Oh dear, oh dear dear dear. The beltway wisdom is wrong again:
With President Obama appearing on five Sunday-morning news programs and with him sitting down with David Letterman last night, the political chattering class has asked this question: Is Obama overexposed?…
In the poll, 34% say they see and hear Obama too much, 9% say they see/hear him too little, and 54% say it’s the right amount.
Which is really going to break the potato-shaped heart of Howard Kurtz who pondered Obama as being overexposed in his daily column, on his CNN show, on his Facebook page, and, of course, on his Twitter account.
In other matters sure to go unnoticed by David Broder:
…who will get blamed if health care doesn’t get passed this year? Per the poll, 10% say Obama, 16% say congressional Democrats, and 37% say congressional Republicans.
It’s enough to make you think that maybe, just maybe, the Beltway brand of wisdom is not the type Barack and Rahm should be following.
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It’s not nice to make me laugh this early in the morning. Really. The Beltway Wisdom is that America is not ready for an African-American to be President. I think they still believe it.
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These are folks that live in a nice little bubble I wouldn’t trust their wisdom on any issue
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The Congress is back in session and doing the dirty work for the Medical Industrial Complex.
mcconnell $3.3M, hatch $2.9M, baucus $2.8M, grassley $2.7M,
lieberman $2.6M, burr $2.4M, ensign $2.4M, cornyn $2.2M, kyl $2.1M,
conrad $2.1M, cantor $1.8M boehner $1.7M, coburn $1.2M, j wilson 800K
were paid by the Medical Industrial Complex to kill Health Care Reform.
(Source: OpenSecrets.org)
Co-Author Dr. Steffie Woolhandler of a Recent Harvard Study on Annual Deaths of America’s Uninsured, says the lack of coverage can be tied to about 45,000 deaths a year in the United States. The only way to affordably cover all Americans is through a Medicare-for-All, Single-Payer System. A Single-Payer System would generate $300-$400 billion in administrative savings annually, enough to cover all of the uninsured, and to plug the gaps in coverage for Americans with only partial coverage. Obviously, Medicare-for-all is anathema to the insurance industry. What politicians are doing is saving insurance industry profits, but sacrificing American lives.
12 Million Americans were denied health care coverage by the Medical Industrial Complex because they had a pre-existing medical condition. 12K Americans are denied insurance coverage everyday by a for-profit Insurance bureaucrat. (Source: WaPo Article 05′ by Harvard Prof. E. Warren)
Medical malpractice lawsuits are a hot topic but, are they? Tort Reform is such a “Red Herring” and is easily disproved. A 2004 report by the Congressional Budget Office said medical malpractice makes up only 2 percent of U.S. health spending. Even “significant reductions” would do little to curb health-care expenses, it concluded.
bush(43) economic speech writer david frum, at least, is willing to admit the idea about selling insurance across state lines is a crock:
New Jersey health policies cost more in large part because New Jersey hospitals and doctors charge more. If I buy a cheaper Kentucky policy that reimburses my providers at Kentucky rates, leaving me to pay the balance, how much good does that do me? And if the Kentucky policy is made to pay New Jersey rates, there vanishes my low Kentucky price.
These are some of the easily refuted arguments bought and paid for by the Medical Industrial Complex to derail any chance of their criminally massive profits being reduced.
Follow the Money: Link
Call Congress and demand, Single-Payer Health Care for All!
(Toll Free # House and Senate)
1-866-338-1015_______________1-866-220-0044
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Sign Single-Payer Petition: Link
Don’t let the Medical Industrial Complex steal your Health Care from you and your family by donating huge sums of money to Crooked Politicians in order to maintain the Status Quo. Keep up the good fight.
SEMPER FI!
And meanwhile, look who wants help from the EVIL Washington DEC!
The healthcare debate will be won by those with the deepest pockets
Our Senate Dems are not going to vote against their own self interests
Isn’t the good governor afraid this could lead to a government takeover of his state?
Not when is suits him. This is the dope that prayed for rain on the Capitol steps last year!
Good morning, pups. It’s Dowd and Friedman this morning. MoDo, in “Where the Wild Thing Is,” says Tom DeLay on “Dancing With the Stars” is a reminder that in our lowbrow-loving culture, a scoundrel can do the redemption tango simply by being a good sport. The Moustache of Wisdom addresses “Cracks in Iran’s Clique” and says signs that the Iranian regime is becoming vulnerable might mean the United States is in a better position to negotiate a deal at the next round of talks.
Here they are.
The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got apple spice muffins this morning. I didn’t watch the show (there’s not enough money in the world to bribe me to do that) but from the clips I saw The Hammer looked a bit light in the loafers… And I’ll never forgive him for never letting me hear “Wild Thing” again without the vision of him waggling his butt. Have a great day.
It’s so obviously the answer and it’s not being acknowledged. This bill is a monster where single payer already has a model. Medicare for everyone….so simple.
I was just telling my son how it was when I was in college. If you were sick, you went to the infirmary, showed your college I.D., saw the doctor and handed the antibiotics, pain-killers etc. Sooooo simple.
I saw it too, so I fixed your description.
Thanks! You’ve improved the description, but REALLY messed up my vision of Wild Thing.
Atta thinks that just because most of the public likes Pres. O. and supports health care that the Village will notice? hahahaha
I refuse to watch Delay dance. ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ is a classic, shame on anyone who associates the ethically repugnant squint with it.
Nice ad here, too – the 98000reasons.org
Morning all. John Boner may have created a lot of headaches for many companys doing business with the government. So you want to punish ACORN heh boner. Hilarious.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..-This-Game
EWWWWW !
That’s really gross !
Heh, the biggest oxymoron, eh…?
I hope you didn’t get flooded out, raven…!
