Peter King, brain truster, not.

Facts are pesky little things. It is a prerequisit to be divorced from reality if you are a republicant.

PAID WHORE FOR EARLY DEATH………disgusting

Mensa he ain’t!

The only thing Peter King is in touch with is his benefactors wallets.

;>)

So, who the hell has Peter King been talking to that gave him the idea that health care reform is not an important priority?

John Boehner? Mitch McConnell? Billy Tauzin?

Whomever is feeding him campaign contributions mixed with lies.

And he’s got LOTS of company.

It’s a growing problem…A little splash of honey on the fingers, a casually thrown open billfold, a wink, a nod…’Accidents happen’.

;>)

The point is, if Pete King was talking with us, his constituents, he would know just how very important health care reform–and a true public option–really is to the future physical health of Long Islanders and the economic health of the LI economy

A splash of honey on the fingers?

you funny

After the birthers, wingnuts, republiclans, corporatists and teabaggers have had their way with disrupting townhall meetings (remember the Brooks Brothers Riots in 2000) during the Congressional recess the corporate media will announce that most Americans really don’t want transformational healthcare reform. With that King will be proven right.

Kudos Cynthia for this oh so important post!

Actually, I’m more afraid that after the Dem leadership finishes caving in to the blue dogs, we will get to watch Harry Reid announce that health care reform is not important to Americans.

Gah!

It just bugs me that anyone at all, could say what king said–with a straight face.

You know from time to time–OK everyday–one of the kids will say something so outrageous, so clearly factually wrong and socially irresponsible that I take the bait and flip out, and they get to have a laugh at my expense. They are teenagers, this is their idea of fun.

Pete King is not some wiseass high schooler, he is a Member of Congress–sent their to represent my needs and the needs of my neighbors.

And what we need is health care reform. NOW!

Bingo! But then any healthcare reform this Congress and Administration might be able to pass will be nothing more than a piece of shit that the corporate media will hail as transformational. With the stench in the air the American public will think there must be a pony in the room.

OOOOoooorrr, whoever wrote up this morning’s GOP talking points.

Do Republican members of Congress never shy away from spouting RNC talking points no matter how outageously false?

I like the way ponies smell. I am not fond of how Dem’s smell when they sell out of corporatists

Sounds like what you need is a good Democratic challenger to take King out.

And nothing draws a challenger faster than the perception that the incumbent is out of touch.

Do Republican members of Congress never shy away from spouting RNC talking points no matter how outrageously false?

No.

This has been another case of…

Cynthia, despite being a former U.S. Attorney, educated, probably finacially secure, more than likely world wise, and having your “heart” in the right place there is a certain naivete in what you expect from your “representative.” You, like so many Democrats and progressives underestimate the nature and power of the real enemy of the American people, the neo-fascists in the guise of the Republican Party.

What office is King running for? He’s obviously looking to make a name for himself outside Long Island.

This is the line to expect from GOP congresscritters as they fan out across the country. Then, when their Dem counterparts have their Health Care Town Halls disrupted by the Insurance Brownshirts, the GOPs will say in September, “See, we told you so!”

And that will be the end of health care for another twenty years. And we will have a one-term Democratic president. After all, why vote for Hope if all you get is hopiness?

guv

OT: Keith O. about health care tonight, “expose the opponents.”

Why all the news about how horrifying health care is in Canada and the UK ? We have our own health care nightmares and rationed care but don’t hear enough about that, all they want to holler is Obama is going to kill granny. The status quo killed my father. In the end he was begging for a gun. Looking back, I regret not granting that wish.

http://www.wisecountyissues.com/?p=62

In Tennessee and Virginia, profit care comes way ahead of patient care.

Said challenger will need lots and lots of moolah. King is reported to have done very well from defense contractors when he became the chairman of the Homeland Security committee during the Bush regime.

He also has nearly perfect name recognition and only 33% of the voters in his district are Dems. It has been gerrymandered to make it almost impossible for a Dem to win.

With such numerical superiority, King feels no need to pay attention to what his constituents want–a further evil of the “safe seat” system, which erodes all accountability.

