He was saying "Go for it"! "Pass something, anything now, and worry about details later"!

NOw let me ask the libbies in here, would you really want your DOCTOR to proceed like that? Just do something and worry about the details later? Like when you go in for Brain surgery or heart surgery?

Yeah!....That's it, just DO SOMETHING and worry about the details later. Is that how you really want your Govt. to work?

Remember, you and your children are going to pay for it?

The libbies don't care where the money comes from, just as long as they get their GovT goodies. If business has to be taxed MORE, ao be it. Then they can pay more for the things they need, still thinking they're getting something for "free"!

And I have no clue where you would find a "rich man" in WV, unless of course, you started looking at WV politicians!!! Yeah,...TAX THOSE RICH MEN!!!

And also, "And why are we even considering so gargantuan a social experiment when the nation is struggling to emerge from a severe recession? It's as if liberals are starry-eyed dreamers lacking the elementary ability to project or predict the chaotic and destabilizing practical consequences of their utopian fantasies."

And about Republicans, "Republicans, on the other hand, have basically sat on their******about healthcare reform for the past 20 years and have shown little interest in crafting legislative solutions to social inequities".

The NY Times reports that Medicare premiums will increase 15% next year. However, the House passed a bill to limit the increases at the Federal level, which means the States will have to make up the difference.

Can anyone guess where the states (especially WV) might find the money to pay for this?

Another point she made, and which I have said for months, is how do you add 43 million new patients, with no corresponding increase in providers, without rationing? She also said that Congress should not be exempt from the plan, that our system needs changes, not overhaul and that we should not attempt such a massive task when we are still in a recession.

I disagree with Paglia quite often but at least she is a mature liberal in the old school vein. She disagrees with conservatives but respects their right to speak. She uses logic and reason. And she is a very fine writer.

There! I praised a liberal!

"The deal struck between the pharmaceutical lobby, the White House and Senate Democrats has drastically improved Big Pharma's expected profits, a private industry report finds.

IMS Health, a company that supplies the pharmaceutical companies with sales data, predicts that new health reform legislation -- combined with a projected upswing in the economy -- will result in a net gain of more than $137 billion in total market sales over the next four years."

From the Center for Responsive Politics (OpenSecrets dot org);

$7,076,024 in direct campaign contributions this year from Pharma to our politicians (57% to Dems).

2010 PAC Contributions to Federal Candidates;

$4,500,108 (61% to Dems)

I'm guessing all these events are just total coincidences!!!!

SSDD

Barney and Jay will see to it that we get a public option.

However that is unlikely to happen unless the Senate "KILLS" the d*mn thing there.

There HAS TO BE a better way than spending 1.2 TRILLION DOLLARS on crap!!

Instead of always whining, threatening violence, misrepresenting the facts, showing a lack of civility and name calling, maybe right wing wackos and teabaggers should spend more time in honest work to fix the mess they left this great country in.

The strategy of the repubs and their whacked out fringe extremists is to keep the President from fixing anything in this country, because everytime he does, he simply proves, REPUBS CAN"T GOVERN and TEABAGGERS HAVE NO SOLUTIONS.

Have a great day.

It really is that simple. Same old, same old.

I find it strange that liberals oppose a military service requirement yet think nothing of a 5-year prison sentence or $250,000 fine for refusing to buy health insurance!

Our government is out of control. I should not have to support others' every whim. I want a Gulfstream 550. Will taxpayers give it to me? NO. Should they? NO.

I think it is time to start looking at alternatives to the current Two-Party, Big Government system. It is too bad that Ron Paul is such a kook. If the messenger is kooky, nobody will believe the message.

Both Dems and Repubs come out in public and give speeches against each other. Later, they retire to the Senate dining hall and laugh at the "idiot public" over their bean soup.