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Old 06-25-2009, 02:11 PM
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Uhh, that's Bush's fault as well.
Just curious if we can get a single bar that belongs to Obama or is every bar from #3 to #20 the fault of GWB?

One time a saw a crackhead walking down the road, he took his shoe off and threw it at a car which caused a wreck. So my question is: whose fault was that?
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Old 06-25-2009, 02:14 PM
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If you want a really close look at government-run health care, you should pay a visit to some VA hospitals.
You should pay a visit to Canada.

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The health care personnel are great, but the system is so overloaded that there aren't enough personnel, or enough beds, or enough medications to serve all the individuals who are waiting in ever-increasing lines. It's not unusual for a patient who drastically needs an operation to have to wait many weeks, months or in some cases even years.
All true, and a national shame. The bureaucracy desperately needs overhauling, maybe something like... reform.

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This is exactly what is going to happen to every one of our hospitals and medical facilities in a government run operation.
That you can't say in fairness. Nobody is suggesting broadening the outdated and inadequate VA model, are they? In fact, didn't Obama himself speak out against that disgraceful system, saying that he wanted to see better care for vets?

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Al Gore said a few years ago that the Earth only had 10 years to survive
Which radio snake oil salesman gave you that bottle of bull**** to pass around? If you're chowdering the quote that I think you are, what Gore did was to repeat the scientific assessment that action neded to begin within ten years or the damage caused could be more than we can fix. But screw it, why bother with checking the details when we call somebody a fool, and why err on the side of caution when the message doesn't mesh with our comfortingly rigid ideology? We're only talking about the one habitable planet within our means to reach, no big.
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Old 06-25-2009, 02:22 PM
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Just curious if we can get a single bar that belongs to Obama or is every bar from #3 to #20 the fault of GWB?

One time a saw a crackhead walking down the road, he took his shoe off and threw it at a car which caused a wreck. So my question is: whose fault was that?
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Every single one of them is Bush's fault of course. In fact, those projections would be worse had we not elected Obama
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Old 06-25-2009, 02:23 PM
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I would point out to the VA remark, that the New England Journal of Medicine did a large analysis of them, and found out they outperform other public and private facilities in almost all regards, despite having sicker patients, often with chronic physical and psychiatric issues. They're also more efficient, having a centralized records database and a wristband scan system so they don't waste money on tests they've already done and don't kill people with accidental prescriptions that they're susceptible to.
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Old 06-25-2009, 02:46 PM
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Just curious if we can get a single bar that belongs to Obama
Do you mind if we wait until brother's been in the White House for a year?

(Note to self: "White 'Hood" is not a cool nickname for Washington.)

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One time a saw a crackhead walking down the road, he took his shoe off and threw it at a car
Come on, that was you. Admit it.

Seriously, though, the shoe-throwing definitely started under (at?) George Bush. See, we can talk about him now, because he has a track record.
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Old 06-26-2009, 05:57 PM
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well, it passed. The only thing hopeful is it has to come before the Senate, so maybe there's still a chance.

House passes climate-change bill - Lisa Lerer and Patrick O'Connor - POLITICO.com

concerning the 300 page amendment that was dropped into the bill early this morning:
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Republicans accused the Democrats of ramming the bill through the House. Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.), managing the debate for his party, asked repeatedly if there was even a copy of the current version of the bill anywhere in the House chamber. Democratic Rep. Ellen Tauscher – sitting in the speaker’s chair although she’s already been confirmed as Obama’s undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security — repeatedly dodged the question.
Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), one of the bill’s sponsors, finally rose to say that a single copy of the current version of the bill was available at the speaker’s desk – and on the Internet, which members would have to leave the floor to access.
....no, there was no rushing this bill through...
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It is "the most important energy and environmental legislation in the history of our country," said Rep. Ed Markey of Massachusetts. "It sets a new course for our country, one that steers us away from foreign oil and towards a path of clean American energy."
He could care less about steering us away from foreign oil(ANWR) or clean energy(nuclear). Its taxes, its raping oil companies to spend the money on things that make you look good. Its about looking good to France and England not about our own benefit.

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