Sen. Grassley writes nonsensical tweets attacking Obama.
Sen. Grassley writes nonsensical tweets attacking Obama.
In his weekly radio address, President Obama declared “it’s time to deliver” on health reform. The White House is sending the message to lawmakers and the American public that it “is preparing an intense push for legislation that will include speeches, town-hall-style meetings and much deeper engagement with lawmakers.” Apparently over-sensitive to the White House’s public calls to deliver on health care reform (or upset that the President is visiting Paris), Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) wrote these nonsensical tweets against Obama today:
While Grassley was popping off, White House officials were showering him with praise. Senior adviser David Axelrod said on CBS: “I would hope people of both parties would get together. I was encouraged by Sen. Grassley’s comments in the last few days suggesting that he thought we could get there.” The AP notes, “Grassley’s attitude is significant because any hope for bipartisan consensus on health care rests on an alliance between Grassley and Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont.”
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Looks like the high school girls are jealous of the prom queen.
June 7th, 2009 at 9:05 pmAnyone seen my Grassley-to-English dictionary? Anyone? I know I left it lying around here somewhere…
June 7th, 2009 at 9:07 pmThe AP notes, “Grassley’s attitude is significant because any hope for bipartisan consensus on health care rests on an alliance between Grassley and Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont.”
If that’s truly the case , then the whole thing is FUBAR from the get-go……..
June 7th, 2009 at 9:09 pmHey old Grass…what U smkn? U sound like an ass, Grass.
June 7th, 2009 at 9:13 pmGrassley is just another “whiny” shytface GOP like the rest of them. I just don’t see how anyone can identify with these cry-babies there worse than my 5 year old nephew.
June 7th, 2009 at 9:13 pmThat’s why it’s best not to Tweet while drunk…
June 7th, 2009 at 9:14 pmSen Grassley WTF?
June 7th, 2009 at 9:17 pm.
Dear Senator Grassley,
Please U, YELL LOUDER in2 teh tubes!
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June 7th, 2009 at 9:17 pmAnother hysterical gopper fearing for his job.
Party of NO – you are just about finished.
June 7th, 2009 at 9:18 pmfck the bipartisan bullshit… just fck it.
good to see the prez making this new push…
i commented earlier, at C&L, when i saw the headlines, that it puts the NYC date night and paris weekend in perspective:
“michelle, i’m going to be very busy now… [hopefully this will tide you over for a while]…”
good for you, obamas!
June 7th, 2009 at 9:19 pm.
How Pharma and Insurance Intend to Kill the Public Option, And What Obama and the Rest of Us Must Do
by Robert Reich
http://www.commondreams.org/print/43054
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June 7th, 2009 at 9:20 pmRemember folks, you can’t spell Grassely without spelling ass…
June 7th, 2009 at 9:20 pmRove must have stole Grassleys blackberry….
/snark
June 7th, 2009 at 9:20 pmWhile Grassley was popping off, White House officials were showering him with praise.
SEE! there is NO working with those CHUMPS!
CHUMPS! LIARS! CROOKS! BOOBS!!!
FCK ‘EM!
June 7th, 2009 at 9:20 pmGrassley sounds like a whiney biatch
June 7th, 2009 at 9:21 pmSenGrssly – I think UR retarded. U shd shutup. Srsly. ~ A
June 7th, 2009 at 9:22 pmGrassley has g2g…
June 7th, 2009 at 9:22 pmGRRRR. From the Reich article Max linked to
I’m contacting Senator Wyden now. GRRRR.
June 7th, 2009 at 9:23 pmThat is the GOP in 2009 … Petty cry babies that complain about EVERYTHING! Wahhhh … you went shopping before coming back from your trip. Wahhh … you use teleprompters! Wahhhhh … you’re to Muslim-y!
June 7th, 2009 at 9:23 pmWhy is it that day after day, week after week, month after month…… anyone with (R…) after their names behave like total A holes?
June 7th, 2009 at 9:25 pmU CN Paris
I CN DC
Eff Dat
June 7th, 2009 at 9:27 pm.
I’ve hear of being full of “hot air” but…
… A gassley Grassley, is one heck of a stinker.
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June 7th, 2009 at 9:28 pmDear Senator Grassley (http://grassley.senate.gov/contact.cfm)
1. Obama carried your state by 10%
2. The people who donated 100 million to Obama can contribute to your next opponent even if they don’t live in Iowa
3. You’re getting free government healthcare on our dime while you work 24/7 to screw us out of ours
June 7th, 2009 at 9:28 pmGrassley could always claim he doesn’t even have a twitter account.
June 7th, 2009 at 9:29 pmThere are soldiers giving their limbs for this country and Grassley is whining about giving up his wkend.
