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Hard News: America: Chill out!

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  • Jeremy Eade,

    Obama wants forced drugging... i didn't know that. I'm against that.

    No way. I want to take drugs when I want . Everyone knows Hiltler toked up Frankfurt on a whim and Stalin put LSD in the Kremlin watercooler for kicks. Thank god for these teabaggers

    auckland • Since Mar 2008 • 1112 posts Report

  • Danielle,

    More teabagger footage to add grist to the 'deeply, deeply weird and crazy' mill:

    The bit about the czars towards the end is... cringeworthy.

    Charo World. Cuchi-cuchi!… • Since Nov 2006 • 3828 posts Report

  • Matthew Littlewood,

    Hate to break it to everyone but if Baccus's plan goes through- as is looking depressingly likely, then the grand plans to reform health care would've pretty much died in the ditch. Seriously, his solution offers the worst of both worlds- firstly by not giving decent incentives to private companies to keep their prices down, and secondly, not actually allowing a public option to be avaliable to those that aren't covered at all.

    And yet, even a plan as fundamentally half-arsed as his appears to have next to no Republican support- the very side Baccus is trying to appease. Oh well. Maybe they'll sort it out in another 40 years time.

    Sometimes I wonder how much better it all would've turned out if Tom Daschle actually bothered to pay his taxes. Certainly, I can't imagine a more timid reform plan from a party with a near-Super Majority. But that's what happens when you give over the reigns to guys like Baccus who have an active interest in blocking anything widescale (i.e. if they actually tackle the privates then they'll lose most of their lobby donations).

    Today, Tomorrow, Timaru • Since Jan 2007 • 449 posts Report

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