Retiring Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) is making sense, tells reporters that poor handling of the health care law, which he voted for, cost President Obama dearly.
“I’ll be real frank here. I think that the manner in which the health-care reform issue was put in front of the Congress, the way that the issue was dealt with by the White House, cost Obama a lot of credibility as a leader. … If you were going to do something of this magnitude, you have to do it with some clarity, with a clear set of objectives from the White House. …It should have been done with better direction from the White House. … What happened in the end was five different congressional committees voted out their version of health-care reform, and so you had 7,000 pages of contradictory information. Everybody got confused. … From that point forward, Obama’s had a difficult time selling himself as a decisive leader.”
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gads, jim, that means each committee had to read approx 1400 pages each! that’s equivalent to 2 harry potters. poor critter babies. and they’ve been so busy accomplishing so much otherwise?
oh i forgot. guess we don’t require candidate literacy tests. that’s only for voters. woo hoo, yee haw and all that jazz.
5 committees = how many members = how many staff whose main job is to read and analyze?
yup… I agree… Jim Webb is making a lot of sense.
But unfortunately… I only have 2 choices to cast what is, IMO, a meaningful vote. So mine will go to Obama.
Carol… happy first day of your vacation… hope you make the most of it.
Can you imagine how little of a life that troll must have…
jeepers mqw thought you were kidding with that line from last thread but here it is
cue the late night comedians
See Bo run. Run, Bo, run!
Rick Perry asks Americans to turn their heads and cough.
http://news.yahoo.com/perry-2016-run-good-examination-213327950.html
Familiar Divisions Give Obama Narrow Edge
By Ronald Brownstein
In Ohio, Hurdles for Both Candidates
By SABRINA TAVERNISE and JEFF ZELENY
Phony Mommy Wars
By MAUREEN DOWD
HA HA, Dowdy scores with this piece!
The dog thing … kinda gives hot dog a different connotation, doesn’t it? I agree that eating the family pet may seem distasteful, and I’ve never tried that, but really, the French eat horse meat somewhat routinely from what I hear, and I suspect that horse lovers are appalled; and there is no suggestion that little O intentionally ate dog meat, that he did it with any regularity, or that he took the affirmative steps to do so that Willard took in putting his dog in a crate on top of the car. I do think it is a somewhat silly thing to be focusing on for more than a couple of minutes, and since it was something tied to a religious observance of his father, it strikes me as odd that the party of religious freedom is joining hands with the ASPCA and using that as an attack line.
http://dogsranch.com/chow-chow.html
wonder if they’re still on the menu at diplomatic dinners and whether past prezs have unknowingly partaken. maybe that’s why poppi threw up that time…or should we say upchowed?
“the party of religious freedom”
pogo… ROFL! more like the rightwingbatshitcrazies reminding the rest of us that Obama is still a secret Muslim and a foreigner….
or is that fornicator… or formally know as…
you know… like one of them…
Obama already OK’d horses to be slaughtered last year, but…
“To reduce suffering, there should be a ban on the export of live horses, even if that means opening slaughterhouses in the U.S. again. But the better option is to ban slaughter in the U.S. and ban the export of live horses so that no one is slaughtering America’s horses.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/nov/30/obama-congress-restore-us-horse-slaughter-industry/?page=all
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“All we’re doing is trying to make a living,” he said. “My whole life is invested in this business.” He said he was unaware until recently that, if approved, his company would be the only slaughterhouse in the U.S. to slaughter equines.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/owner-of-roswell-nm-meat-packing-plant-defends-horse-slaughter-plan/2012/04/14/gIQAlUTTHT_story.html
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Haven’t eaten anything with a face in 2 years this month; the day after I had my 24-year old cat to sleep after she had a stroke. Think watching all of the poor birds in the BP disaster (also 2 years ago this week), made sure I’ll be a vegetarian for life.
Never could understand how my farm friends could raise cattle for 4H, name them & then sell them. I went to a cattle branding when I was 17 & sitting on that poor calf while they branded/innoculated/castrated it was awful. I was only a vegetarian about 6 months after that; I caught a cold & my grandmother told me it was from not eating meat.
