Ed Schultz is NAILING Axelrod to the wall on Joe right now ! nt

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

[laughingliberal]

1. Do tell...nt

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

3. It's moving to fast to recap, maybe they'll have a video.

Schultz said - "I've had insurance execs on my show who have acknowledged it's a massive give away to the insurance industry."

Peggy Noonan jumped in and asked " Why is your health plan losing the Left, Right And the Center?"

I think Axelrod did the best he could, but it was on the feeble side. Plus he was repelling friendly fire(Ed)while also fending off loony Peggy (not looking as looney as usual)

[AllentownJake]

2. Axlerod sounds really bad

Getting his ass kicked by every panelist. Not even Axelrod can defend this piece of shit.

[Myrina]

4. ... that must hurt.

:wtf: Posts like yours that have absolutely no information for the passer-by-reader (remember, we're not sitting in your house with you) are totally useless.

[dave29]

5. MSM filtered through DU

now that's infotainment!

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

6. Well you see what happen USUALLY is that other people who are hearing and watching

contribute. It does move fast and I am not a court reporter. See how other people have contributed and how now you are getting a better idea of what's going on? Does that help?

[jtrockville]

9. If you happen to be near a media outlet, you could tune in.

I appreciate these posts, because there are times (like yesterday when Sanders lit the Senate floor on fire) when I was able to tune in. I wouldn't have known if a DU'er didn't give us a head's up.

So thanks Phoebe Loosinhouse. Even though I missed it, I appreciate your effort.

[Vinca]

7. That was pathetic. Axelrod was so obviously spewing BS.

Don't tell me about saving seniors money on drugs after reimportation was voted down. Don't tell me older people getting to pay only 3 times more than younger people for insurance coverage is a good thing. What a load of baloney.

[jonnyblitz]

8. GOOD. nt

[wordpix]

10. THIS explains the drug reimportation vote

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...

President Obama writes a new health reform prescription

By Dana Milbank
Wednesday, December 16, 2009

On the campaign trail, Barack Obama vowed to take on the drug industry by allowing Americans to import cheaper prescription medicine. "We'll tell the pharmaceutical companies 'thanks, but no, thanks' for the overpriced drugs -- drugs that cost twice as much here as they do in Europe and Canada," he said back then.

On Tuesday, the matter came to the Senate floor -- and President Obama forgot the "no, thanks" part. Siding with the pharmaceutical lobby, the administration successfully fought against the very idea Obama had championed.

"It's got to be a little awkward," said Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.).

It's even more awkward for millions of Americans who are forced to pay up to 10 times the prices Canadians and Europeans pay for identical medication, often produced in the same facilities by the same manufacturers, simply because the U.S. government refuses to rein in drug prices. snip

One after the other, the drug industry's friends from pharmaceutical-manufacturing states New Jersey, Delaware and North Carolina went to the floor Tuesday to cite the FDA letter.

Sen. Robert Menendez (D-Bristol-Myers Squibb) warned that "you may have a heart attack" because of counterfeit medicine from abroad.

"This is a matter of life or death," agreed Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-Merck).

Carper (D-AstraZeneca) cited "remaining safety and soundness and health concerns," while Sen. Kay Hagan (D-GlaxoSmithKline) voiced "serious doubts that we can adequately ensure the safety of the drug supply."

These arguments don't hold up well, considering that 40 percent of the active ingredients in American prescription drugs come from India and China, and that the latter slipped tainted heparin past the FDA. But fright was about the best argument opponents could use to defeat a popular proposal that would save the federal government $19 billion over 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Consumers would save many times that. snip

[atreides1]

11. Someone answer this?

Was Obama lying during the campaign?

[NorthCarolina]

16. Seems pretty obvious doesn't it? In politics "whatever it takes to get elected" is fair game (nt)

[xiamiam]

12. lol..love that he listed the pharma co behind their names instead of states..very good..nt

[Me.]

13. Schultz Was Great

Didn't give an inch to the trash Axelrod was talking.

[johnlal]

14. link. I don't know if it will work, but it's on the website now.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640

[LaydeeBug]

15. WARNING: that takes us to a Cheetah Woods Filed For Divorce link. nt