Tom Price and Barack Obama go at it over health care
U.S. Rep. Tom Price (R-Roswell) was a large part of the extraordinary exchange between President Barack Obama and House Republican leaders this afternoon, captured by C-SPAN.
It’s a bit fuzzy, but here’s a YouTube clip that InsiderAdvantage’s Tom Baxter pointed us to:
The White House has the entire exchange on its Web site. Click here to see it.
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Base
January 29th, 2010
5:37 pm
Price is a wacko! Ga.had tort reform what did consumers get?Nothing!
E. Joyce
January 29th, 2010
5:39 pm
Well said, President Obama. Love this without media spin.
tc
January 29th, 2010
5:40 pm
let’s see the repubs have backed up their bills with unassailable numbers, sorta like the fair tax crowd? wish there was an unbiased arbiter of competing claims & numbers. in the future the corporates will probably flood the airways with their preferred side of the argument
Alabama Communist
January 29th, 2010
5:44 pm
Congressman Doctor Price than ask President Obama why he was supporting Communist policies from the former Soviet Union on Health issues. President Obama responsed by asking Congressman Price why his dues to the KKK had falled behind in Georgia and was it true that he was the team medical doctor for the new White only Basketball leaque in Georgia. After that , things simply got worst and the Secret Service was called to eject Congressman Price from the meeting.
tc
January 29th, 2010
5:50 pm
you can find entire meeting on various websites…..
Aaron Burr V. Mexico
January 29th, 2010
5:53 pm
….Alabama Communist is on crack.
But Obama did indeed spank the Republicans.
Watch them run and hide. They want OPENness?
Sounds like we should have british ‘question time’ none of the craptastic debates that we have for presidential elections. No media spin, no slanted platforms.
Sometimes OBama will like stupid, but then again I think I know whose going to look more stupid.
Watch them try to avoid more sessions like this. Watch them run and hide!
kC
January 29th, 2010
5:58 pm
Obama is such a liar! What a moron! Go Price! You rule!
Garth
January 29th, 2010
6:18 pm
Do you liberal idiots understand that in the President’s plan if you do not buy insurance you will
go to jail and pay a fine. It’s written right in there. Oh, but wait, they made an exception–for
Amish. Why do these lucky people get exempted. It is, of course, blatantly unconstituional and
the whole scam\scheme will put mom and pop companies out of business. But you dumb Obama
worshipers could care less. Welcome to the U.S.S.A. United Socialistic States of America!
Frank
January 29th, 2010
6:28 pm
Tom Price is nothing but a grandstanding moron ala Glen Beck ilk trying to score political brownie points w/ his base. He and his cronies just want to maintain the status quo. I wonder how much cash he’s getting from the insurance industry to keep fighting a national health care plan? Plenty I’d bet. The healthcare bill as I’ve read it isn’t very good, I admit. It should at least be rewritten, but this time it should be a 1 payer system financed w/ a national 1 cent retail sales tax on every good/service sold in this country or it’s territories.
Chaps
January 29th, 2010
6:45 pm
Frank (6:28) accuses Rep Price of getting money from insurance companies to oppose the health care bill. Frank should read it. The bill REQUIRES everyone to buy health insurance. With no government plan, the only place we can buy it is from….. insurance companies. The bill passed by the Senate and now before the House would mean millions of new customers for insurance companies. They love it.
BPJ
January 29th, 2010
6:46 pm
Garth, the system in Massachusetts, which Republican Mitt Romney established, and Scott Brown voted for and still supports, also has a mandate for everyone to have health insurance
rufus
January 29th, 2010
6:56 pm
Forget the health care debate for a moment; Rep. Price makes Bob Barr seem like Captain Kangaroo. Price brings out the worse in people; he is hateful, spiteful and has no concept of leadership or his obligation to provide leadershp. More than any other politician in Georgia, he has placed his warped sense of his role in American politics ahead of his responsibilities to his district and to the country he claims he loves. He is the worst example of what our society defines as leaders and he is no patriot.
BPJ
January 29th, 2010
6:59 pm
The reason for the mandate is: BOTH PARTIES favor ending discrimination over pre-existing conditions. If you do that then everyone must get insurance; otherwise it doesn’t work. Think about it: suppose we required car insurers to cover all regardless of pre-existing condition of the car, but did not require all to get insured. Then the incentive would be to wait till you have an accident, and say “my car is totaled – here’s the basic premium – cover my loss”. It makes no sense.
Same for health insurance. A ban on refusal for pre-existing conditions, without a mandate that all carry insurance, would give an incentive to just wait until one gets ill, then demand an insurance policy. But insurance policies are designed to be purchased before a potential risk becomes actual. If you are opposed to requiring everyone to have insurance (as Scott Brown did), then you are also opposed to restrictions on insurance companies refusing to cover people due to pre-existing conditions.
Duh
January 29th, 2010
7:03 pm
Please Mr. President…if you could just answer the question! Anyone? Anyone? BHO rambling on a long answer doesn’t mean he has addressed specifically what was asked of him by Price. The fact is the Administration has refused to let the GOP participate and ignored any input they have received from them and then blab to the public that they aren’t offering any help or solutions.
MiltonMan
January 29th, 2010
7:12 pm
The moron Obozo is in panic mode now that even the most liberal state did not vote for his DemoRat. Only three more years of this disgrace of a President. Mr. Price please do not so easy on this clown next time.
MikeSilver
January 29th, 2010
7:18 pm
Usually, Presidents go to these type of meetings to generate good will to be used later on. Obama went to beat the Republicans up. I don’t think that was a good idea because politicians have long memories.
my f150 gets 16mpg and my .45 holds 14 rounds
January 29th, 2010
7:18 pm
That was some good TV- I don’t care who you are. Should happen more often-daytime tv, to minimize showboating- it was great. Obama did well. I would not vote for him if he rose from the dead, but he held his own-then some-which as the Prez he should.
Nice back and forth-LOVED IT.
ATL Guy
January 29th, 2010
7:44 pm
I have long associated the GOP with uneducated, ignorant, white males. The way they’ve acted over the last year have only confirmed my thoughts. I’m embarrassed by them.
lovebugs
January 29th, 2010
7:45 pm
ha ha! Price unfriended me on facebook when I asked specific questions about healthcare! He is a spiteful angry partisan jerk! Do I support the current bill? No. I don’t agree with anything other than single payer or a not for profit insurance industry heavily regulated by Congress. 98% of the rest of the world has it working for them. Why can’t we? But the current bill is a nod to republicans and special interests and that is the fault of both parties!
Tom
January 29th, 2010
8:06 pm
The legendary hero of the Texas Air National Guard, George W. Bush, would never in a million years have managed to work up the cojones to do what Obama did today.
samuel
January 29th, 2010
8:29 pm
Could you imagine Reagan doing this? So much for Obama being wedded to his teleprompter. The Republicans offered nothing but talking points. Obama spoke off the cuff, and actually thought before he spoke. Could you imagine Bush Jr. doing that?
the smartestone
January 29th, 2010
8:52 pm
Duh, I guess you aren’t smart enuff to understand the answer the President gave so I’ll explain it to you. What do we tell your constituents…blah blah blah?
Tell them the plan you submitted would not work so the Democrats said you haven’t submitted a plan.
That’s basically the answer the President gave him, without being rude or nasty.
JL
January 29th, 2010
8:52 pm
Tom Price is right. If your insurance company was not mandated by the state to pay for mammograms, colon tests, prostate exams, physicals, etc. your insurance coverage would cost less. Of course, a lot of folks would die. Would you pay for a mammogram or other tests if you needed to put food on the table for your children? Would you think well I’m healthy, I can do it next year? Of course, insurance would cost less if it actually did not cover much.
