Smoke gets up your butt

[Mari333]

Barack Obama gets his Mission Accomplished banner day, hits the airwaves, and blows smoke up America’s enormous-because-it-won’t-get-off-the-couch ass:...


President, please.

The only difference between the insurance companies and al Qaeda is that the insurance companies prefer to pick off Americans one by one. And by “culling the herd” insurance companies are free to heed the only real mandate they have: their fiduciary duty to their shareholders. All else is static.






http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/12/19/smoke-gets-up-your-butt/

hah

[Ken Burch]

1. OK...THIS wins the "Classiest Thread Title of the Day" award.

n/t.

[taterguy]

13. The night is young

[FreakinDJ]

2. Yes - but can you Blow Smoke Rings is what counts

[enlightenment]

3. I don't think I want to know the answer to that.

Though I suspect somewhere, someone (not the OP, mind!) is currently producing a YouTube video of the - err - skill (?) . . .

[pleah]

4. K&R

[Laelth]

5. k&r for the truth, however depressing. n/t

Kill the bill.

Forcing people to buy insurance is no more the answer to a failed health care system than forcing people to buy houses is the solution to homelessness.

:dem:

-Laelth

[rhett o rick]

6. WAIT A MINUTE. There is a huge difference between al Qaeda and the health insurance companies.

al Qaeda has only killed a little over 3,000 Americans. The insurance companies kill that many every four months.

[kath]

10. Actually, by many estimates, they kill that many, or more, each MONTH.

[femrap]

11. And that it was al qaeda is

still up for discussion.

But we're 100% on the insurance company murders.

[femrap]

12. That it was al qaeda is

still up for discussion.

But we're 100% positive on the insurance company murders.

[Vidar]

7. K&R.

[chill_wind]

8. The comments section

is a pretty lively read, too.

"The only thing left to hope for is that they cover mass insanity."

(...)

Oh and… “Keep the baby, Faith”

[EmeraldCityGrl]

9. I especially liked this one...

"Other than connecting the Treasury directly to the insurance companies, further reducing a woman’s right to choose (They “compromised” with Ben Nelson), forcing people who may not be able to afford it into the arms of the insurance companies under threat of being fined, eliminating anything that might in any way force insurers to compete, and killing everything that could cause them to reduce costs, this bill is…, is…, is still a piece of shit. The Obama fanbois continue to click their Ruby Slippers together in the belief that the Reconciliation Fairy will turn this into a more progressive bill while the glass-half-full types fail to see that a glass half full of shit is still a glass of shit.
Rahm and Obama are into full triangulation mode and it’s fuck the liberals because they’ll vote for us anyway. But I won’t."