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Title: Republicans Kick Obama's Worthless Ass at Health Care Summit
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Published: Feb 25, 2010
Author: Don Surber
Post Date: 2010-02-25 16:37:48 by dont eat that
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Republicans are circulating quotes from all over about today’s summit on Obamacare. Their sampling of quotes: CNN’s WOLF BLITZER: “It looks like the Republicans certainly showed up ready to play.” (CNN’s “Live,” 2/25/10) CNN’s GLORIA BORGER: “The Republicans have been very effective today. They really did come to play. They were very smart.” (CNN’s “Live,” 2/25/10) BORGER: “They took on the substance of a very complex issue. … But they really stuck to the substance of this issue and tried to get to the heart of it and I think did a very good job.” (CNN’s “Live,” 2/25/10) BORGER: “They came in with a plan. They mapped it out.” (CNN’s “Live,” 2/25/10) CNN’s DAVID GERGEN: “The folks in the White House just must be kicking themselves right now. They thought that coming out of Baltimore when the President went in and was mesmerizing and commanding in front of the House Republicans that he could do that again here today. That would revive health care and would change the public opinion about their health care bill and they can go on to victory. Just the opposite has happened.” (CNN’s “Live,” 2/25/10) GERGEN: “He doesn’t have a strong Democratic team behind him.” (CNN’s “Live,” 2/25/10) THE HILL’S A.B. STODDARD: “I think we need to start out by acknowledging Republicans brought their ‘A Team.’ They had doctors knowledgeable about the system, they brought substance to the table, and they, I thought, expressed interest in the reform. I thought in the lecture from Senator John McCain and on the issue of transparency, I thought today the Democrats were pretty much on their knees.” (Fox News’ “Live,” 2/25/10) THE WEEKLY STANDARD’S STEVE HAYES: “I think to me the most important thing to come out of the morning so far is that Republicans have spent a great deal of time talking with great passion, and I think eagerness about their plans, detailing the plans that until this morning them democrats had been saying didn’t exist. Well, you now see, I think, in great detail that Republicans do have plans, that they care about the same issues and that they feel passionately about it.” (Fox News’ “Live,” 2/25/10) My take is this is health insurance is a boring topic that has shown just how boring and dull this president is. He is hopelessly lost in the Land of Actuarial Tables, where co-payments and deductibles rein. I’m beginning to see why he keeps flogging this dead horse: He has nothing closer to a unicorn than this; it is all he knows.
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#1. To: dont eat that, ALL (#0)
Doe's anyone know whether this summit was taped? I would love to watch every moment of it.
I think CPAN has the whole thing. That said, Gergen's right (for once). Right now behind closed doors the Whitehouse is kicking themselves in the ass. This hurt the faint chance they had. It also demonstrates that Owe-bama's 'golden pipes' are ringing hollow these days.
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It was great to watch the Reps wipe that shit-eating grin on his face.
Goldi-Lox: You're one dumb-fucking bitch.
Huh?
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Death to everybody who does not get outta my way.
Yep...I get it...you're a moron too... It's wipe "OFF"...not wipe "ON"... End of lesson...
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I found it almost amusing that many of the folks who voted for Medicare Part D (Cantor, Ryan, Boehner to name a few), a massive, unfunded expansion of social welfare, spent yesterday criticizing Obama's health care plans (which actually reduce the long-term deficit). But of course if we just hand power back to the folks who turned a massive surplus into a massive deficit, all will be well, right?
Being a Republican means you get to choose your own reality.
Out of the last 4 POTUSes who got it correct? One. Clinton. End of history lesson.
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The prescription drug program was not a takeover of the health care system. It was simply an added benefit under Medicare, and for what ever you want to think of it, it has generally been lauded as a successful program.
It was the first Bush bailout..... of the pharmaceuticals.
