Lunching With the Pundits

The Reminder: "I,for one was glad Glenn Beck wasn't invited. It's SO hard to get drool-stains out of nice table cloths......"

With this group you have to worry about the stains under the table, not above. Considering all of the "tingly legs" about.

Unemployment is now at 10.2% (and getting worse by the day), but does Obama care?

No.

He has so much time on his hands, he feels free to fritter it away on romancing semi-important columnists so they will feel good about him and continue covering up for his failures as president.

Alyson: ". . . a Harvard Study, every year 45,000 Americans die because they don't have health insurance."

That's not what the report said. Try reading it again, but more carefully this time. The report says lack of health insurance is "associated" with the death of 45,000 Americans. The term "associated" is much less conclusive than "cause." Further, my thought is that, by definition, the uninsured are likely to be less healthy than those that cared to insure themselves, causing the uninsured to die more quickly. The two go hand in hand.

We already have health insurance for those that are unable to obtain health care -- it's called Medicaid. Everyone else needs to pay their fair share if they want health insurance.

Alyson: "We can't afford to derail and delay."

The truth is we can't afford the government to subsidize health care for all. Just ask the CBO. Unless we want to start dismantling what makes America the greatest country in the world, we need to maintain the freedom of our health care industry and keep it in the private sector.

I,for one was glad Glenn Beck wasn't invited. It's SO hard to get drool-stains out of nice table cloths......

Trying to pry more propaganda out of the Lame Stream Media, Obummer?

More tax auditing was done on the poor and middle class during the Bush administration....why his friends hid their worth in off-shore tax havens...anyway, you're hollering about your taxes....they haven't increased since Obama took office and will not. At least I know Now where my taxes are going.....not to the 1% of the country and that's pleasing to me.

What was the relevance? How did the highlighting of the racial and gender differences

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Hmmm... I think it's because I'm writing a fiction story for NaNoWriMo on the side, and when you're writing fiction you try to paint a picture-- I actually was going to write white-haired, but a couple would be better described as balding, in varying degrees, but it remained true they were all white. And kinda old, to me anyway, and in very plain tones of clothing. And loud. They all looked ticked off. And since the clips are of the Dem women's caucus, the Dems were all women and younger, more calm, and wearing more interesting clothing. Watch a clip. It's an intriguing contrast. I can't see how anybody can stand those guys.

And, btw, the Republicans were whining A LOT and seemed to be the ones falsely trying to play a victim card. Eyeroll.

“A lie told often enough becomes truth”
—Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924)

Do not pretend you are a moderate when you are really a marxist.

Posted by: Jenny | Nov 7, 2009 1:42:11 PM

And yet you're the one repeating lies, and quoting Lenin.

I know, I know... self awareness isn't a biggie among teabots and PUMAs.

Why did you phrase it like that

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Because those are the facts--

sorry that's so difficult to grasp.

The goal of socialism is communism.”
“A lie told often enough becomes truth”
—Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924)

Do not pretend you are a moderate when you are really a marxist.

Huffpo or Kos?

Posted by: timetotakeabreath | Nov 7, 2009 1:33:50 PM

heh, heh. I read about the unruly congressmen at Think Progress. But if you want to talk Kos, did you happen to catch a clip of his smackdown of Tancredo on the Ed Show?

Kos is actually a veteran.

Alyson, I thought you headed back to the Huffpo or Kos?

No better place for looking at hate speech than those two spots.

Race card and Misogyny card all rolled into one.

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You're the one playing that. I'm just telling you what happened. If you're the type that reads that into things, that's on you. For me, it's just another anti-GOP thing.

Proudly anti-right wing GOP!

they have provided their plan...

Posted by: Jen | Nov 7, 2009 1:01:58 PM

Ha, I note how you ignored the serious or legitimate or bipartisan qualifiers to make a questionable point about me being "incorrect." To prove I'm incorrect, burden falls on you to prove that plan is serious, legitimate or bipartisan-- and good luck with that. LOL!!! That's such a hard sell that even the American Spectator would have problem falling for it-- though I'm sure the Weekly Standard will back you up.

How many people would be uninsured in 2019 under the shoddy Republican alternative? More than 50 million?

