Let’s take bets, shall we? If we cross state lines, shall it be Delaware or South Dakota who gets the lion’s share of the biz? Credit card and corp filing bellwethers and all that.

WAIT! I know, AZ could change it’s rules, as you know they were the last to “opt-in” to Medicaid. There could be wondrous riches in that there desert.
On Edit: Because it would be WONDERFUL for John McCain!

Health care IS NOT a human right.
No dignity flows to a society that reflects compassion for all.
What good are they if you can’t drink their whiskey, take their money, fuck their women, and vote them into the poorhouse?

Oh, sorry. Our mission-statement was not supposed to be in this draft.
Never mind.

“General welfare” was intended for the landed gentry, people!

And by “change medical malpractice laws” I presume they mean “eliminate medical malpractice suits” right?

Those wacky Republicans!

Right. Because it’s just too expensive to expect doctors to perform to any minimum standard of competency.

Yes, if their plan permits insurance companies to attract customers across state lines, then the health insurers need buy only ONE (small) state legislature. Market efficiency!

and tort reform! Also.

Instead, the bill would allow insurance firms to sell policies across state lines, permit small businesses to pool their risks to bring down costs, change medical-malpractice laws and give state governments more flexibility to pursue rule changes.

I get the snark now! This can’t possibly be the GOP’s plan — there’s no TAXCUTS. Good one, WT

“Just hand your copies forward…”

“We’ll replace them in a minute…”

“Cantor, where the fuck are you? This wasn’t supposed to…”

“Oh well, call Luntz. We can get over on them again…”

Hey, we need tort reform. I had a really lousy piece of cake the other day.

Watertiger!

I think it is pretty reasonable to assume that if you kill everybody off, then there will be no health care crisis, which this Republican plan creatively addresses.

Hey, this could be a real bonanza for us here in Montana. They already bought one of our senators and the legislature goes real cheap.

Hey, the folks in steerage don’t need health care. I mean, what can possibly happen to them down there?

Dead people don’t need health care anyway.

“PSyCH!”

/John Boehner

Me? I broke my foot… hit that god-damned sandtrap on the sixth and kicked my cart.
Name for me please the poor… poor people who could have something this devastating happen to them? I rest my case. Now watch this drive.

Signed, Boehner.

I like Arizona; they really, really need the money. Maybe Aetna could buy their capital in exchange for some really cool regulation.

It’s not exactly like cracking the Enigma Code, is it?

From the “Osama bin Laden isn’t quite dead yet” (Think Progress) link:

Bush, who failed to properly resource the Afghanistan war over the term of his presidency, had some advice for Obama as he considers whether or not to send more U.S. troops into that conflict. “I hope we don’t abandon the people of Afghanistan,” Bush said, adding that U.S. withdrawal would cause the return of “brutal tyranny” in the nation.

True, Bush and Rummy tried to do Afghanistan on the cheap, however I don’t think pouring more resources into that morass could have accomplished more than delaying the inevitable. After deposing the Taliban and installing Karzai (the first time) we should have declared victory and gotten the hell out. Now we’re too heavily invested in a no-win situation to retreat. Madness.

I assume that the GOP Plan has no Death Panels in it. Probably they assume most of us will just choose death afterall they are pro-life.

Republicans only want to kill off people below the poverty line (aka those with incomes less than $5 million per year, to paraphrase McCain). People above that threshold don’t need no stinkin’ insurance.

You know, snark-free-me really does love AZ and WY. I really do love the land and bunches of people there. Went to High School and College in AZ, and grew up on ranches between the 2 states.

But the politics are so fucked up in both states. It’s maddening.

EVAN MECHAM RULZ!

i think “no insurance for sick people” qualifies as a “death panel”.

WEll, they don’t really want to kill off all of them. After all, somebody has to maintain their lawns, clean and cook for them, take care of their children, and all the other little things which are beneath them.

It sure as the holy fuck doesn’t qualify as “health care.”

Damn, I visited my sister who lives in Tucson while Ev Mecham was on trial. I believe Rose Monfort was the Governor at the time.
They were taking the former car salesman apart at the joints.

Actually, the whole Republican Party constitutes one giant death panel.