June 7th, 2009 at 9:32 pmand, FAIZ, thanks for this thread… and not just because the place has been dead… but, i’ve been wondering when TP would get into the debate in more detail…
the other day, i caught part of thom hartman calling on his listeners to call their congress people to tell them “NO TRIGGER!” and i didn’t know what he was talking about…
thought that was something TP would cover! help!
June 7th, 2009 at 9:33 pmif we cannot make big profits off the sick and needy what good is capitalism.
so what if 47 million americans dont have health insurance and 60% of all bankruptcies are due to health care cost.
jack you are on your own besides we have some wars for profits to fight. and some nation building to do.
so we can turn those muslims into christians. now lets print some more free bibles for the iraqis and afghans.
signed
June 7th, 2009 at 9:35 pmjust your average christian repub
Obsessed – I like it. ;o) I stole a bit of that and sent it to Grassley Assley.
It felt VERY good.
Thanks,
~A
June 7th, 2009 at 9:35 pmA good health care plan can be passed without a single Republican vote, can it not? Write your Democratic congresspeoples—if they can be swayed, the must be swayed in order to prevent what Robert Reich is warning us about.
congress.org
June 7th, 2009 at 9:35 pmLatest Twitter:
D33R OB
June 7th, 2009 at 9:36 pmI NO GT TWTR ACNT
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#11 Max Anax junius -1
from your link
This part can not be said enough:
Let your representative and senators know you want a public option without conditions or triggers — one that gives the public insurer bargaining leverage over drug companies, and pushes insurers to do what they’ve promised to do. Don’t wait until the concrete hardens and we’ve lost this battle.
callcongress.org
June 7th, 2009 at 9:37 pmresearcher – i read it was up to 80%…
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oh, and, g2g?
June 7th, 2009 at 9:43 pmdon’t make me think…
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You know, I’ve decided that TWITTER is the perfect medium for the Grumpy Old Pederasts. It’s an excellent and concise showcase for their shameless, brazen stupidity.
June 7th, 2009 at 9:45 pmAnd encourage your friends to do the same, if that’s comfortable.
June 7th, 2009 at 9:45 pmAlso, Ed Schultz believes if President Obama has enough support from the people on public health care, he is the type that will find a way to get if done.
Phone Numbers to the White House:
Comments: 202-456-1111
June 7th, 2009 at 9:51 pmSwitchboard: 202-456-1414
FAX: 202-456-2461
i’ll have to dig through my note stash for those 800#s…
i wonder if they still work… may have worn them out in ‘08…
June 7th, 2009 at 9:57 pmThere are so many good arguments for single-payer. Most of them are at this website by physicians for single-payer. If a real compromise were established that would lead to single-payer I would be thrilled, but the insurance companies and drug companies have to start biting it NOW.
As an in-home caregiver I have seen the best care provided by Medicare in combination with state program that hooks their clients up with Kaiser-Permanente, which is a very efficient HMO.
I don’t think the other two HMOs I’ve seen clients deal with could be so crappy, if they didn’t do so much business with insurance companies. One has the clients on the phone all day for weeks with non-medical professionals to negotiate anything. The other is where patients go to languish in neglect. It’s pitiful.
The indigent who qualify for Medicare to stay alive are also stuck in a bureaucratic jungle of enforced indigence, so that they are actually discouraged from finding productive work, because they would lose their insurance. It’s a lose/lose situation.
June 7th, 2009 at 9:57 pmand, why ISN’T it TOLL-FREE to call OUR WHITE HOUSE???
June 7th, 2009 at 9:57 pmI actually think it was free at one time, until people started jamming the switchboard.
June 7th, 2009 at 10:00 pmThis is reminding me of the war-drums for the Iraq war. I was e-mailing congressmen and embassies. I payed to have “hand-delivered” messages sent to my congressmen. Was I a sucker? Should I do it again?
June 7th, 2009 at 10:03 pmThe greatest blockade to a functioning government is the fact that any mature, informed and enthusiastic potential future leader would take one look at the petulant, hyper-biased, corrupt and puerile “business as usual” behavior in the system by the present members, fully supported by the compliant MSM, and turn away in disgust.
We aren’t the ‘good guys.’ We’re the arrogant, blow-hard high-schooler who has dropped out and is now making excuses while other countries are surpassing us.
This congress and particularly the corporate MSM whose money keeps vomiting up the same conservative nutcase losers to perpetuate the fiction of “substantive contribution and considered viewpoint;” carefully crafted to conceal the repetitive corporate party line.
The MSM needs to be overthrown by journalism.
June 7th, 2009 at 10:06 pm40. wiley Says: I payed to have “hand-delivered” messages sent to my congressmen. Was I a sucker? Should I do it again?
Not unless you can stuff the next envelope with hundreds. It’s the only thing our current leadershi(t) understands.
