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Cupp on health care passage: We're headed to "dystopia, hell in a handbasket"

March 23, 2010 10:50 am ET

From the March 22 edition of Fox Business' Happy Hour:

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Previously:

"The end of America as you know it": The right-wing forecast for post-health-care-reform America

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    • Author by usp (March 23, 2010 10:53 am ET)
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      i'll exhibit my ignorance with out checking- is that even a real word?
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    • Author by blueline99 (March 23, 2010 11:00 am ET)
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      I think she means that despite the complete dismissal of President Obama and his health care agenda after the Scott Brown victory, the Democrats through the leadership of President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid... managed to
      ... pass the Senate Bill in December
      ... Settle on a reconciliation bill and pass it
      ... keep the wayward dems in line and pass the bill

      That to me seems like leadership that the Democrats haven't seen in years and the Republicans are stunned and afraid because they have no strategy to defeat them except to continue their failed strategy.

      When all the pundits can say are things like Armageddon and Dystopia, it's obvious to me that they are out of ideas. Pretty soon they're going to come with "you're momma's so fat" jokes.
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    • Author by epichuntarz (March 23, 2010 11:00 am ET)
         
      So which is it-Socialism, where the people have ownership of production and distribution of resources...or dystopia, where we have totalitarian/authoritarian government rule? I'm so confused.
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    • Author by jediknight65 (March 23, 2010 11:01 am ET)
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      if thats true then why did the stock market not crash?
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    • Author by nerzog (March 23, 2010 11:05 am ET)
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      Dystopia? Is that an economics-based prediction, or just typical FOX partisan hackery?
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      • Author by txthinker (March 23, 2010 1:56 pm ET)
           
        Maybe it's one of the side effects Rush experienced from all that OxyContin......
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    • Author by nerzog (March 23, 2010 11:07 am ET)
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      Funny, I didn't hear any such hysteria from these guys when we were wasting a trillion dollars we couldn't afford to invade Iraq. I wonder why?
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    • Author by Major Tom (March 23, 2010 11:08 am ET)
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      Why is SE Cupp so popular now? I see her on MSNBC and Fox... What does she bring to the table?
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    • Author by Dem02020 (March 23, 2010 11:21 am ET)
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      In response to that "dystopia" crap, I'd be willing to hear what utopia is.

      What are Congressional Republicans utopic solution to extraordinarily high health care costs, and to private health insurers arbitrarily deciding when to jettison "high risk" payees from their coverage, and what to do about thirty plus million uninsured Americans...

      Sure, it's easy to whine about "dystopia", but what and where is utopia?

      That little shill in the video clip probably has the same answer to that question that Congressional Republicans have, which is zilch zip NOTHING, NO!

      Big help, thanks a lot.
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    • Author by mk3872 (March 23, 2010 11:25 am ET)
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      And where will all of these bedwetting overheated rhetorical losers going to be a few years from now when the country is prospering?

      Probably still right where they are now because Murdoch does not believe in journalist integrity or accountability.
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      • Author by Porkeater (March 23, 2010 1:21 pm ET)
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        It must be hard to maintain that level of bile, and to froth at the mouth so frequently. I wonder if they can maintain it till 2012?
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    • Author by IRONY 101 (March 23, 2010 11:46 am ET)
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      Yuppie scum...
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    • Author by dimes (March 23, 2010 12:19 pm ET)
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      Is she addressing the elderly members of the TV audience?

      "Hell in a handbasket" is a phrase my 80-something parents might say.
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    • Author by fishgirl26 (March 23, 2010 1:18 pm ET)
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      Dude, is that guy sitting in a bar??? really??? I want to get a job where I can talk pointlessly and seem really smart while talking...in a bar!! Oh right, most people like that are drunks and do that anyways.
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    • Author by txthinker (March 23, 2010 1:58 pm ET)
         
      From Wikipedia:

      A dystopia ... is a vision, of an often futuristic society, which has developed into a negative version of Utopia. A Dystopia is often characterized by an authoritarian or totalitarian form of government. It often features different kinds of repressive social control systems, a lack or total absence of individual freedoms and expressions and a state of constant warfare or violence.


      In other words, the Bush Misadministration.
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