Yes, it was. Meanwhile, his daughter sent out an email to everyone asking them to vote for him 8 times.
The Hammer wasn’t sullying “Where the Wild Things Are.” He took his little hatchet to Wild Thing by the Troggs. And I’ll never forgive him for it…
Good gawd. James Inhoffe, the biggest idiot in the senate to be on C=Span first thing this AM. Arrrrgghh
What’s he scheduled to be displaying his ignorance about?
Don’t look now, but I think it worked.
Afghanistan – you know across the border from Iraq.
I’m just assuming the title of ‘wild thing’ was derived from the classic kids’ book. Yes, I did know he danced to an otherwise terrific piece, which will never be free from that slur.
Emily Littella? Is that you?
Palin speech in Hong Kong being reported by fellow speaker in tweets, appropriately;
“#Palin says drill. Say death panels were a way to show mainstreet what is wrong w gov plans”
AND MORE at http://texas4palin.blogspot.co…..-hong.html
I’m still amazed after 8 years of the Bush Regime and all their lies that Americans would for some reason believe that it’s the republicans current lies, deceits, and distortions on health care reform is golden! I mean, really, how lame can Americans be at this point? Pretty lame and stupid apparently.
I’m back and I don’ wanna dance on the Where the Wild Things bar.
-Emily
I think 78% of the people have caught on. All we need is for Congress to vote the will of the people.
Jon Stewart thought that Delay looked teh gay.
Inhofe is an idiot. A malicious idiot.
Good morning, folks! Ah, you make my heart sing!
Yes, we have caught on, but the neck drooling knuckle draggers? They’re still in LaLa Land!
He seemed a bit light in the loafers to me too. The whole thing (or at least the bits I saw) was pretty much just EEEWWWWW.
Can’t we get one, intelligent, well-spoken progressive on the phone to rip Inhofe a new asshole?
Isn’t the phone call screening system designed to prevent that?
Does anyone know how the phone screening system on C-Span is supposed to work?
I have never been able to get through.
I have a few times, by dialing on the Dem line, while a Dem was speaking, waiting to dial the last number until the host/hostess hangs up, then it started ringing, but don’t often try.
It is getting deep over there. BS about Canada healthcare. BS, BS, and more BS.
Boy! His eyes just light up when he gets to start talking about weapons systems, don’t they
This is Imhofe World, has nothing to do with reality.
Exactly Marion! See? You’ve caught on. LOL :-)
Not one dissenting voice! Not one!!
That was disgusting.
There was someone from Michigan that wanted Canadian style health care.
As much face time as the President got on sunday, i know many people, that are not die hard political junkies, have started to tune out of politics and started paying attention the the start of the NFL season. I dont think as many people saw him on sunday as he would have hoped and as his critics are saying.
Safe to go back in the CSpan, Alcee Hastings on now.
Yeah, Barak and Rahm shouldn’t be listening to the Beltway Brahmins but they are now being held as prisoners by those same Brahmins. It’s looking like they are suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.
What’s so funny is…..every channel on the television and on our radios are filled with right wingers, but yet, President Obama does a bunch of Sunday talk shows and appears on David Letterman and the right wing cries, “Too much exposure!!!! We’re scared!!!! He’s trying to brainwash us!”.
Seriously, if one of the right wingers was standing in front of me right now, I’d kick him in the shin.
I’d miss the shin and go for higher territory. Had a round with a winger over at the seminal.firedoglake yesterday, with him insisting that it was ‘personal irresponsibility’ to file suit for getting a hospital caused staph infection. Couldn’t be anything but a word game to this sort.
Oh yes, a kick to his lemon drops would be in order too!
Personal irresponsibility for anyone to file suit against a hospital that isn’t clean? Well, if my memory serves me correctly (most of the time it does), Glenn Beck wanted to sue every doctor, nurse, and cleaning person at the place where he had 8 hemorrhoids removed from his
moutharse! Oh but today? He’s also completely against it!All I know is one of these days an uninsured right winger who makes too much money to be on Medicaid or who is too young for Medicare or who works 3 part time jobs and doesn’t qualify for any medical insurance…..will lose his home/livelihood after having a gallbladder removed! Then they’ll listen to having a public option.
I heard someone refer to him as the Sham Wow President.
Did the bootstrap factory get flooded or something?
-G
So, is this evidence of the power of prayer (albeit via the “mysterious ways” route) or God’s vengeance?
Sonny’s take away from this will surely be to be more specific with the Lord and he’ll also know to pray less hard next time. Really they both screwed up a little. God didn’t check his voicemail in a timely fashion and Sonny didn’t know his own strength. ; )
I heard this pearl-clutching on MSNBC, too. I think it was Joe “A Dead Woman Was Found in my Office” Scarborough. What NONE of them (either Scarborough or Meeeeeeka, or any of the 3 others sitting there) realized is that humans simply do not watch all networks, all day. Surprise! Yes! They think the average American tunes into 3 network Sunday shows PLUS CNN PLUS a Hispanic one, PLUS Letterman. Why are the talking heads doing this? If *I* can think of this question, any American can. Which leads me to believe they are deliberately trying to screw Obama.
one of these days an uninsured right winger who makes too much money to be on Medicaid or who is too young for Medicare or who works 3 part time jobs and doesn’t qualify for any medical insurance…..will lose his home/livelihood after having a gallbladder removed! Then they’ll listen to having a public option.
Actually, I would expect a reversal of party under the circumstances, mugged by insurance co’s and (aping Irving) turning into a rational being, perhaps.
Who knew 54% of Americans were so boorish?
Take that Drunkin Peggy Nooners!
Ahahahahaha! Take that, Republicans! Watch them destroy health-care reform… and then get destroyed themselves.