June 7th, 2009 at 10:08 pmIn order to do that, the corporations would need to pay for journalism, and therein lies the rub. The corporations are amassing wealth at the tippety-top of their food chain, and the masses don’t have a lot to spend. People who rely on MSM don’t understand why the economy sux, and that’s the way the MSM wants it.
I’d like to see Americans turning off their televisions in droves—a citizen’s strike against misinformation.
June 7th, 2009 at 10:09 pm(From another thread)
The answer is clear, however much the insurance and pharma industries undermine the truth.
There are templates worldwide that demonstrate what works and works well. France, at last review, had the #1 healthcare model in the world.
To ignore this fact, at our citizens’ growing expense, is to consign us to a continent-sized petri dish where delayed medical attention due to economic distress will, in the end, put our population at risk from outbreaks and incubating strains that would have otherwise been held in check or eradicated altogether.
Further complicating the circumstances; the bald reality that 60% of bankruptcies are due to healthcare costs is an abomination, as is the outdated system of for-profit healthcare. While capitalist theory allows for-profit consideration from virtually any source of supply and demand, there exists essential exceptions without which our cultural model would cease to exist. Police, Firemen, and several other notable exceptions aids the strengthening of the basis for the US’s capitalism theory to continue. The one glaring defect that is crippling this economic theory is healthcare.
Without people, there is no profit, commerce or manufacture. Ensuring the health of the population is just common sense both from economic theory and moral development.
That the economic equation, and particularly the moral equation is at odds with the baroque pharma/insurance model is the crux of the failure of this short-sighted system and a major contributing factor to the stagnation of the national morale and work ethic. No longer is the US considered a blueprint to be reproduced worldwide, but increasingly a cautionary parable of the excesses of hubris and corporate peculation.
June 7th, 2009 at 10:11 pmDid anyone hear a weak sound? Barely audible but still sort of annoying…
June 7th, 2009 at 10:15 pmtoo lazy to get up now… google search for:
“toll free phone numbers, congress”
http://www.google.com/search?q=toll+free+phone+numbers%2C+congress&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
June 7th, 2009 at 10:18 pmRoosevelt said, “Now make me do it”. I think I hear President Obama saying the same thing. He talked about all of us changing the U.S., and I believe he was sincere when he said it.
June 7th, 2009 at 10:20 pmNot everyone is tech savy.
June 7th, 2009 at 10:21 pmTry this, though it still lists bush:
WHITEHOUSE TELEPHONE DIRECTORY
June 7th, 2009 at 10:21 pmNot everyone is tech savy.
June 7th, 2009 at 10:23 pm—
or very informed…
You senators, .you’re turning our brains into a slimey gooey mushy blob of pudding with your bliggity blogs, your facey spaces, your tweety pages…
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But we ain’t soup yet.
June 7th, 2009 at 10:23 pmWhat was that? I could really hear it…
June 7th, 2009 at 10:28 pm:|
…ok, well maybe this ones soup.
June 7th, 2009 at 10:30 pmHere is some more repulsive truths from the insurance industry (via boingboing):
No.
June 7th, 2009 at 10:31 pmInsignificant, alienated, maladjusted, frustrated…
June 7th, 2009 at 10:31 pmdbadass, I thought maybe that whining noise mihgt have been limited to a single thread.
But it seems to be just as loud over here.
Y’know, I could have sworn made a sound like it was about to go…
June 7th, 2009 at 10:32 pmgood evening ralph.
June 7th, 2009 at 10:34 pmPerhaps it needs help finding the door… Seems more likely that it needs to stay in hopes of finding an identity…
ammunition, from E.J.Dionne:
[...]
But the toughest behind-the-scenes battles will be about how much the insurance companies, the drug companies and the providers are willing to give up to get a government bailout of the health system. That was the significance of a little-noticed line in President Obama’s letter last week to Baucus and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the other Democrat leading the health-care battle in the Senate.
Obama wrote that “reform cannot mean focusing on expanded coverage alone.” The president stressed that it also had to be about “a serious, sustained effort to reduce the growth rate of health care costs.”
[...]
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/07/ED12181JRA.DTL&type=health
THAT’s why they’re there… another bailout!
June 7th, 2009 at 10:36 pmbut these guys need US… WE can call the shots.
Grassley is a nail. He is nailed by health management companies who pimp him out for pennies on the dollar. Go Liberty scampers along in the shade of Grassley’s well used bowlegged walk.
June 7th, 2009 at 10:36 pmi was not a mgysgt.
June 7th, 2009 at 10:38 pm—
Of course you weren’t. That would be significant…
I suspect there is a direct correlation between the frequency of an individual troll’s posts and their level of fear of change in the status quo. The cheerleader from Liberty U must sure be worrying about something to spend so much time on a progressive website squeaking it’s little voice.
June 7th, 2009 at 10:39 pmdbadass, that whining now seems to be making random noises. If it had a consciousness I would say it sounded like it was pulling things out of its ass.