James
January 29th, 2010
8:53 pm
It sickens me to see our President wallowing in the mud with this guy. It is beneath him to be dealing this this loser directly. Doesn’t he have a press sec to handle these goons?
Sucker Demorats
January 29th, 2010
9:02 pm
Love the end of the video. Obama clearly shows he is more full of crap than a sewer rat.
He nor his leftist friends has the manhood or backbone to at least try for a year or two
to see how it would work to let all insurance companies sell in all 50 states.
NOW THINK, why do the REGRESSIVE LEFTISTS not want this?
chef polo
January 29th, 2010
9:02 pm
Price is a pompous ass, I heard him present his healthcare proposal at a conference. It was the standard far right rhetoric; reduce oversight of insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, medical device companies, and put all the onus on the individual consumer who has little protection and no leverage whatsoever. In other words, caveat emptor.
the smartestone
January 29th, 2010
9:05 pm
Mr. Galloway, this a misleading title of the post. Price asked a question, the Prez answered it, but it wasn’t a battle. After reading the whole transcript I’d say the Prez handled the Repubs fairly easily. The idiot with the talking point question about tripling the budget in one year got made to look like the fool he obviously is.
the smartestone
January 29th, 2010
9:15 pm
So uh Sucker, how does he show he’s full of crap at the end of the video? This is what he said:
THE PRESIDENT: Well, Mike — well, hold on, hold on a second. No, no, no, no. Hold on a second, guys. (Applause.)
You know, Mike, I’ve read your legislation. I mean, I take a look at this stuff — and the good ideas we take. But here’s — here’s the thing — here’s the thing that I guess all of us have to be mindful of, it can’t be all or nothing, one way or the other. And what I mean by that is this: If we put together a stimulus package in which a third of it are tax cuts that normally you guys would support, and support for states and the unemployed, and helping people stay on COBRA that your governors certainly would support — Democrat or a Republican; and then you’ve got some infrastructure, and maybe there’s some things in there that you don’t like in terms of infrastructure, or you think the bill should have been $500 billion instead of $700 billion or there’s this provision or that provision that you don’t like. If there’s uniform opposition because the Republican caucus doesn’t get 100 percent or 80 percent of what you want, then it’s going to be hard to get a deal done. That’s because that’s not how democracy works.
So my hope would be that we can look at some of these component parts of what we’re doing and maybe we break some of them up on different policy issues. So if the good congressman from Utah has a particular issue on lobbying reform that he wants to work with us on, we may not able to agree on a comprehensive package on everything but there may be some component parts that we can work on.
You may not support our overall jobs package, but if you look at the tax credit that we’re proposing for small businesses right now, it is consistent with a lot of what you guys have said in the past. And just the fact that it’s my administration that’s proposing it shouldn’t prevent you from supporting it. That’s my point.
Just moronic postings from the moronic right.
Cutty
January 29th, 2010
9:21 pm
Tom Prince is an dolt, and proved his ignorance. Georgia had tort reform and did costs go down? Buy your insurance Blue Cross of Alabama, Aetna of CT, think it’ll somehow be cheaper? Yeah right.
Logic
January 29th, 2010
9:27 pm
So…let me explain what happen…
Republicans – We have a bill that will accomplish all of the goals and with will cost nothing.
President – My bill (Democratic Bill) is better…
Reality…The Democratic bill is understood by no body and it will bankrupt America. The Republican’s bill … well I don’t know, I have not read it. However, I know it has to have a very high cost to cover everyone.
Democratic Hack
January 29th, 2010
9:28 pm
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Democratic Hack
January 29th, 2010
9:31 pm
Well, it looks like the Democratic hacks have taken over this blog.
schooled republicans
January 29th, 2010
9:38 pm
It’s no wonder fox ?news pulled the plug halfway through the broadcast. Obama made them look like the partisan idiots they are.
QueDawg12
January 29th, 2010
9:57 pm
I have to say that I admire our President for having the gonads to defend himself. We have heard everyone dissect and dismantle the healthcare bill for what it is not but no alternative options. We have all heard the cliche bring solutions not problems to the table.
d nice
January 29th, 2010
10:20 pm
I am glad the president went to meet with those Republican clowns for a change. If I would have met with them, I would have handed their balls to them and made their mother’s cry. Yes, they are the party of N//o! There is no reason to stop calling them that. Price doesn’t represent me in Georgia because I don’t believe in what he represents and I am African American in which I don’t believe in anything the old GOP says or represents. Now maybe Michael Steele??
BPJ
January 29th, 2010
10:46 pm
Here’s the best analysis I’ve seen of the problems with the Republican proposals: http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-treatment/better-idea-not
Read it carefully and think about it.
Toby
January 29th, 2010
10:47 pm
Tom Price showed up to a gunfight with a set of rubber knuckles. What a Mental Midget.
Tom Price's Nurse
January 29th, 2010
11:02 pm
Tom Price is a loser extraordianaire. He made millions bilking Medicare and then took his bulls**t to Washington to steal more money from the American people under the guise of conservatism. He gives wackos a bad name. Please spare us your sanctimonious comments Tom and STFU…you bring dishonor to our state and honor is in short supply around here!
rightofcenter
January 29th, 2010
11:45 pm
tom and samuel,
Not to disturb your prejudices and ignorance, but Bush Jr. did in fact meet with the opposition (in that case Democratic) Caucus just as Obama did – twice at least (2001 and 2007). The major difference was that those meetings were not televised. I think it was wise for Obama to continue this tradition and I hope future presidents (hopefully the 45th will be elected in 2012) will do so as well.
mackyjase
January 29th, 2010
11:47 pm
Find instant medical insurance for you from http://bit.ly/atGzeD
Chris Mathews is covered in his own spittle because he is drinking, again.
January 29th, 2010
11:56 pm
Price is Right. Obama is wrong. That is why his bill couldn’t even garner the total support of his party. You libs blaming the GOP for stopping Obama is delusional. If the bill and his plan were so great, then the bill could have passed on democrat support, alone and ya’ll know it. Keep the delusions going. Momentum is on our side and if you don’t know it, Obama sure does.
Dahloan
January 30th, 2010
12:13 am
I think obama’s point is you can’t argue lies. There are so many lies created by Republican croonies and people believe them. They claim” Snopes supports it and says it is true. ” I go to snopes, and they say” It isn’t true.” I can say anything, repeatit to someone else, and withint about 10 people, it is totaly false. The same goes for emails. All you have to do is paste, copy and change what you don’t like. Obama stated, ” I will argue facts, but I can’t argue lies. ” How can we say we have a health care bill, when the senate and house are still meeting to rewrite it? Give me a break. I think Americans have zapped their brain power out. There is so much hatred now, Why?
UNO
January 30th, 2010
12:28 am
POTUS was clear and the opposition finally had to defend the lies they have peddled for years. They couldn’t do so and were crushed in the process. Question is: will it make any difference to the people who continue to elect and support their unamerican, destructive agenda?
John
January 30th, 2010
12:49 am
Obama was GREAT! Next, I’d like to see him take on those re-THUG-LIE-CON right wing, hate, talk radio idots of Boortz, Hannity, and Limbaugh! He’d expose them for the liars they are! Obama Rocks!
Iconoclast
January 30th, 2010
12:55 am
Doesn’t a physician’s oath require that they shall do no harm? Well, Dr. Price, didn’t you take that oath?