“How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat”? -P Floyd
The dog eating v. roof riding dog…neither
side should have brought it up…but since they have…I find dog eating vastly more offensive (along with cat,horse etc)…(the religious observance idea just doesn’t cut it for me)….
But then again I don’t eat anything with fur or feathers, haven’t for a very long time…unfortunately can’t be considered a vegetarian since I do still eat fish, well at least shellfish…
This campaign season has really gone to the dogs.
No disagreement with Sen. Webb about Pres. Obama not being a decisive leader…unfortunately the democratic hierarchy ignored that fact when they backed him over oh dare it be mentioned again…Hillary Clinton…
sen webb, so you’re saying critterville is not equipped to work out details? by your own admission they don’t listen to micromanaging presidents. why are we paying them if they can’t handle the job?
that linked wapo article went on to say:
suuuure, like making big insure co.s skim only a measely 20% off the premiums? or like making them insure those with pre-existing conditions or covering dependent children under 26 yrs? or maybe something even more simple like expanding medicare for all? support of significant number of gopers like hell.
Patd,
Good on you. Where has Webb been?
When did the GOP support or help this president on any measure small or large.
Their stated goal from day one was to make this president a one termer.
They may well have succeeded.
coreen,
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/03/27/crab-lobster-pain.html
If Obama proposed throwing widows and orphans out in the streets, the GOP would vote no, and we know all too well how they feel about widows and orphans.
gee pat, not telling me something I don’t already know…hopefully there will come a day when I don’t even eat shellfish…& since I never ate insects not to worry…
BTW… to add to the “would I eat fish from the Gulf” conversation of last night… yesterday, Dylan Ratigan interviewed a couple who made a documentary on the ongoing disaster of the BP spill…
Josh and Rebecca Tickell…
Question for Mitt, All those people you love to fire and did fire, didn’t they need the ‘dignity of work’?
yeah… I know… all those other cultures that eat indigenous stuff…
why can’t they be more civilized like us and eat Twinkies and Hostess Cupcakes…
renee, better eat ‘em while you got’em
http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2012/04/17/teamster-strike-may-kill-off-twinkies-let-the-hoarding-commence/
Why is he trying to sabotage Obama by making those comments in an election year? Does he think Romneycare is a better solution? It sounds like it.
Pat, to each their own. I never liked Twinkies at all.
robert, it’s better to eat them than chow down on chow chows or pig out on pigs.
willard’s crime in caging a dog on the roof of the car and then hitting the Interstate was that the dog had diarrhea and it showed no consideration for the drivers behind him.
Horse is stew meat -- really tough stuff. French don’t eat much horse anymore. It’s poor people’s food.
Are you sure that twinkies don’t have feelings too ?
I’ll withhold judgement on twinkies until the discovery channel documentary.
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How old was oh,bummer when he ate that dog ?
Was he an 8 year old eating lunch at the neighbor’s, or was he an adult at a restaurant, picking the dog he wanted in his pooch ala newburg ?
I know I wrote that last bit as a wisecrack, but I actually don’t know, was he a kid being fed, or was it an adult choice ?
Where did you get this info that the President ate a dog, Fox?
I’m curious..is strapping a dog in a carrier OK with the ASPCA? I think it’s cruel but I treat my dog like my kid. And I think that how someone treats their pets is very telling about that person. JMO.
Obama was a kid and living in an environment where eating dogs was acceptable. I doubt he had to watch Rover get the ax. If we had to watch Bessy or Chickie or Lambi Pie get the ax or even think hard about it..more of us would be vegans. Some already are. When I do eat meat..I’m in denial and still I often get a belly ache. Guilt. And I hate to admit it but I was a cattlewoman for a while.
You can even feel guilty about eating a fish. I was fishing in the clear rice canal once. It was planting season and when they ran the wells..pumping water thru the canals..it brought up some nice bass. I’d walk the levies looking for them. I found this whopper. I threw everything in my tackle box at him. Nada. I finally just put a big hook on my line and eased it over to his mouth and yanked up. Got him. This took over an hour. I felt like we had established a relationship. He was almost as smart as I was. I thought hard about whether to eat him. I did.
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Robert,
Apparently it is in one of his memoirs. It is said to have happened in Indonesia.