Clinton didn't do shit: __ Republicans Keep Their Promise: Balancing the Budget and Reducing Taxes When Republicans assumed control of Congress in 1995, their foremost goal was to keep a promise they made to the American people: To balance the federal budget and to cut their taxes. However, standing between Republicans and the fulfillment of their promise was the President. Now after more than two years of refusal, President Clinton has finally agreed to a balanced budget that reduces taxes. Getting to this point has not been easy. Prior to Republicans assuming control of Congress in 1995, President Clinton refused to embrace the idea of a balanced budget. Clinton's first budget called for an astronomical tax hike of $220 billion that Democrats in Congress increased to $240 billion. Clinton's first three budgets -- released in 1993, 1994, and 1995 (for FYs 1994, 1995, and 1996 respectively), left deficits of $241.4 billion, $201.2 billion, and $194 billion by his own estimation (which CBO scored at $228.5 billion, $206.2 billion, and $276 billion respectively). In the meantime he vetoed the Republicans' budget in 1995 -- a budget that would have cut taxes and been the first to have balanced since 1969. Not until election year 1996 did he even aspire to balance, producing a budget that left an $81 billion deficit in its final year. For more than two years, President Clinton has blocked all of the Republicans' efforts to eliminate the deficit and reduce taxes. Today for the first time, President Clinton has joined Republicans in its goal and agreed to his first balanced budget. The budget will: * Balance honestly by 2002 with steadily declining deficits. * Provide significant pro-family and pro-growth tax relief -- the largest tax cut since Ronald Reagan's in 1981. * Avert the crisis of Medicare's imminent bankruptcy. * Rein-in federal spending's unconstrained growth and provide real entitlement reform. * Produce the largest entitlement reform in U.S. history. * Protect areas important to America: Education, the environment, and national security.
Q: Why has Medicare Part D been successful? A: Medicare Part D has high satisfaction rates in large part due to the variety of plans for Medicare beneficiaries to choose from and its affordability. Currently, Iowa seniors can pick from close to 50 different prescription drug plans and find the one that meets their own individual needs. Competition between plans has lowered costs for both beneficiaries and the federal government. Today, Medicare Part D premiums are 36 percent less than originally estimated by expert forecasters, and the overall cost of the program is almost $240 billion less than was expected. All this means taxpayers are saving money and seniors are saving an average of $1,100 a year on prescription drug costs by enrolling in this successful program.
1. Nothing the Democrats have proposed amounts to a "takeover of the health care system". 2. I'm not sure how you define an unfunded liability that's estimated to cost over $500 billion by 2013 is a "success". Do you consider Medicare to be a success as well?
Being a Republican means you get to choose your own reality.
So you don't have a problem with socialism then? After all, under Medicare Part D seniors only pay 25% of their own prescription costs, 75% are covered by tax payers. So if you think that approach has been a success, why would you oppose additional expansion of federal health care programs?
Being a Republican means you get to choose your own reality.
You can find the story deep in the bowels of the Medicare Trustees report that was released earlier this week. It is a nice little case study of how a well-intentioned government program can add tens of billions of dollars annually to the federal deficit. And it is a cautionary tale of how hard it will be to bring medical costs under control, despite the promises of the Obama Administration and industry lobbyists. Part D was adopted by Congress in 2003 and began to pay full benefits in 2006. When Congress passed the drug program, conservatives groused that it was too expensive, while liberals complained it was both too complicated and not generous enough. Premiums finance only about 25 percent of the program’s cost—the rest is paid through general tax revenues. Unlike Part A hospital insurance, there is no payroll tax funding for this piece of Medicare. For the past three years, benefits have been significantly lower than government actuaries first projected, in part because so few costly new drugs have made it on to the market. But don’t worry. That bit of fiscal good fortune is not likely to last long. According to the actuary’s intermediate cost assumptions, Part D spending will nearly triple from about $50 billion last year to a staggering $140 billion in 2018. Per capita spending will more than double, from $1,500-a-year to almost $3,200. And the program’s long-run costs are even more troublesome: growing from about 0.4 percent of Gross Domestic Product in 2008 to 1.4 percent of GDP by mid-century to 1.8 percent by 2080. Yikes. That’s about 10 percent of what it has historically cost to run the entire federal government. Just as troubling is the uncertainty of these estimates. While $140 billion is the mid-range forecast for 2018, the actuaries warn the cost could range from as low as $107 billion to as much as $180 billion. With admirable understatement, the trustees say, “there remains a very substantial level of uncertainty surrounding these costs projections.” Being a Republican means you get to choose your own reality.
You are aware of the term "incremental ism", are you not? See also "camel's nose under the tent.
Obammy sez it Q: Why has Medicare Part D been successful? A: Medicare Part D has high satisfaction rates in large part due to the variety of plans for Medicare beneficiaries to choose from and its affordability. Currently, Iowa seniors can pick from close to 50 different prescription drug plans and find the one that meets their own individual needs. Competition between plans has lowered costs for both beneficiaries and the federal government. Today, Medicare Part D premiums are 36 percent less than originally estimated by expert forecasters, and the overall cost of the program is almost $240 billion less than was expected. All this means taxpayers are saving money and seniors are saving an average of $1,100 a year on prescription drug costs by enrolling in this successful program.