TOM AT ANY PRICE
January 30th, 2010
1:00 am
IM ONE OF THE REASONS WHY WERE IN THIS SITUATION ANYWAY! ME SUXBY SHAMELESS SONNY PERDONT AND PHIL GREEDY DUPED THE DUMB REDNECKS OF THE STATE OF JAWJA!
Bitter EX democrackkk
January 30th, 2010
6:43 am
‘I forgot he was black for about an hour’ …
STRIVE to be SMARTER than the EVIL controlling party of SLAVERY wants you to be!
Boiler Plate dude
January 30th, 2010
8:06 am
I am in Representative Price’s district- a physician who doesnt’t get it.
Thanks to Price and Bush – AMEdicaid Drug bill awarded accerated financial catastrophe – now nothing but boiler plates with no net substance
A bunch of bills is not a plan – total delusion
Peter Mokhiber
January 30th, 2010
8:37 am
It is unfortunate that many of the responses below attack personally each side. That approach effectively eliminates any real debate on any issue specifics. If you review the strategies and tactics of many camps, they first attack the speaker rather than the their policies. It is simpiler, less complicated and provides a forum for vitriolic personal attacks eliminating any real meaningful discussions on important issues. Additionally, it removes the attacker from having to have any substanitive information or valuable input on the topic. Unfortunate, but I think true.
I would have liked that when the Utah Freshman asked the President if the negotiations we on CSPAN, if could he quote him. To me as an observer, they didn’t seem to be there.
Peter
Da Bard
January 30th, 2010
9:09 am
The GOP wants to maintain the status quo — their only proposal is to make it impossible to sue for medical malpractice. We did that Georgia — medmal cases have dropped significantly. Have insurance companies dropped rates for Doctors? D’uh, NO freaking way. They never drop rates.
And the GOP does not like ending the insurance companies ability to deny coverage for pre-existing conditions. Gee, we cannot restrain the freedom to contract. But the GOP also opposes creating a govt backed insurance to cover those who cannot now get insurance.
If you like the status quo on health care, keep supporting the GOP. Until you lose your job and health coverage, then the GOP wants you to die.
DannyX
January 30th, 2010
9:22 am
This is the reason the Republicans need to stick with the scorched earth strategy. With scorched earth you don’t have to have any ideas nor do you have to say anything truthful. Just hysterically claim that anything said by Obama will lead to socialism, communism, atheism, liberalism, and so-on.
If the Republicans engage in honest debate they are doomed. Starting with the fact that they want to rid the nation of Democrats but are unwilling to vote out the same Republican leadership that caused this mess in the first place.
The “teleprompter President” showed some leadership. Bad news for hysterical Republicans.
CC Cummings
January 30th, 2010
9:37 am
Tom Price, Saxby Chambliss and the good old boys need to Go. They have clearly not shown any leadership and sounds like a bunch of spoiled children who is either it’s going to be my way or no way. Your time is up. Enjoyed watching the President walk and chew gum at the same time. I called each of my State representatives about the HealthCare bill and was told they hadn’t even read it. Too cumbersome…too many pages. When asked whether they had a Solution they gave me a padded answer BUT NOTHING REAL..so I trul understand President Obama’s position in dealing with these idiots. Georgia Leadership is the Pits from Saxby, Westmoreland, Bishop, Price, and GOV Purdue. Time to vote out the incumbents. Anyone with me? Let’s make it happen.
OBAMA
January 30th, 2010
9:55 am
my pants on the ground….
Somebody pull em up for me.
NANCY, JOE , WHAT’S YALL DOING BEHIND ME !!!!!!!!!!!!
TLH
January 30th, 2010
9:55 am
I love to hear all the gimmecrats cry about politics. So here is my rant. Concerning my personal situation, what this health care bill means to me: I will have to pay higher taxes on the insurance I have now, my rates will be increased, my benefits will most likely be cut, if I lost coverage I will be fined, illegals most likely will be covered, along with abortions. The government will ultimately decide if I get that “life saving operation” and when. Mean while unions, and certain states are exempt on certain measures while I am not.
You nuts not only want me to support this, you also want me to like it. Who’s crazy?
I say if you want to pass this health care plan, then go ahead and pass laws so we can have free, cars, houses, food, and put a little money in our pockets while you are at it. That way EVERYBODY can sit home and enjoy the FREE ride.
TLH
January 30th, 2010
10:02 am
“An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before but had once failed an entire class.
That class had insisted that Obama’s socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, “OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama’s plan”. All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A.
After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.
The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.
As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.
The second test average was a D! No one was happy.
When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.
The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.
All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.
Could not be any simpler than that.”
I did not write this and I do not know the author, but it explains my point very well.
ManiacPolitician
January 30th, 2010
10:51 am
The guy Obama is a chronic liar he believes his lies. He’s a politician that is saying the Repubicans are playing politics as usual and he is doing the same thing. He reminds me of a used care salesman, this car was driven by a little old lady on Sundays and ……………………
What I hate about Republicans is they have no backbone and this is POLITICAL WARFARE, no hold barred. We know the Democratic lies and the Obama lies, point them out and use all the tools at your disposal such as his youtube archive videos and documentated flipfloppig on legislation.
Get a spine
DannyX
January 30th, 2010
10:58 am
I love the political fantasy stuff TLH, keep them coming they are like those old Penthouse fantasy letters only with a conservative twist.
By the way, the more education you have the more likely you are to approve of the job Obama is doing. A Gallup poll released last week shows almost 60% of all college grads approve of the job Obama is doing.
Republicans are doing a great job with the high school grad though. The type that are easily manipulated and follow so loyally.
Democrats don’t seem to be the ones failing college in the real world. The class that failed in that fantasy turned out to be all Republican. They didn’t fail because of they failed the tests. They failed because they were kicked out for not finishing high school.
The Obama vs Republican knockdown was a case in point. Obama came across as the professor, Republicans looked like the average recent high school grad from Georgia sitting in class with their mouths open enjoying their Hope Scholarship.
ManiacPolitician
January 30th, 2010
11:00 am
Dahloan, Republican’s lied. Ok, who lied about Social security, medicare and other entitlement programs not having problems? Democrats. did you get your social security statement in the mail, what did it say, SS will be broke starting in 2016-17 and broke in 2037 or 46 depending on economic conditions. Who started the program FDR a democrat.
Who made a program where people are taxed and don’t receive any benefits until 3 years later….Democrats with Obama’s healthcare reform.
Who did not want Obama type healthcare in Mass. DEMOCRATS. Republicans make up at most 16% of Mass. voting body, so who is the FOOL.
Most Democrats. Even moderate Democrats have said the left wing has stolen the party. Glen Beck says it the progressives or neo-communist. No matter what…the war has just started and the revolution is beginning.
QueDawg
January 30th, 2010
11:36 am
Maniac,
They are playing politics!!! They are all talk and have not produced a single solution. Instead they have this vague idea of what should happen but nothing on paper. Price could not even quote from their resolution, he just kept asking the President to read it! Cmon man!!!!!
DannyX
January 30th, 2010
11:42 am
Lol Maniac, you might want to get off those right wing websites for a while.
The Massachusetts health care system is a Republican plan. If it failed it was because of the Republican governor who came up with the plan, Mitt Romney, and the Republicans that voted for the plan, like Republican hero Scott Brown.
Btw, any word on when Republican leaders that came up with the super-socialistic Medicare Part D drug program are going to be held accountable? Remember? The billions of dollars a year still UNFUNDED communist plan the Republicans enacted just a few short years ago? 80% of the Republican Congressmen in that room where they got that Obama whipping voted for that Russian style entitlement that steals from the rich and gives to the poor.
