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Huckabee: Kennedy Was Fighting Cancer To Deny Cancer Patients Ability To Fight The Disease

Today, in an attempt to criticize Democrats for using Ted Kennedy’s legacy to pass health care reform, Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AK) argued during a radio segment on ABC Radio Networks that Kennedy would have died sooner under health care reform:

It was President Obama himself who suggested that seniors who don’t have as long to live might want to just consider taking a pain pill instead of getting an expensive operation to cure them. Yet when Sen. Kennedy was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer at 77, did he give up on life and go home to take pain pills and die? Of course not. He freely did what most of us would do. He choose an expensive operation and painful follow up treatments. He saw his work as vitally important and so he fought for every minute he could stay on this earth doing it. He would be a very fortunate man if his heroic last few months were what future generations remember him most for.”

Listen:

Piggy-backing off of Sarah Palin’s claim that health care reform would establish “death panels,” Republicans have launched a coordinated campaign to scare seniors. This week, the effort found Republicans in the rather awkward stance of defending Medicare while simultaneously arguing that the program is “a very good example of what we should not have happen with all of our health care.” Huckabee’s contention is even more baffling. Following Huckabee’s argument to its logical conclusion would suggest that Kennedy fought cancer in order to strip other older Americans of the ability to vigorously fight the disease.



194 Responses to “Huckabee: Kennedy Was Fighting Cancer To Deny Cancer Patients Ability To Fight The Disease”

  1. dasm says:

    Jesus, God, & the Bible will brand Huckabee a hateful, lying anti-Christian. Hope he’s happy with that.


  2. pags2 says:

    Huckabee thinks he can wave the flag and thump his Bible to the presidency. God save us from this fool.


  3. Levi the Dungbeetle says:

    There is no low to which a fascist Republican will not stoop.

    We must remove them from every elected position, at every level of government.


  4. lm945 says:

    That was a particularly sick thing to say, even from a smarmy piece of sh!t like Huckabee.

    President Obama’s mother died of cancer. She spent her last months fighting with her insurance company, trying to get them to pay for her treatments.

    He wants ALL Americans to have the kind of medical care he and Kennedy and everyone in Congress have access to. The kind of care his mother was denied.


  5. Buckie Boy says:

    Hey, Phuckabee, those squirrels you’ve been gnawing on have alot of mercury in them…

    …it seems to have affected you small brain…

    …Obama never said that…therefore you are lying…

    …you know what happens to liars don’t you?

    …they die like everyone else and turn to dust…

    …sorry, but there is no heaven or hell…

    …but in your case maybe hell would be just fine.


  6. Above the Clouds says:

    Stay classy, Huckabee! America needs to be reminded at every turn that the GOP fought tooth and nail AGAINST Medicare–that they are “protecting seniors” is a laugh riot.


  7. Incars says:

    My statement is the truth.


  8. blue53 says:

    Even Huckabee’s god will have a hard time with this one.


  9. wiley says:

    Ever find yourself praying there’s a hell?


  10. Mr. Evil says:

    What difference does it make to Huckleberry, he still has lots of friends in Israel.

    I wonder what will happen to all these idiot protesters when they see their premiums rise again and again. I also wonder what they will say when their decuctables rise along with all their co-pays. I wonder what they will say when they incur a medical problem only to find out that have been denied coverage because they had a wart 20 years earlier and didn’t disclose it. Republicans, the dregs of society.


  11. tokin librul says:

    The way fear works is not rational.

    But it does work.

    In a corporately mediated society and culture, fear will always trump reason because the corpoRat state supports and is supported by the status quo, which is preserved by fear of change (and everything else).


  12. Incars says:

    Fear works on the ignorant.


  13. P.D. says:

    I thought Huckabee was supposed to be a Christian man? I don’t understand these Repugs! Isn’t it our moral obligation to care for the poor and sick? What happened to empathy? What happened to decency? Sigh.


  14. Jack Jett says:

    Have you noticed that Huckabee is getting fat again after having liposuction and then telling a big fat lie about it.
    It is imporssible for a christian, republican fox employee to get anywhere near telling the truth.


  15. pags2 says:

    Huckabee misses the point that Kennedy had the option for all of his medical care and people without insurance have no options. DUH!


  16. katy says:

    He choose an expensive operation and painful follow up treatments.

    and he fought for the right of ALL to have that choice…

    .

    what, do they just not think?

    definitely wired different…


  17. wisdomofwords says:

    The mind numbing asshattery continues.


  18. bzb says:

    Mr. Evil @ 10 they will all be begging the government to do something.


  19. ralph the wonder llama says:

    The Republicans really have no interest in a rational discussion about this or any important issue.

    Why should they? They have to recognize that reality has a liberal bias, and they’re gonna lose in a rational discussion.

    So they have to take the low road and gin up fear wherever they see an opportunity.


  20. ralph the wonder llama says:

    It was President Obama himself who suggested that seniors who don’t have as long to live might want to just consider taking a pain pill instead of getting an expensive operation to cure them.

    Can someone provide me a link to where President Obama said this?

    I tell ya, it doesn’t really sound like him.


  21. iamwhoiam says:

    He freely did what most of us would do. He choose an expensive operation.

    How many of us can afford this?


  22. Chessmaster says:

    Huckabee is NOT a man of God. To be frank, he’s actually Satanic in trying to fight real health care reform tooth-and-nail.


  23. katy says:

    did anyone notice, and was perturbed by, the way mcLIAR exited his car,
    and approached the building, like he was going to a party?

    … much too happy…

    all that “next” talk went to his head.

    spit.
    .

    (as annie ? would say)


  24. Pilotshark says:

    and just what have you ever done that would even come close to anything teddy ever did????

    though so nothing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    you are a low life bible thumping idiot


  25. ralph the wonder llama says:

    Chessmaster says:
    Huckabee is NOT a man of God. To be frank, he’s actually Satanic in trying to fight real health care reform tooth-and-nail.

    But — but — but — Daryll said that Jesus told him that Huckabee would be the next president. He even took to calling him “President-elect Huckabee“. Whatever happened with all that?


  26. ElBruce says:

    Wait, rich people would still be able to buy expensive treatments. Why do they assume that if regular folks get something, the rich people won’t be able to have it any more? And why do they act like most Americans fall in the category of “the rich people” when by definition, we do not?

    Basically he’s advocating that the few should continue to have gold-plated health care options at the expense of the many. Even if helping the rest of us did take away their fancy treatments – which it wouldn’t – this is flat-out immoral.

    I don’t recall Jesus healing only the wealthy… as a matter of fact, he was pretty explicitly against them.


