10 replies on “Live Slog: President’s Health Care Speech to Congress”
Remember, take a drink every time President Obama talks about single payer national health care.
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Gonna be a dry night.
Feeling the effects yet Will?
Where can I read the twitter entries of the folks AT congress?
This is one beautiful paragraph:
“You see, our predecessors understood that government could not, and should not, solve every problem. They understood that there are instances when the gains in security from government action are not worth the added constraints on our freedom. But they also understood that the danger of too much government is matched by the perils of too little; that without the leavening hand of wise policy, markets can crash, monopolies can stifle competition, and the vulnerable can be exploited. And they knew that when any government measure, no matter how carefully crafted or beneficial, is subject to scorn; when any efforts to help people in need are attacked as un-American; when facts and reason are thrown overboard and only timidity passes for wisdom, and we can no longer even engage in a civil conversation with each other over the things that truly matter – that at that point we don’t merely lose our capacity to solve big challenges. We lose something essential about ourselves. “
Joe Wilson is a foul little man and should be censured.
@4. Thank you for highlighting that. Spot on.
@5: Is that who shouted “lies”?
@7 – yeah, my mom’s congressman.
No, seriously. Total douchebag.
Obama could take a huge shit, call it a public option, and liberals would still think they won the day because they got something called a public option passed. What kind of competition does something that most people are barred from buying provide? 5% of people can shop competitively with it, whoop de frigging do. And even the 5% of people who can are going to be price negotiated with to offer the same rates as the private companies anyway.
#9. Agreed. Sirota put all of my thoughts together in one nice column:
Remember, take a drink every time President Obama talks about single payer national health care.
….
Gonna be a dry night.
Feeling the effects yet Will?
Where can I read the twitter entries of the folks AT congress?
This is one beautiful paragraph:
“You see, our predecessors understood that government could not, and should not, solve every problem. They understood that there are instances when the gains in security from government action are not worth the added constraints on our freedom. But they also understood that the danger of too much government is matched by the perils of too little; that without the leavening hand of wise policy, markets can crash, monopolies can stifle competition, and the vulnerable can be exploited. And they knew that when any government measure, no matter how carefully crafted or beneficial, is subject to scorn; when any efforts to help people in need are attacked as un-American; when facts and reason are thrown overboard and only timidity passes for wisdom, and we can no longer even engage in a civil conversation with each other over the things that truly matter – that at that point we don’t merely lose our capacity to solve big challenges. We lose something essential about ourselves. “
Joe Wilson is a foul little man and should be censured.
@4. Thank you for highlighting that. Spot on.
@5: Is that who shouted “lies”?
@7 – yeah, my mom’s congressman.
No, seriously. Total douchebag.
Obama could take a huge shit, call it a public option, and liberals would still think they won the day because they got something called a public option passed. What kind of competition does something that most people are barred from buying provide? 5% of people can shop competitively with it, whoop de frigging do. And even the 5% of people who can are going to be price negotiated with to offer the same rates as the private companies anyway.
#9. Agreed. Sirota put all of my thoughts together in one nice column:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-siro…
We lost this debate before it even started when the Obama administration kept single-payer off the table.