This is why Obama finally finding his voice is really a bad thing for Republicans. Whats on your resume Republicans? Hows Georgia doing under Republican rule?
dixie clear
January 30th, 2010
12:03 pm
Impeach NOBAMA!!!
Jeff
January 30th, 2010
12:23 pm
The left wing socialist “communest” liberals are IDIOTS!! and I really am starting hate them. They want for Government to take care of them in every way with no personal resposibility of there own. What they are too stupid to realize is that once that government gets that power it becomes a monster that has its own agenda and you same idots will not like what comes with that.. Your freedom to be activist as your nature demands will be lost.. You will then be thrown in jail or executed for speakiing out, Go live in China for a while and then come back. If you do then you will convert to be a conservative.
Our Constitution was writen to defend us from that type of control!
JG
January 30th, 2010
12:28 pm
Tom Price? The same Tom Price that shrieked like a little girl in a misguided effort to shout down congresswomen speaking about women’s health issues during the health care debate? That Tom Price? Well, maybe he has grown a pair since his hissy fit. Impressive.
Joe
January 30th, 2010
12:34 pm
All you have to do is read both health care plans, they are both available online. The Democrats one is far superior to the Republicans one. The reason why most educated people realize this is because they will take the time to read through both instead of just believing what Fox News is trying to feed the public. I can’t understand how anyone can still take Fox News seriously at this point. They have been caught over and over again using false images to deceive the public. I’m sorry but anyone who thinks that Obama is trying to turn this country into a socialist country and at the same time complains about how much money he gave to Wall Street & the banks for the bailouts, I have to question their intelligence. None of the arguments from the far right these days even make any sense. Who cares what Glenn Beck says? He is a jackass that is only interested in selling his books. Anybody that is against health care reform in this country would feel completely different about it if they had a little kid who got sick and were denied coverage because of a little error they might have made while filling out the forms. Doesn’t the fact there is even a term pre-existing condition (which by the way HMO’s created this term) tell you there is a problem?
JG
January 30th, 2010
12:34 pm
Jeff — Ummmm … are you, by any chance, a product of the government supported public education system? Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but here’s one word of advice: dictionary.
You misspelled “communist” and for some reason put it within quote marks. Well, so did I. Also, you chose to capitalize ‘Government’ then used lower case. Make up your mine. And ‘hate?’ Aren’t you getting a little too over-emotional about this? You remind me of Tom Price. Wait … are you a doctor, too? Also, what is an ‘idot?’ Oh, the list goes on. Also, concentrate on writing complete sentences. You’ll make your insane rant so much more convincing.
JG
January 30th, 2010
12:36 pm
See, I’m a public school product, too. I wrote ‘mine’ when I meant ‘mind.’ Jeff, help me convert!
Chris Mathews is covered in his own spittle because he is drinking, again.
January 30th, 2010
12:43 pm
Since the libs (QueDawg et al) are like libs everywhere, even if you put the GOP healthcare plan inforont of them the will deny it. Here is the link to the 219 page GOP plan.
tc
January 30th, 2010
12:47 pm
jeff you think corporations aren’t going to control everything in a few years? they only put up with the bible thumpers and neocons until they gain almost total domination of the country. the top 1% in country earned 24% of the income…….not wealth. for what screwing up our economy with no value added paper pushing. they would jettison the religious right, tea baggers and neocons, but they need them to constitute a slim majority. which group are you in?
karuna del mar
January 30th, 2010
1:10 pm
Obama took the long way around the barn to throw ppl off but still did not answer tom price’s [who is a dr] question. i don’t care what you ppl say… he did NOT answer the question about what to tell their constituents.
CC Cummings
January 30th, 2010
1:20 pm
Here’s another thought: After yesterday’s Session (and eye-opener), I SEE NOW why the WORLD voted for OUR President to win The Nobel Peace Prize. Give’em Hell, President Obama. Did anyone hear when he said “that the American people sent us to Congress not for our job security but for the job security of the American People”. When was the last time any President got it? THEY WORK FOR US. Oooh, I’m in Georgia and since the 80s the government (Republican) has only been working for the 1%. Cross the board tax cuts…LOVED how POTUS stated he’s not going to allow you push down 100% of what you want without taking into account other factors..ie THE PEOPLE who elect us. Already hosting a fundraiser for Barack Obama-REELECTION 2012. F*** Palin! And I’m a woman.
CC Cummings
January 30th, 2010
1:26 pm
@Karuna-Point EXACTLY…The POTUS doesn’t have to tell Price’s Constituents’ jack. And if Price can’t come up with words for his own constituents, I shiver to see what was actually given to the POTUS of to read. Oh the embarassment of it all. Think about it, if his Resolution #3400F***up was legitimate and substantive what Price should tell his constituents or better yet SHOW his constituents is a Legitimate Solutions that are backed up by SOUND Economic principles. SHOW me that and as a constituent if it is understandable I’m calling the WH myself and demanding my President to support him.
Peter Mokhiber
January 30th, 2010
1:52 pm
Joe, Did I get your words right?
“None of the arguments from the far right these days even make any sense. Who cares what Glenn Beck says?”
You do exactly what I have said previously. Attack the person not their ideals or ideas. It is simple and way to general. I will gladly in this or any other forum have a discussion that focuses on topics rather than attacks at people.
It is absolutely true that the political opinions from the right and left very dramatically. If you can’t point out any specific ideas or contradictions please don’t attack our character. Just to attack Fox News or Beck is simple and naive.
Would you like me to begin to discuss some of the things discussed on MSNBC or Air America (Opps’s can’t -sorry they just filed bankruptcy).
My guess is you can’t keep up and if so why don’t you just stay on the porch.
Peter
Chris Mathews is covered in his own spittle because he is drinking, again.
January 30th, 2010
2:25 pm
Sorry here is the link to the GOP plan. LIberal deniers notwithstanding., Hey libs, how is that hope and change working out for you? Where are Obama poll #’s again. Please remind me.
Chris Mathews is covered in his own spittle because he is drinking, again.
January 30th, 2010
2:27 pm
here again. http://www.gop.gov/solutions/healthcare Jumbo G must not want it posted .
Sic semper tyrannis
January 30th, 2010
2:30 pm
WHY are we as a nation afraid to look at the health care systems of other countries and try to model best practices of the ones that are doing a better job keeping their citizens healthy? We spend a world-leading 16% of our GDP on healthcare and the return we get on it is shameful. We get less coverage and more red tape per dollar than another other country. Look how Europe, even with declining, aging populations, takes care of its citizens by removing the PROFIT motive from curing disease or treating discomfort. The private insurance system and drug companies receive on average 25% annual profit out of this $2,6 TRILLION industry: that’s $650 BILLION annually we can use to buy down the deficit or shore up Medicare.
Some of you rednecks need to get out of your bars and pickups and travel to a county like Costa Rica or France, Norway, Spain or even tiny Andorra. If you get sick or injured there, nobody will leave you to die because you don’t have an insurance card. This infantile “I can do it all myself” ideology is dragging us further behind our #37 ranking to “Socialist” nations in infant mortality, life span, morbidity, hospital efficiency and per capita cost of care. There is no other entity big or powerful enough to force discounts and efficiency procedures on a huge industry other than the government. Who would you rather have, a government official with no incentive to deny you treatment, or health care millionaires like Richard Scrushy or Bill Frist looking out for your family’s health? Socialist, you bet I am. You’d be too if you could qualify for a passport and see what’s going on in the rest of the world. This has nothing to do with confrontations between personalities, but everything about what we stand for as a nation and our attitudes toward life, health and happiness of its citizens.
Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_the_United_States
Joe
January 30th, 2010
2:39 pm
@Peter
I have listened to Glenn Beck’s ideals or ideas or whatever you want to call them. Last time I was somewhere that Fox News was on they were doing a poll on if scientists falsified research on global warming, maybe you have heard of this poll they did? They had it so that the results showed 59% said somewhat likely, 35% very likely and 26% not very likely. Do you see anything wrong with this? Try doing the math. I can’t keep up? You aren’t even intelligent enough to realize the term is vary not very. Don’t question someone else’s intelligence on a public forum until you learn to use proper grammar. You want a contradiction? How about telling someone in the same post not to attack someone’s character and then end it by attacking someone’s character? Can you point out to me where in your post you are actually focusing on the topics and not attacking? I didn’t think so. I don’t think everybody that is conservative is stupid; actually some of the most intelligent people I know are conservative. They are smart enough to know that just because they don’t agree with everything Obama is trying to do, it doesn’t mean Obama is socialist or Nazi or whatever Fox News is trying to convince us he is these days. My smart conservative friends are intelligent enough to agree with me that Glenn Beck is a jackass and that Fox News is a joke.
Joe
DannyX
January 30th, 2010
2:42 pm
Chris Mathews is covered in his own spittle because he is drinking, again, how does the Republican health care plan stack up against the Republican Medicare Part D Plan?
I’ll bet there are some similarities seeing how most of the same Republicans are still in office.
Does the Republican health care plan also call for billions and billions of yearly unfunded deficit ballooning spending, you know like the socialist Republican Medicare Part D?
Chris Mathews is covered in his own spittle because he is drinking, again.
January 30th, 2010
2:52 pm
Unless your are drunk already, Danny X, read the plan. I am sure that you were educated in a Gov’t school, but do some leg work. Read the bill or don’t complain about not knowing what is in it or assuming that you know. Are you a typical lazy lib or just stupid (or am I splitting hairs)?
CHOMP
January 30th, 2010
3:05 pm
Tom Price is a credit to the US Congress and knows more on this issue than anyone in D.C.,eclipsing the ignorant comments of this blog. Most of you are obviously already receiving government entitlements and want those of us who support you to be burdened even more. All was predicted in ATLAS SHRUGGED.
Democratic Hack
January 30th, 2010
3:18 pm
Do all of you Democratic Hacks really believe Obama’s spin?
Do you still believe unemployment will not rise above 8%?
Do you still believe we closed Gitmo by 12/31/09?
Do you still believe the war will not be escalated?
Do you think Obama actually listened to Republican ideas?
Do you still believe terrorist should be read their Miranda rights?
Do you still think terrorist should be tried in NY City?
Do you still believe health care will not increase our debt?
Do you still believe that the Dems lost Mass. because Obama is not far enough to the left?
tc
January 30th, 2010
3:22 pm
maybe price was being polite, but it sure looked like obama handed his ass to him
bob piat
January 30th, 2010
3:26 pm
that’s why people like Obama … he’s reasonable.
DannyX
January 30th, 2010
3:49 pm
I think any rational Republican understands what is going on here in Georgia.
The Georgia brand of conservatism is being lampooned. Obama takes down Price. Wow.
Of course earlier in the week a Republican basically told Georgia to get lost. Republicans in Florida again won out over Georgia. First water now transportation. Republican Transportation Sec LaHood ignored Republican Georgia and rewarded Republican Florida with high speed stimulus bonanza.
DannyX
January 30th, 2010
4:08 pm
God bless bi-partisanship! What a week.
Republican Transportation Secretary LaHood helps dole out stimulus money that Republican governors gobble up by the hundreds of millions.
Its also announced that Republican Defense Sec Gates will officially announce plans next week for ending Dont Ask Dont Tell.
Chris Mathews is covered in his own spittle because he is drinking, again.
January 30th, 2010
4:25 pm
Danny X did you get someone to read the bill to you yet? Or are you just reading off somebody else’s solking point? Coward.
Joe
January 30th, 2010
5:04 pm
I love how Obama calls them out on going to the ribbon cuttings for things they voted against. Awesome!! @ Chris Mathews (shouldn’t it be Matthews?) You should just stop posting because Danny X is embarrassing you. I’m sure he has read the Republican bill just like I have and realizes that they don’t mention anywhere about how they are going to pay for any of this. They did come up with some good ideas that the Democrats have added to their bill, but some of their ideas if you take a minute to think them through would only make things worse for people who are already being denied coverage.
Chris Mathews is covered in his own spittle because he is drinking, again.
January 30th, 2010
5:12 pm
Joe did not read it either. Typical lib. For the record the Republicans did not stop Obamacare. The fractued democrat party did, All this is just transference, Pathetic.
DannyX
January 30th, 2010
5:40 pm
so,….. Chris Mathews is covered in his own spittle because he is drinking, again., The Democrats are responsible, you say, for killing their own bad Bill.
On the other hand the Republicans went ahead and PASSED their own socialistic Medicare Part D communistic Drug Plan? Certainly Republicans are NOT to be trusted.
Did you know that the almost 1000 page socialistic Republican Medicare Big Government Drug Bill passed just 29 hours after it was drafted. I wonder how many people read the almost 1000 page socialistic Republican Big Government unfunded deficit inducing welfare Bill?
Peter Mokhiber
January 30th, 2010
6:20 pm
Another request to Joe.
I guess when asked to have a fair debate above name calling and claiming lies you would rather bow out. Well maybe, we’ll try and expand the request.
Is anyone out there interested in an open debate regarding health care interested since Joe after respectfully requesting an in depth coversation couldn’t response when he needed to bring facts and lucid arguements to the table.
Too bad it would have been a fun excercise.
Peter
Chris Mathews is covered in his own spittle because he is drinking, again.
January 30th, 2010
6:47 pm
I did not support Part D either. But you still haven’t read the new bill, have you? And yes the democrat party did kill Obamacare. Here’s the difference btw the GOP and the Democrat Pariy, the GOP has turned from its “big gov’t” ways; whereras the Democrat party is embracing it, yelling “the GOP did it.” I hope they contunue to live in denial. Read the new GOP plan, Danny 10, read it.
Peter Mokhiber
January 30th, 2010
7:16 pm
Joe,
This is going to be fun. I will am out and about and will have to wait to respond in total to your comments. I appreciate that you have moved the conversation to Global warming. It seems appropriate to change the topic.
If we are to have a meaningful discussion let’s establish some ground rule.
1. What would you like to talk about? Fox News, Health Care, Global Warming, The Congress and President or personal attacks?
2. Name Calling, Intelligence?
3. Neither of us will name call or demean the other.
4. Others can participate.
R u up for it?
Peter
DannyX
January 30th, 2010
7:24 pm
Still haven’t read the new Bill? I’ve been ignoring that kindergarten question all day. Its just plain stupid.
I could also care less about my points you choose to ignore.
You can go on all night about how the Republicans have just changed over night. The evidence does not show that at all. You continue to re-elect the same people that got us into this huge mess in the first place. Republicans won’t earn any respect until they throw some of their own bums out of office. Like the diaper wearing hooker supporting Senator from La. who voted AYE on the Medicare D Bill. Or just about every single GOP leader that voted yes also.
Republicans may also want to stop fighting over who gets the most Big Government stimulus money. How about reining in Congressmen like Kingston and the rest of the Republican Congressman that despite being in the minority took in the most earmark money.
