Medicare
Republicans who were hoping to make votes in favor of health care a defining line of attack in the midterm elections are finding that votes in favor of TARP are proving much more effective — which is unfortunate for them, because many of them voted for it. Still, it’s a healthy sign when citizens question [...]
Whoah hey a House-Senate conference committee stayed up all night and came up with a compromise version of the financial reform bill! Does it contain a substantive section on derivatives reform? Well, “banks and their parent companies [must] segregate much of their derivatives activities into a separately capitalized subsidiary,” so, we’ll say … sure, maybe.
HAHAHAHAH. Nancy Pelosi loves pissing off teabaggers. Here she is linking arms with John Lewis, just like in the Selma march, to remind America of how teabaggers chanted “nigger” at John Lewis fifteen times yesterday. And if anyone gets in her way, she will smash their skulls into sandhills of calcium with her Weapon, the [...]
If you can’t watch the whole 5+ minutes of Satan’s earthly plastic voodoo doll Joe Lieberman moaning about his extraordinary feats of leadership, just check out 3:00 to 3:45 to hear him (try to) defend his videotaped September interview in which he supported a Medicare buy-in option.
The Senate went to work on a Sunday — Hanukkah Sunday, we bet! — and desecrated the grave of the Stillborn Jesus to give hundreds of billions of dollars to themselves and their favorite government programs. The bill okays $447 billion for whatever federal agencies plus $650 billion to keep funding teabagger welfare programs such [...]
MEDICARE FOR THE MIDDLE-AGED! The Senate has now come up with its latest good “compromise idea to be abandoned at some point in favor of a large capital gains tax cut” for health care reform: offer a Medicare buy-in option to people between 55 and 65, hooray! Bart Stupak won’t have any of this, however, [...]
DON’T SELL OUT THE SENIORS! Oh man there aren’t many things better than John McCain whining and snarling for several minutes about how he must save the Olds from this black’s health care death program. “Hospice… OF ALL THE THINGS, HOSPICE! Uhh.. some… eight billion dollars!… All of these are cuts in the obligations that [...]
Democrats and Republicans continue to compete over who can cater more to Big Senior re: possible Medicare cuts. [AP] Obama spent all day yesterday begging the U.N. to agree to a resolution that would get Iran and North Korea and others like them in such big trouble if they crossed their fingers behind their backs [...]
What happens when insane old men of competing political stripes, neither with any filtering capabilities, converse? PEE PEE RAGE. Here is comical Democratic Rep. Pete Stark, who has been proudly insulting constituents and colleagues for about 40 years, taking a question at a recent town hall from a standard-issue old wingnut — a frequent suckler [...]
Jesus, didn’t Michael Steele shame himself enough times last week to realize that he should never talk about anything related to health care, publicly, again? He must really care about passing this very detailed Seniors’ Bill of Rights he introduced last week, which would heroically prevent lawmakers from EVER making any cuts to Medicare, a [...]