On Friday, a Republican rep, Foxx (of North Carolina) suggested that it’s better to be uninsured than enrolled in the government’s Medicaid program. However, according to a Harvard Study, every year 45,000 Americans die because they don't have health insurance.

We can't afford to derail and delay.

Meanwhile, in reality it's the angry white loud male Republicans who are trying to shout down, censor and silence Democratic women on the House floor today:

"As the Democratic Women’s Caucus took to the microphone on the House floor to offer their arguments for how the bill would benefit women, House Republicans repeatedly talked over, screamed, and shouted objections. “I object, I object, I object, I object, I object...”

Delay and derail.

After being repeatedly interrupted by Republican shouts, Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy (D-OH) asked:"Do I not have the right to be able to continue my sentence without objections that are trying to censor my remarks here on the floor that I have a right to make as a member of this House?"

Is it just me or is it odd that the GOP and right wing cares sooooo much about free speech when the people exercising that right are carrying signs that Jewish organizations widely condemned and saying nonsensical things, but not when elected female officials would like to finish a sentence.

the Republican strategy to delay and derail, they haven't provided a legitimate or serious or bipartisan alternative

Posted by: Alyson | Nov 7, 2009 10:36:44 AM
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Oh, but they have provided their plan. Many here know that. Citizens may agree or disagree with it--just as they agree or disagree with the Democrat plan--but to say the Republicans haven't presented a plan is incorrect.

They are ignorant about where this kind of thinking leads.

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Okay, I didn't misunderstand all that much after all. Scratch that...

Another daily special on the right wing menu, every day,all day-- projection, particularly in regards to ignorance.

wherewasthepress;
"Your taxes in order buddy?:

"I have an ironclad accounting firm handling them. Believe me, the Alyson's of the world are still naive enough to believe they are doing the right thing.

They never learned from history. They are ignorant about where this kind of thinking leads. Hopefully, they'll wake up before too much damage is done through their unquestioning devotion to a charismatic leader. "

Though after that first Fort Hood press conference, you have to wonder why they aren't already quesioning their beliefs.

Maybe Obama should protect our military with his own special privite police force. From his speech on July 2:

"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

Great, can't wait for the armed ACORN thugs & unemployed union hacks to start up with the PC thought police.

This administration scares America for a reason and it goes way beyond party lines. This is about changing America into the image Obama wants.

Nothing more, nothing less. The left is very totalitarian. Study your history.

Anita Dunn's "favorite political philosopher" is Mao. Her own words and no, she was not kidding. This is the same guy who murdered about 70 million of his own people in the name of "progress".

No, Obma is not Mao, but his cronies sure think highly of the guy and use his tactics almost as much as Alinski's.

Win at all cost, the end justifies the means. Destroy your enemies any way you can.

Remember the Clintons using the IRS against their enemies?

According to the Ny post the white house has already admitted to archiving comments & is makin a list & checkin it twice. Gonna find out who's naughty or nice.

'Scuse me? Axe threatened me with having my taxes audited and he tried to float the idea that you were working for the Obama administration or a private firm working on their behalf. That sounds like scaremongering from the left wing menu...

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Sorry. I misunderstood.

And yes, I question what the President, Admin and Congress is doing all the time. I send many emails, tweets, sign petitions and all that. I do it at the state level too. But I do like President Obama, as a person, can relate to him better than I have any other President (could be generational), believe he's reform-oriented if not as bold as I might like sometimes and I think he has a good heart and bright mind, will press him, but am also willing to forgive mistakes if efforts are made to correct them.

"Paranoia and scaremongering-- two more daily specials, every day, on the right wing menu."

'Scuse me? Axe threatened me with having my taxes audited and he tried to float the idea that you were working for the Obama administration or a private firm working on their behalf. That sounds like scaremongering from the left wing menu.

Believe me, I am not paranoid either. Threaten me all you want. I am also a firm believer in "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke) I won't be frightened, I won't stop speaking out.

I was not a fan of W either. I questioned many of his actions. I called my congresscritter to vote against the Bush TARP bailout. He didn't.

Do you ever, in the far recesses of you mind, question what O is doing? Ever?