And most of all how about Republicans make repealing Medicare Part D their number one priority? Maybe talk about fixing their own mistake before the Democrat one is even passed.
Chris Mathews is covered in his own spittle because he is drinking, again.
January 30th, 2010
7:42 pm
I would love to discuss the Man-Made Global Warming Hoax with Joe, Danny 10 or any other lib hack.
ProgressivePeach.com
January 30th, 2010
7:45 pm
Tom “Ned Flanders” Price is a liar — and the president called him out on in Friday. What great television. I pray the Democrats run someone against Price this year. His head will explode as more and more voters begin to realize he’s a tool who’s parroting talking points his corporate masters feed him.
DannyX
January 30th, 2010
7:47 pm
Congressman Price on the other hand had every chance to explain the Republican Bill. Instead he decided to go on a bizarre talking points spree.
One of the main targets of Republican talkers is tort reform. Dr. Price had every opportunity to make a point but looked like a fool. Here is a Doctor that could not make one single claim that tort reform reduced Georgia malpractice premiums. No facts no figures. Just lame comments like “you haven’t read our plan,” even after Obama countless times said he had.
Chris Mathews is covered in his own spittle because he is drinking, again.
January 30th, 2010
7:50 pm
Danny 10, it was not over night. It started during the 06 mid-terms when conservatives stayed home. Anyway, you are right and Mr. Hopey Changey should lead the fight to repeal part D. He is the President, after all. Although you think it stupid, you really should read the plan (or have someone read it to you) you may learn something and find that your generealizations are foolish.
James
January 30th, 2010
8:09 pm
@”Chris et al” – BS you sack of wine don’t you even dare. If we are left without meaningful and effective healthcare reform it’s you and your GOP cronies that are to blame. They have stonewalled this administration from the start. You own it period.
Chris Mathews is covered in his own spittle because he is drinking, again.
January 30th, 2010
8:16 pm
James is delusional. Democrats killed Obamacare. Anything else is pure fiction.
Chris Mathews is covered in his own spittle because he is drinking, again.
January 30th, 2010
8:23 pm
Oh, and I dare. Who are you, you lib panty-waste? I have an idea, why do you go out back and plame a game of hide and go f@*k yourself!
Chris Mathews is covered in his own spittle because he is drinking, again.
January 30th, 2010
8:27 pm
Until Scott Brown beat that democrat arse in MA, the Dems a 60 vote majority in the Senate (they still control 59 of 60 seats), Stretch Pelosi still runs the House and The Obama is Pres.. Like I said the Democrat party has none to blame, but the lib in the mirror. Delicious!
Chris Mathews is covered in his own spittle because he is drinking, again.
January 30th, 2010
8:29 pm
59 of 100, sorry. I am still giddy over the GOP take over The Swimmer’s senate seat.
James
January 30th, 2010
9:37 pm
Not a “lib” you dooosh so go pound sand. There is more to to 350+ million people in this country than “libs” and “cons.” You’re a dinosaur that doesn’t yet know it’s extinct. Time has chunks of punks like you in it’s stool and like all failed dogmas and impotent ideologues, you’re next. LOL!
Chris Mathews is covered in his own spittle because he is drinking, again.
January 30th, 2010
10:35 pm
Failed dogmas? What conservatism? Capitalism? What? Hopey-Changeyness? So, you are an amorphous spineless what? Where do you stand, besides on the side of the road looking for hand-outs? Speaking of time, you should go back in time and talk your pregnant mother to aborting you.
tc
January 30th, 2010
11:02 pm
ooooh this is getting good. panty waste libs….did you get a gander of the video with price on it? seems like libs aren’t the only ones that fit that description!
Chris Mathews is covered in his own spittle because he is drinking, again.
January 30th, 2010
11:56 pm
“They hit. I hit back twice as hard” (uttered by Barack Obama shortly after the election) That sums it up.
TLH
January 31st, 2010
5:15 am
DannyX – Sorry for not replying sooner. However, I am glad I didn’t. It gave me a chance to read you other post. It is VERY clear that you are a paid blogger on behave of the Obama group. ACORN? or what? You are so very wrong on everything you have posted. Please don’t ask me for a particular issue. If you want to debate we can certainly find a better venue. Liberals like you are very narrow mined, which explains the ignorance that you spill on to this site. If you are a socialist pig, then just say so. and quit crying!
TLH
January 31st, 2010
5:25 am
DannyX – “The Massachusetts health care system is a Republican plan”. I have to laugh about this! Read it. “Massachusetts… Republican?” ha ha so funny. This just shows how uninformed you are. Ignorant to say the least. Massachusetts has a MAJORITY of democrats, and always has. This was created in the house of Massachusetts and not the govenors office. How dumb are you?
James
January 31st, 2010
9:22 am
Ahh radical conservative compassion and civility. Love it.
DannyX
January 31st, 2010
9:29 am
You have got to be kidding TLH!!!
At the signing ceremony Republican Governor Mitt Romney proudly proclaimed that he had been able to “steal the health care issue from the Democrats.”
Campaign stop after campaign stop Republican Mitt Romney would mention “his” Massachusetts reform during the 08 campaign.
Republican Mitt Romney claimed credit for the Bill and Republican darling Scott Brown voted YES.
If you want to change history so it reflects your Republican fantasy go ahead.
The record is clear. Republicans have created a couple of recent health care disasters that they want you to forget about, Medicare Part D and the Massachusetts health plan.
I now understand the Republican scorched earth campaign. Republicans have nothing. No resume. Nada.
tc
January 31st, 2010
9:35 am
on fox sunday, chris wallace pointed out that the republican health plan only extended coverage to 3m people tax credits that only covered less than half the family cost, and he did not mention that cbo scored the tort reform much, much less than the repubs touted……..not a ringing endoresement
CC Cummings
January 31st, 2010
11:57 am
It’s really funny how the Republicans are counting on Scott Brown to be their Savior. It’s funny, he won a seat long held by Democrats however Massachusetts have a more liberal healthcare policy than Georgia. Let’s wait and see what really happens. This might boomerang. Obama 2012 has already started. I need someone who will govern and provide solutions that work. Tom Price, Saxby Chambliss, Isakson (even though not as bad as the rest), Bishop, Lynn Westmoreland ALL INCUMBENTS-fear for your jobs. My fellow Georgians are without theres..you have held your jobs albeit by a thread for last 8+years and I feel you are the reason we are in this predicament. Lack of jobs. I would include our Governor in the mix as well but he’s a lame, unproductive duck. Price is a pawn and it embarassed me as a Georgian to have him to challenge MY PRESIDENT and not be prepared.I will never forget that moment. It’s over. Like the political astute gentlemen previously stated “conservatism in Georgia” has been dealt a unrecoverable blow. It played for the whole world to see…
Roswell Dem
January 31st, 2010
12:33 pm
Watching Friday’s GOP smackdown by POTUS was akin to watching Ali carve up the string of white stiffs he fought while heavyweight champ and still in his prime.
It was apparent that Obama was pulling his punches so as not to completely embarrass his thoroughly outmatched opponents. The lightweight R’s were so pleased to report that, yes, they had some ideas, and have the Prez acknowledge that fact.
Obama was too polite to respond that having ideas is one thing. Having ideas even marginally tethered to reality is something else.
To put it bluntly, the GOP does not give a #$%! about the American public or the shaky U.S. economy, which it is largely responsible for tanking.
The only guiding principle of the R’s, if they have one, is to oppose Obama at every turn (except when he agrees with them 100 percent, as in Afghanistan) and do whatever is necessary to make sure his proposals fail.
