SOTU: Media Reported Bush Would Focus Speech On Health Care; Only 1 Paragraph Devoted To It
SOTU: Media Reported Bush Would Focus Speech On Health Care; Only 1 Paragraph Devoted To It
Bush devoted only one paragraph to the topic of health care.
Media Erroneously Claimed Bush Would Focus His State of the Union On Health Care:
“Health care will be the centerpiece of the White House’s domestic agenda for 2006. In Tuesday’s State of the Union, the president will focus on rising health costs, with more detailed policy announcements to follow in the weeks ahead.†[Weekly Standard, 2/6/06]
“The State of the Union address this year is to focus on health care, illegal immigration and the nation’s international economic competitiveness.†[NYT, 1/30/06]
“President Bush’s State of the Union address will attempt to shift focus from the polarizing war in Iraq to a more popular domestic priority: taming health care costs.†[AP, 1/19/06]
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Whaaa? The media eroniously reported something???? What a shock!!
January 31st, 2006 at 9:53 pmI was worried about this. I don’t think this is a matter of a braindead media. I think it was a deliberate headfake to get critics (I certainly bought it) to focus on HSAs rather than the warrantless wiretaps. But what do I know…
January 31st, 2006 at 9:54 pmHealth care? There is NO affordable health care for Americans under King Bush! He loves HMOs ripping us off!
January 31st, 2006 at 10:07 pmEzpz, seriously man, grow up.
If by “health care” they meant “terrst,” then yeah, the press was spot on.
January 31st, 2006 at 10:14 pmYeah because ‘health savings accounts’ is a non-starter.
January 31st, 2006 at 10:24 pmNot much traction there when his passion is foreign
invasion, oops I mean policy.
What’s just as interesting is that he starts off claiming that we are meeting our responsbility in this area. He actually says that. 45 million americans do not have health insurance. One in six middle-class families lack health insurance. And have you seen Medicare Part D?
We ARE NOT meeting our responsibility in this area at all.
January 31st, 2006 at 10:25 pmI’ll have more healthcare stats I can send over shortly. We’re sort of live writing a report responding to the SoU.
Once again, our mainstream media is dead. They are nothing but paid hacks to repeat talking points of this administration. Call it yellovision news.
January 31st, 2006 at 10:42 pmWhy is tweety Chriss Mathews so obsessed with Hillary’s gum chewing?? No, I don’t watch him, but happened there while surfing just in time to hear that. Puke!
January 31st, 2006 at 11:43 pm#4 -Me, LOL
January 31st, 2006 at 11:44 pmwhy change health care when FDA officials retire after 2 yrs. and get a 6 figure job with a major pharmaceutical co.
January 31st, 2006 at 11:45 pmY’all need to get down with this health-savings account scam, see, or else the terrstssts have already one.
Seriously, get a load of this scam. You have to (A) buy your own insurance, which you’ll get a great deal on as an individual, (B) sign up for a huge deductible to make sure you pay for your first, oh, $1000 of health care costs, and then (C) you don’t pay taxes on all the interest you earn! Oh wow, you mean I don’t have to pay the $6 tax due on the $40 I made? What a bargain! Universal Health Care, Mission Accomplished!! Make it portable, Congress!
February 1st, 2006 at 1:16 amThey were wrong about all of it. He was supposed to be “conciliatory,” to offer big proposals on health care, on cutting oil… I guess the media just wanted a headline.
February 1st, 2006 at 9:30 amWhat kind of dweeb would suggest the President focus on health care when the world is burning from the fires of Islamofascism? The kind that would like to forget that we are at war because they have no answer other than surrender. Let’s not talk about uncomfortable realities if we can help it.
Let’s talk about socialized medicine and the losers that show up in ambulances at emergency rooms when they catch the flu who make it unworkable. Let’s talk about the homosexuals and the $100K it takes to keep them alive for another year to spread their diseases and cause health care workers to quit their jobs or demand twice the going rate for their services. Fine, let’s talk about that instead of survival.
February 1st, 2006 at 10:58 amPoster 13 I-Right-I > that is mean stuff you spew! You must be wealthy to want the poor and middle class to suffer without health care! And just so you know Bush himself is bisexual, so I guess you wish him harm for his bisexuality?
February 1st, 2006 at 11:19 amThe same kind of dweebs who want to spend every nickel on every social program for the brilliant “constituents” who repeatedly make bad choices. Forget the fact that Dems rely on poverty and “victimhood” to swell their ranks. Forget the fact that we had better defend the nation or all those “good intentions” will circle the bowl. The fascism we fight is designed to “convert or kill”. Can’t you just picture Cindy in a head scarf??
February 1st, 2006 at 11:24 am#14 – I’ve never read one of your postings and thought, “A different point of view than my own – but clever.” Thank you for your consistency.
Tip to JR and other sophomoric progs: “You must be wealthy and want the poor and middle class to suffer…blah” Let me demonstrate how ignorant conservatives think you are:
February 1st, 2006 at 11:32 am“You must be poor and too stupid to avail yourself of free education, set goals, and persevere.” See how your sweeping pronouncements do alot to reinforce conservatives views that progs relish their victim status.
Poster 13 I-Right-I > that is mean stuff you spew! You must be wealthy to want the poor and middle class to suffer without health care! And just so you know Bush himself is bisexual, so I guess you wish him harm for his bisexuality?
Comment by Jay Randal
I think people like you that demand free shit ought to get it. The rest of us know that we have a responsibility to take care of ourselves and that it’s freeloaders like you that make it more difficult. You are welcome to the shit but you aren’t going to make me eat it.
Can’t you just picture Cindy in a head scarf??
