Right-wing media "bor[ed]" by health care summit
Right-wing media figures declared Obama's health care summit with congressional leaders "staggeringly boring," "boring as sand," and a "snorefest." Conservative media have a history of painting Obama's policy-laden appearances as insufficiently entertaining.
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Conservative media: "Snorefest 2010" was "about as interesting to watch as Olympic curling"
O'Reilly: Health care summit was as "boring as sand." On the February 25 edition of The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly commented on the health care summit: "[Y]ou got to admit, it was boring as sand, was it not?"
Jonah Goldberg on health care summit: "[S]taggeringly boring." On the February 25 edition of Fox News' America Live, National Review Online editor-at-large Jonah Goldberg stated: "I think that, you know, let's sort of have an emperor has no clothes moment here. This is one of the most staggeringly boring epics that we've seen on national television in a very long time. I'm not talking about Fox's coverage, I'm talking about the actual event is terribly, terribly boring. Only wonks and junkies like us are watching. I can't imagine there are very many normal Americans who are going to watch for six hours."
Limbaugh: Summit is "boring." On the February 25 edition of The Rush Limbaugh Show, Limbaugh described the health care summit as an event that "started off so boring, I'm not even sure people are watching it."
Glenn Beck: Health care summit was "Snorefest 2010." From Glenn Beck's February 25 newsletter to his subscribers:
Washington Examiner's Pitts: Health care summit "was about as interesting to watch as Olympic curling." In a February 25 Washington Examiner op-ed entitled "Health Care Summit: Peter J. Pitts said it was not a summit to remember," contributor Peter J. Pitts said: "That much ballyhooed White House summit on healthcare created no "aha" moments or Daily Show -worthy gaffes, and was about as interesting to watch as Olympic curling."
Conservatives media previously declared past Obama press conferences "boring."
As Media Matters for America has noted, following President Obama's April 29 press conference, media figures including Karl Rove, Ed Rollins, and Gretchen Carlson asserted that the press conference was boring. Right-wing commentators including Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly had similarly concluded that Obama's March 24 press conference was insufficiently entertaining.
Goldberg:"Only wonks and junkies like us are watching."
right, only 3.9 million viewers
To them, if it doesn't fit on the back of a bumper sticker, it isn't worth knowing.
It was pretty simple to see the whole charade was designed to tell the Republicans to either take what is in the bill, or else.
Now it appears the dems are willing to use the "nuclear" option, just to prove a point. And just 5 years ago they were the ones crying that the "nuclear option" was unfair and contrary to all things proper in the senate.
Uhm...no. The "nuclear option" is not reconciliation. The "nuclear option" is congress deciding the filibuster is unconstitutional and doing away with it. Reconciliation is used for budgetary purposes only, which is exactly what the Dems are doing. You do realize that the health care bill has already passed both houses, right?
but i agree those evil republicans are no strangers to bumper sticker mentality... here's what their "platforms" boiled down to in the last election:
giuliani: 9-11
huckabee: god
mccain: country
thompson: shucks
romney: hair
paul: hello?
After all, all of those malapropisms and lost trains of thought from President Shrub were quite entertaining in a sort of trainwreck fashion.
Obama. Just. Can't. Win.
If St. Reagan calls himself a citizen of the world it's a beautiful thing. If President Obama does it he's an idiot.
Fortunately, the American people are smart enough to see through this!
In fact, he needs to stop worrying about them. He has attempted to placate them for WAY too long. It is time to lead. He was elected to bring about new legislation. And it is time to do it with or without the crazies who screech during his State of the Union and try to convince the American people that Obama wants to kill old people.
Make it happen. G-Dub and Bill Frist sure did, with much less power and public support for their bills. Make it happen. Either the left gets on board or gets run over. Make it happen. The one piece missing so far from Obama is using his power as a sledgehammer. Give the far-right something it will respect, like a kick in the teeth. Use the power you have been given.
To appeal the the fox newsites it has yelling, manual labor, and even a womens division for them. I mean, women with brooms working furiously... why wouldn't they like that. *sweep* *sweep*
(>^^)> [Cake] *is a lie*
The new GOP hit: The Band Wagon. "Everybody's doing a brand new dance, now - come on baby, do the ba-and wagon... I know you will believe it if you repeat, repeat, now - come on baby, do the ba-and wagon..."
The meeting was a complete waste of time. It demonstrated the lefts unwaivering stand to either accept what they propose or get the hell out. There was no compromise, just finger pointing. Not once did I here Obama try to fix a problem of contention. The best he could do was to acknowledge the good points the Republican offered, then brush them away.
HUGE waste of time!
Move on. Stop wasting your time trying to convince the losers in the Senate and House of something they refuse to be convinced of. They would never do the same for you. They pushed through just about any piece of legislation they wanted when they were in power and they did it with far less power than you have now. They used reconciliation or whatever you want to call an actual majority these days or whatever they had to. But, they made it happen. Now, it's time for you to do the same. Dismiss these inept, political losers for the charlatans they are. Pass some legislation. Show the American people something they respect. Political power.
Dems: You're wrong
Repubs: No you're wrong
Pres: Well we're going to have to do something soon
Scoring:
Policy decisions = 0
Consensus achieved = 0
Deals hammered out = 0
New ideas heard = 0
American public benefited = 0
American public shafted = 0
Political points scored = ? (debatable, I'm sure both sides will claim victory here)
In other words it was political theater. Nothing substantive was decided and no action was taken. In short, boring.
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/10/29/top-10-reasons-why-republicans-should-support-the-house-health-bill/
You can start there. There have been plenty of Republican ideas and amendments not only considered, but included. Not that they needed to be. The Republicans are the electoral losers. They have no right to demand anything. They lost. They certainly did not care what the minority wanted done when they were the majority. But, like spoiled children who play their followers for ill-informed dunces they continue to act as if they have been ignored. Unfortunately, the ignorant Republican base continues to believe their nonsense.
My solution is, get rid of all insurance companies, collect a percentage of gross income of all people, snd all corporations, give all qualified medical people a blank checkbook, and each day they write a check for what they did.
Soc Sec is the best example of collecting and paying money. Did you ever hear of a million dollar fraud in Soc Sec?
The Gov't shall have NO involvement in Health care except collect the money, and cash the checks.
Of course Auditors will review the checks, and if one penny of fraud appears, the check signer goes to jail, for a minute, and hour, a day, or whatever.
Do you think your doctor would steal as much as is stolen now ($500 billion or more) plus the cost of the insurance companies.
Tort reform is easy. No doctor can be sued ever, but he can be put in jail if he did something wrong on purpose. Just like when you buy insurance for a plane ticket, the patient buys his own liability insurance, if he wants it.
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