  27. dannylauve says:

    Its hard to watch! It seems everyone who comes into contact with Rupert Murdoch turns into a liar.


  28. McWars says:

    More cons are flooding the airwaves accusing dems of “using” the Sen. Kennedy’s death to pass reform. Did you know congress isn’t even back in session and President Obama is on vacation? Hmmm.. how could that be? Apparently the stupidity of the right-wing will end only when their party is rightfully thrown in a black hole, never to be seen or heard from again.

    Kennedy said the cause of his life was health care. Exploit much?

    Kennedy wrote the bill that came out his committee and covers 97% of Americans and includes the public option. Exploit much?

    Hatch and McCain voted against the Kennedy bill. Bipartisan much? What are the “right” concessions, Senator McCain? Kennedy had signaled no intention to drop the public option. The bill was sold as is.

    I don’t have to say republicans are exploiting the senator’s death, I can see them with my own eyes getting right back to dirty games before the liberal lion is even buried. Shameful.


  29. Marie says:

    JeezuzChrist!!!
    Huckleberry is supposed to be a christian man – a humble man — at least that was how his campaign portrayed him — and we see him more truly as a bitter, mean-spirited, un-christian, self-serving partisan hack just like the rest of the repugs.
    How dare they set up these false scenarios as if they had any clue about anything — he is politicizing Kennedy’s death for his own selfish purposes — and shows himself to be a small, angry and frustrated prick.


  30. cellardwellinliberal says:

    This comment has been voted down. Click to read.


  31. Mike Hunt says:

    What a miserably disgusting son of a cheney……and this guy calls himself a “christian”?? Im not a “christian” Mike…so here’s hoping the next bus that drives by you winds up with you wrapped around the axle.


  32. hormiga brava chavez says:

    All this from someone who was a pastor and a denominational leader?! Huckabee is a liar. There’s a scripture in the Bible that says “He who works deceit shall not dwell within my house, He who tells lies shall not continue in my presence.” Psalm 101:7.

    They’re so quick to judge and tell someone how they should live according to the Bible!? Does Huckabee practice what he preaches?! Hell no!


  33. cellardwellinliberal says:

    This comment has been voted down. Click to read.


  34. ralph the wonder llama says:

    So, cellar dweller, can YOU point me to a link that shows President Obama making the statement that Huckabee attributes to him?

    Thanks.


  35. McWars says:

    cellardwellinliberal says:

    Obama isn’t failing for your benefit. He simply wants to let one branch of government be. Your elation is up for grabs – remember the bill Kennedy helped write that covers 97% of Americans and costs in a ten-year period just one year of funding the DoD?

    Well, all the president needs to do is endorse that bill and you’re toast.


  36. tombaker says:

    Mike Huckabee is the Rube’s Rube.

    A backwoods yokeldolt, unfit to dig ditches.


  37. cellardwellinliberal says:

    This comment has been voted down. Click to read.


  38. Marie says:

    ralph, I think I may remember something. Someone will correct me if I am wrong.
    At a town hall, Obama said that unnecessary and expensive treatments were often employed by providers because the insurance would pay more for them than for a prescription drug. It was in the context of facilities and doctors taking advantage of the way insurance manipulates medical care.


  39. tombaker says:

    cellardweller – be glad you’re not in the same room as me.

    seriously.

    gfy, with a sharp, rusty implement.


  40. tombaker says:

    tee hee – the righty closet queen casts aspersions.

    larry craig much, cellardweller??

    (is it watchpoop, back from banishment, and jacked on crank?)


  41. McWars says:

    cellardwellinliberal says:

    Care to give us the rundown of your rap-sheet? Skeletons in the closet?


  42. Marie says:

    Huckleberry twists words to suit his lies.
    Obama would never, has never, will never say that seniors should take a pill instead of surgery.
    Christian liars would make their Jesus ashamed of them – he would drive them from the temple along with the moneychangers.


  43. bzb says:

    Shuckabee at it again when will he and Mitchy boy finally come out of the closet?


  44. McWars says:

    Wasn’t the troll mouthing off earlier about “expanding your mind”? Sounds like the little troll has been “expanding his mind” in porn-rich Utah. Yuck.


  45. ElBruce says:

    Ignore and flag that troll. It isn’t making any points worth responding to, but is extensively violating the TP ToS.


  46. hormiga brava chavez says:

    Hey cellar @33 – I’ll be that! I’ve got the gay all day! I love the gay! The Godess loves the gay!


  47. ralph the wonder llama says:

    Since cellar dweller is so cued into hatred, here’s something for him to chew on:

    CNN has picked up our story from yesterday on Steven Anderson, the Arizona pastor who prayed for Barack Obama’s death the day before one of his parishioners, who attended the sermon, brought an AR-15 rifle to an Obama event.

    Okay, now let’s launch into a chorus of “And they’ll know we are Christians by our love… by our love… yes, they’ll know we are Christians by our love…”


  48. ralph the wonder llama says:

    (sigh) okay, ElBruce. You’re right.

    I was just hopin’ to get in a few swings before Happy Hour.


  49. Above the Clouds says:

    What kind of conservative closet-case hangs out in “liberal” chat rooms on a Friday evening telling the participants how “gay” and “angry” they are–all the while spewing liberal amounts of homophobic hate?


  50. McWars says:

    Okay, now let’s launch into a chorus of “And they’ll know we are Christians by our love… by our love… yes, they’ll know we are Christians by our love…”

    Ralph, you bet, and these faux Christians will feed a hungry person on condition they can plaster his face in the paper as a fundrai$ing ploy.


  51. geckoitenet says:

    Huckabee, you sir are a liar, and a non-Christian as far as I can tell (and a lot of other people seem to feel the same as I do).


  52. Game of Life says:

    What a hick. But I all ready knew he was.

    Teabaggers:

    ‘WHAT, WHA, WHAT! HOW LONG IS THE VIEWING GOING TO GO ON!
    THIS CAN’T BE…BUT, BUT, ALL THOSE PEOPLE…TOO MANY PEOPLE…THIS IS TOO@…PEOPLE DON’T UNDERSTAND…
    WHERE ARE MY TEABAGGERS! THIS IS MORE THAN RONNIE!”

    What a lying SOB! he can’t stand the attention that our beloved Senator is getting. These racist, self-centered, scums are the lowest of what the US stands for.

    Another fine example of a viable repug contender.

    Oh yeah trolls, when one of your freaks get this much attention then we can talk about Liberals and Greatness. Get a viable Legacy for once.

    hucky, you can used your nutty ronnie raygun as an example of healthcare.

    Leave Senator Kenndey’s alone, bonehead.


  53. Fred says:

    cellardwellinliberal reported for abuse. He doesn’t deserve the time of day from normal human beings.


