Bolling's "idea" to save democracy: "2012, put a Republican in there" who won't "veto a rescinding of the health care"
March 18, 2010 2:59 pm ET
From the March 17 edition of Fox Business' Happy Hour:
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Coming from someone with the name "Bobby Jindal fan," Bobby Jindal must be heartbroken
(I had to...)
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Palin/Bachmann 2012! Make it happen!
First of all, Palin will never win. She is the reason McCain lost by so much in the first place.
Secondly, Americans will realize that reform is good, and the GOP wanting to take that away would be bad...
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Exactly as was done with the Patriot Act, right? Right?
How does Bill Clinton fit this scenario when he said he didn't have sexual relations with that woman?
Republicans will tell you that the skies will turn red and the seas will boil if it convinces you to cry out against health care reform.
It's interesting how you came up with that. His words were nowhere close to saying what you ask. Are you a bad reader or are you dishonest? Those are the only alternatives I can come up with for your reply.
Now, if he had said today that unemployment is not above 8%, THAT would be a lie.
You guys are not so good at language and meaning are you?
The versions of the Senate and House bills that were passed are posted (as are all legislation that goes through the House and Senate), and you've had approximately 3 or more months to read both of those bills.
The reason they said 8% was because they hadn't yet gotten the final numbers from 2008 Q4 when they were rushing to get the beginnings of the economic stimulus out there. Because they thought it was more important to get working on helping the economy as quickly after Obama was inaugurated, rather than being RIGHT about exactly how high unemployment would go, they went with preliminary ideas about how bad Q4 actually was. But it was worse.
So, I guess BJF thinks it would have been more important for them to delay fixing the economy so that they could have an accurate idea of how high unemployment would go?
You DO know, don't you,BJF, that if they had a better idea how bad Q4 2008 actually was, the financial stimulus bill that was passed would have been larger and would have concentrated LESS on tax cuts and more on job creation, right?
They wanted to help as soon as possible. That caused them to have to rush without knowing final numbers from Q4. That'a a price that anyone who cares about our economy should be content with - you try to use it as a battering ram!
Dishonest troll that you are, BJF.
If he really took over the country, he'd keep everyone employed.
Bobby, you fail again.
No Republican (except for Charlie RINO Crist) is touting the stimulus bill as a success - NOT ONE.
Do you want to know teh real number of jobs the stimulus bill has created? One! Scott Brown's.
– Top Republican Senate Recruits Are Stimulus Hypocrites: As ThinkProgress reported, Rep. Mike Castle (R-DE), a candidate for Senate, touted over $5 million in stimulus programs he voted to kill. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL), the GOP nominee for Senate in Illinois, signed a letter urging Gov. Pat Quinn to provide “Recovery Act (ARRA) funding to expand the Illinois Community College Sustainability Network.”
– GOP Leadership Leads The Way In Hypocrisy: Although he regularly slams the stimulus as a waste while in DC, McConnell has returned to Kentucky to take credit for stimulus programs, even taking time to request more funds. ThinkProgress attended two job fairs held by Cantor, where we found dozens of employers able to hire directly because of the stimulus. Indeed, even Boehner’s office released a statement boasting that the stimulus will create “much needed jobs.”
– The Audacity Of Hypocrisy Knows No Bounds: Many opponents of the stimulus have been quite brazen with their ability to try to claim credit for the program. For instance, Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) spent the morning of July 28th railing against the stimulus, yelling “Where’s the stimulus package? Where’s the jobs?” on the House floor. On the same day of his rant, Kingston’s office sent out multiple press releases bragging that he had secured hundreds of thousands in stimulus funds to hire additional police officers in his district. Other stimulus opponents, like Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA) — who has called the stimulus a “trillion dollar debt bill” — have printed out jumbo-sized ceremonial stimulus checks to present to local communities to try to garner positive press.
"Read my lips - no more taxes."
"I'm a uniter not a divider."
"Compassionate conservative."
"Fiscal reponsibility"
"Death panels"
"Obama wants to ban fishing."
"Saddam has WMD's"
"Mission Accomplished."
"Combat operations are over."
"Waterboarding is not torture."
"Voo-doo economics"
"Tax cuts lead to budget surplus"
"Republicans want smaller government"
" "Maverick" McCain"
Anything that comes out of Palins mouth.
Swift Boat Veterans
Barack Obama is a Muslim
Republicans are party of "family values"
Republicans are party of "prosperity"
The US was never attacked under the Bush watch
Republicans are supporters of Medicare and Social Security
Republicans vote their moral values
Barack Obama was not born in the US
Republicans care about the middle class
And the list is literally endless...
Socialism leads to prosperity.
Put all the bills online.
Have all the debates on C-Span.
Hillary being on a plane that had to do a corkscrew landing in Bosnia.
Taxation without reprentation.
That list is endless as well...
Who said socialism leads to prosperity? Certainly not Obama.
All the bills ARE on line, and have been for a long time now. It's called Google, please learn how to use it.
Debates, and daily coverage of Congress is on c-span, tune in.
Bill lied, we know it. When he was lying, it had nothing to do with what he was being investigated for, which is why he wasn't forced from office.
And, one, there is nothing about taxation without representation in the Constitution. I'm not saying I don't agree with the sentiment, but you righties are always very strict about following the letter of the Constitution until it's no longer convenient. Two, you are represented. You may not like you congressional representative or your senator, but a majority of your fellow voters did and elected them. Just because you don't like your representative in now way invalidates their position.
Well, except for the folks who live in DC. They are taxed without representation.
Wow, what a whopper of a lie. Obama should be impeached because his economic advisers can't precisely predict the unemployment rate.
You need better material, mr. seahawk.
The only way they'd get a chance to repeal health care reform is to lie and say they wouldn't. Even then, the electoral backlash would decimate the party, perhaps for good.
Even now, these are their last panicked gasps because they know that once the reform becomes law, there's no turning back.
There's no way to argue for a return to the good old days when insurance companies could revoke a policy, deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions, jack up rates without review, limit lifetime coverage or devote less than 85% of the money they receive to medical costs.
The right is in a panic because they understand that this bill is just the foundation on which total health care reform will be built upon.
It is, however, an important first step.
I find it amazing the rhetoric behind this whole thing. If we pass it, life as we know it in America is dead. Democracy?!?!? DEAD!!
Because one bill gets passed? Because health care reform goes into motion? Really?
For the vast majority of us that are lucky enough to have coverage from their jobs guess what is going to happen? Nothing. Nothing at all.
It's not taking anyone's freedom away. It's not taking democracy away.
Secondly, things will definitely change due to this health care bill. If the bill still forces businesses to provide their employees w/ HC, then unemployment will increase. HC is the leading burden on business, especially small businesses. The cost of HC will rise (when government tries to control costs, eventually they sky rocket). Taxes will increase, (you know you will be paying taxes 4 yrs before the reform even begins) which means people will have less money in their pocket, which means less spending which leads to high unemployment and low innovation.
Reform needs to be in the form of cutting health insurance costs, not trying to control them.
Here's to the day when every American has affordable and fair health care.
And I am not just saying that because I am a republican. I have studied it, I have experienced it. Why do you think all innovation in the medical field comes from the US? Why is the US ranked number one in customer satisfaction? Why don't you have to wait up to 18 weeks for a MRI?
and FYI, I have seen the world, I lived in Europe, lived with a host family. They were not fans of universal health care. You need to see the world.
"I can see The Pyramids from my house!!"
Also, do yourselves a favor, and use this link.
It would make you look a lot less ignorant than you really are.