Please Puddin'...Clinton got everything that he wanted from the GOP Congress and also managed to keep their moronics in check. Face it, 1994 happened because the GOP temper tantrum tapped into the Perot wing of the party which, within two years, was gone. You had GOP malcontents looking to overthrow Newt because they recognized how badl Clinton was beating Newt at every turn. The only reason that they failed was because some of the older members, who actually sympathized with them would, nonetheless, NOT support them because of the dangerous precedent it would have set. A ridiculous reason. Had Boy Blunder not blundered into 9/11, he's a one termer and the dems are fully in power in 2004 instead of 2006. Had they nominated Dean it would have happened.
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Pretty easy in the days before the pajamas media when the MSM is slobbering over sink boy and wasting no opportunity to trash Gingrich over every stupid thing possible.
Until he screwed over his sick wife that is. And folks found out Gringrich was no better than Clinton in the slease department.
Riiight...they slobbered over him so much they were asking his press secretary if blow job = sex and putting love chiled accusations on the front page and reading "he reached back and carressed my anus" from Starr Report on the steps of the Capitol... The biggets joke in the world is you folks trying to promote the myth that the media protected Clinton when in fact, they'd print or air anything.
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Nobody believes Owe-Bama's two (2) TRILLION DOLLAR nationalization of healthcare will 1)Improve the hhealthcare over whats available today, 2)Reduce costs overall, or specifally premiums, or the most laughable claim of all 3) Reduce the national deficit. If you bitched about FEMA's response to Katrina, and you support nationalizing healthcare, your either a fool or a massive hypocrite. Being a Liberal Democrat means you ignore reality...and basic math apparently.
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Heatlh care is not nationalized. That would be a single payer system.
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WHA...CHUCKLE...HUH? There is no fucking way that you will ever convince me that you take a sober breath after 11AM,. Boofer...
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This was just the feeding frenzy of a sensational story after it broke. Nobody wanted to be left out. The story was spiked until Drudge broke it. putting love chiled accusations on the front page Point out the front page that was on? The biggest joke was Dan Rather making an appearance on the Tonight Show TRYING to say with a straight face that he thought Clinton was an honest man. That crap went on constantly. Where were you?
You do have a penchant for the stating the obvious Puddin'...now maybe you'll learn to grasp it as well...
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What you fail to GRASP is that the media was never out to get Clinton for the mere sake of getting Clinton. That's exactly what they were doing with Gingrich.
Riiight...which is why both the NY Times and the WaPo were falling over each other trying to be the most inaccurate about WhiteWater and why the mainstream media covered and televised, live, Gennifer Flowers' news conference.
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If the media were truly out to get Clinton, he would have quickly gone the way of Gary Hart. They weren't.
Hart whimped out and he did not have a wife as ambitious as Hillary. As usual, puddin', your analysis is clouded by your own bias. It was Dog Pile on the Clintons [including Chelsea] from the git go. He beat them [you] all. (laughing)
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Same could be said of Owe-bama, except the issue wouldn't be 'sex' ala the Impeached One.
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Yeah, and goes down in history as the only elected President ever to be impeached. did not have a wife as ambitious as Hillary. In any other event, that sham marriage and Bill's known history as a sexual predator would have been exposed.
Chuckles...history has recorded that act for the absurdity that it was. In any other event, that sham marriage and Bill's known history as a sexual predator would have been exposed. As opposed to what? Gennifer Flowers coming forward in the mainstream media? You really do have a bizarre sense of stupdity. Met Booofer? He'd be a good bottom for you...
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In case you have forgotten Flowers was trashed, and Sink boy was given softball venues to present what a changed man he was and how that was all in the past. Never was his documented history as a sexual predator mentioned. Eillen Wellstone? Elizabeth Ward-Grayson?
It was never documented which is how you know those names...talk to Boofer the Bottom about holes...and not the one on his ass...
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LOL! - DON HEWITT ( Executive Producer, " 60 Minutes"): And they came to us because they were in big trouble in New Hampshire. They were about to lose right there and they needed some first aid. They needed some bandaging. What they needed was a paramedic. So they came to us and we did it and that's what they wanted to do. When I told Tim Russert that I was persona-non-grata at the White House, he said, "Why?" I said, "The Gennifer Flowers interview." He said, " You got him the nomination." I said, " I know that." As far as I know from the conversations I've had, Bernie Nussbaum knew that, Gergen knows that, Lloyd Cutler certainly knows it 'cause Lloyd had a hand in his coming on that night.
Russert? One of the biggest Clinton Cock grabbers in the media. I always said what killed Russert was Hillary's success...
