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June 9, 2009
Predictable Coward
Senator Mary Landrieu (D-La) doesn't support the public option. Duh.
"I am not open to a public option, however I will remain open to a compromise - a full compromise," Landrieu told reporters Tuesday. "A public option is not something I support i don't think its the right way to go."
Screw her. Maybe this is a little over the top to write, but watch the "no public option" senators as they go by -- chances are, they've been bought off my the nation's biggest criminal enterprise. Again, the argument against the public option is that it would be unfair to the health insurance mega-corps, undercutting their profit-driven scamming. Too much competition, they say. Which is weird because I thought market competition was a conservative value. Conservatives should welcome this thing, yes?
Adding... Ben Nelson says he won't filibuster the public option. But that doesn't mean he'll vote for it.
Filed under: Blue Dogs || Healthcare || Mary Landrieu || Public Option
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Posted By Bob Cesca | June 9, 2009 5:21 PM
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I fired off a nice email to this stupid bitch! I do hope that the healthcare gets done through reconciliation. That will hold these douchebags.
Posted by: roxsteady at June 9, 2009 6:03 PM
Mary Landrieus translation: "I have been bought and paid for by my corporate overlords. Excuse me, I am late for my appointment to kiss their shoes"
Advocacy for the "Free Market" seems to all too often be a euphemism for the free choice to get fucked in the ass by big corporations.
Posted by: J M Goddamn Ashby at June 9, 2009 6:03 PM
By the way Bob, I just read an article on the "politico" Ugh I hate them anyway it's about the fact that Newsweek redid their story on Scarborough's book interview online, moving the way the story began about this clown representing the asshat who killed the abortion doctor in Florida. Both Meechim and Scarborough claim that it wasn't Scarborough who asked for the edit, but an assistant or someone on his staff. Right! What a piece of shit!
Posted by: roxsteady at June 9, 2009 6:06 PM
Off topic here, but Ed Shultz just totally lost his shit on tee vee. Strangely enough, I think I want to kiss him.
Posted by: Ady at June 9, 2009 6:08 PM
If she's not open to the public option, where's the compromise?
Posted by: thruwithbuzz at June 9, 2009 6:09 PM
Tom Tancredo said last night (this morning? the days run together...) that the insurance companies can't compete with the gov't when the gov't doesn't have to turn a profit. This was his argument AGAINST a single-payer or public option... He didn't get that that was the point!
Posted by: ceu at June 9, 2009 6:17 PM
They really don't understand what compromise is...or for that matter reform. A 2% reduction in the yearly increase in health care costs isn't going to help anyone. The public option is the goddamn compromise...the non-compromise is either single-payer or the bs we have now.
It really saddens me that these people take both their oath of office and the health and security of their nation so lightly. They really must not know how their inaction and procrastination look to the rest of us. And the one's who are actually principled never get the serious leadership positions.
Posted by: Ari Rutenberg at June 9, 2009 6:25 PM
Landrieu doesn't have to worry about health insurance. She is guaranteed it.
Does she not understand that the health insurance companies are screwing the rest of us? Or does she not care?
Posted by: eve at June 9, 2009 6:25 PM
Probably a combination of both not knowing and not caring to know.
Posted by: J M Goddamn Ashby at June 9, 2009 6:42 PM
Careful with how we argue this... Tancredo actually made a GOOD POINT when he said that the public option is NOT free market competition, because the gubment doesn't have to turn a profit. Soooo, fuck the competition part, just give me my goddamn health care--now. And out with anybody who stands in the way.
Posted by: banks at June 9, 2009 8:25 PM
There should be no compromise.
What is a justification anyone can make for there to be any profit associated with healthcare?
Why aren't people laughed at when they say the insurance companies can't compete?? No one should profit from healthcare. How can we be the country still stuck in this outrageous system?
Would anyone think it was okay for firefighting to be a for profit profession?
Posted by: JDS at June 9, 2009 9:42 PM
Riddle me this? Of all the Congressional asshats that don't want everyone to have a public option, how many have declined their gubmint plan? Wanna bet it's better than the one I earned via 27 years getting the shit kicked out of me?
Posted by: brutlyhonest at June 10, 2009 1:06 AM