Comment by mighty aphrodite
I’d rather see that hag in a Texas neck tie.
February 1st, 2006 at 11:44 amMighty aphrodike and I-wrong-I
According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the highest poverty rates are in the South (red states), so take your racist asses back to your redneck caves.
February 1st, 2006 at 11:56 amOnce again IRI and MA appear to spoof the conservative movement. Although their schtick can be amusing at times, most of their opinions are ridiculous.
They offer nothing along the lines of informed debate. Instead they choose to spout prejudices and hate speech. I wouldn’t like either banned though because they represent everything that is wrong with the conservative movement. They use sterotypes to justify supporting this administrations policies. Neither is concerned with actually making a difference. Both are consumed with hatred and disdain for those that don’t share their political ideology.
It matters not that the policies of the current administration are destroying the very fabric of America. What matters most is “sticking it to the Dems”. Both need to do more research. Both need to value country over party. Both need to ask questions instead of towing the party line. Both need to actually address the issues brought up on each thread instead of making us suffer through diatribe after diatribe filled with partisan rhetoric, racist rants and outright lies.
If these are examples of bright conservative minds, no wonder nothing has gone right for this administration. Stupid is as stupid does.
February 1st, 2006 at 12:02 pmRepublican ideology has become a fundamentalist belief system. People like Mighty Aphrodite and I-RIGHT-I don’t need logic because they have belief. They don’t need to be polite because we’re soulless heathens who have not accepted the light.
The funny part is, they tell us Dems are a culture of victims, but then turn around and lap up things from people like Bill O’Reilly, who makes up news by imagining scenarios in which hard-working, god-fearing, conservative Americans are unfairly persecuted.
The entire Family Values campaign, in fact, is propelled by the sense that strangers actions in private affect the quality of life for others. It is, at its core, facism: the state assuming control of all facets of life; legislative, economic, moral, personal.
February 1st, 2006 at 12:48 pmThe entire Family Values campaign, in fact, is propelled by the sense that strangers actions in private affect the quality of life for others. It is, at its core, fascism: the state assuming control of all facets of life; legislative, economic, moral, personal.
Comment by DataShade
Nonsense. Christian conservatives don’t care where you put your ding dong. We just don’t want the homos anywhere near our kids. Christian conservatives don’t care how much shit you plunge into your veins. We just don’t want you stealing and killing to get more.
The fact is there is NO SUCH THING as a victimless crime in a liberal democratic society. What you do does affect me and as a citizen I expect you to hold up your end of the bargain and behave according the the accepted norms of our society. If you don’t do it I’m going to see to it that you are sanctioned or punished. If your crime against our society is great enough I’m going to see to it that you are killed or locked away for the rest of your life. That’s not fascism, that is an organized self governing human society.
February 1st, 2006 at 2:38 pmIt matters not that the policies of the current administration are destroying the very fabric of America. What matters most is “sticking it to the Demsâ€.
Comment by Str8UpNoChaser
The Donks stick it to themselves and the Filthy Left that runs the Donks these days have never seen let alone worn the fabric that makes up America. It’s just not good enough for them.
February 1st, 2006 at 2:46 pmto I-Right-I:
Talk about clueless….
The Left control nothing in this country.
The power base of the Democratic party today are all moderate Republican at best. They are cowards who are afraid to go after after anyone in this crooked White House.
February 1st, 2006 at 6:59 pmReply to post 17 I-Right-I > lol I am not a freeloader!I believe that America must have Universal Health Care like Canada! If Bush was NOT spending every dollar he can find for invading nations for OIL, there would be plenty of money for health care for everybody!
Again I repeat you must be wealthy to want the poor and average working Americans to suffer illness without medical care, or are you just a paid Bush apologist on here?
February 1st, 2006 at 10:09 pmReply to post 16 aphrodite > lol we liberal Democrats do not care what Republican wealthy conservatives think about us!
February 1st, 2006 at 10:13 pmI-Right-I:
Talk about clueless….
The Left control nothing in this country.
Comment by bc
I don’t know what to tell you. I guess if you think being Left is to be leftward beyond The French sophists of the Enlightenment, beyond Marx and Lenin and Mao then maybe you’re right. But that’s not the way I look at it and neither is it the way anyone else looks at it.
I’ll give you a short list of organizations that to my mind are solidly left of center.
The Democratic party thanks to the radicals in congress and party big wigs that are joined at the hip to every radical and special interest group in the country.
The media. The editorial bias towards the left is undeniable and of course a full 90% of the writers and editors and “journalists” vote Donk every time.
Academia. The universities right down to the grade schools are run by people who range from liberal to outright left wing moonbats. They have abused the tenure system to make sure only their own are hired and given permanent positions on staff.
The Arts. Try and find a conservative in any field other than the few in literature.
The sciences. I could write a paper on the leftward bias in the professional organizations in medicine, psychology and all the soft sciences. The hard sciences are almost as bad.
The Law. Law schools are notoriously leftist and of course liberalism encourages, in fact demands change by decree from the benches of this country.
Religion. The major Protestant denominations of this country have all but thrown out orthodox Christianity and Judaism in favor of a watered down meaningless gospel of “Jesus the Nice Guy”. This is liberalism.
Now the fact that you either dismiss all this, didn’t know or don’t really think about it just shows that you either don’t know what you’re talking about or are such a far out fringe loon radical that nothing less than anarchy will suit you.
February 2nd, 2006 at 9:33 am[...] So, despite all of the reports, the SOTU last night was not focused on HSAs or health insurance. But how did our fearful leader do if you analyze what he did talk about? Think Progress has a number of great articles comparing what was said in the SOTU last night with the actual track record of the current administration. [...]
June 15th, 2006 at 2:25 pm