Doing it Right: July 2009 Archives

Bob reports on a move in Florida to ban any Floridian from accepting a public health insurance option should it become available this year.

He also mentions Traitor Rick's move to do the same in Texas. I also read - and I think posted - about a similar move in Arizona.

Bob's suggestion was for these asshats to go ahead and do away with all public health care in these states. You hate the government that much? Pull your elderly off of Medicare. Take your poor off of Medicaid. Florida, Texas, and Arizona don't have an excess of elderly, do they? Oh wait! They do!

I'd take it a step further. Kick out the VA clinics and hospitals and forcibly remove your veterans. Close every military base as they have government funded soldier, Marines, airmen, seamen, and Coasties in them. Don't elect ANYONE to Congress. Or at least, any GOP members as assumption of the job would be hypocritical, now wouldn't it?

Now, Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY) has gone ahead and called their bluff. Basically, he submitted an amendment to repeal Medicare. No one voted for it. More importantly, no Republicans voted for it. Hypocrites.

Here he is on Rachel Maddow:

And here he is in Congress. This deserves watching:

Hey, what do ya know? We've got a president who actually gives a shit on how names and places are pronounced so that we can show at least a basic level of respect and deference to people and states around the world.

You think that may pay dividends somehow in the way we are viewed around the world? Gee, I wonder.

So....if nationalized health care is as bad as the Rethugs want us to believe, why do the Canadians revere the architect of their health care system as one of The Greatest Canadians?

Just saying.

In an effort to get to some actual truth, PBS created this Frontline investigation into the health care systems of Great Britain, Japan, Germany, Taiwan, and Switzerland. It apparently is the full show, warts and all, of each nation's system.

Even when showing the true pros and cons, we don't stack up among the best.This truly needs to change.

Think Goldman Sachs is just some innocent banking machine caught up in the financial shitstorm with the rest of us? According to Matt Taibbi, this is part of a sick trend of their's. In short, they have a history of creating and/or being a trigger of every big collapse in our recent financial history.

And just for chuckles, he takes on Hank Paulson's "genius" as well.

Holy crap.

You MUST read this blog entry from an 82-year old Palin non-fan. Reading through some of the older entries I truly wish I'd have found this during the campaign last year.

My favorite part of this particular entry?

"She actually stood there and talked about how the Palins had a family meeting and everyone agreed it was time for her to step down as Governor. Well, I call bullshit. The only family meetings the Palins have usually involve someone peeing on an early pregnancy test stick."