They’ve got that covered, they don’t have to provide fringe benefits to undocumented workers.

There’s the rub; their all-too-smarmy-Randian-selves just can’t stand LEACHES! Those gardeners, cooks, caretakers don’t PRODUCE! No! They offer NOTHING but suckage at their masters pocketbook. Damn them.

Well, we got Karzai re-elected with only a little more fraud than 2000 just now, so let’s declare victory and come home.

You misheard them. This is their “wealth care” plan.

Most of the Democratic Party does too. The main difference is that in the Dem Party there ARE some exceptions (yay Sherrod Brown!).

That works for me.

That will bring down the cost of insurance won’t it?

Those people are The Illegals, who aren’t eligible for health care, ever.

Or abortions, apparently.

It was Rose Mofford, and can I tell you, I simply adored her hair.

Really. Her totally-awesome-new-wave-hair did a fantastic job of patching AZ back up after that monstrous episode, as is usual for Democrats cleaning up after shitty Republican administrations.

I really, really want Obama to wear Mofford’s hair.

I would not want to get in a fight with her hair.

She always seemed to have a little Ann Richards in her.
Retired for health reasons, IIRC. I am led to believe that it was a shame she stepped away.

All of their plans are “wealth care.” They just can’t change the party name for recognition reasons.

Noooo! You wouldn’t! It would chlorofluorocarbon-via-its-awesome-supra-hold-hairspray-kinda-like-Aqua-Net you into insanity, and gasping bouts. You couldn’t win.

I really, really want Obama to wear Mofford’s hair.

If not that, then this.

I think that hair has its own zip code.

Personally, I’d like to own a Rose Mofford merkin…

Jesse Unruh lives !

That’s not hair. It’s a battering ram.

I think it could double as an athletic cup.

As much as I think Snake is fabulous, I just can’t get on board with his hair. No sense of “product” with him.

[ok, I'll stop with the hair shit now. I just have gotten a ton of crap today, because I changed my hair. I totally minimized it, you know, a #2 clip all over, and people have been calling me a racist and a skinhead. Which is so wrong, I'm neither. I'm just a queen with absolutely TERRIBLE hair sense, no sense of fashion, and sheer laziness. I just don't do "hair." So I evidently suck.]

Try this.

Heading out, adieu to ieu (all).

say goodnight to Bob

Oh Noes! Orrin Hatch is on to us: From Think Progress

HATCH: That’s their goal. Move people into government that way. Do it in increments. They’ve actually said it. They’ve said it out loud.

Q: This is a step-by-step approach —

HATCH: A step-by-step approach to socialized medicine. And if they get there, of course, you’re going to have a very rough time having a two-party system in this country, because almost everybody’s going to say, “All we ever were, all we ever are, all we ever hope to be depends on the Democratic Party.”
Q: They’ll have reduced the American people to dependency on the federal government.

HATCH: Yeah, you got that right. That’s their goal. That’s what keeps Democrats in power.

Curses! Foiled Again!!

Nite!

Yeah! It was awesome!

Funny how they never caught on to the nefarious trick of passing legislation that people like and which actually helps a lot of them.

Night rf, you hunny! Dang I never eat enough thread with you. Smooches!

I believe Harris Glenn Milstead had a buzz cut when he wasn’t in character and you can’t get much queenlier than him. Check out the high school yearbook picture on his wiki page.

this has been a long day. i’m out, too.

keep the witty repartee flowing, pibbles!

Bob says “goodnight” back. :-)

Kind of hard to do that when you don’t like the People.

You RASCAL!

Niters.

OT: Has this been talked about around here? President Barack Hussein Obama is sending Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, a true Liberal, to monitor the Honduras changeover. No mention of the State Dept and Hillary Clinton. Oh yes, it’s on.

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/3577/big-gun-us-labor-secretary-hilda-solis-heads-honduras-tuesday

Lanny Davis must be drinking heavily right about now. Hell yeah.

I got a leaked copy of the Republican plan. It is set up as a kind of colloquy:

it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time

Response: Why? Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?

Many can’t go there; and many would rather die.

Response: If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population

Some things never change, unfortunately.