It was definitely not Moslem food.
ct, if intelligence were the decider, we’d be eating more bbq dog, cat and horse ribs than those delicious but brilliant porcine ones.
http://www.veganpeace.com/animal_facts/Pigs.htm
yumm, bbq’d congress critter
I wouldn’t even eat dogfish.
Eating something that is common to the culture one is in is vastly different from strapping the family pet to the roof of the car, then hosing him off and continuing as before when he sends diarrhea streaming down your back window. It is beyond ignorant…IMHO…to try to equate the two.
Teamsters strike may kill off Twinkies. Let the hoarding commence.
Holy fake food, Batman…. is nothing sacred anymore!
ps… seriously, HW… I agree 100%.
I like children. They’re tasty -- Albert Fish
robert, this is from the abc article gracious host linked earlier:
forget the bbq congress critter considering the concept
so patd…
I guess that means Newtie and Chris Christie must of ate whales…
Good one Renee.
“I guess that means Newtie and Chris Christie must of ate whales…”
My vote for post of the week. Wonderful, RR.
In California state legislators are preparing for the loss of the mandate and some other provisions such as the per-existing condition issues by doing the same thing on the state level — they’ve been holding hearings and the media coverage once again makes prominent the reasons the Affordable Healthcare Act was necessary in the first place
Jim Web..what a frickin jerk..trying to get a job in another Republican administration?????
He could have saved these comments until another time
worse than Hillary Rosen
You are what you eat. Eat fresh.
oh,bummer must have bitten babybush.
“so patd…
I guess that means Newtie and Chris Christie must of ate whales…”
With a hot air balloon appetizer.
President Obama blew health care when he caved before the debate even began.
I’ve stated again and say now that Obama is the last person I would want on my side of a negotiating table.
Webb is wrong when he says that a more modest proposal would have gotten Republican support. The Republicans in Congress have no interest in meaningful healthcare reform.
I’m glad Webb is leaving the Senate. He is not a disappointment to me since I always felt he wasn’t much of a Democrat.
sorry about that monty python sketch. i meant to warn the unsuspecting of its less than seemly and graphic nature.
Anyone have any idea what job Webb will be going for.. after retiring.. to thank him for his votes? I tried to Google it but found nothing.
This is a good place to keep up with what most of those crooks are up to.
http://www.republicreport.org/
Anyone have any idea what job Webb will be going for..patd
don’t you think he’ll go back to writing fiction and maybe a commentator? He’hasn’t been much of a team player for the democrats maybe Mittens will take him in
I think just on the principle of things -- someone should demand to see Willard-Mittens birth certificate.(no offense to his parents)
The Republicans only hope is that all of the crazy town supporters turn out --
Mitt’s Cookie Kerfluffle -- Another one of those “He just can’t helpt it” events.
It’s one of those weeks. Levon Helm dies at 71
http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/obit/story/2012-04-19/levon-helm-the-band-dies/54416386/1
In Korea during most of the last century human beings were beasts of burden. Few families were able to afford an ox. The oxen that were in family ownership were given the royal treatment as they were the beasts that allowed the family to climb the economic ladder. They were most definitely not kept for slaughter.
Dogs were not pets. They were sources of protein that doubled as watch animals. I witnessed no man-dog bonding or interaction of the type we know in the West.
The dogs were fed whatever scraps they could forage along with the household leftovers. I have seen them eating the dung of household children.
I never saw a dog being walked on a leash in Korea.
In Panama, the largest most desirable Chinese restaurant in downtown Panama City was routinely fined when cat cadavers were found in its refrigerators during sanitation inspections.
Oh, well, I like Webb. He can be convinced by logic and, more often than not, logic is on the Democratic side.
Flatus… thanks for your 4:46 post. Many Americans are so xenophobic that I think it’s hard for them to imagine any other culture but our own.
http://craigcrawford.com/2012/04/19/webb-on-obamas-lost-leadership/#comment-287408
I fear that poor Mitt may have Asperger syndrome. Or what my sis and I like to say..he’s an asparagus. His behavior is classic.
Not to knock anyone’s religious leanings, but here’s a link to Huffpo on the Bishop who’s blog I left the comment on I posted yesterday.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/19/daniel-jenky-peoria-catho_n_1438393.html
Scroll down and read some of the comments left and see the backlash this Bishop got. In fact there’s one comment with a link to a youtube video talking about Pius XII and how he was Hitler’s Pope.