June 7th, 2009 at 10:40 pmBut we shouldn’t anthropomorphize such phenomena…
June 7th, 2009 at 10:41 pm#43 wiley
My TV has been off for over a year now.
As corporate media is also invested in defense, health care, our food and drugs I refused to be hypnotized any longer, for hours in a day while they pull their corporate interest and distraction crap.
I miss not watching Rachel, KO and Ed Schultz but all in all life is better and more gets done.
June 7th, 2009 at 10:44 pmRank has it’t priveleges. Grassley is a minority senator. He should be pleased that he has been offered an opportunity to be part of the sweeping legislation to change the way healthcare works. If he doesn’t want to help, the democrats could go with the option of fifty one votes instead of sixty.
June 7th, 2009 at 10:45 pmFact Check: Obama Consistent in His Position on Single Payer Health Care
January 21, 2008
Rhetoric: “Today, he opposes single payer health care, and attacks Sen. Clinton for proposing a plan that covers everyone”
Reality: Obama Has Consistently Said That If We Were Starting From Scratch, He Would Support A Single Payer System, But Now We Need To Build On The System We Have
June 7th, 2009 at 10:46 pmMay 18, 2009
Obama: ‘Single Payer if We Were Starting From Scratch’
Last Thursday at a town hall meeting in Rio Rancho New Mexico President Barack Obama was asked why, when “so many people go bankrupt using their credit cards to pay for healthcare. Why have they taken single-payer off the plate (audience applause), and why is Senator Baucus on the Finance Committee discussing health care when he has received so much money from the pharmaceutical companies? Isn’t it a conflict of interest?” (more audience applause)
The President seemed uncomfortable with the question, and his entire response lasted longer than seven minutes. He did not get around to actually responding to the question until about four minutes in:
“Healthcare is one-sixth of our economy, so it is a complicated and difficult task. Congress is going to have to work hard, and everybody is going to have to come at this with a practical perspective as opposed to being ideologically pure in getting it done… Why not do a single-payer system? … A single-payer system is like, Medicare is sort of a single-payer system, but it’s only for people over 65, and the way it works is, uh, the idea is you don’t have insurance companies as middle men. The government goes directly and pays doctors or nurses.
“If I were starting a system from scratch then I think that the idea of moving toward a single-payer system could very well make sense. That’s the kind of system that you have in most industrialized countries around the world. The only problem is that we’re not starting from scratch. We have historically a tradition of employer-based healthcare. And, although there are a lot of people who are not satisfied with their health care, the truth is that the vast majority of people currently get health care from their employers, and you’ve got this system that’s already in place.
“We don’t want a huge disruption as we go into healthcare reform where suddenly we’re trying to completely re-invent one-sixth of the economy. So what I’ve said is, let’s set up a system where, uh, if you already have healthcare through your employer and you’re happy with it, you don’t have to change doctors. You don’t have to change plans. Nothing changes. If you don’t have healthcare, or you’re highly unsatisfied with your healthcare, then let’s give you choices. Let’s give you options, including a public plan that you can enroll in and sign up for. That’s been my proposal.
June 7th, 2009 at 10:51 pm[...]
http://blogs.healthfreedomalliance.org/blog/2009/05/18/obama-single-payer-if-we-were-starting-from-scratch/
That tweet sounds exactly like the sort of thing our trolls post here. Exactly! Interesting to see that idiocy, lack of knowledge of the facts and inability to say anything in any articulate way goes all the way to the top. But I find it hard to believe that anybody who could become a Senator of any party, from any state could actually be that moronic for reals.
I think I’m with the “don’t tweet drunk” crew on this one. One of the hazards of being able to make a public statement from anywhere, at any time, seems to be that you can also be caught communicating to the world when you’re at your worst…
June 7th, 2009 at 10:55 pmAmerican companies can’t compete with their foreign competitors because of America’s overpriced, failed health system. Our major industries are going bankrupt or leaving the country. America can’t afford Corporate Style Health Care anymore.
Republicans are going to kill millions of defenseless American men, women, and children if they continue stand in the way of health care reform.
June 7th, 2009 at 10:59 pmIn his weekly address, which is one the front page of Whitehouse.gov he says
He even says “unwarranted profiteering”. It’s great having a pragmatic president dedicated to change, IMO. Seems to me that pushing the Democrats to get behind his plan is key to getting this passed, so that we can advance to single-payer after the government funded insurance programs have proved beyond a reasonable doubt that they are more cost-efficient and effective than top-heavy, rent collecting insurance companies.
June 7th, 2009 at 11:02 pmRepublicans just do not seem to be very smart, about anything.
June 7th, 2009 at 11:06 pmUsually I hope for the best and plan for the worst. Just wondering if we do have the best Congress money can buy and the corporate insurance and big pharma are allowed to continue business as usual, what next?