  54. SoapBox says:

    Mr. Huckleberry needs to just go away…preferably under a rock someplace and just stay there! Forever.


  55. Winski says:

    These parasites and piles of right wing dung need to STFU. Freedom of speech is one thing and I’ll defend their right to have it with my last breath, but for these clowns to constantly berate folks everywhere needs to be tempered a bit. Huckleberry needs to spend some time back in Arkansas digging some roots for a while to get back in touch with realty instead of spending every last minute of his existence getting closer and closer to be hannity’s clone!

    This guy is an idiot…


  56. Fred says:

    It’s kinda sad that cellardwellinliberal thinks that he can think.


  57. Levi the Dungbeetle says:

    cellardwellinliberal said,

    Figure it out homos.

    look at you little liberal cellar dwelling fags

    not this gay site.

    Three references to homosexuality in only two posts. I think this particular wingnut is a closet case.


  58. Buckie Boy says:

    cellardwellinliberal reported and not long for this site…bye, bye hatespewer


  59. Buckie Boy says:

    Above the Clouds says:
    What kind of conservative closet-case hangs out in “liberal” chat rooms on a Friday evening telling the participants how “gay” and “angry” they are–all the while spewing liberal amounts of homophobic hate?

    He has plenty of time, no customers at the “Glory hole”


  60. hormiga brava chavez says:

    Game of Life – Yes indeed!

    Huckabee, McCain, Cheney, Bush, Palin, Limbaugh and any other Rethug could never hold a candle to Senator Ted Kennedy! All of their careers combined would never garner the amount of respect as the late great LION of the Senate – Ted Kennedy!


  61. SP Biloxi says:

    “Yet when Sen. Kennedy was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer at 77, did he give up on life and go home to take pain pills and die? Of course not. He freely did what most of us would do. He choose an expensive operation and painful follow up treatments.”

    GOP party sinks lower and lower everyday. This is the lowest from Huckabuck. Memo to Rev. Huck: If you can’t say anything intelligent, don’t say anything at all.


  62. Game of Life says:

    huckybilly:

    The last paragraph of your jindal-reading-bs book report is way out of whack. The healthcare reform bill includes healthcare as good as your lying-mumble ass gets or Sen. Kenndey’s had received.

    What kind of idiot are you?


  63. brothejr says:

    Isn’t Huckabee a minister? Isn’t there a comandment or some section in the bible that says that we should not lie? Well I think Huckabee should go back and read the bible again and again and again.

    If he is such a good Christian, then he would not be saying such lies and using Ted Kennedy’s death to push it.

    Republicans have no shame or conscience.


  64. dasm says:

    Huckabee: Kennedy was fighting cancer to deny cancer patients the ability to fight cancer.

    Is this man the idiot he pretends to be? What a stupid, convoluted, dishonest piece of crap this Huckabee vomit is.

    I still find it astounding that this lying, hateful, dishonest man, who lies about others, still thinks himself to be a Christian. He is not. He is a lying, bigoted, hateful man, just the opposite of a true Christian. Huckabee, Jesus is watching & thinks you are a deceitful anti-Christian.


  65. Shayne says:

    Sinking to new lows daily. I grieve for the reputation of the American people.


  66. Leftside Annie says:

    What an ugly, lying, shrewish, bitter little man.

    Definitely *spit*.


  67. Fred says:

    I thank huck. I use his words with the religious people here in okla. They didn’t believe it when I told them he was saying such things. Proof was easy and they get quiet.


  68. SlappyBastinado says:

    This comment has been voted down. Click to read.


  69. pops7154 says:

    it,a seems like just all the republicans are race bateing commies it makes me sick what greed does to sick minded people.


  70. Fred says:

    SlappyBastinado, you are a sick and disgusting person. I’m glad I don’t live next door to you.


  71. joe cantwell says:

    ***
    #68,

    take your finger

    out of your nose.

    :)


  72. Fred says:

    SlappyBastinado, I guess I should have said in the “cell” next to you.


  73. Mr. Evil says:

    SlappyBastinado says: #69

    Uh, hate to inform you, but, I live in Kentucky. Lexington as a matter of fact and here we are fairly progressive. Very clean city, well organized, not a lot of political problems and housing prices have pretty much stayed the same. Basically it’s a great place to live. Except they don’t have enough rock concerts here anymore like we used to.

    If you want to talk about “hillbillies”, take a shot at Arkansas.


  74. Cats r Flyfishn says:

    How unChristian of Huckabee to make such a statement.


  75. joe cantwell says:

    ***

    #70,

    here’s his picture

    in case you’re wondering if you do…

    :|


  76. Levi the Dungbeetle says:

    Slappy,

    We aren’t going to kill you with a pill. We are going to put you in an education camp, and castrate you. Have nice dreams.


  77. Mr. Evil says:

    Cats r Flyfishn says: #75

    Welcome back. Haven’t seen you here in a while.


  78. Game of Life says:

    ralph the wonder llama says:

    Since cellar dweller is so cued into hatred, here’s something for him to chew on:

    CNN has picked up our story from yesterday on Steven Anderson, the Arizona pastor who prayed for Barack Obama’s death the day before one of his parishioners, who attended the sermon, brought an AR-15 rifle to an Obama event.

    Okay, now let’s launch into a chorus of “And they’ll know we are Christians by our love… by our love… yes, they’ll know we are Christians by our love…”

    I kinda stop knocking my head to understand stupid. I thought I heard it all when the cstreet mob’s preacher praises hitler and other vile people.
    But the logic of their asses stating that one is chosen into elected office therefore their fate is marked. If one of their freaks chose to rape and murder a child it would be ok because it was made to be. I’m paraphrasing of course.

    I wasn’t even trying to understand that madness.


  79. joe cantwell says:

    ***

    #76,

    he doesn’t dream

    he vegetates.

    :\


  80. angels81 says:

    SlappyBastard, should be “REALLY GLAD” he doesn’t live next to me and my family.


  81. SlappyBastinado says:

    This comment has been voted down. Click to read.


  82. Moderate Man says:

    Not to nitpick, but the Huckster wasn’t the governor of AlasKa, but of ARkansas.

    I can understand the mistake though, because the governor of Alaska is the Huckster in lipstick. Both frighten me too. :(


  83. angels81 says:

    Slappy, why don’t you start by leaving, because nobody cares what you think.


  84. SlappyBastinado says:

    This comment has been voted down. Click to read.


  85. angels81 says:

    Slappy, I’m not a tough guy, I just have a large family that sticks together, and we don’t suffer fools.


