"That’s why any plan I sign must include an insurance exchange: a one-stop shopping marketplace where you can compare the benefits, cost and track records of a variety of plans – including a public option to increase competition and keep insurance companies honest – and choose what’s best for your family."Competition is good for the market.
Here's the American Medical Association's official statement: "This legislation includes a broad range of provisions that are key to effective, comprehensive health system reform," said J. James Rohack, M.D., AMA president. "We urge the House committees of jurisdiction to pass the bill for consideration by the full House."The doctors want the reforms. Why are we listening to the greedy lobbyists and interest groups who want to keep the flawed, expensive system in place? They fear the competitive market?
"I will not defend the status quo. We are going to change health care reform", President Barack Obama.Health care industry's profits are not in our interest. The opposition to these changes always use a flawed approach: if time's are good, there is no reason to make changes, when times are bad, now is not the time to make changes.
"Indeed, if political figures stand for ideas, victimization is what Ms. Palin is all about. It is her brand, her myth. Ronald Reagan stood tall. John McCain was about service. Barack Obama has hope. Sarah Palin is a collector of grievances. She runs for high office by griping.And the same Republicans who will cry foul for her treatment as sexist, are the same ones who attack Hillary Cinton and Sonia Sotomayor and snicker at words like "feminazi", yet see Palin's quitting and dereliction from her duties as "noble". She is some how, in the inverted conservative world, stronger by being weaker.
Like Oliver North, Robert Bork, and Clarence Thomas, [Palin] is known not for her ideas but as a martyr, a symbol of the culture-war crimes of the left.
To become a symbol of this stature Ms. Palin has had to do the opposite of most public figures. Where others learn to take hostility in stride, she and her fans have developed the thinnest of skins. They find offense in the most harmless remarks and diabolical calculation in the inflections of the anchorman's voice. They take insults out of context to make them seem even more insulting. They pay close attention to voices that are ordinarily ignored, relishing every blogger's sneer, every celebrity's slight, every crazy Internet rumor," - Thomas Frank, WSJ.
"What's worth noting about what Jeff Sessions -- the line of questioning, was that being a white man, that's normal. Everybody else has biases and prejudices ... but the white man, they don't have any ethnicity, they don't have any gender, they're just like the normal folks, and I thought that was a little jarring."
"Your idea is that, after investigating Bill Clinton for a blow job for, like, five years, we shouldn't investigate the huge, grossly illegal things that were done under the past administration only because [former Attorney General] Alberto Gonzales was too much in the back pocket of [then-Vice President] Dick Cheney to do it when he was still in office," she said.MSNBC went on to apologize for her choice of words. This is the same channel to put up "To Catch A Predator" about 50 times a week.
"It's called rule of law," Wheeler added. "You Republicans are supposed to be about rule of law."
Referring to a New York Times article from May, Colbert noted that Sotomayor “spent summers reading children’s classics she had missed in a Spanish-speaking home.” Then he played a clip of pundit Pat Buchanan expounding, “I think that, I mean if you’re, frankly if you’re in college and you’re working on Pinocchio or on the troll under the bridge, I don’t think that’s college work.”
“He’s right,” Colbert agreed, “children books are inappropriate when you’re in college.”
Colbert added, “You read them when your country’s under attack.” Colbert showed a brief clip of former President Bush continuing to read “My Pet Goat” to children on September 11, 2001, shortly after being told that a second plane had just crashed into the World Trade Center.
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James Risen of the New York Times: the Bush administration "discouraged" investigation of a mass killing of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Taliban prisoners of war by the forces of Abdul Rashid Dostum, an American-backed warlord.You do the time:
CNN: "President Obama has ordered national security officials to look into allegations that the Bush administration resisted efforts to investigate a CIA-backed Afghan warlord over the killings of hundreds of Taliban prisoners in 2001."And when you realize those "Taliban prisoners of war" were just random people picked because the US was paying cash for prisoners, you realize how many innocent civilians were killed.
"Dick Cheney, the former vice president, ordered a highly classified CIA operation hidden from Congress because it pushed the limits of legality by planning to assassinate of al-Qaida operatives in friendly countries without the knowledge of their governments, according to former intelligence officials.Imagine that, a secret operation without oversight used to kill people overseas went astray, leading to an embarrassing end of the program.
Former counter-terrorism officials who retain close links to the intelligence community say that the hidden operation involved plans by the CIA and the military to launch operations, similar to those by Israel's Mossad intelligence service, to hunt down and kill al-Qaida activists abroad without informing the governments concerned, even though some were regarded as friendly if unreliable.
The CIA apparently did not put the plan in to operation but the US military did, carrying out several assassinations including one in Kenya that proved to be a severe embarrassment and helped lead to the quashing of the programme."
NBC's David Gregory seemed incredulous that McCain thought Palin's resignation spoke well of her leadership capabilities.That's stubborn GOP thinking for you, just stick to your story, even when it turns out horribly wrong.
"You have sustained personal torture, personal attack, political attack, investigation," Gregory said. "You have never resigned from anything. Is it consistent with your qualities of leadership to resign an elected post like this?"
"Sure," the senator said.
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