I have noticed how abc news via am radio is very quiet about the coming very important vote.
June 7th, 2009 at 11:11 pmfrom C&L:
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Sun, 06/07/2009 – 18:44 — Different Anonymous
The most shocking figure you can spread around is that last year, 1 out of every 700 dollars spent on healthcare in the US went to the bonus of one health insurance executive.
That just floored me when I heard a guest on TDS toss that number out.
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Elizibeth Edwards – Daily Show, May 20, 2009
Sun, 06/07/2009 – 19:08 — NoBuddy
Author : Resilience
The quote from the daily show
June 7th, 2009 at 11:14 pm“A few years ago I think, the president of United Health Care made so much money that 1 in every 700 dollars that was spent in this country on health care went to pay him.”
Katy (#26), Igor’s been covering the “trigger” over on the Wonk Room. The basic issue here is that some “moderates” and conservatives only want the public option to kick in if private insurers fail to bring down costs/improve coverage over time. More details here:
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/05/26/help-to-release-bipartisan-health-care-bill-on-friday/
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/06/01/trigger-option-overview/
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/06/04/blue-dogs-public-plan/
June 7th, 2009 at 11:14 pmI think it’s time for ‘go liberty’ to do a hurkey and then choke on his pom poms.
June 7th, 2009 at 11:14 pmHealthcare may be 1/6 of our economy, but the consumer is some 75/100 of the GDP.
If 60% of all bankruptcies are due to people with private healthcare something is quite wrong when people pay for healthcare and profits take precedence and I dont accept the too big too fail we are 1/6 of the economy we cant fail even though we are failing.
June 7th, 2009 at 11:15 pmhanshiro the antlion Says:
The MSM needs to be overthrown by journalism.
Best line of the day! Well, other than Selsi Sorbet Sesli Sherbet Porn…
PEACE
June 7th, 2009 at 11:15 pmmore:
Big health care and big insurance are paying big to get what
Sun, 06/07/2009 – 17:34 — project
they want they are buying off our polls.
Here is a list of elected people taking payoffs to cheat the American people and the amounts of bribes being taken. This is just from health care and insurance.
It is mind boggling to think how much these people are taking from others!
Arlen Specter (R-D- PA- $4,026,933)
Max Baucus (DLC- MT- $2,833,731)
Mitch McConnell (R-KY- $2,758,468)
And when you just go right to Big Insurance, the non-presidential candidates who got the biggest legalized bribes were the 7 senators who have been tasked with the job of killing single-payer:
Ben Nelson (DLC-NE- $1,196,799)
Max Baucus (DLC- MT- $1,184,113)
Joe Lieberman (DLC- CT- $1,036,302)
Arlen Specter (R-D- PA- $1,035,530)
Chuck Schumer (D-NY- $981,400)
Mitch McConnell (R-KY- $929,207)
Chuck Grassley (R-IA- $884,724)
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/president-obama-will-use-his-bully-pult?_=1244421431059&page=0#comment-1160498
June 7th, 2009 at 11:16 pmGo Liberty Says:
other than that, he’s taking too much leisure time in the face of challenges. family this. family that. you have all day to be in wh with your family obama. trips and ny and paris are extreme and so is sorority b tich secretary throwing a volleyball at him in the oval office. i mean, why would you allow that to be filmed in the face of suffering in our private sector?
I feel so bad for all those suffering in the private sector who had to see (sob..) a volleyball thrown. WTF?
President Obama managed to squeeze some family time into a working trip, good for him!
June 7th, 2009 at 11:19 pmthank you, faiz!
yea… IF “private insurers fail to bring down costs/improve coverage over time.” … as if…
another stall, of course… delaying the inevitable…
i will visit the Wonk Room and learn more…
June 7th, 2009 at 11:19 pmTHere’s that whining noise again.
it just won’t quit, even though it keeps threatening to… what is the world coming to when even squeeling bearings can’t be trusted to tell the truth?
Odd that the squeaking is always on the right hand side…
June 7th, 2009 at 11:20 pmYou can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
~Eric Hoffer
…tries to frighten you…
June 7th, 2009 at 11:22 pmLiberty U cheerleader must really be having a difficult time with the reality of President Obama’s outstanding performance as Chief Executive, Commander in Chief and head of a beautiful family. The pitiful little squeaks she’s makes were probably ignored by President Bush’s supporters when she complained about GWB’s 2+ years worth of brush clearing, the expensive security detail that accompanied his bicycle rides around DC and the time he spent dealing with his daughters’ drunken escapades.
June 7th, 2009 at 11:23 pmWe are, I think, at an impasse, wages are not keeping up with inflation, insurance and prescription costs are rising while the financial system, which failed, is being bailed out, along with the WMFD gamblers. The Fed is having to monetize debt which will increases inflation. In fact inflation [debasement of the dollar] will have to run at some 10% for the next decade to get things working again.
