.
Who dat?
April 6th, 2010
7:03 pm
“And the left is cheering.”
And imploding.
Bosch
April 6th, 2010
7:03 pm
Nice that who dat recognizes himself as a leg humping, swooning foot fungus.
Who dat?
April 6th, 2010
7:06 pm
“Nice that who dat recognizes himself as a leg humping, swooning foot fungus.”
It’s nice to know Bosch is a hypocrite of monumental levels. Do us all a favor Bocshy, don’t ever lecture anyone about being “mean” to anyone else.
Hypocrite thy name is Bosch.
josef nix
April 6th, 2010
7:06 pm
Bosch–
I think he’s waiting for his handlers to direct him…and they’re waiting to see which way the wind blows…
jt
April 6th, 2010
7:06 pm
“And imploding.”
True, most are. The smart ones are joining the Tea Party. Ha Ha. Ha Ha Ha Ha.
This time next month, Jay will be writing an article defending the Tea Party.
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha.
AmVet
April 6th, 2010
7:07 pm
Bosch, it is beyond comprehension to me that he would come back from his banishment to the blogging land of nod and do virtually the exact same cr@p all over again!
Call me crazy, but that’s crazy!
A bizarre blogging death wish…
Soothsayer
April 6th, 2010
7:07 pm
It’s the country with the world’s largest foreign exchange reserves, built out of a gigantic and dynamic export machine. Yet, in recent weeks, it’s being called a bubble.
All of a sudden, China is out of favour with some big name investors, like Mr Marc Faber. Mr Jim Chanos, a well-known hedge fund manager, thinks disaster is lurking.
Citibank economists, led by Mr William Buiter, a former Bank of England policymaker, warns of a collapse, as does Harvard’s Mr Kenneth Rogoff, also a former Chief Economist of the IMF.
On the surface, it’s a surprising prediction.
How could the world’s fastest growing economy having over $ 2 trillion in its kitty be talked about so cavalierly? China has come out of last year’s global economic crisis more or less unscathed, thanks to the rapid fire response of its government, which has been unsparing in its fiscal and monetary stimuli.
Engineered boom
Precisely, say critics. The economy is in the midst of an engineered boom – ‘the greatest bubble in history’, one calls it.
Who dat?
April 6th, 2010
7:07 pm
“This time next month, Jay will be writing an article defending the Tea Party. ”
But his boss Rahm Emanuel won’t let him.
Who dat?
April 6th, 2010
7:08 pm
“Bosch, it is beyond comprehension to me that he would come back from his banishment to the blogging land of nod and do virtually the exact same cr@p all over again!”
Did you ever figure out that Los Angeles isn’t a state?
Southern Comfort
April 6th, 2010
7:08 pm
AmV
I’ve had my fair share of those. These, however, are my two favorites:
http://www.paulaner-kundenportal.de/191.0.12405fb8377d955e668620d87ef22332.html?PHPSESSID=12405fb8377d955e668620d87ef22332
and
http://www.stonebrew.com/arrogantbastard/
Who dat?
April 6th, 2010
7:09 pm
“A bizarre blogging death wish…”
Huh, I don’t seem to recall any name calling on my end.
Unless Jay finds something he ain’t gone ban me none.
Kamchak
April 6th, 2010
7:10 pm
Bosch
You left out “pearl clutching.”
Midori
April 6th, 2010
7:11 pm
Who Dat’s been making phone calls again: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/ns/msnbc_tv-hardball_with_chris_matthews#36201318
Southern Comfort
April 6th, 2010
7:12 pm
AmV
I’ve had my fair share of those. These, however, are my two favorites:
http://www.paulaner-kundenportal.de/191.0.12405fb8377d955e668620d87ef22332.html?PHPSESSID=12405fb8377d955e668620d87ef22332
and
http://www.stonebrew.com/beers/
The last beer on the year-round release list is the second. The blogonator didn’t like it when I linked directly to that page.
Who dat?
April 6th, 2010
7:12 pm
“Who Dat’s been making phone calls again:”
Nah, I don’t waste my time on people who average 10 viewers per week.
