Senator-elect Scott Brown
Coakley, Obama and health care bill routed in Mass.
Republican Scott Brown shelled Martha Coakley in today's Massachusetts senate race, placing Ted Kennedy's former seat firmly in GOP hands.
Time to start over or face a revolution in the streets if they play games.
The 2008 elections were very significant as well. The people voted for 'change'. It is turning out that this is not the 'change' they were looking for.
But it is a report card on the current state of affairs in D.C. and the grade was a d-.
An obvious understatement.
If they ram healthcare thru before he is seated, the're will be H&// to Pay.
If they don't pass healthcare, it will make them look bad, and I mean really BAD.
They have painted themselves into a corner with their non-tranparancy, partisan politics.
It is going to be fun watching them squirm
and watching the WH spin, spin, spin...
Brown-Palin 2012!!!
Here's Your Sign!
Democracy at it's finest. Let 'em eat cake buddy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=G44NCvNDLfc
Dang! They were right. I voted for McCain & that's exactly what happened.
Mea culpa!
"Obama is better than the global embarrassment that was Bush." Are you serious? Let's see what Obama has done in his first year. Spent a trillion dollars (took Bush 8 years to do it), Chicago got denied the Olympics, can't get the health care bill passed, his approval ratings are sinking faster than the Titanic, every election he has endorsed or tried to help since his election has ended in defeat. Not to mention bowing down to every dictator on the planet. Who's the global embarassment again?
The Massachusetts health care reform law was enacted in 2006. It requires nearly every resident of Massachusetts to obtain health insurance coverage. Through the law, Massachusetts provides free health care for residents earning less than 150% of the federal poverty level (FPL), and partially subsidized health care for those earning up to 300% of the FPL, depending on an income-based sliding scale. The law is credited with covering an additional 439,000 Massachusetts residents as of April 1, 2008.[2]
The law established an independent public authority, the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority, also known as the Health Connector, which offers the subsidized coverage and facilitates the selection and purchase of private insurance plans by individuals and small businesses. Incentives for residents to obtain health insurance coverage include tax penalties for failing to obtain an insurance plan. In 2007, Massachusetts tax filers who failed to enroll in a health insurance plan that was deemed affordable for them lost the $219 personal exemption on their income tax. In 2008, penalties increase by monthly increments, and are based on half of the cost of a health insurance plan.
Way to go Massachusetts. Thanks for the wake up call. Now, maybe the Dems will finally come out fighting.
If special interest has tainted this bill so bad,
and Republicans had nothing with this bill.
What does that say about Democrats???
Loved that spin Enoc. Hold on tight.
The dems are about to get a few more "wake up calls".
What's Obama gonna do next?
Outlaw homelessness and require poor people to buy a house (OR be fined) Makes sense to me!
Healthcare is dead, mourn, and then get over it!
You yourself called it "tainted".
Why should republicans "go along" with "tainted" legislation.
Furthermore last time I looked, democrats had a majory to get anything thru they wanted.
Looks to me like them dems are obstructing themselves.
And now they prance around all sanctimonious, as if they are above such crookedness. They have sold out just like anyone else but mascarade their choice as though they are somehow saving the country by doing nothing to help the uninsured. Right..
What is in those teabags??
Politics, even more so in recent history has always been an us verses them mindset. Politics brands people and their thinking. It pervasive practice is to manipulate the elements of the populous, like their religion, economic class, traditional values and subconscious fears in order to subdivide and exploit for their own concealed profitable advantage.
The deciding factor for me in who gets my vote usually depends on the motivation built-in into their own propaganda machine. I like to think I would vote issues but during campaigning, words are cheap and their positions seldom are as they so obviously appear. I generally gravitate toward how the party or candidate decides to engage the voters. Do they use hype and ill relevant distinctions between themselves and their opponent? Do they have an inclusive nature or try to separate people by use of petty differences or cultural taboos. Do they provide a positive vision or a fear of doom and gloom if you don’t vote for me. Of most importance is that a person vigilantly works on their self. They should be able to step back from their own thinking (like an outside observer) and ask their selves the hard questions like: Is this thinking really me or am I adopting someone else’s point of view? Am I genuine in my position or is it just a political party’s platform? Make your vote be a reflection not of your own unaddressed reservations but of the promise in humanity.
irrelevant not ill revelant
Persuasive not pervacive
This happens when you don't check spellcheck
We have a majority in both houses and can't get something pushed thru.
The repugs could not stop us.
Now we has wasted too much time and it ain't gonna get thru.
What the heck?
I don’t care how important any bill is. If it can only cross the president’s desk with several attachments to it, it’s not worth passing anyway. It only demonstrates that it was only important enough for some congressperson to get something from it.
I'll answer your second question with three words, The Public Option.
As far as what "should've been", There should have been a healthcare bill passed that provided Americans with a public option and some rules about pre-existing conditions and many other tactics the insurance industry uses to get out of covering costs. It could've should've been, but it's not. Other countries can do it, but we're better than them cause we can sit back and say "We didn't fall for that evil socialist b.s.". Policies made in D.C. affect real live people. Millions of em. It's not just Obama's Waterloo.