These insurance giants, I think, are heading the way of AIG and they will, just like AIG, approach the government for bailouts.
June 7th, 2009 at 11:25 pmI had an automotive rear end that was making noise, they say the squeky wheel gets greased first, we packed the rear end with sawdust and got rid of it.
June 7th, 2009 at 11:27 pmGo Liberty Says:
other than that, he’s taking too much leisure time in the face of challenges.
ORLY?
During his two terms, Bush spent 487 days vacationing at Camp David, and another 490 days in Crawford, TX, and another 43 days in Kennebunkport. So for about 35% of the time he was supposed to be President, he wasn’t. You want to lecture Obama of all people about taking too much leisure time “in the face of challenges?”
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Go Liberty Says:
i’d rather see carter re-run for that second term with all the trouble obama’s getting himself in.
The only way Obama got himself in any trouble was by winning the Presidential election. Iraq and Afghanistan, the failed economy, the health care mess and intransigent psycho Republicans were all already there waiting for him.
June 7th, 2009 at 11:31 pmSen. Grassley, wile u party reck econ, Y U no twitter Crawford, Tex when Bush B on vac 4 record time? FU, chuck, I have smarter nails in toolbox.
June 7th, 2009 at 11:36 pmI think Bush had like 6 weeks of vacation by this time in office…
June 7th, 2009 at 11:38 pmRepugs are proving again and again that they cannot “play nice” — they obstruct and deny, lie and deceive, pout and have hissy fits when they don’t get their way.
June 7th, 2009 at 11:39 pmthank you, faiz!
yea… IF “private insurers fail to bring down costs/improve coverage over time.” … as if…
another stall, of course… delaying the inevitable…
i will visit the Wonk Room and learn more…
June 7th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
I visited the wonk room and is it only in America we can allow the proven immoral filthy vultures that have failed time after time CONTINUE to provide this service…. but if they don’t do it right next time we will see.
June 7th, 2009 at 11:40 pmOnly idiots think that mending international fences is not important.
June 7th, 2009 at 11:44 pmOnly idiots think that one cannot walk and chew gum because they base everyone else’s behavior on their own limitations.
Only idiots would have elected a president who spent nearly 40% of his presidential term on vacation, igorning warning PDBs and preferring to “cut brush” after touring his so-called ranch as a windshield cowboy.
Obama’s work overseas is as important to our security as the economic conditions here at home. Unfortunately he was left smoldering fires in every corner of the white house that he is trying to control — but the impudent repugs keep cutting the fire hose, as they would rather see the White House burn than save it and our country.
from Kennedy’s draft of a draft at the Wonk Room
I like this idea. The people who are falling through the cracks can get health care coverage without having to stay poor.
June 7th, 2009 at 11:48 pmit was a BASKETBALL… stoopid stoopid stoopid idjits…
June 7th, 2009 at 11:51 pmMany others have sent out emails or tweets after having a few.
June 7th, 2009 at 11:53 pmSimple singer-payer covering preventive, emergency and basic care would be fine and relatively cheap. Wealthier people could get supplemental insurance to gold-plate their situation. That way the cons can still pay more to feel like they’re better than anybody else.
But that’s not what we’re going to get. I think the R’s know they won’t be able to stall it, so they’ll do the same thing they’ve done to the prescription drug benefit, the same thing they’ve done to everything the D’s ever manage to pass – they’ll sabotage it. They’ll throw in amendments to create the most obfuscated and confusing Rube Goldberg scheme we’ve ever seen, producing inefficiencies that they’ll later be able to criticize, and gaps through which money can be sucked by the unscrupulous.
I have few hopes for this actually delivering what we actually need.
But it’ll still be better than the way it is now.
June 7th, 2009 at 11:55 pmAnd we all know they can do that without even trying…..
June 8th, 2009 at 12:03 amI’M NO NAIL
and let it be known, I refuse to be hammered.
And with that, im off to get some sleep. Unlike you libs, I got WORK tomorrow. Gotta get up at 6:30 AM, and get my capitalism on.
June 8th, 2009 at 12:29 amExcuse me chucky?
You are acting like a immature schoolboy bully. You don’t have the intelligence so you talk smack and in your ignorance you think you got one over.
Do you really think twitter is a private social club? You are talking one way to President Obama in person/missive, usually pleasant, and talking all repug tough on twitter.
Don’t worry about President Obama’s travels.
June 8th, 2009 at 12:33 am
Bottom line… I have no trust in the insurance co, AKA the middle man raking up the profits and with a history of doing everything else but gladly providing health coverage..
Common sense says you save when removing the middle man and the middle man we see has absolutely no business anywhere near the health care industry and those that are ill.