Also a lot of calling to stop giving the church a free ride by stripping away its tax exempt status. I only read the comments on that first page but you can see how many were thinking about the remarks he made.
Later, going to watch Rev Al now.
Bishop jenky is following an extreme criminalist agenda of protecting Cardinal john law. What a fat fathead fatmouthed fatass this jerk is.
The GOP’s very peculiar unity
The conservative base is finally with Romney, but now he has to keep it from revolting for six long months
BY STEVE KORNACKI
There Is No Super Secret Obama Waiting for 2013
By: Jon Walker
Super secret plan? Really? And he expects to get the R House to go along with that? Let’s face it- O is what O is. He’s a compromiser and a capitulator who’s a political moderate, and if the other side won’t go along and move off their positions, he’ll compromise with himself.
Heck, O may lose (I don’t think so, but…) I’m more concerned right now with the Senate. RCP shows it as a toss up with 46 & 46, with 8 up for grabs (5 are currently Dem). If the Senate turns and the pres doesn’t, O will need to either Order cases of veto pens or the senate dems will have to man up and give the Rs what they’ve been given the last couple of years -- 60 votes needed to pass even the most innocuous bills. If the SEnat turns and Willard gets elected, the Senate Dems REALLY better make that 60 vote threshold stick or WE ARE SCREWED.
ct…I agree! Mitt must have some degree of Asperger’s! His social skills suck! You’re the only person other than myself who I’ve heard speculate on that, but I’d bet a lot that we’re right….
That is really really really irresponsible on the part of O’Donnell to say something like that. Did he get some inside info or is he right out lying? Is O’Donnell trying to get the stoners to vote for Obama?
I have often pondered if Obama.. who we all had hope for a change.. might show up for a second term. All we’ve gotten so far is a change in our hope.
If Obama plans to do something in his second term then he ought to spit it out. If we couldn’t believe what he said he would do this time..how can we believe what he doesn’t have the guts to say he’ll do next time?
No..I’m not voting for the asparagus either.
How can an organization that claims mass murderers are saints can fault any one else. A few of the mass murderers I refer to are Emperors constantine and charlemagne, King louis IX of France, fr. john of capistrano, and fr. bernard of feltre. These were not men who merely went along with mass murders that happened around them. They either precipitated the murders, or committed them with their own hands.
Until they take these sainthoods away, and I can’t credit the Catholic Church with moral authority.
Just my opinion. Also, married to a devout Catholic -- a saint, in fact.
Am wondering if Sturge is near Port Royal? Might be spending some time down there
Hope its close- got to hear his Mustang Sally.
From Pogo @ 7:23pm : “He’s a compromiser and a capitulator who’s a political moderate….”
Really ? I think he’s to the right of gerry ford and richard nixon.
richard nixon only wished that he had the power to disappear people to Polish dungeons.
john ehrlichmann told Senator Sam that whatever the President does is legal. eric holder told the SCOTUS the same thing.
I am still going to hold my nose and vote for O, because willard thinks America is just a tool for squeezing profits and power out of the citizenry and into the portfolios of the .001%.
I won’t even have to hold my nose…Obama gets my vote, so he can provide some measure of protection for the Supreme Court.
I’m waiting for a good Independent.
“If Obama plans to do something in his second term….” CT @ 7:30 pm
The trouble is, as soon as a prez begins his second term, the term limit makes him a lame duck. If he wanted to get great things done, he should have done it between the day after his election in ’08 and January 2d, 2011. Webb is correct, the guy was not a big factor in what happened in Congress during his first 2 years.
Harborwoman,
If it weren’t for the SCOTUS problem, I might skip the prez, and only vote in the other races.
Amy Klobuchar deserves another senate term.
“I’m waiting for a good Independent.”
Angus King? Lincoln Chaffee?