  86. Xisithrus says:

    Huckabee: Kennedy Was Fighting Cancer To Deny Cancer Patients Ability To Fight The Disease”

    Lets break this deception thru truth statement down.

    Kennedy Was Fighting Cancer: [Thats true]

    To Deny Cancer Patients: [Untrue]

    A lie Ability To Fight The Disease [untrue]

    Shame on you Huck, shame shame shame


  87. Fred says:

    SlappyBastinado says:
    Levi, I was wondering what the Progressives, when in complete power, would do with all the malcontents, miscreants and problem creating neocons….I guess a history lesson is in order

    see 1929-1994 republican obstuctionist minority party. If you even survive.


  88. ElBruce says:

    brothejr says:

    Isn’t Huckabee a minister? Isn’t there a comandment or some section in the bible that says that we should not lie?

    Yep, and Obama’s been pointing that out specifically.

    Some 140,000 people participated in the call, the coalition of more than 30 faith-based groups that organized the event said in a written statement.

    Obama urged the listeners to reject misinformation about his plans, noting, “There are some folks out there who are, frankly, bearing false witness.”

    I do hope that the result of this ongoing wingnut behavior will ultimately divorce responsible people of faith from the GOP forever. If they keep slandering the poor, exalting the rich, fomenting war and generally pushing an ethic of pure selfishness and greed, something eventually is going to have to snap. The trick is to make sure that they have an attractive alternative, and Obama seems to be doing that.

    .

    SlappyBastinado says:

    Hummmmm….delemma, dilemma when the government has a finite amount of money for health care, like American Indian health care, and when the money is almost gone for the year, and a Washington bureaucrat has to make the choice…

    What’s the difference from when your insurance company’s profit margins didn’t look so hot last quarter? As a matter of fact, since government agencies have the capability of going into the red, whereas private companies don’t (if your balance sheet comes up short, you’re officially bankrupt and cease to exist) I’d say that concern over “rationing” would be significantly less of a problem under a public option than as the situation is now.

    You lost me completely after that point, btw.

    .

    Game of Life says:

    But the logic of their asses stating that one is chosen into elected office therefore their fate is marked.

    I believe the original name of this belief would be “Divine Right,” and it is the central doctrine which the United States of America came into existence to oppose.


  89. Fred says:

    slappy is just pissed because they hate losing and they have lost…well, everything.


  90. Xisithrus says:

    Really m Huckabee claims to follow Jesus’ teachings. The is in favor of private for profit insurance?

    Cmin Huck, you are better than that, rise to the ocassion and be the one you supposedly admire


  91. Xisithrus says:

    Heal the people Huck, if you can.


  92. SlappyBastinado says:

    81 what do you do with them?


  93. hormiga brava chavez says:

    Slappy @81 – Progressives would keep you and your kind safe. Only fake christian rightwingextremists like to kill and destroy.


  94. Levi the Dungbeetle says:

    Slappy,

    It has become apparent that the Republican Party has taken to fascism through the use of propaganda. The only way to cure the brainwashing caused through the use of propaganda will be to round up all the wingnuts and deprogram them in internment camps.

    That means you slappy.


  95. Xisithrus says:

    Levi, I was wondering what the Progressives, when in complete power, would do with all the malcontents, miscreants and problem creating neocons

    First, slappy, the progs dont want complete power, so we must view then the current DC consensus objectives:

    In his 1997 book, The Grand Chessboard, Brzezinski outlined a strategy for America in the world. He wrote, “For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia. For half a millennium, world affairs were dominated by Eurasian powers and peoples who fought with one another for regional domination and reached out for global power.” Further, “how America ‘manages’ Eurasia is critical. Eurasia is the globe’s largest continent and is geopolitically axial. A power that dominates Eurasia would control two of the world’s three most advanced and economically productive regions. A mere glance at the map also suggests that control over Eurasia would almost automatically entail African subordination.”[21] Brzezinski explained that, “the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public’s sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization.”[22] Brzezinski also outlines Russia and China, in cooperation with Iran and possibly Pakistan, as the most significant coalition that could challenge US hegemony.

    Half a millenia of the great game….


  96. angels81 says:

    Slappy, I think if you try and use that thing you have between your ears, you might be able to figure that out for yourself.


  97. SlappyBastinado says:

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  98. ElBruce says:

    Fred says:

    slappy is just pissed because they hate losing and they have lost…well, everything.

    Democrats are nothing if not forgiving. All they have to do to regain a seat at the table is quit being insane.

    Some reasonable, centrist conservatism would be a very welcome phenomenon about now. Especially if they want to quit losing elections. But historically speaking, they’ve got to go through one more Presidential election cycle before they fully realize what they’ve done to themselves.


  99. Xisithrus says:

    I am lucky to be in great shape and I use family members in the industry and a non profit should I need it AND I PAY FOR IT MYSELF!

    So you have had major surgery?


  100. hormiga brava chavez says:

    Well slappy – Let’s hope that non-profit and those family members are there for you if you should ever get hit by a bus or an uninsured driver.


  101. Xisithrus says:

    Your great shape, my friend, is not infinite and you will require, eventually, to feed off the pool of capital others put in.


  102. joe cantwell says:

    ***

    #97,

    congratulations.

    you’re a self make basterd.

    like your dad.

    :)


  103. Fred says:

    SlappyBastinado says:
    AND I PAY FOR IT MYSELF!

    Sure you do bastard. See why you can’t be believed?

    Do you carry your fairy dust in a baggy or what?


  104. SlappyBastinado says:

    This comment has been voted down. Click to read.


  105. Levi the Dungbeetle says:

    Slappy wakes up one morning feeling really ill. The next thing he knows, he is waking up in a hospital with a $50,000 medical bill. That’s when he will finally understand.


  106. Xisithrus says:

    I am lucky to be in great shape and I use family members in the industry and a non profit should I need it AND I PAY FOR IT MYSELF!

    There is something wrong in this statement.

    You use your family members in the industry.

    Huh, So you use workers to pay for your health insurance, work you didnt actually do?


  107. Fred says:

    Levi the Dungbeetle says:
    Slappy wakes up one morning feeling really ill. The next thing he knows, he is waking up in a hospital with a $50,000 medical bill. That’s when he will finally understand.

    He will just “pay for it his self” god that’s really funny to think that someone would be that g damned stupid to even say such a thing.


  108. Xisithrus says:

    SlappyBastinado says:

    X….that would be a NO!
    You said your family, that you use, provides health insurance, then, I csn only surmise, the workers, pay for your insurance?


  109. SlappyBastinado says:

    This comment has been voted down. Click to read.


  110. Xisithrus says:

    What work do you actually do Slappy?


