She thinks so.
Me, I think I'm fucking broke and can't afford the hospital stay as I'm not sure how much of that is covered by the limited health care I get.

Maybe I'll download some Monty Python onto my iPod so I can have something funny to listen to as they drill holes in my bones.
( Wanderer, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 16:26, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Oh, are you American ?
If you are, could you please explain to me how anyone can be against a national health care system? I can't work it out, I just can't at all, I can't see one good reason to be against it.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 16:49, Reply)

Beats the fuck out of me.
I was really pissed when they pulled the public option from the reform bill. What we have is the insurance companies pulling every string they can, Republicans doing their best to whip up fear to make the Democrats look bad, idiots yelling "Socialism!" and "Communism!" like it was the McCarthy era with the Red Scare, so the Democrats had no choice but to remove it. At least they got it passed into law that pre-existing conditions and major illnesses can no longer be a basis for insurance companies to deny coverage.

I still hold hope that there will be another round of this that will get us closer to national health care. The biggest problem is that the insurance companies are very rich and can buy a lot of politicians.
( Wanderer, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 16:56, Reply)

But a large lot of your country voted republican, when it was with Bush it was almost 50%.
How can anyone vote for them? They seem like complete and utter idiots, and the people who vote for them do too.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 17:20, Reply)

Again, beats the fuck out of me.
My personal theory, formulated from my armchair where I'll be sitting for the next couple of months, is that some vote Republican because that's how they've always voted, while others have bought the bullshit that Limbaugh and Glenn Beck and the rest of those fuckwads have been spewing and are going to vote for anything that isn't Liberal and Democrat.

I've noticed something interesting, though- the people that I've spoken to who are college educated mostly voted for Obama, even the staunch Republicans. None of them wanted McCain and Palin anywhere near the White House.

The ones who still beat the Republican drum? I think you'll find a lot of them here: www.flickr.com/photos/pargon/sets/72157623594187379/
( Wanderer, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 17:27, Reply)

'kin 'ell,

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 21:17, Reply)

Pretty much.
Fortunately it seems that the Teabaggers are a very minimal lot, a lunatic fringe that no one is really taking very seriously. The unfortunate thing is that they're stirring up a lot of noise and mud without doing anything productive.

As far as I can tell, they're just playing right along with Limbaugh et al. And the thing about those clowns is that their livelihoods depend on generating controversy- if the Republicans and Democrats work together constructively, then Limbaugh has nothing to talk about, and his ratings drop. So he rattles as many of these dimwits as he can to make noise and grab headlines, so he can stay relevant in the political spotlight. Since the obvious target is the Democratic president who is also a Harvard educated black man, they're all screaming as much nonsense as they can and using as many buzzwords as they can to keep the dimwits riled up.

Two days ago The Daily Show had a segment in which they showed Sarah Palin coming out to support McCain and had excerpts from her speeches- and it was as though she were doing a comedy roast. Sure, she got the limelight and got a lot of laughs, but she somehow seemed to forget that she was supposed to be there in support.

If that's their queen, I'd say that they're not going to be around for much longer.
( Wanderer, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 22:23, Reply)