The uniqueness of the summit was that it was on TV. Presidents have always gathered up congressmen and tried talking them into this or that.
It’s fairly obvious that the summit was a symbol. Obama knows that his only chance of passing this now infamous bill after Brown won is to abuse Reconciliation. The summit was a symbolic show of bipartisanship to try and make the Reconciliation effort look less dastardly.
We witnessed a fairly unique political exchange in the experience of this summit. Has no one anything to say about it?
Can you believe these guys ramping up to use Reconciliation to pass the Senate bill? Oh my… You know – when Brown ganked Massachusetts, the evil partisan strategic side of me was like – Oh sweet destiny. Let them come. Oh – let them come. Draw them into the teeth of our forces. Harden their hearts and confuse their minds. Oh – let them use Reconciliation. Oh sweet arrogance – let them use Reconciliation.
Scott Brown elected Massachusetts State Senator
Do you think a woman who had posed nude could ever achieve national political office?
Disaster in Haiti
F-me 72 minutes long.
I appreciate efforts to make positive comments. But holy horses ass don’t you hate being treated like you’re a stupid jerk who has no idea what’s happened in the past year?
Fairness
Let’s start with the semantics – my favorite part of politics [ facetiousness detected ]. We are talking about the FairTax Act. If we judge this Act by the standards held by recent legislation – like the American Clean Energy and Security Act, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, and American Recovery and Reinvestment Act – I have to assume that the FairTax Act taxes people unfairly and is not specific to America.
Regarding the mandate of citizens to purchase health care, I’m interested in how precedent is used in law making. There aren’t any current laws that require every person to purchase something regardless of their personal priorities.
Isn’t this an example, assuming it were passed, of further expansion, since no other law goes so far? Income tax is a special case, but besides the Selective Service I can’t think of anything else that so directly affects people regardless of what they do.
The House passed it, and by only 5 votes. One Republican YEA. 39 Democrat NAY. You know that’s a piece of garbage that will see trouble in the Senate. LOL
Health care reform is an easy thing to talk about on the campaign trail. But I think when all these congressmen start really looking at the complexities and size of things – they’ll start to get cold feet, especially with the political weather that has kicked up. In the case of broad sweeping naïve Change® I’m sort of glad. We need some reform in the way we pay for health care though, that’s for sure. The insurance model doesn’t fit, people get screwed, and so on.
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