  111. joe cantwell says:

    ***

    sloppy,

    personal aside here;

    have you given up on

    the dream of becoming a

    right wing, conservative comedian?

    :( :( :(


  112. Xisithrus says:

    A ditch digger burns more calories than slappy,


  113. Xisithrus says:

    Have you, slappy, ever labored in the hot sun for 12 hours doing manuaal labor?


  114. Xisithrus says:

    Yay, so shall it be.

    The poor reduce the greedy

    To ashes


  115. Levi the Dungbeetle says:

    Slappy,

    Would you give up everything you own, all your savings and personal belongings to pay your health care? Should your family go homeless and starve because you need expensive medical care?

    You need to get off the propaganda pony ride and come back to earth. What are you, furniture?


  116. joe cantwell says:

    ***

    #115,

    his head makes a wonderful

    hat rack.

    :)


  117. Xisithrus says:

    So shall you
    Who profit my sweat
    Become me


  118. Fred says:

    slappy probably does have good health care. I hear they take pretty good care of you in the joint.


  119. kwsventures says:

    This comment has been voted down. Click to read.


  120. kwsventures says:

    This comment has been voted down. Click to read.


  121. dietrich says:

    Slappy is an ashat, it’s that simple.
    Not as exquisite as Debs, but you get the point.
    And Huckleberry doesn’t understand much of his bible, being a hate-monger liar that he is
    tony and lido


  122. kwsventures says:

    This comment has been voted down. Click to read.


  123. Xisithrus says:

    Churchhill spoke for empire, not the common man


  124. Fred says:

    to kwsventures, we’ll really never know if you ever had an original thought. There seems to be no evidence to show that you have.


  125. Fred says:

    kwsventures says:
    “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.”
    – Winston Churchill

    But Churchill lived in communities that had firefighters and teachers and, etc. ect. ect. oh, and nationized health care, did I forget to mention that?


  126. Fred says:

    kwsventures, comon and tell us about your thriving business that oddly doesn’t seem to exist anywhere except in the smooth place between your ears.


  127. Xisithrus says:

    “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.”
    – Winston Churchill

    This from an imperial empiricist, What America fought against for its independence.


  128. Xisithrus says:

    In his 1997 book, The Grand Chessboard, Brzezinski outlined a strategy for America in the world. He wrote, “For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia. For half a millennium, world affairs were dominated by Eurasian powers and peoples who fought with one another for regional domination and reached out for global power.” Further, “how America ‘manages’ Eurasia is critical. Eurasia is the globe’s largest continent and is geopolitically axial. A power that dominates Eurasia would control two of the world’s three most advanced and economically productive regions. A mere glance at the map also suggests that control over Eurasia would almost automatically entail African subordination.”[21] Brzezinski explained that, “the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public’s sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization.”[22] Brzezinski also outlines Russia and China, in cooperation with Iran and possibly Pakistan, as the most significant coalition that could challenge US hegemony.


  129. Xisithrus says:

    Empires are over.


  130. joe cantwell says:

    ***

    #199,

    “All I know for sure, is nobody gets out of life alive.”

    *

    that’s all you know for sure?

    :)


  131. Xisithrus says:

    We have entered a new paradigm, the five thousand years of war and empire are over, the great game is over.


  132. pags2 says:

    dasm says:

    Huckabee: Kennedy was fighting cancer to deny cancer patients the ability to fight cancer.

    Is this man the idiot he pretends to be? What a stupid, convoluted, dishonest piece of crap this Huckabee vomit is.

    Huckabee is the Savanarola of the US. His politics is mixed with a big dose of religion and patriotism. The man intends to run for President in 2012 with the following campaign platform: cut spending and regulations, restore Christianity as the de facto religion and accuse everyone who opposes him as an unpatriotic heretic. We know what happened to Savanrola and Huckabee should take care that something similar does not happen to him.


  133. misscoleopteramolly says:

    Huckabee is catapulting inaccurate propaganda, as so many Republicans do.

    He is suggesting that under “health care reform”, people who already have insurance won’t have it. Or they’ll have something completely different against their will.

    Senator Kennedy might not be the best example to use. Not only was he a Senator (and it’s doubtful that a Senator’s health care will ever be substandard), but he was rich. Which means that even if he had NO INSURANCE AT ALL, he would no doubt be able to pay for expensive operations and follow-up treatments out of his own pocket.

    Now, if Huckabee was suggesting something along the line of “if Ted Kennedy wasn’t a Senator, wasn’t rich, and was just an ordinary guy, he would have died sooner under health care reform,” that’s another matter.

    If Ted Kennedy was just an ordinary guy, he may or may not have been able to get an expensive operation such as he had, depending on what kind of insurance he had. Many companies would have declined to pay for an operation such as that with such a small degree of possible success. And if he had a Cadillac gold-plated policy that would have paid for it, he wouldn’t have had to give that up under “health care reform”. Remember a public option is just that — an OPTION. Given that set of circumstances, there’s no evidence (or even compelling anecdotal conjecture) that he would have died sooner. Of course, if he was REALLY an ordinary guy, he would have been laid off, exhausted his COBRA benefits, and not been insured at all. How is this “better”?

    More lies, propaganda, and fearmongering from the right — with an element of tastelessness thrown in for good measure, exploiting the death of someone who spent his life fighting for the people the Republicans are trying to screw.


  134. ElBruce says:

    SlappyBastinado says:

    Don’t have and “insurance company” so its a “non starter”. I am lucky to be in great shape and I use family members in the industry and a non profit should I need it AND I PAY FOR IT MYSELF!

    This is all standard Internet wingnut lies. You’re on Medicare and we all know it.


  135. nofltwlt says:

    Huckabee, Beck, Rush, Hannity – what pigs?

    Republicans, GOP, conservatives – unfit at any speed.


  136. livelongandprosper says:

    Xisithrus says:
    I am lucky to be in great shape and I use family members in the industry and a non profit should I need it AND I PAY FOR IT MYSELF!

    There is something wrong in this statement.

    You use your family members in the industry.

    There is a good possibility that slappy does have family in the health care industry. There will definitely be people losing jobs in the this


  137. livelongandprosper says:

    Oops, wasn’t done.

    There is a good possibility that slappy does have family in the health care industry. There will definitely be people losing jobs in this industry has it stands now. However, these people should be able to find something in the new structure. Surely people will suffer. Unfortunately for them, there were many people made to suffer with the current system.


  138. Shayne says:

    I have expensive group coverage. I had to take my daughter to the hospital lab because the doctors office couldn’t find a vein. It was routine blood work to make sure medication wasn’t harmful. 5 minutes, 3 tubes of blood, routine tests. $750. Fortunately I have a PPO and get reduced rates but I still had to pay $70. A family that has to use an emergency room one time for health care will be filing bankruptcy. I hope that family is Slappy’s.