They don’t actually wear brown shirts today but rather American plaid and polyesther.

Some of the more downmarket types use tree sap, due to its wide availability and plausible deniability – “I had just pruned my Dutch Elm, Your Honor, when…” – but the mark of higher distinction is ‘keeping it sweet’.

;>)

certain naivete in what you expect from your “representative.” You, like so many Democrats and progressives underestimate the nature and power of the real enemy of the American people, the neo-fascists in the guise of the Republican Party.

Ah, what you see as naive, I see as insisting on proper standards.Just because someone is not living up to my standards, does not mean I should abandon them, or continue to know that I deserve better from their hands than I am currently getting.

I just don’t have battered spouse syndrome yet.

I find this KIng jerk so detestable that I went down from to LI from Westchester to help to get him unseated last go round. He’s an embarrassment and needs to be sent away. What is his constituency anyway?

Let’s run a good dem against him.. LHP or Even Cynthia… I offer my services.

I grew up in wrong Island but I don’t think in his district.

He may run for Senate. YUCK

How did they gerrymander so many R’s into a district in Nassau Cty?

He wanted to run for Senate against Gillibrand, but the polling for that has not been very encouraging for him, and Newt Ginrich recently dissed him at a fundraiser by touting Pataki to run and not even mentioning King’s interest for the gig.

I thought that was pretty tacky of Newt. I don’t like to see LI taken for granted, by anyone

O dear. Just to say I am so sorry. What painful memories.

Do battered wives know they have a syndrome?

Friday night ABC ran an “expose” with John Stoessel decrying the shortcomings of the Canadian system. Oh the horror! According to Stoessel capitalism and the profit motive are the only guarantees that lead to medical innovations. A celebrity journalist on a major network said it so it must be true.

He should run for dog catcher in Upper Brookville.

What is it about Kings? Mine is even worse. Apparently, they have a devine right to be stupid.

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), was the only one to vote no regarding the House resolution Recognizing Slave Labor’s Contribution to Capitol Building last night. The vote was 399 to 1.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/…..ml?showall

The status quo killed my father

I remember when my father died, my mother spent months an months just submitting and resubmitting the same bills over and over again. they would get denied, she would check it against the manual, recheck her paperwork, and do yet another cover letter and resubmit again.

It took forever, and my daddy was a Teamster and had very good coverage. she had to struggle and fight bureaucracy over every bill.

Anyone with less tenacity would have seen our family bankrupted. We were working class and she was raising 4 daughters on her own and every night was another cover letter to write or another bill rejected.

My best friend from law school lives in England and RAVES about national health care. Both she and her husband have extensive use of it, sad to say, and regularly brag about how their lives would have been destroyed if they had attempted to treat such serious conditions here in the states.

Stossel is a despicable creep

It’s a misquote, it is really:

“When you ask the American people those who contribute millions to me what’s the most important issue to them, health care reformdoes not rank high.”

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He has a big chunk of GOP in the “Gold COast” part of his district and down in the “5 towns” section on the south shore if you click on the map of his district you will notice the very large # of country clubs, and –on the north shore–the very small number of roads.

Small number of roads=large robber baron estates.

It’s a misquote, it is really:

“When you ask the American people those who contribute millions to me what’s the most important issue to them, health care reformdoes not rank high.”

Ding Ding Ding

Synioa wins the “rewrite the quote so it makes sense” contest.

Goes to show you just how much the ReichWing is plain lying about health care in other countries. Yes there can be some problems but I sure wonder how many people in France, Britain, Germany and all the others have been bankrupted by health care debts??
We are just facing the Big Money players who love to suck the Middle Class DRY to the point of “Debtors Prisons” being needed to hold all the people who have financially ruined.

Sander,

Who’s campaign did you work on? Dave Mejias or John Rennhack?

As soon as there as many socialists in the good ole U.S. of A. as there are in GB the sooner the U.S. will have single payer universal healthcare, but then the American public has been well indocrtinated and we needn’t worry too much about that!

Gee, I hope it is much sooner than that. I don’t want to have wait until the rise of the socailist party. I want decent helath care reform…..now.