Thanks to a lot of help from the inept and spineless Senate Dems, they are succeeding, despite the humiliating butt-whipping they suffered in Friday’s Q&A.
How do we know they got their rear ends handed to them? The propaganda arm of the GOP, otherwise known as Fox News, cut away from the totally one-sided bout to provide their pathetic brand of “fair and balanced” commentary.
We decide. You support.
PJ
January 31st, 2010
12:42 pm
Funny how Fox News Channel was the ONLY major new station not to air this. Can’t spin live television can you? I hope Republicons wake up after this and realize their party only cares about large corporations and the super wealthy and how they can most efficiently screw you for everything your worth.
MiltonWoman
January 31st, 2010
1:15 pm
Did anyone hear that Tom Price had an idea? I mean isn’t he a doctor for pete’s sake? Hypocrisy at it’s best. They say no but have no suggestions or laws introduced of their own, never. Why are we paying them to represent us? It’s easy to say no and come spin to the constituents.
scott
January 31st, 2010
2:01 pm
smartstone
bush graduated with higher grades and GPA than that jerk Kerry and Gore anmong others. He then went to Harvard Business School for his masters. Oh, by the way he is a fighter pilot, so he must have some brains. Obama worked for ACORN. WOW
tc
January 31st, 2010
2:40 pm
true his grades were a slight fraction over kerry’s and he was a fighter pilot in the AIR GUARD….and a silver spoon to boot…but he seemed dain bramaged after years of drinking, oh yea, he got a dui as did chicken ship cheney (2X, not to mention 5 deferments)….now that’s a wow
tc
January 31st, 2010
3:00 pm
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2009/nov/05/gop-health-care-reform-simple-explanation/
Chris Mathews is covered in his own spittle because he is drinking, again.
January 31st, 2010
4:10 pm
You know the libs are in BIG TIME TROUBLE when they start re-running the 2000-2006 campaigns. This is a good sign. I am predicting now a 40-45 seat pick-up for the GOP in the house and a 7-10 pick up in the senate. Don’t fret, libs. Ya’ll can blame Bush if I am right.
Joe
January 31st, 2010
4:24 pm
@Chris Matthews is covered in his own spittle, I’m sorry I have a life other than just posting comments on blogs and obviously you don’t. If you had any intelligence at all you would see the point I was trying to make wasn’t if global warming was real or not but that Fox News obviously falsified their information on a poll to see if people thought scientists falsified theirs. You are a typical right wing nut job who doesn’t know what he is talking about and starts getting angry because he is too dumb to think of anything better to say than go f@*k yourself! People like you aren’t even worth the time debating over politics. You need to stop because DannyX has been kicking your ass this whole time. Peter on the other hand I have no problem debating politics with you. My opinion on global warming is that I would rather act on it and find out that it’s not real then not act on it and find out that it is. I also think all the things they say we need to do to prevent it are things we should be doing anyway. Shouldn’t we find another alternative energy solution so we don’t have to rely on the Middle East for oil? I also think what Obama said about alternative energy makes total sense, even if the United States doesn’t think it’s real this is the direction the global market is going in and we should try to be the leaders in it. We don’t want another situation like we had with the auto industry in this country, where we were making gas guzzling suv’s while other countries were making smaller more gas efficient cars. My opinion on the Republican health care reform bill is that after I read it I felt exactly the way Obama obviously did about competition over state lines won’t help the people who really need health care reform the most because all the companies will still deny coverage for people who are really sick. One other thing I didn’t like about the Republicans version is that they don’t really tell you how they are going to afford to do all this. I know the Democrats version still needs work and I wish they didn’t make the backdoor deals that they did. I think it should be the same bill for everyone, but I do think it will fix more of the issues we have with health care than the Republican bill will. My opinion of Fox News is that they try to say they are fair and balanced but have you ever heard them say anything positive about Obama. No matter what he does they always find something to criticize him on and I can’t understand how anybody at this point can’t see that. Like I have said before they have been caught over and over again using false images to deceive the public. A couple times they have used footage from another event to try to say a crowd was bigger than it actually was for something they support. I know the other networks tend to lean to the left more, but they also are never blatantly saying bad things about conservatives the way Fox does about liberals. Look forward to hearing your response Peter. I do think it’s important to hear another point of view even if I will most likely disagree.
Joe
January 31st, 2010
4:28 pm
@Roswell Dem – Awesome post!!!
John
January 31st, 2010
4:48 pm
Outstanding Mr. Price, do not let up. Most of us know Obama is a liar.
Chris Mathews is covered in his own spittle because he is drinking, again.
January 31st, 2010
4:56 pm
Joe is mad at me. Oh, well. Does not change the fact that the deomcrat party killed health care and the Libs are running scared. You lost The Swimmer’s seat for pete’s sake. Well, I will continue to speak truth to libs. Your job, joe, is to continue to get mad and blame Bush or the GOP for democrat impotence!
Chris Mathews is covered in his own spittle because he is drinking, again.
January 31st, 2010
5:01 pm
Joe, Obama embraced drilling of our shores. He said so. He looked as if he was going to break into a cheer of Drill Baby Drill during his State of the Union lecture. How does it feel to be so completely betrayed by the Changey One? Are you more sad or mad? No openess in Gov’t. Gitmo is still open. We are still in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is bailing out big business at every turn. My, my, my. A lib friend said something the other day that I thnk you need to hear, Joe. “Obama is transorming into Bush more and more each day.” Your thoughts…..
Cynthia Tucker McKinney
January 31st, 2010
5:06 pm
Joe and DannyX are die hard leftists. Anyone reading this blog knows that Chris Mathews is covered in his own spittle because he is drinking, is putting the truth to the liberal lies they attempt to foist upon the readers the AJC insider. I find the level of denial on the left to be border-line psychotic. Sad as that is for them, CMISIHOSHIDA is right this will help GOP chances in november.
Chris Mathews is covered in his own spittle because he is drinking, again
January 31st, 2010
5:09 pm
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/01/27/msnbcs_matthews_on_obama_i_forgot_he_was_black_tonight.html
David Shuster is Obama's ButtBoy
January 31st, 2010
5:45 pm
Milton woman is brain dead. You can give her the links to the plan and she will deny that it is there. Milton Woman, can you read? Or are you just stupid and close minded? It is one or the other…..
Roswell Dem
January 31st, 2010
7:24 pm
I wonder if any of you brain-dead wing nuts on the right actually watched the Q&A Friday. Obama ripped every dishonest GOP argument to shreds and made them look like the uninformed amateurs they are.
The only regret from the other side of the aisle is that, unlike his talking points reading interrogators, Obama was polite and respectful in his answers.
John:
Unfortunately for me, I am represented in Congress by Tom Price, who may have asked the single dumbest question Friday, which is about par for him. He asked Obama what should he say to his constituents to answer the criticism that the R’s have no ideas.
Obama was measured in his response, and when Price came back at him, POTUS nailed his idiotic assertion that the R’s could provide health coverage to all with a withering response to the absurdity of that claim.
What Obama could have said, had he not been so diplomatic:
“Tom, we were wrong to say the Republicans have no ideas regarding health care. What we should have said is this:
“The Republicans have ideas, all of them either stupid, unrealistic or simply ones they got directly from the insurance/drug company lobbyists who are so generous to them.
“Given the disdain you and your cohorts have for the millions of Americans, exactly why did you go to med school?”
“What do you tell your constituents? Tell ‘em they elected the wrong person.”