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Did you inform the coroner, dipshit?
Sneakypete, have you ever been married? Said things you later regretted?
Anyone that questions my anti groupies sanity...well, its comments like that which bring it to mind....
my anti groupie can't get through life without me.
Yulon is a tree falling in the woods with no one around, Boofer...if you can hear him what's that say about you. This place has 15 regular posters. 14 of them have him on bozo becausem believe it or not, he's an evern bigger asshole than you are (minus using his business for background checks and lying about 10 year warrantys). You're in good company (laughing)...
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestTHE HILL’S A.B. STODDARD: “I think we need to start out by acknowledging Republicans brought their ‘A Team.’ They had doctors knowledgeable about the system, they brought substance to the table, and they, I thought, expressed interest in the reform. I thought in the lecture from Senator John McCain and on the issue of transparency, I thought today the Democrats were pretty much on their knees.” (Fox News’ “Live,” 2/25/10)
#2. To: Murron (#1)
#3. To: Badeye, Murron (#2)
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#4. To: dont eat that (#0)
#5. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#4)
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...wipe that shit-eating grin on his face.
#6. To: war, Nebuchadnezzar (#5)
...wipe that shit-eating grin on his face.
#7. To: e_type_jag (#6)
Chuckles.........got it yet now war?
#8. To: dont eat that, badeye, war, sneakypete, murron, mininggold, fred mertz (#0)
#9. To: go65 (#8)
#10. To: go65 (#8)
#11. To: dont eat that (#10)
The prescription drug program was not a takeover of the health care system. It was simply an added benefit under Medicare, and for what ever you want to think of it, it has generally been lauded as a successful program.
#12. To: war (#7)
#13. To: mininggold (#11)
#14. To: dont eat that (#10)
The prescription drug program was not a takeover of the health care system. It was simply an added benefit under Medicare, and for what ever you want to think of it, it has generally been lauded as a successful program.
#15. To: dont eat that (#13)
A: Medicare Part D has high satisfaction rates in large part due to the variety of plans for Medicare beneficiaries to choose from and its affordability. Currently, Iowa seniors can pick from close to 50 different prescription drug plans and find the one that meets their own individual needs. Competition between plans has lowered costs for both beneficiaries and the federal government. Today, Medicare Part D premiums are 36 percent less than originally estimated by expert forecasters, and the overall cost of the program is almost $240 billion less than was expected. All this means taxpayers are saving money and seniors are saving an average of $1,100 a year on prescription drug costs by enrolling in this successful program.
#16. To: dont eat that (#13)
Medicare’s Part D drug benefit is going to cost taxpayers a lot of money. A really, really lot of money.
#17. To: go65 (#14)
1. Nothing the Democrats have proposed amounts to a "takeover of the health care system".
I believes it
an' that settles it!
#18. To: go65 (#14)
#19. To: dont eat that (#12)
#20. To: war (#19)
You had GOP malcontents looking to overthrow Newt because they recognized how badl Clinton was beating Newt at every turn.
#21. To: dont eat that (#20)
Pretty easy in the days before the pajamas media when the MSM is slobbering over sink boy and wasting no opportunity to trash Gingrich over every stupid thing possible.
#22. To: dont eat that (#20)
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#23. To: go65 (#8)
#24. To: Badeye (#23)
#25. To: Badeye (#23)
If you bitched about FEMA's response to Katrina, and you support nationalizing healthcare, your either a fool or a massive hypocrite.
#26. To: war (#22)
Riiight...they slobbered over him so much they were asking his press secretary if blow job = sex
#27. To: dont eat that (#26)
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This was just the feeding frenzy of a sensational story after it broke.
#28. To: war (#27)
#29. To: dont eat that (#28)
What you fail to GRASP is that the media was never out to get Clinton for the mere sake of getting Clinton.
#30. To: war (#29)
#31. To: dont eat that (#30)
If the media were truly out to get Clinton, he would have quickly gone the way of Gary Hart.
#32. To: dont eat that (#30)
#33. To: war (#31)
He beat them [you] all.
#34. To: dont eat that (#33)
Yeah, and goes down in history as the only elected President ever to be impeached.
#35. To: war (#34)
#36. To: dont eat that (#35)
#37. To: war (#31)
As usual, puddin', your analysis is clouded by your own bias. It was Dog Pile on the Clintons [including Chelsea] from the git go.
#38. To: Sleepy Floyd (#37)
#39. To: war (#38)
I always said what killed Russert was Hillary's success...
#40. To: Ibluafartsky (#39)
#41. To: Badeye (#40)
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