  139. kwsventures says:

    This comment has been voted down. Click to read.


  140. angels81 says:

    Shayne, hey, will take care of Slappys family, it just him who should get thrown in the street.


  141. Reggie says:

    I am lucky to be in great shape and I use family members in the industry and a non profit should I need it

    Do you Paulbots call leaching off a non profit charity taking personal responsibility?


  142. pags2 says:

    kwsventures says:

    Snappy sayings do not justify the fiscal arguments when weighing life and death issues for people who have no medical care.


  143. katy says:

    … I use family members in the industry and a non profit should I need it AND I PAY FOR IT MYSELF!

    hate to do this, but can’t resist the urge… to point out
    what a mooch this one is…

    and to give a clue that the family is surely annoyed at the mooch…


  144. ElBruce says:

    Xisithrus says:

    Empires are over.

    Well, ours is in any case.

    We’ve spent a half a century pretending we weren’t an empire, even though the countries under our subjugation knew better. How the USA manages the dismantling of its geopolitical empire in the next century will say a lot about how we get by after that. In the best case we end up as Britain; not too shabby. A worse case is Russia, which is still in disarray.

    .

    pags2 says:

    We know what happened to Savanrola and Huckabee should take care that something similar does not happen to him.

    I had no idea, but thanks for the lesson – it’s an apt comparison.

    I think a Huckabee run in 2012 will do a great deal to peel honest Christians of faith away from the hypocritical GOP.

    .

    Shayne says:

    I had to take my daughter to the hospital lab because the doctors office couldn’t find a vein. It was routine blood work to make sure medication wasn’t harmful. 5 minutes, 3 tubes of blood, routine tests. $750. Fortunately I have a PPO and get reduced rates but I still had to pay $70. A family that has to use an emergency room one time for health care will be filing bankruptcy.

    The reason that hospitals hike charges for simple tests to obscene rates are, 1) they have to cover free emergency care for the uninsured, so they pass the costs along to you, and 2) cost schedules with insurance companies are protected by non-disclosure agreements, so it’s impossible for hospitals, other insurers and/or consumers to shop for the best rate. Of course, both of these are solved immediately by public-option or single-payer health insurance reform.

    .

    kwsventures says:

    We’ve discussed this before. If you’re just going to post quotes from other people, don’t bother. Either you have a point to make, or you don’t. If I want to find a page full of quotes that support conservative philosophy, I’ll Google it myself. I won’t dignify your (non-)approach by inserting contrary quotes from other respected sources.


  145. joe cantwell says:

    ***

    #139,

    a) Voltaire

    b) George Bernard Shaw

    c) Thomas Jefferson

    d) Thomas Sowell

    **

    which one does not belong?

    :)


  146. Shayne says:

    kwsventure, I was 16 years old when I realized cliches wouldn’t solve all my problems. But then I wasn’t as stupid as you.


  147. Shayne says:

    ElBruce, these idiots who think they’ve saved enough money to pay for medical care at a hospital have no idea.


  148. tombaker says:

    kws is a puppykiller.

    and he’s secretly ashamed of himself for it

    or he wouldn’t be here at all.

    sleep well kws.


  149. tombaker says:

    ooh – slap-a-dappa-dippy was here too??

    he’s SO funny.

    i heard he’s Dice Clay’s dumber step-brother,

    so that explains his cutting-edge sense of humor.


  150. Shayne says:

    tombaker says:

    kws is a puppykiller.

    and he’s secretly ashamed of himself for it

    or he wouldn’t be here at all.

    sleep well kws.

    Well no wonder he’s here, he’s probably Chuckleberry’s son.


  151. tombaker says:

    kws is just a sik greedhead phuk.

    he’s got all the moral sensibility of a babboon.

    AND all the intellectual subtlety.


  152. had enough says:

    Just heard Ron Wyden make some comments on my local news KPOJ am radio in Portland OR.

    He states in so many words he supports his Healthy American Act and the reform in the bills now are too costly…. could run 1 trillion.

    Since Wyden, my senator/staff, is not answering his phone, but has asked the caller to leave a message for the past 2 months, I will ask the question here:

    Sen Wyden

    1. why are you putting a price tag on health care when the illegal invasion on Iraq had no, still has no price tag?

    2. Are you using your HAA idea, which we all know is not going to be in the bill as an excuse to vote against a public option… an excuse to vote for your contributors that paid you so handsomely?

    3. Are you aware of the KPOJ am radio poll that 95% voted to find another dem to run against you in the ‘10 primary? This 95% rating is all about your negative view on public option.

    4. Is there any truth to this story: Sen. Lindsey Graham reveals backroom deal making with Sen. Ron Wyden on the public option


  153. joe cantwell says:

    ***

    answer: d

    :)

    thanks for playing.

    :)


  154. had enough says:

    I posted this a month ago and am wondering if there are any updates anyone knows about.

    These 14 names are very worrisome.

    from: billpressshow.com
    Health Care: The Public Plan Option
    These Democratic Senators have NOT agreed to support it:

    1. Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR)

    2. Senator Tom Carper (D-DE)

    3. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA)

    4. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR)

    5. Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL)

    6. Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE)

    7. Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA)

    8. Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND)

    9. Senator Max Baucus (D-MT)

    10. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)

    11. Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN)

    12. Senator Mark Pryor (D-AR)

    13. Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT)

    14. Senator Mark Warner (D-VA)

    These names are reported by The Hill here and here

    Update: Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) says she supports a public option.
    Update: Senator Jeff Binghaman (D-NM) says he supports a public option.

    You can also contact the White House and voice your opinion
    Comments: 202-456-1111
    Switchboard: 202-456-1414


  155. SlappyBastinado says:

    This comment has been voted down. Click to read.


  156. ElBruce says:

    had enough says:

    Just heard Ron Wyden make some comments on my local news KPOJ am radio in Portland OR.

    He used to have a pretty good reputation too. In fact, it was pretty much his endorsement that got Merkley in, especially with Smith running on an “I get along with Wyden” platform, ha ha. The junior Senatorship was pretty much his to hand out at will.

    I think the problem is, some Democrats have the skill set and mind set to be a great minority-party Senator. Wyden was pretty good at it – get everything you can out of Republicans when Republicans have all the power. Suck them into being “bipartisan” so you can get more concessions from an otherwise belligerent majority. Draw them towards the middle by staking out the middle. Whatever.

    But it takes a completely different skill set and mind set to be a majority Senator. We need people who realize that they have the power we have given them, and who are willing to fulfill the mandate for which we have placed them in office. Don’t capitulate to a paper tiger.

