The Health Care Reform Address Thread

[Dirtbag59]

I don't know who to root for anymore. On one hand the Republicans are helping me keep the timely, top notch health care that I depend on. To demonstrate 3 of my last 5 surgeries were scheduled a week in advance. Another was scheduled for when my blood count was expected to go back to normal and the other was arranged to be right after the school year ended. It takes people in other countries 6 month to get an MRI scheduled. For me it takes a day, sometimes the same day.

However at the same time I realize the republican base is full of idiots. For example I was listening to Hannity on the radio and some guy called in talking about how the democrats are going to regret the way they're treating the Republican party in 2012 when Joe Wilson is speaker of the house and Sarah Palin is president. My goodness didn't you learn from Bush to stay away from these types of people or are you just a gluten for punishment?

Then I tune into C-Span and see a Republican convention type deal and who should show up but Ms. South Carolina herself talking about how God has a plan for her. Ironically she looked like she had just came from the infamous beauty pageant crying.

Why do these people have to be paraded around on stage? Can't you send in a check and just stay home looking pretty while talking about the plagues God will bring upon the gays? Look here's an idea stay in the closet and don't come out.

So now it's between the incompetent republicans and the overtaxing, hands on mother-in-law party also known as the Democrats. If only every country could be so lucky. Of course when I put it that way maybe I can look and say that things aren't so bad after all.

[Beemnseven]

Originally Posted by Dirtbag359

I don't know who to root for anymore. On one hand the Republicans are helping me keep the timely, top notch health care that I depend on. To demonstrate 3 of my last 5 surgeries were scheduled a week in advance. Another was scheduled for when my blood count was expected to go back to normal and the other was arranged to be right after the school year ended. It takes people in other countries 6 month to get an MRI scheduled. For me it takes a day, sometimes the same day.

However at the same time I realize the republican base is full of idiots. For example I was listening to Hannity on the radio and some guy called in talking about how the democrats are going to regret the way they're treating the Republican party in 2012 when Joe Wilson is speaker of the house and Sarah Palin is president. My goodness didn't you learn from Bush to stay away from these types of people or are you just a gluten for punishment?

Then I tune into C-Span and see a Republican convention type deal and who should show up but Ms. South Carolina herself talking about how God has a plan for her. Ironically she looked like she had just came from the infamous beauty pageant crying.

Why do these people have to be paraded around on stage? Can't you send in a check and just stay home looking pretty while talking about the plagues God will bring upon the gays? Look here's an idea stay in the closet and don't come out.

So now it's between the incompetent republicans and the overtaxing, hands on mother-in-law party also known as the Democrats. If only every country could be so lucky. Of course when I put it that way maybe I can look and say that things aren't so bad after all.

Yep -- you and I are on the same page here. If the Republicans could ditch the looney, bible-thumping evangelical zealots they'd be okay with me.

Republicans: Drop your obsession with homosexuality, admit that the anti-abortion crusade is lost, and give up the self-appointed role of police chief of the planet earth. Do these things and you'll start winning elections again.

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by Beemnseven

Yep -- you and I are on the same page here. If the Republicans could ditch the looney, bible-thumping evangelical zealots they'd be okay with me.

Republicans: Drop your obsession with homosexuality, admit that the anti-abortion crusade is lost, and give up the self-appointed role of police chief of the planet earth. Do these things and you'll start winning elections again.

Amen. The base allows themselves to get distracted from the issues that really matter.

How you can view gay marriage as more important than wars or finding jobs for the 9% of citizens who are unemployed is beyond me. Actual lives and livelihoods are a lot more important than whether a gay dude can get married or whether he has to just live together with his life partner.

[FRPLG]

Originally Posted by Beemnseven

Yep -- you and I are on the same page here. If the Republicans could ditch the looney, bible-thumping evangelical zealots they'd be okay with me.

Republicans: Drop your obsession with homosexuality, admit that the anti-abortion crusade is lost, and give up the self-appointed role of police chief of the planet earth. Do these things and you'll start winning elections again.

Ding ding ding...

Almost...articles like this make me laugh at the Pubs
My Way News - Romney taunts Democrats with memories of Carter
They act like they aren't just as responsible for the over-spending.

[CRedskinsRule]

I think everyone wants to see a "detailed plan", I think it is fair to ask of both sides. Sadly, politicians, and political discourse in general, is now much more of The Other Plan Wont Work, so Use Ours. and then you proceed to point out all the errors in the other plan. Why? because getting a lot of people to agree that a specific idea is a bad idea is easier, than getting a lot of people to agree that specific idea is the right, or best, idea.
Interestingly enough, the opposite is kind of true for platform speeches: it is easier to write a general all inclusive platform that everyone can agree on, than it is to write a platform that contains a real plan that can then be attacked.

Yes I know this an obvious post.