But hey, who am I to get in the way of Congress and their contributors that appear to have more importance than US the ones they are supposed to be, in our favor not the contributors, passing laws for….after all, we are their employer.
Here’s an idea:
If members in Congress, let’s not forget they are our employees, were allowed only the type of health insurance the average person gets maybe we will get somewhere.
June 8th, 2009 at 12:44 amBut it’ll still be better than the way it is now.
And who will over see this?
the same that watched bush and Cheney, the housing market, the banks, …?
June 8th, 2009 at 12:58 amJimmy Big Bucks Says:
I’M NO NAIL
and let it be known, I refuse to be hammered.
*bang bang ban* … what’s that Jimmie? I couldn’t hear you, I was too busy hammering your stupid azz.
June 8th, 2009 at 1:11 amJimmy Big Bucks Says:
I’M NO NAIL
and let it be known, I refuse to be hammered.
And with that, im off to get some sleep. Unlike you libs, I got WORK tomorrow. Gotta get up at 6:30 AM, and get my capitalism on.
Unlike you we don’t have to make up shhit about our personal life to get attention. Everything about you is a joke, big bucks.
Tell your cellmate, good-night.
June 8th, 2009 at 1:11 amI guess you are forgetting about Tom ‘The Hammer’ Delay
June 8th, 2009 at 1:22 amSo, are you flying out to the Mariannas and checking on your sweat shop petri dish?
June 8th, 2009 at 1:25 am
I wonder if AIG was getting its ‘capitalism on’ when they got some 180 billion in bailouts for its risk free casino capitalism derivatives bailout.
June 8th, 2009 at 1:27 amSen G
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June 8th, 2009 at 1:33 am#18 wiley says:I’m contacting Senator Wyden now. GRRRR.
Well, wiley….I read it too and I’m an Oregonian….I immediately e-mailed a forceful letter to both Wyden and Merkley…we have to keep the pressure on because those damn insurance and Big Pharma lobbies have the entire Congress in their pockets. It’s time for The People’s Revolution!! (and BTW, my initials are GRRRRRRRRR!!)
June 8th, 2009 at 1:41 amActually some of what Senator Grassley says is worth listening to. However, a Public plan in competition with private plans with the same rules will soon make more and more sign up for the public plan. Private insurers are trying to convince our population that a Public Plan cannot be administered with the same sort of outcomes as private insurance plans. I have had 4 heart surgeries to either repair or replace heart valves. Each done very successfully so I was able to work and retire after years as an RN. I had my second heart surgery in Canada. There, we had private medical insurance and I was also covered by Carpenter’s union insurance as a rollover from Alaska Carpenter’s union. The hospital said thanks but no thanks to my own insurance and billed BCHIS and my husband’s B C. Carpenter Union insurance plan. I am sort of an expert on Hospital care from being an R N. and from having 3 heart surgeries to repair and 1 finally to put in a 2 prosthetic valve. Canada’s universal insurance still gave me the choice of physician and surgeon, fine care in the hospital and we survived financially. My heart surgery in Hawaii, Texas and Arizona were all successful but altogether, even with good insurance, I have paid about $40 thousand in uncovered hospital and surgical bills. Those are the facts. I have experienced both systems and saw not on bit of difference in professional care and interventions that were appropriate. However, for want of about 9 months of antibiotics to treat rheumatic fever which my mom could not afford in the depression, I ended up with rheumatic heart disease. Silly waste of money when about $200 of antibiotics would have no doubt, saved thousands and thousands of dollars in expensive procedures.
June 8th, 2009 at 1:56 amScrew Bi-Partisanship with these people. If Democrats can’t deliver a serious health care reform, now that they have all the power, they should all just go home.
June 8th, 2009 at 2:43 amI don’t speak textonese, and I don’t think Sen Grassley does either.
Just sayin’…
June 8th, 2009 at 2:51 amAny ideas besides contacting statesmen? Besides making campaign contributions to congresspeople in other states, how can one make a monetary contribution to the cause of real health reform that isn’t a bribe? I’m ready to throw a hundred dollars toward the cause.
June 8th, 2009 at 3:05 amIs this grassley just a petty grump? That’s what he want’s us to think he is. Problem is, we do think he is.