    Generally speaking, newer legislators are better at this. Seniority breeds complacency – or at least, obsolecense.


  157. Xisithrus says:

    As a farm boy with a father like you I labored for days, months mmmmmm……..about 18 YEARS in the sun with out pay

    Pay? you learned a great skill.


  158. SlappyBastinado says:

  159. Xisithrus says:

    As a farm boy with a father like you I labored for days, months mmmmmm……..about 18 YEARS in the sun with out pay…..other than free health care, free food and a place to stay, free education, free cloths, free new motorcycles, free new cars a real socialist my father….get the picture?

    get the picture? You didnt work for ‘free.’


  160. wiley says:

    What kills me about this, is that any time a person who purchases health insurance uses more dollars than they contributed to cover their health care costs, someone else is paying for it. This self-righteousness about who runs their gambling pool is bizarre. The fact that they gamble on private insurers, does not mean that the health care costs of people being treated for cancer are actually being paid by their premiums or that it’s they’re the house. It’s a pool. Period. Idiots.


  161. had enough says:

    We in Oregon looked the other way when Wyden voted to confirm Roberts and then Alito in ‘05 as he was very popular and well liked. But the fact he may drop the ball on a public health care option is unconscionable and will not fly.

    He will be voted out!


  162. Leftside Annie says:

    America: the Axis of Stupid.

    God, I’m so ashamed.


  163. EdgeOnIt says:

    A ‘public option’ is already in place, with regard to emergency room visits; the real question is how well a new ‘level playing field’ for all available health care, might keep pace in existing medical accounting systems, by including many additional health care visits, and likely including more essential, preventative care treatments?


  164. christopher wiwi says:

    Is there any thing these people from the Christian right won`t attack and DEFILE?


  165. wiley says:

    I will not only not vote for Wyden if he drops the ball, I will campaign for any Democrat who wants to run against them, and thinks the public option should be passed.


  166. pags2 says:

    had enough says:

    Just heard Ron Wyden make some comments on my local news KPOJ am radio in Portland OR.

    He states in so many words he supports his Healthy American Act and the reform in the bills now are too costly…. could run 1 trillion…..

    I just cannot fathom these Blue Dogs. In Chicago the Democrats are very conservative. But that conservatism does not extend to social issues. It is perfectly acceptable for a Chicago Dem to liberal on most social issues while still being conservative about other issues such as budgets, crime, etc. These views can live in peaceful co-existence because all of these opinions are shared by most of the middle class here. So my question is why can’t the Blue Dogs do the same without all these gyrations?


  167. okie dokie says:

    Men that cannot honor the honor of another man, deserve no honor.


  168. Fred says:

    SlappyBastinado says:
    Who’s the happiest person you know??????? That would be ME!

    That’s what cheney and rumsfeld and wolfowitz say too but when you see them in person you know that people with no consience lie as easily as they breath. That would be you.


  169. ElBruce says:

    had enough says:

    I posted this a month ago and am wondering if there are any updates anyone knows about.

    Thank you so much! I just sent this to Wyden:

    Hey Ron, I’ve heard recently that you co-sponsored a bill with a Republican that didn’t include either single-payer or public-option approaches.

    I think you should know that the progressive movement is terribly concerned with you. Capitulating to Republicans may have worked well when Dems are in a minority, but we need a different approach now. We’d rather have 51 senators with a spine than 60 without.

    We’ve all got debit cards and actblue.com bookmarked. We can flood any primary challenger at a moment’s notice with a massive wave of micro-donations, just like we did last year with Obama’s campaign.

    So please, for your sake, actually stand up for strong progressive issues, or we’ll get someone who will.

    I know, you may be thinking “I’m the senior Senator, I’m safer than that Merkley kid.” But here’s the thing – in any political paradigm shift, it’s the younger ones who are more useful going forward. The people accustomed to the old way of doing things are more vulnerable to obsolescence. You’ve been a great minority Senator. But that doesn’t mean you have the chops to handle being in the majority.

    Consider this your wake-up call. We’re all hoping you rise to the challenge. Good luck, we’ll be watching very carefully.

    He probably won’t lay eyes on it personally, but it’d be awesome if he did.


  170. Alantcd says:

    I JUST went through this same b/s with two wingnut police officers at work. Texas doesn’t have the option to secede any more. They gave it up in order to get back in the union after the Civil War. We USED to have that option, but the only thing us Texans can actually do now is…divide our state into four MORE states where we would have ten senators (same amount of congress critters though). Here’s the pertinent page from the Texas State Historical Association…

    Scroll down and begin reading at the 5th paragraph.


  171. Alantcd says:

    my bad… I posted at the wrong thread *slaps self*


  172. i aint you says:

    Xisithrus says:

    ——————————————————————————–

    Have you, slappy, ever labored in the hot sun for 12 hours doing manuaal labor?

    Have you?? i doubt it very much


  173. ElBruce says:

    pags2 says:

    I just cannot fathom these Blue Dogs. In Chicago the Democrats are very conservative. But that conservatism does not extend to social issues. It is perfectly acceptable for a Chicago Dem to liberal on most social issues while still being conservative about other issues such as budgets, crime, etc

    The thing is, Wyden’s no Blue Dog! He was supposed to be very center-left, until just now. Now out of nowhere, he’s betraying his entire state and career for apparently no reason! It’s like they have mind control lasers in D.C. or something.


  174. Whenwillthisnightmareend says:

    Thank God this talk show radio host didn’t become president. Just what does the Gee-Oh-Pee in the well party have to offer this country but hate and fear.


  175. desertrose says:

    If you think Obama is fighting to give you the same healthcare he enjoys, think again. It will never happen. Just the same for Social Security. He will enjoy a secure retirement. Congress and all it’s members will make sure of that. You and I, not so fortunate. Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, do your research. Make sure you understand what you are being asked to accept. Ask questions. Don’t just assume anything becaused you will be very unhappy when it comes to be. Make your voice heard.


  176. desertrose says:

    Here is the problem with taking pain pills. If you know anyone who is in their 80’s, they can’t take pain pills because the pills make them dizzy. When an older person, like my Mother, gets dizzy they can fall. Then they take a chance of breaking a bone, they end up in the hospital where they can catch pneumonia and die. Again, do your research.


  177. cec says:

    To paraphrase H.L.Mencken – The trouble with Christianity are Christians.


  178. christopher wiwi says:

    Once again these HYPOCRITTERS from the Reich are use fear mongering……..just like Hitler,but to them it`s the truth.