Southern Comfort
April 6th, 2010
7:13 pm
Ha ha…
The moderator does indeed have good taste in beer!!
Midori
April 6th, 2010
7:14 pm
you could, at least, try to disguise your voice next time………
Who dat?
April 6th, 2010
7:14 pm
Come on Midori, be a pro and throw out better insults. Let’s see how far you can go!
Jay
April 6th, 2010
7:15 pm
Let me jump in with two points here.
One, halt the name-calling. Some of you are letting Whodat get under your skin and provoke you into breaking the rules here. Stop.
Two, Whodat, your entire purpose here seems to be to provoke others, Not debate, discuss — provoke. There’s no excuse for the namecalling directed your way, but if provocation continues to be your sole purpose for being here you won’t be here.
Now, back to the Red Sox/Yankees…
Who dat?
April 6th, 2010
7:15 pm
“you could, at least, try to disguise your voice next time………”
That the best you can do? How about calling me a few names!
AmVet
April 6th, 2010
7:16 pm
SoCo, I’m just so so with most of the German brews. (Sacrilege, I know!) Not a huge pilsner guy
But the Arrogant Bastard? Pure nectar. You sir know your beer!
And to double your fun, but shorten the party, if you catch my drift:
http://www.stonebrew.com/doublebastard/
@@
April 6th, 2010
7:17 pm
Raising the level of conversation!!?!!
Granny Godzilla: I saw scuttlebut regarding a “tiger type” scandal brewing for one of the Fox personalities as well…..
More like getting off on the chance to peek into someone elses bedroom.
Really! Does anyone but you and Granny care about this kinda stuff, Kamchak?
I sure don’t.
Who dat?
April 6th, 2010
7:17 pm
“Some of you are letting Whodat get under your skin and provoke you into breaking the rules here.”
Oh yeah Jay, I really provoked Midori into calling me a moron…..
“Two, Whodat, your entire purpose here seems to be to provoke others”
Uh yeah, especially when “others” have called me moron etc…. So…….
“There’s no excuse for the namecalling directed your way, but if provocation continues to be your sole purpose for being here you won’t be here.”
Ah, so other people calling me names will………get me banned?????????
AmVet
April 6th, 2010
7:18 pm
SoCo, I’m just so so with most of the German brews. (Sacrilege, I know!) Not a huge pilsner guy
But the Arrogant B@st@rd? Pure nectar. You sir know your beer!
And to double your fun, but shorten the party, if you catch my drift:
http://tinyurl.com/yzzl6lj
Who dat?
April 6th, 2010
7:18 pm
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Ok, you gotta help me out here.
Jay writes: but if provocation continues to be your sole purpose for being here you won’t be here.
So in plain English, he means, I will get banned for other people calling me names…….
The logic……?
theyeshaveit
April 6th, 2010
7:19 pm
Who dat said, ” ‘“Both are disgraceful excuses for “representatives” of we the people…’
Says the guy who thinks Los Angeles is a state.”
I hope you do not live in a glass house. Tell me. Does Palin still think Africa is a country, or has she managed to take a correspondence course in geography by now?
Midori
April 6th, 2010
7:20 pm
looks like Karzai learned a lot from the Bush administration.
Who dat?
April 6th, 2010
7:20 pm
“Two, Whodat, your entire purpose here seems to be to provoke others, Not debate”
Jay, when other “people” are calling Tea Party people racists, tea b@ggers, etc………. it’s kind of hard not to fight back. But guess what, I have NOT called ANYONE a name.
Mick
April 6th, 2010
7:21 pm
who dat
You know as I was reading through the posts most of the give and take was fairly civil until you showed up, then everything changed. Agitating and annoying you are like the poison ivy in this blog. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, just unnecessary.
Who dat?
April 6th, 2010
7:21 pm
“Tell me. Does Palin still think Africa is a country, or has she managed to take a correspondence course in geography by now?”
That has what to do with AmVet’s problem with state abbreviations?
Midori
April 6th, 2010
7:21 pm
eyes,
speaking of Palin, she’s going to stump for Michelle Bachmann in Minnesota this weekend.
Two peas.
One pod.