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June 8th, 2009 at 3:41 amActually some of what Senator Grassley says is worth listening to. However, a Public plan in competition with private plans with the same rules will soon make more and more sign up for the public plan. Private insurers are trying to convince our population that a Public Plan cannot be administered with the same sort of outcomes as private insurance plans. I have had 4 heart surgeries to either repair or replace heart valves. Each done very successfully so I was able to work and retire after years as an RN. I had my second heart surgery in Canada. There, we had private medical insurance and I was also covered by Carpenter’s union insurance as a rollover from Alaska Carpenter’s union. The hospital said thanks but no thanks to my own insurance and billed BCHIS and my husband’s B C. Carpenter Union insurance plan. I am sort of an expert on Hospital care from being an R N. and from having 3 heart surgeries to repair and 1 finally to put in a 2 prosthetic valve. Canada’s universal insurance still gave me the choice of physician and surgeon, fine care in the hospital and we survived financially. My heart surgery in Hawaii, Texas and Arizona were all successful but altogether, even with good insurance, I have paid about $40 thousand in uncovered hospital and surgical bills. Those are the facts. I have experienced both systems and saw not on bit of difference in professional care and interventions that were appropriate. However, for want of about 9 months of antibiotics to treat rheumatic fever which my mom could not afford in the depression, I ended up with rheumatic heart disease. Silly waste of money when about $200 of antibiotics would have no doubt, saved thousands and thousands of dollars in expensive procedures.
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June 8th, 2009 at 4:16 amI wonder how many mouth breathers are following Grassley on his Twitter page?
June 8th, 2009 at 4:24 am#115,
Oh. Oh…I know…
All of them?
June 8th, 2009 at 4:27 amrb@115: they not mbrthers. they gud sitzens. not like u libs hu n3d fax & info 2 make dsishun. grsmns twt fns dnt n3d no stupd fax 2 no wot 2 thnk alr3dy.
June 8th, 2009 at 4:34 amOh Noez!!! Ceiling LOLSenator iz watchin u turist!!!
I can haz teevee time nao???
June 8th, 2009 at 5:58 amDon’t drink and tweet.
June 8th, 2009 at 6:17 amWhile the Republicans amuse us with their inanities–and the Democrats frustrate us by acting like Republicans–it’s worth putting things in perspective.
Consider: if the Pubs had been able to stay in power in 2006–with, let’s say, a brand-new generation of vote-flipping software…
We would not be talking about health care at all.
Congress would still be meeting from late Tuesday morning till around noon on Thursday.
Our wounded vets would still be lying around in their own urine, and no one would know.
The torture-rendition program would be going like gangbusters. Your neighbors would be disappearing one by one.
We would not be twittering, because the internet would be gone.
Swine!
June 8th, 2009 at 6:28 amIt’s got to be horrific to be a Republican today! Waking up everyday knowing a black man is in the White House. A black man that when he say’s good morning to his wife, has spoken more eloquently with those two words, than the last president would speak all day!
June 8th, 2009 at 7:20 amIt really must suk to be a Republican today,knowing that the likes of a fat,drug-addicted,high school graduate only is leading the party! With a ousted and shamed,three times married,disgraced Ex-Speaker of the House babbling on daily about the sins of the Dems! It goes on and on with the Republican Party or what’s left of it,simmering with hate every waking minute knowing they lost to a black man!
I find it hysterical watching the right wing trying to use a 21st Century device. Bah hahahahahahaha!
June 8th, 2009 at 7:34 amSen. Grassley, don’t you think you are dumbing it down a tad bit too much here? The next time you spout off about English only in schools we will wonder which English you are talking about. As one of your neighbors, I find this rather a rather disgusting display for a United States Senator.
June 8th, 2009 at 7:58 amWhatever happened to not criticizing the President when he’s abroad? Didn’t the GOP go crazy when some of us were doing that when Bush was in the Middle East last year?
Regarding health care, I can perfectly see Obama and Congress rear-ending us. But even Ted Kennedy may be setting us up for a disappointment with the upcoming health care legislation.
June 8th, 2009 at 8:22 amMore psychosexual revelations from the GOP I could live without. Grassley thinks of Obama as a hammer and he doesn’tt want to get nailed?
June 8th, 2009 at 8:43 amIt is good to know that our senators are using their time effectively. Republicans are for smaller government, right? I wonder if he would accept a pay cut to minimum wage (conservacrazies are always claiming it is a ‘living wage’, right?) to just tweet from home 3 days a week.
June 8th, 2009 at 10:14 amHey Grassley: u r so a NAIL
June 8th, 2009 at 10:17 am“Now watch this drive.”
June 8th, 2009 at 11:04 amNo Child, err Adult, Left Behind – Strikes Again!
June 8th, 2009 at 11:27 amMugsy 129 – Why wasn’t Grassley complaining back when Bush had more days off clearing brush and chopping wood, instead of working in the WH?
June 8th, 2009 at 11:31 amHa ha. He may not be a nail, but he sounds HAMMERED!
June 8th, 2009 at 11:48 amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MO5nXP3JAI
Sen. Grassley.
June 8th, 2009 at 11:56 amSo Obama wanted to spend some time with his family in France. Whatever happened to all these “Family Values” Repubs?
More proof of Hot Air and No Substance in their words!
June 8th, 2009 at 12:12 pmRe: Grassley-
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