  179. Frugalchariot says:

    One thing is certain: the term “disgusting Republican” has become an oxymoron, thanks to, um, morons such as Huckabee. He’s just on among millions of others, of course, but still …


  180. The Angry Republican says:

    WOW just…WOW…

    The things spewed from a supposed preachers mouth…

    very low class


  181. Baloney says:

    Illegal immigrants WILL BE entitled to free medical, dental and mental health coverage under the Obamicare health bill. There is No language in the bill excluding immigrants, therefore by DEFAULT they WILL be entitled to coverage so American families struggling to pay for their own health coverage will be required to subsidize free coverage to immigrants.


  182. Baloney says:

    I forget to say pass the above info to everyone yu know because you won’t find out these true facts from the media, you know the guys that get “tingles up their leg” (or did he say he tinkles down his leg) when Obama appears.


  183. MapleStreet says:

    The fact that the reichers are using the day of Kennedy’s funeral to spew such garbage pretty much sums up their lack of decency


  184. ElBruce says:

    The Angry Republican says:

    The things spewed from a supposed preachers mouth…

    Yeah, his whole “I’m a reverend!” thing played pretty well during the last primary, but he’s used it all up by now. It’s obvious to everybody by now that he has no moral standing whatsoever. I don’t know what he thinks he’s going to do in 2012.

    As a matter of fact, it occurs to me that he doesn’t even have a shot in 2012, and neither does Palin. Only twice in the last 50 years has either party nominated someone who wasn’t currently the President, Veep, Governor or Senator: Nixon in ‘68 and Mondale in ‘84. In each of those cases, the nominee had been Veep four years previously.

    If you don’t currently have an elected official job (below Veep), you have zero chance of winning any nomination.

    Huckabee isn’t even worth talking about. He’s political history. He’s basically the next Buchanan.


  185. Lora says:

    El Bruce,
    I hope you’re right about Palin and Huckabeee not having a chance in 2012. But even if either of them became the Republican nominee, I think that would turn just more independents as well as even some intelligent GOPers (the few that remain left) away from the party.
    Now for one little fact correction: Nixon was Vice-President under Ike until January 1961–so eight years–not 4– had passed before he became his party’s nominee (again). Democrat JF Kennedy was President from 1961 to Nov. 1963, followed by LB Johnson, with Hubert Humphrey as VP, until January 1969.


  186. ElBruce says:

    Lora says:

    Now for one little fact correction…

    Thanks for the research. Nixon was an outlier, Mondale less so. But both of them had been Veep before coming back later to take their parties’ nomination. Neither Palin, Huckabee nor Romney even compare, resume-wise. The fact remains: at present, none of the class-of-2008 GOP candidates have a chance of taking the nomination in 2012.

    You have to be a current Prez, Veep, Governor or Senator even to have a shot.

    Bobby Jindal? Yeah, I’d like to see them try that one: Just because he’s brown and skinny doesn’t make him a match against Obama. Previous GOP Veeps, let’s see – Cheney? HA HA HAA, BRING IT! Dan Quayle? Give me a break. The fact is, they’ve got nothing. As thin as the 2008 GOP Primary was, 2012 is going to be considerably thinner.


  187. EugeneDebs says:

    i aint you says:

    Have you, slappy, ever labored in the hot sun for 12 hours doing manuaal labor?

    Have you?? i doubt it very much
    <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

    I have. Have YOU ever had an original thought or had a single funtional braincell? I doubt it VERY seriously. You do KNOW you are a moron dont you?


  188. EugeneDebs says:

    Baloney says:

    YOU conjecture and speculation does not qualify as FACTS. You are stupid and brainwashed. Your delusions do not BECOME facts because you post them on a website. As for Tweety yeah he said that. He also said Bush shined with a kind of sunny nobility and only the far left loons didnt like him also that he was like Atticus Finch. So he has his man crushes but they are for Republicans more often than Democrats. Then again I wouldnt expect a brainwashed loser like you to know that or really anything else. Just keep regurgitating what Rush tells you to think. We both know you are too stupid to do anything else.


  189. JustJohn says:

    “Hey Huck, which plan of the public option did you select for your government supplied insurance?”


  190. pags2 says:

    ElBruce says:
    Huckabee isn’t even worth talking about. He’s political history. He’s basically the next Buchanan.

    I wouldn’t count him out. Anything can happen between now and 2012. If the economy slides and the jobless rate go down, then Huckabee could win by default since a lot people will not vote. He represents the base of the Republicans which is a mix of social issues and fiscal conservatism. Huckabee will go into primaries talking about both issues but will move to the center after he is nominated. Romney has problems because he is a Mormon but Huckabee is a Christian fundamentalist which works in his favor. Then he will talk in vague terms about both so as not to commit himself to any specific plans. But make no mistake, he is all about the social issues, abortion and gay rights. If he were elected we will be fighting these issues for another 8 years. The last Republican got “Jesus” and made decisions based on his gut which is another way of saying Christian fundamentalism mixed with flag waving. And that turned out bad.


  191. pags2 says:

    Oops I meant jobless rates go up.


  192. LeeHope says:

    What a horses butt!!! And this man claims to be a man of God!! Sen. Kennedy, May he rest in peace did the only things he could do to fight this disease….he had the surgery, he had the follow-up treatments….nobody would ever not do any or all of this for that chance to live just one more day!!!! Of course it is expensive, and had he lived the Senator would have fought for every American to have the same access to health care that he had!!!! Huckabee…go back to the farm!!!


  193. The Angry Republican says:

    Nope you’re wrong on who the Republicans are going to nominate…

    It is already being talked about in State Republican committees.

    Amazingly the split nomination is divided almost perfectly North State Committee members vrs. Southern committee members…

    Two Republican candidates with base support:

    Newt Gingrich (North) (Well Georgia repugs vote for him)
    Joe Scarborough (South)

    hat in ring loosers who will try to get nomination:

    Sarah Palin
    MIchelle Bachmann
    Rick Perry
    Mark Sanford

    Winner of Republican nomination:
    The back door deal is already set that if Newt wins Joe will support him and garner the VP nomination.
    Newt has agreed and will support Scarborough to gain the VP nomination…

    Newt will win Scarborough will be nominated his VP.

    See all the fun info you get lurking in the Republican party :P It’s time for me to go Democrat I guess… I cannot handle the fanatical religious right that has usurped the party.

    OH and just my guess on the outcome of this election…
    Barring any malfeasance and voter fraud…I predict they only win Arizona…

    This will be the end of the Republican party.


  194. i aint you says:

    EugeneDebs

    Just remember this– it takes people like you to make people like me, and you are doing a fine job — keep up the good work and God Bless

    Yours truly
    I Aint You



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