Surpirsed no one's posted this yet...

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

srsly, getting a little too lib in here for my tastes, tho.

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[spencer-mato.livejournal.com]

Wow. I dunno how I feel about this. I mean, it's exactly what is happening, and it's pretty good satire, but he's too angry to laugh at. Jon Stewart or Stephan Colbert could pull it off, but this man in a blue suit doesn't do it right.

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

Adam Sandler?

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

The best satire is the satire at least partially based in truth. It doesn't work as satire because it's a ridiculous hissy-fit, and has no basis in reality.

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

What is the republican health plan then?

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure there's a true "Republican health plan," much like there's not a true "Democratic health plan." The Baucus plan is different than 3200 or 676, and the plans thrown out there by the Republicans in Congress are different than those favored by many outside of Congress.

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. Has any republican come out saying that there's a problem, then suggesting ways to fix it founded on the idea of fixing it and not just throwing sand?

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

I'm sure there are many Republicans who believe there's a problem, albeit not as severe as many others do on the opposing side of the aisle.

[xxrancid-punkxx.livejournal.com]

This guy is my new hero. Someone who actually has the balls to speak up and not concede to right wing batshittery. If Republicons can talk about their fake death panels and killing senior citizens, why shouldn't Democrats talk about the real people dying from lack of health care?

"a little too lib", in other words, "a little to REAL".

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Ha, Republicans are SHOCKED, just SHOCKED a Democrat would use THEIR tactics.

*Smirk*

[squidb0i.livejournal.com]

Fucking THIS.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

They're calling for him to apologize, and had even drafted a motion at one point calling for him to do so. In response, he said something like "Yes, I apologize. I apologize to each of the forty thousand people who has died from lack of healthcare in this country this year."

Here we go:

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

The more I look at this video, the more I like it. The repud comparisons with Joe Wilson and Democrats v. Bush ring hollow, for reasons I'll go into if asked.

[blueduck37.livejournal.com]

The GOP health-care plan is simple.

1) Destroy reform efforts, and thus the Obama presidency

2) Win back Congress

3) ???????

4) Profit!!

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

The repud health care plan has been, from the start, not at all about solving or even dealing with a problem the American people are having. It is not about cost control or the protection of a free marketplace.

It is barely about a newfoound devotion to the constitution as Monroe and Adams saw it, though that constitutional purity is pretty irrelevant if it can do nothing about the current situation.

[schnoozles.livejournal.com]

I knew it! The GOP are actually underpants gnomes!

[logosh.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, that's good satire

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

That video is totally false. The Republican Health Care plan is "We'll Break Obama".

Red States indeed

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

I must blake you

[soliloquy76.livejournal.com]

Alan Grayson is awesome.

[donkeyjon.livejournal.com]

Personally, that health care plan would be awesome for me. At least for a few years, until all the baby boomers die off. :)

[cscottd.livejournal.com]

I only have two problems with what Representative Grayson said:

(1) His rhetoric is a bit over-the-top (but given the current amount of crap flying from the right on this, I'm willing to give him a pass on that).

(2) This goes way beyond just Republicans. The Republicans basically seem to have only one goal: Make sure Obama fails at all costs. Unfortunately, they're also getting assistance from a small group of Democrats, who are trying to kill reform for a completely different reason (ie. to appease the companies that have contributed to their campaigns).

I'm increasingly starting to feel that maybe we need to stop referring to Senators and Representatives by their parties and what state they're from, and start referring to them by who their biggest contributors are...

For example, instead of:

Chuck Grassley
Senator (R - IA)

it should be:

Chuck Grassley
Senator (Amgen, Blue Cross, SMC, Occidental Petroleum, DaVita)

and instead of:

Max Baucus
Senator (D - MT)

it should be:

Max Baucus
Senator (Schering-Plough, Goldman Sachs, KKR, AIG, Aetna)

It would certainly clarify their positions and voting records a lot better than party/state.

Great Idea!

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

That is a great idea. I recall there being a good source for this data during the 2008 election. Can we dig that up and compose a list? It might be easier, where applicable, to use companies stock tickers instead of their full names.

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

OK: opensecrets.org:

Top five industries, Nancy Pelosi:
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00007360
Contributor Total Indivs PACs
Akin, Gump et al $20,250 $15,250 $5,000
American Dental Assn $10,000 $0 $10,000
American Nurses Assn $10,000 $0 $10,000
American Postal Workers Union $10,000 $0 $10,000
American Resort Development Assn $10,000 $0 $10,000


Industry Total Indivs PACs
Health Professionals $116,300 $4,800 $111,500
Building Trade Unions $51,000 $0 $51,000
Transportation Unions $42,000 $0 $42,000
Public Sector Unions $40,500 $0 $40,500
Lawyers/Law Firms $37,650 $21,650 $16,000

So her code would be HP, BTU, TU, PSU, LLF.

Not ringing, but this is just the first cut.

Great idea, only 5-600 to go.

[faylnncortez.livejournal.com]

This is a BRILLIANT idea :)

[faylnncortez.livejournal.com]

I <3 your icon :)

[mikepictor.livejournal.com]

Well, I guess I have to stop associating idiotic hyperbole with the republicans.