XR, you could be right about how far right O is -- I won’t argue the point with you because regardless of how right he is, he ain’t left enough to suit me. But he did do the healthcare thing, which is kinda lefty stuff -- covering everyone and such (except for all the pro big medinsco benefit). And he claims to be against the Citizens United decision -- which was RW claptrap from the get-go.
http://craigcrawford.com/2012/04/19/webb-on-obamas-lost-leadership/#comment-287421
Carol,
I thought wow, what is L.O. smoking?? I’m like you waiting for a good Independent and no i won’t vote for Romney that’s for sure…
And however to the right the President might be, we don’t need to cripple him with a Republican House and Senate. Without both The Presidency and the Congress, we can pretty well forget anything decent happening for the US and it can always get a whole lot worse.
A couple of pals of mine are now in john klein’s district. klein is an ultraneocon who makes michele bachmann seem pro-welfare.
‘Course she does accept ag subsidies and her guy bills Medicare for services. john klein merely accepts his socialized tri-care & cashes his social security checks.
Two guys I could go for..My Buddy Roemer…or Bernie Sanders. I’m not compromising this time. NOT DOING IT! And as far as honesty goes..Obama and Romney are a toss up. Don’t trust either.
Y’all can rationalize every which way but loose. It just won’t work for me.
Any of the Supremes pending death?
My intuition told me that Obama wasn’t going to do it for us. I was a Hillary supporter and I sincerely believe that.. as a woman.. she had something to prove. I don’t think she would have been bought off. I don’t think she would have let us down. I’ll never know that for sure… but I can and do.. still believe.
I was hoping that..as the first black president..that Obama had something to prove. My hope went the same way his did.
ct…
“Any of the Supremes pending death?”
Only if Ted Nugent talks about them by saying he’ll be dead in six months or in jail.
ct…Hopefully, no impending death, but Ruth Bader Ginsburg will likely not outlast another presidency.
That is not Romneys job, that is the Republican party’s job if they want to take the white house. Romney should concentrate on Obama.
Senator Webb is right on! When it comes to leadership qualities Obama and the Congressional Democratic Leadership are a total VOID. What was that “leading from behind.”
Some things Senator Webb left out:
• Encouraged Health Care Issues similar to Republican state plans and pointedly rejected the single-payer option.
• Obama promised his Health Care law would lower premiums but the fact is the law has caused an increase in premiums.
• A total Lack of Transparency using behind-the-scenes deals with doctor and hospital groups, insurance industry, and pharmaceutical companies to block any Congressional effort to extract any extra cost savings.
Jamie you are absolutely correct! It would be a gigantic mistake to have a Republican House and Senate. We do need to replace the dismal failure of Congressional Democratic Leadership! We had two years of Democratic Presidency, House and Senate and it produced garbage. What was that “leading from behind.”
Craig,
RE; your 11:31 AM I am in provided you don’t have enough new voices to fill the hour. If you have plenty I will sit out and listen. I’ll call beforehand and check the lineup.
jace
Obama’s failing was was not in health care, though he fumbled that, but rather in the stimulus program. It was too small and focused far too much on tax cuts.
He had no help from Republicans, and enough blow back from blue dog Dems. See thread heading to get as much as was needed.
It is not enough to elect 60 Dems. in the Senate, they would need to be 60 progressive Dems. Not holding my breath. Too many Liarmans and Webbs in the wood work.
That said , I’ll be damned if I will allow a Republican Senate and House to dominate policy without
a democratic president in office to wield the veto pen.
We tried that with President Bush and the results are still in evidence.
We’ve had a ripper House of Reps, and look at the results! We came within an ace of shutting down government again. We got a tidal wave of nonsensical and destructive bills that made the Senators, including mconnell, cringe. We got anti-American rhetoric, hyperbole-on-steroids AHCA bs, birther bs, denier bs, Muslim this and that bs, and not a dam’ thing of value.
A ripper HoRs ? No dam’ thanks.
XR,
Well put.
Thank you.
Failure #1 was the health care coverage fiasco. He refused to lead except to veto single payor.
Failure #2 was the half tax break stimulus -- cuz taxes don’t kick in until AFTER the economic activity, and the problem with a depression is there low economic activity. That and the dribble of the stimulus into areas that didn’t create a lot of middle class jobs. The stimulus wasn’t aimed at independence from hydrocarbons.
Econ failure #3 he didn’t leave Iraq after 10 mos as promised. That failure cost an extra $TRILLION
Econ failure #4 he gave The Mortgage Fraud Industry a free pass, and shall let them continue to swindle.
