"I didn't buy all the hype, right after inauguration, where everybody was only saying nice things about me," Obama said. "And I don't get too worried when things aren't going as well because I know that over time these things turn."Dealing with the haters is beyond the office of the President. Sucks that he has to address the Right Wing AM talk radio clowns instead of Republican Congresspeople.
“Health plans recognize the significant hardship that a family faces when they are unable to obtain coverage for a child with a pre-existing condition,” said Karen M. Ignagni, president of America’s Health Insurance Plans, a trade group. Accordingly, she said, “we await and will fully comply with” the rules.
The White House immediately claimed victory.
In a Twitter message, Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, scored the tug of war as “Kids 1, insurance 0.”
This is the kind of change the Republicans want to repeal? You bet.
If only little kids with staggering sicknesses had crude oil in them, then the GOP would start paying attention. Send them palettes of cash.
"When we look at the American debate on reforming health care, it's difficult to believe. The very fact that there should have been such a violent debate simply on the fact that the poorest of Americans should not be left out in the streets without a cent to look after them ... is something astonishing to us." - French President Nicolas Sarkozy
"Apart from the appalling ease with which the right just denies how broken our healthcare system is to how many millions of people, one of the most bewildering aspects of the past year's "debate" is how deep the sense of American exceptionalism runs in so many people.I can already hear the irrational Francophobes on the Right chiming in.
The entire developed world -- every single industrialized country except for us -- has some kind of universal health care. How insular and arrogant do you have to be to insist that we're the ones who've got it right and the entire rest of the globe has it wrong?"
"I fear the problem in the Church is the problem you see on the right: The organization has been whittled down to a few diehards who believe they are absolutely right and see any failings of their group not as a leadership problem, or a moral problem, but a media problem."
The Conservative movement in this country, the rank-and-file of the Catholic Church and GOP, seem distressingly willing to accept and embrace the lies floated by its leaders. No "outrage" over the billions used to cover up rape. They are more furious with the MSM for reporting on it.
"Is the Vatican going to be the pirate state that gives refuge for pederasts and molestors and rapists?"
"More needy college students will have access to bigger Pell Grants, and future borrowers of government loans will have an easier time repaying them, under a vast overhaul of higher education aid that Congress passed Thursday and sent to President Barack Obama."
I love this quote:
"The Democratic majority decided, well look, while we're at it, let's have another Washington takeover," said Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee and a former federal education secretary. "Let's take over the federal student loan program."
It's the FEDERAL Student Loan Program. You're accusing the Federal Government of running a Federal program. Lamar got used to passing the buck and outsourcing everything under Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld he forgot the Government's responsibilities.
Typical of the Republican's to make up a story in order to influence their base. This time it's Sen. Scott Brown [R-MA] sending out a fund raising letter across the country claiming Rachel Maddow is running against him in 2012.
Honesty was never a part of this letter. It was a lie purported as truth that Brown was using to scare people into giving him money. Fake threats are the MO of the GOP. Wasting time and money on rumors.
7 weeks on the job and Brown is already a coward. Maddow has respectfully invited Brown onto her show on MSNBC. See if Brown has the balls.
The conventional wisdom was that if the Dems did get Health Care Reform through, that would be it. The solid phalanx of No would clamp down even harder. But it’s not looking that way. Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) says that post-Health Care a number of his Republican colleagues have had enough.Looks like the ship is abandoning the sinking rats.
“The health care thing kind of changed the atmospherics around here,” Dodd told reporters today. “I think, frankly, there are a number of Republicans who went along with the strategy of ‘just say no’ who were never really happy with it, but if it worked they would go along. They saw it fail. And now they’ve had enough of it. and they really want to be involved in crafting things.”
"It was hard to see how Vatican officials did not draw the lessons of the grueling scandal in the United States, where more than 700 priests were dismissed over a three-year period. But then we read Laurie Goodstein’s disturbing report in The Times on Thursday about how the pope, while he was still a cardinal, was personally warned about a priest who had molested as many as 200 deaf boys. But church leaders chose to protect the church instead of the children. The report illuminated the kind of behavior the church was willing to excuse to avoid scandal."
200 deaf kids? That is some cold blooded kiddy fiddling. How many Hail Mary's do you get for that?
Orchestrated cover-ups leading directly to the current Pope. WTF? It's not just a sin, it's a crime. As German chancellor Angela Merkel said, we need “truth and clarity about everything that took place.”
"But the crucial line in Vatican investigator Mgr Charles Scicluna's evidence comes much earlier. He says that between 1975 and 1983, there was not a single case referred to his office from anywhere in the world. This is astonishing."Not one case? Look at what was really happening. [Graph is for America] The period when nothing at all was reported to Rome was also when the abuse was most frequent and widespread.
"There were never fewer than 350 priests reported in any of the years between 1975 and 1983. None of those cases reached Rome for judgement. All of them were covered up spontaneously, almost unconsciously, by the local bishops. "Pure evil.
“Having a family gives a priest a deeper understanding of how to relate to other people and help other people. It is more natural, it makes more sense, for a priest to have a wife and children.”With all these predator priests in the West, it's time the Vatican really thinks about letting celibacy end and have married priests. They've already spent over $1,000,000,000, that's a billion, denying they have a problem by paying off families of the abused.
