tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8892866690662666995.post7016822253280024267..comments2024-01-10T07:49:11.396-06:00Comments on The Chief: Sen. Johnson's Health Care GambleUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8892866690662666995.post-51861900778171252142011-01-28T16:35:58.775-06:002011-01-28T16:35:58.775-06:00I have no idea about the maneuverings of getting a...I have no idea about the maneuverings of getting a bill passed and all that,makes my brain boil just imagining it. BUT here's a couple related thoughts ~<br /><br />IN newspaper and blog comments (and also the insane rantings of conservative mouthpieces) I see PLENTY of remarks mocking the 21-26 year olds staying on their parents policy, "make the pampered Libs kids WORK and stop watching cartoon network on their parent's couches" etc. So it seems to me that a lot of people actually ADMIRE really harsh stances on any of those individual bills. <br />(all taxes should go to the military and Wall Street, old and poor people should just lay dying int the streets) It just seems to me that there's a lot of people these days who get serious trouser tents over the suffering of others. <br />So I wonder if some of the Insane Clown Posse (the politicians, not the "hiphopduo") will hesitate to throw Grandma under the bus.<br /><br />AND!!! Plenty of real life evidence around me that shows the Insurance Companies are gearing up while the Washington boys haggle. Rates are apparently going to go way up, and they are for sure finding as many ways as possible (often with employer's help) to drop people off workplace insurance if possible.<br />So if it takes years to enact a law, that gives the Evil-Doers all that time to have their masterminds and lawyers figure out ways around the law. By the time it's in place - we'll probably still be fucked. just in ways that no one realized would happen.<br />i.e. McCain-Feingold was supposed to be one thing, yet evil-bastards were able to morph everything so that it pretty much doesn't matter at all? <br />I wouldn't be surprised it after all the work of passing "obamacare" or whatever the real name is, after a few years, it will be castrated and we'll all by whimpering beggars covered in tumors lying on the side of the road while Rupert Murdock drives by in a golden limo.<br /><br />but my guess is also that even if Party people desperately WANT Johnson to succeed, he's gonna have to run at top speed just to stay at the very back of the Republican pack. There's no spark there, so it's not too surprising maybe that even if it SHOULD be "news" he gets repeatedly passed over.Stewnoreply@blogger.com