Econ failure #5 continued babybush’s policy regarding Marijuana.
Zzzz
We need to get some new Democratic uncorrupted blood in House and the Senate. Or some uncorrupted Independent blood. Don’t think there’s such a thing as uncorrupted Republican blood. That would be an oxymoron.
Carol,
Well said! I agree, it doesn’t work for me either.. I can’t say that i disagree with the Dem partisans but that isn’t me anymore..The DNC and all their primary shenanigans along with all their super delegate BS broke me..Oh and a little bit of not counting the votes from my home state of Michigan and the state of Florida where i live..Still i voted for President Obama as the alternative was worse, ha and here we are again..Vote the same way this time and continue this countries downhill spiral, think i will pass..
It is not rationalizing to believe that a President Romney Will appoint an Alito Jr. or a Scalia Jr. to the court.
It is not rationalizing to believe that the social safety net would all but disappear under a President Romney and a Republican Congress.
It is not rationalizing to believe that Planned Parenthood, equal pay for women, and health insurance for children would be among the first things cut, with a Romney/ Republican cabal in charge.
It is not rationalizing that Oil companies and big business and the one percent would get more gravy than they ever got under the Bush crime syndicate.
You can play the third party/ write in card all you want to but the fact remains that Mitt and company would gladly introduce mandatory pauperism as the law of the land.
Vote for a third party or a write in to suite yourself, please don’t take the rest of us down with you.
Hey all, never mind about tomorrow’s radio chat. I need a break. Getting ready for our sendoff in Gloucester for Sean on Sunday April 29 has me thinking it’s time for a vacation. I’ll be back Monday, May 7. Carry on.
You see, Mitt Romney and people like him believe that if you just add a little more water to the top, the trickle down will miraculously become a flash flood.
Sadly, it is kind of like the Colorado River, it dries up before it gets to the boarder of the 99%.
Craig,
Go for it. That is far more important. Good on you.
jace
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
2My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
3He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
4Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
5The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.
6The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
7The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
8The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
Craig,
My very favorite Psalm, for your dear friend Sean.
Here’s what you will get with a President Romney.
You can read them all here:
http://lds4u.com/lesson5/templecovenants.htm
Mormon Covenant #7
The Law of Consecration: You and each of you covenant and promise before God, angels, and these witnesses at this altar, that you do accept the Law of Consecration as contained in the Doctrine and Covenants, in that you do consecrate yourselves, your time, talents, and everything with which the Lord has blessed you, or with which he may bless you, to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for the building up of the Kingdom of God on the earth and for the establishment of Zion.
Are you ready for a Theocratic Presidency?
I’m not.
Goodnight all.
AP,
It is not the theocratic presidency that I fear.
Mitt operates under the illusion that he has done something in his life that entitles him to the presidency.
The entitlement presidency, far more dangerous than the theocratic presidency.
Ladies and Gentleman, let’s give a warm welcome to Mitt Romney, the Master of Misdirection!
Jace, thanks so much for the Psalm. I’m heading into a time I’ll need that, friend. Gonna try to get some closure on this thing.
Craig,
Closure does not always come as rapidly or as completely as we might wish. That said, seeking closure can often times be a rewarding and healing process.
I hope that you find both. Indeed, I know that you will.
Go in the light of our creator.
jace
PIT…
There was no way, once the public option was off the table, for Obama to predict what insurance premiums would do. Control of said premiums was, and always has been, in the hands of the insurance companies. One way to make Obama…and his new law…look bad was to raise premiums when there was genuinely no need to do so. The law itself is not responsible for the premium increases; insurance companies are.
Craig…
My thoughts will be with you as you give Lard his sendoff on April 29. I truly wish I could be there. Though I never met him in person, he was always one of my very most favorite folks on the Trail. I miss his voice! How much harder it must be for you say goodbye to your best friend. So…know that you will be traveling with prayers and kind thoughts.
purp, i agree with you in regard to the senate “leadership” but nancy p and cohorts did pretty well in the house when in control. as for sen webb, where was he? senators are not sheep. they would not have gotten that far if they were. at times these wolves don sheepy clothing as an excuse.