Agreed. We won fair and square. Time for dinner.

Ta ta! I shall continue to rely on your Dependable Renegadeitude.

Katymine! Fuck no!!! (she’d approve of my swahili)

So weird how so much of living is dealing with dying. Damn. Only the good die young.

Scrooge Fu is strong with the R’s; at this time of year, especially.

Lanny Davis is an equal-opportunity stooge.
Fair or foul weather, he will tap someone to pay him to say something good or bad about whatever.

Hey, has anyone looked into Joe Lieberman’s bloodlines in the quest for Davis’ cells?

Time for me to toddle off. Take care all.

Good lord. They’ve finally caught on and we’ve been FOILED. How did those people catch on? It seemed like we’d kept the secret, but alas, we’re had.

Don’t tell a soul.

Funny enough, I just click on a Yahoo frontpage story about “Democrats” who proudly still appear on Pox Newz. Guess who’s in the photo and featured in the article. Oh yea, Lanny, baby.

So maybe the Democrats can do the Constitutional Peasant sketch as a response/rebuttal?

Howdy, ‘pups.

I love it.

During ‘Cash For Clunkers’, I was saying if Dems really wanted to sell their “death-care” bill, they should call it ‘Cash For Corpses’, and that folks would be lining up to “bring out their dead.”

They must have listened.

Read this, it won’t cheer you wacky “progressives”.

scroll, pups…

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Just a reminder – we invite commenters to link to their own sites, but limit them to once a day please.
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Don’t

Feed

the

Trolls.

I got my big girl panties on. I’m scrolling.
(hi newt, sad news about katy, huh, but I’m glad she’s not in pain anymore.)
Still…really puts the trolls in context, doesn’t it?

evening bct
the dems can’t do sketch. they are still in the skit format.

hi demi
and yeah, i like that observation very much.

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I wish I could argue that the Democrats aren’t a joke.

And the joke’s apparently on us.

I understand.

“Enlightened” “progressive” and refulgent liberals don’t like anyone intruding on their incestual splooge-fests.

Carry on with your circle-jerk.

You have one opportunity to make a contribution. Only one.
If you want to add useful discourse, now would be the time.

Just. Don’t. Fuck. With. The. Lake.
Do not underestimate us.
Think again. Oh, that’s right. Thinking is hard.
PS, we try to be nice here, and when we can’t, we forgive each other.

Umm, Demi,

In trollish, I think that’s:

“Don’t misunderestimate us”

Ya give an inch.

I just popped back in and noticed the sad news. We expected it but it is so hard.

looks like i’m gonna need to order another case of wingnut scrub dood

our mary mcc made that illustration

Mercy. But not unlimited abuse.

Can we get that in a 55 gallon drum?

Hi, BC.
Girlfriend’s gots to go get horizontalish and read and meditate and pray.
Love my friends at the Lake.
All y’all.
I’ve got some extra hankies here. Just leaving them by the brain bleach.
Sweet Dreams to almost all. Okay, All!

Heh!

And they’ll take a mile.

I note that all comments on his site are mod’d. Maybe we should return the favor?

yup — i’ll put in a double order when i order up more brain bleach.

Sweet dreams, Demi.

Make it two. And send one to our friends at the Seminal.

Yes.

good idea boss man.

g’nite demi

My work is done here.

Good night.

The doc.

See you in the obituaries…

Perhaps you will.

LOL!

What I find intensely curious is that wingnuttia will follow the R’s on the net neutrality path to censorship. It’ll be all Randian reasons of one sort or another, but it will really result in the end of antics like drdbunk, who I’m sure, enjoys his antics.

What exactly was its point (or work or whatever it might call it)?

Now why would anyone feel a need to do that?

Who knows? They do always get points for punching hippies – coherency and logic and shit like that is simply not required.

So prolly just a hippy punch. Ooo. Eeek. My patchouli smells so much less powerfully after such teh awesome attack. Also. I seem to be out of weed. Go figure.

I meant mod all his comments. I seem to recall folks of that persuasion saying sumfin ’bout doin’ to others as y’all would have done to ye.

Since it seems to want all comments moderated, maybe we should treat it as it wishes to be treated.