Jokko
January 31st, 2010
8:27 pm
Love it. Chris and his cohorts march lockstep parroting tea_bag_ger talking points and wallowing in the bliss that is their ignorance. Not an original thought amongst them.
David Shuster is Obama's ButtBoy
January 31st, 2010
8:55 pm
The great thing about this little debate is that we will find out who is right. Jokko is too funny. He, like Obama, prolly thinks that the GOP killed Obamacare and that Scott Brown’s win was because the people of MA were upset with the “past eight years” when the elected a man that ran against Obamacare took Teddy Kennedy’s seat from the clutches of the Democrat party. November is just around the corner, I’m gonna save this thread in my favorites for sure! That’s right we are the one’s in lock step (rolling eyes). You guys are whistling by the graveyard! Please, please don’t stop!
Obama lied about the Chage thing, ok!
January 31st, 2010
9:00 pm
Look what Chris “Tweety” Matthews said this to soooooooo funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/01/27/msnbcs_matthews_on_obama_i_forgot_he_was_black_tonight.html
I demand that MSNBC fire Matthews. I will be contact my pastor and the other leaders in our community. There ain’t way around it, that guy is racist to the core.
How's that Hope and Change workin' out for ya?
January 31st, 2010
9:44 pm
Just so I have this straight, Obama and the democrats control both houses of congress and the White House they are unable to get their party together to pass a law that they alone wrote in secret and it is the republicans fault. Then the democrat party fails to keep Ted Kennedy’s senate seat and it is won by a republican that ran against Obamacare and the President and the other democrat hacks claim that it was not about healthcare or their party. You see, MA elected a republican cause they are still mad at Bush. Honestly, do you fellers on the left really think that folks are going to buy that load? Really?
James
January 31st, 2010
10:06 pm
More revisionist tripe. GOP goons have been shouting down all civil discourse (deathpanels anyone?) and stonewalling from the first mention of healthcare reform with ludicrous claims of socialized medicine and a communist takeover. It’s all on record and no reasonable person will buy what your selling. The majority of this country is not made up raging right extremists such as yourself or loony left you fear so much. We’re watching all of your antics and believe me we WILL remember you and your ilk come November.
Owl Gore
January 31st, 2010
10:13 pm
How’s that Hope and Change workin’ out for ya?, is spot on. and James we will see in Nov. who’s right.
Owl Gore
January 31st, 2010
10:18 pm
James, I gonna ask you a question. Are you related to Will Jones?
Drew Atkins
January 31st, 2010
10:23 pm
My family discussed this very same issue at luch today. We were split during the election, but the 3 that voted for Obama are no longer glad that they did. One in particular cited the exact same reason that How’s that Hope and….. pointed out. She said that Obama is ignoring the will of the people and he has lost her support.
Wackolibhack
January 31st, 2010
10:40 pm
It is Bush’s fault that Scott Brown won Ted Kennedy’s senate seat. I hate Bush!!!
vuduchld
February 1st, 2010
4:15 pm
I’ve seen some so-called purported bill that the GOP is sloshing aroubd claiming is the HCB and it looks eeriely similar to the purported budget they tried to lay claim to last year during the stimulus debate. These people have nothing and know it, but are determined to keep pushing the same snake oil on all of us. They have no problem putting the Democrats HC proposal front and center, with Thune using it as a exercising weight, but when it comes time to show their bill, they wave this thin book in front of an audience, telling people to go see it on their website. Well, if you have a “real” bill of solutions put out an ACTUAL PRINTED COPY just like the Democrats and lets physically see what it contians.
Tey never will because they have nothing, no ideas, nothing. Can show what you don’t have. These people need to be called out on this. Plain and simple you either put up or shut the hell up – period!!
Wackolibhack
February 1st, 2010
5:11 pm
It is Bush’s fault that the Republican plan has been ignored by the democrat party. It is Bush’s fault the Democrat party and their wh@res in the media refuse to acknowledge said plan. It is Bush’s fault that Vuducld is, like me, a wackolibhack. I hate Bush!!!
vuduchld
February 1st, 2010
6:19 pm
What President Obama did several days ago was to expose the GOP as a bunch of clueless individuals with no credible ideas. I finally looked at this so called bill online, since they never can seem to produce a printed copy and their bill conatians the same worn out mantras of the past. I aslo looked at scorecards given by several right and left leaning think tanks and the verdict of this bill is DOA. In fact, the bill looks to be poorly crafted, with provisions that in the end would give less coverage, not reduce the budget deficit much and possibly cost more in the long run.
What people missed in the exchange between President Obama and Rep. Price is that the former actually read their bill and mentioned that the CBO looked at and scored it. The GOP bill is not even at the starting gate!
When will you people wake up!? The GOP’s plan is bogus at best and is just a ruse to keep the real HCB from passing. This is serious for me. I have been without health insurance twice in my life and recently as this past summer. If you idiots don’t like President Obama, fine, who cares, but to claim that the GOP has ideas when it clearly doesn’t is a dangerous fallacy to believe.
What our President did was to tell these clowns to “show me yours and I’ll show you mine”. These class clowns couldn’t get past home plate – end of story!
CC Cummings
February 1st, 2010
6:57 pm
@ John, POTUS is a liar? If Obama is a liar, then what was Bush when he stated that “Mission was Accomplished”? There were WMD’s? NOT! @Scott-President Obama-Harvard Graduate-served as the President of Harvard Law Review. You also sound like that Sarah Palin “community organizer” don’t figure in the two of your worlds I see…remember grassroots support is hideous and lethal. Is that why you hate ACORN so much? remember it’s the “invisible” people who are continually supporting the President. Can we move on and get something done in this country?
Wackolibhack
February 2nd, 2010
2:02 am
@cc cummings, It is Bush’s fault that Obama is a liar. I hate Bush!!!
GOP Lost in space between there ears
February 2nd, 2010
10:34 am
go line by line and the GOP right now does not add up all spin!!
Chris Mathews is covered in his own spittle because he is drinking, again
February 2nd, 2010
3:45 pm
Right, it is all spin. That is exactly what I was thinking when I heard Obama lecturing on the dangers of too much gov’t spending. That’s like a hooker lecturing on the dangers of casual sex. You libs are too funny!
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/01/27/msnbcs_matthews_on_obama_i_forgot_he_was_black_tonight.html
Bob
February 23rd, 2010
12:07 pm
Followers of Tom Price and other Republican crooks, cost the tax payers anywhere from $50,000.00 to $150,000.00 per family per year, buy the time you pay for their kids schooling, and give them a housing subsidy in the form of a mortgage tax write off. Since all of you Republicans do not believe in government help, all of you need to get out and pay your own way while you still “know it all”. This is what you call a “Fair Tax”.
Bob
February 23rd, 2010
1:04 pm
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Bob
February 23rd, 2010
1:05 pm
Followers of Tom Price and other Republican crooks, cost the tax payers anywhere from $50,000.00 to $150,000.00 per family per year, by the time you pay for their kids schooling, and give them a housing subsidy in the form of a mortgage tax write off. Since all of you Republicans do not believe in government help, all of you need to get out and pay your own way, while you still “know it all”. This is what you call a “Fair Tax”.
Helpmegetoffthedole
February 23rd, 2010
1:07 pm
Followers of Tom Price and other Republican crooks, cost the tax payers anywhere from $50,000.00 to $150,000.00 per family per year, by the time you pay for their kids schooling, and give them a housing subsidy in the form of a mortgage tax write off. Since all of you Republicans do not believe in government help, all of you need to get out and pay your own way, while you still “know it all”. This is what you call a “Fair Tax