Health Care Summit (Live Thread)

[willriker]

omg i thought louise slaughter said that she wouldnt take a long time to finish LMAO. I should have known she wouldnt when she said she wouldnt take a long time 4 freaking times!

[Olo401]

Ok then.. it's lunch break time! Back at 1:45

[willriker]

Obama needs a cigarette break.

[Not not Mattaru]

Is Obama autographing something lol.

[Olo401]

Is Obama autographing something lol.

I bet he's signing that jobs bill into law.. you know the one that those out-of-work unemployment-sponge teabaggers bitched out Scott Brown for voting for?

Oh yea, if you stay with the C-SPAN stream they have a live call-in segment for viewer reaction.. some of the people they get on there are a trip.

[Talint]

John Cornyn (R-TX) is spouting the same vapid bullshit he's always been spouting on MSNBC. Plus he looks like the Trinity killer from Dexter.

It's creepy as fuck how much he looks like John Lithgow.

[Mizango]

John Cornyn (R-TX) is spouting the same vapid bullshit he's always been spouting on MSNBC. Plus he looks like the Trinity killer from Dexter.

It's creepy as fuck how much he looks like John Lithgow.

haha

[Olo401]

Speaking of jobs.. just found this tidbit: Sen. Kyl plans to block an extension of unemployment and COBRA benefits (which expire in 3 days) until he gets a cut in the estate tax.

Yeah that's nice.. threatening is really gonna solve anything, especially when it means the rich get a new yacht while the unemployed get fucked.

[Dantrag]

Cobra sucks ASS... not that it shouldn't be continued but that shit is fucking RETARDED...

[Olo401]

And more people losing their health & unemployment insurance benefits sucks even more.

[kuronosan]

Clearly what we need to do is ignore the reason why federal health insurance is so good and we need to allow companies to charge whatever they want and deny whomever they want.

[ephel]

I love how he started off by taking a pot shot "ohh you campaigned on change and here we are a year later and nothing's changed".

SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS JOHNNY. I didn't see all of the Congressional leadership and a handful of backbenchers sitting at a conference table with Dubya on live television trying to hash anything out, but then again that's partly due to the fact that your party shoved through legislation for over a decade.

So now its the Dems who can push it through. If they really thinks its the best deal and what the people want just do it. Stop blaming the repubs.

Wasn't this whole meeting just a way to say "oh we tried to include them in the process" before they ram it through.

[Not not Mattaru]

So now its the Dems who can push it through. If they really thinks its the best deal and what the people want just do it. Stop blaming the repubs.

Wasn't this whole meeting just a way to say "oh we tried to include them in the process" before they ram it through.

Ok, I'll start blaming that other party that filibusters everything.

[Olo401]

So now its the Dems who can push it through. If they really thinks its the best deal and what the people want just do it. Stop blaming the repubs.

Wasn't this whole meeting just a way to say "oh we tried to include them in the process" before they ram it through.

No, because they're not going to ram it through. After the show the Repubs have put on today, they don't even need to.

There was going to be one of two possible outcomes here today - either the Repubs decide to do something positive and take credit for the parts of the bill that are theirs (and a lot of it is theirs) and everyone wins, or they stand in the way of doing anything as they've done for the past year and look like assholes compared to the Dems who actually tried to compromise.

[Acturus]

Is it still live?

I thought they came back from lunch, and I'm hearing the story of Obama's car insurance again, word for word. It sounds like it's on repeat right now from this morning.


*edit* dammit, it was a highlights during lunch.

I gotta stop walking away and doing work.

[willriker]

Rep: John Klyne (R) "We do not hear people in large companies complaining about thier health insurance programs."

Dem's: We do

Rep. John Klyne (R) Oh ok lulz

Seriously, people complain about thier health coverage all the time, the only saving grace is that they have something which covers more than a catastrophic plan.

[willriker]

people are coming back now, they strolling about the table

[Olo401]

Ok now it looks like everyone's coming back.. was a lil premature on the bell for round 2 there.

[Acturus]

LOL

"Why don't you have coverage on the blackberry?"

"CSPAN is on the iPhone."

"I don't HAVE an iPhone!"

Heavy hitting news right thur!



I love some of these callers.

[Xno Kappa]

LMAO!

Reporter: What did you have for lunch Mr. President!

Obama: CHICKEN!