We can all hope that the Boomers are a lot more up on reality than the people who are the elderly now. Can you imagine believing that “Obama is going to kill your granny” ! Nonsense.

Oy the 5 towns… the non progressive orthodox jews.

Not enough voters on the north shore to get him in.

Dave Mejias

As a “Boomer” I am in tune with what needs to be done about health care… Not for ME but for my children and their kids! If the present system or the Repuke system( more money for the insurance & Pharma Co.) they will all be bankrupted before they reach retirement gae.
All this BS about Killing the Elderly(grannies & Gramps) is just plain as fucking lying on their part! Any time you enter a Hospital these days they want to make sure you have some kind of end of life document. They sure don’t want to be making decisions about what to do if the worst happens. I know I have been through this twice in the last four months. And if you don’t have something they provide you with a generic document that entails YOUR decisions!!
These Pukes will do anything to protect their rich Donors.

The UK had a socialist party, the Labor Party, who were financed by unions, and were unashamed socialists. Under the Labor government in the 60s, the marginal tax rate was 103%, and they really taxed dividends, calling it “unearned income”.

They took not one corporate penny (They didn’t take dimes, there were none in the UK).

And meaningful health care reform has been an ongoing discussion since Teddy Roosevelt’s administration. Hope you’re patient. Ever think about posting your blogs under the nic “Polyanna”?

Hope springs eternal doesn’t it?

So true, not only the hospital, but nursing homes also want that stuff (medical power of attorney/whether to resussitate…it’s all routine. Not to say an easy topic, but important.

earnings from stocks and interest etc are UNEARNED income. Earned income id from work… like a job.

I’m 75 and am ashamed of people my age swallowing this junk. I guess some just get old and frightened and cling on to anything. Nope, not Polyanna – just hopeful.

Speaking of mansions, how’s the housing market been doing in NY-03? If it’s anything like the wealthier parts of other metropolitan areas, the high end homes took a huge hit in price, and while the low-end market is recovering, the mansions are sitting around unsold.

The NYT had this to say back in May:

According to Propertyshark.com, an online company that tracks real estate data, there were 943 new foreclosures on the Island in the first quarter of this year, a two-year high, up 77 percent compared with the first quarter of 2008.

In Nassau County there were 626 new foreclosures in the first three months of the year, up 208 percent from a year ago, with the highest numbers in Hempstead, Westbury and Freeport.

Suffolk had 317 new foreclosures in the first quarter, up 14 percent from the last three months of 2008, with the highest numbers in Brookhaven, Islip and Babylon.

Looks to me like this is the heart of the district. If King is ignoring the economic hit in housing, he’s going to have trouble tapping those wealthy donors.

Twain, that reply wasn’t meant for your post but for post 46, the poster I suggested was naive. I’ve never thought you were naive.

As Martha says “it’s all good”

Has Redfish changed his stripes/toes?

The trouble with critters is that their constituency is not the voters but their special interests who pay for their campaigns.

Thought so. Thanks. So he’s now trying to leverage O’Reilly-ness to force his way into the Senate race. I’m sure he represents a certain type of Long Islander, or are his constituents not paying attention?

The way it stands now unless you are basically healthy until you die you’ll give everything you have to the Insruance and Pharma companies. And they are going to fight tooth and nail to hold onto that especially since the boomers are getting to the point of needing more healthcare.

Of course none of those towns are in his district. Hempstead, Westbury and Freeport are in McCarthy’s, Babylon, Islip are in Steve Israel’s and Brookhaven is mostly in Tim Bishops…you know where the teabaggers descended on Bishop? That’s part of Brookhaven.

Having said that, I’m from Long Island…his district is VERY different than the surrounding districts…seriously, it’s f*cking scary.

They put all the minority (Freeport, Westbury, New Cassell, Hempstead, Wyandanch, Brentwood), liberal Jewish (Great Neck, Roslyn) and working class Democrats (Huntington, Bay Shore) areas into NY-02 and NY-04 to make those safer for Democrats.

Who does he listen to? Companies!