Comments on: Blue Dog: Town halls convinced me to oppose public option

By: Knuckledragger

Knuckledragger — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:06:53 +0000

Ed, from your last two paragraphs:

“Weiner failure…. five months is plenty of time to get firm…. Robert Gibbs said Obama would put out…. appear unlikely to get any tonight.”

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By: ArkCon

ArkCon — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:56:29 +0000

I hope he sticks with it. I spoke to him at one of the town halls and twice over the phone. I believe I convinced him of how serious I was when I told him that I won’t promise to vote for him, but if he continued to be a rubber stamp I would sell all I owned, right down to the underwear off my … assets to get him defeated.

By: Terrye

Terrye — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:39:07 +0000

I wonder if this will all blow up in Obama’s face?

By: Jeff from WI

Jeff from WI — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:05:58 +0000

The “Blue Dogs” can’t be that stupid. If they vote this in not only is their career over, but they might as well move as every normal non-Commie American will DESPISE anyone, Democrat, Republican or Independent that votes for this killer of our nation. I’m including any kind of compromise.
Vote it down, burn the bill, bury it under the D.C. swamps and never even whisper a word of this treasonous crapola.

By: Black Adam

Black Adam — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:25:47 +0000

Hey Democrats: fear our vote

By: Mary in LA

Mary in LA — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:45:06 +0000

immigrantchick, there’s an implied /sarcasm tag after Knucklehead’s post. We know and love Knucklehead. :-)

OT: See some of you in DC in mere days! You’ll know me by the Hot Air logo printed out and taped to my hat.

By: crushliberalism

crushliberalism — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:39:17 +0000

I know Massa’s constituents they are a bunch of Lexus liberals so he’ll have no problem getting re-elected.

He lost in 2006, and he barely won last year. I wouldn’t exactly call that a reliably blue district. Plus with him having gone to the nutroots gathering and saying “I support a single-payer system” and “I will readily vote against the will of my constituents”, I think he’s as good as gone.

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Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:17:22 +0000

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By: karenhasfreedom

karenhasfreedom — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:15:27 +0000

Rush today pointed out on his show that this 1400 page bill was probably in Waxman’s desk drawer for the past 15 years. He said this bill is too intricate to just have been written this year. He said they just pulled it out and dusted it off and updated it.

We know now that the stimulus bill was written by those special interest groups that are now part of the czar corp in the White House, which is why it wasn’t really a stimulus bill. Those 34 czars got all of their liberal pet projects funded. I hope the 2 Maine gals really understand that they funded enemies of our country under the guise of “stimulus funding” that did not do jack beans about helping to create/”save” jobs. Those 2 gals made it possible for that mess of a bill to get passed.

And to think neither of them are up for election this year. We have to wait until 2012 and 2014 to try to de-throne them. Sigh.

By: PatriotRider

PatriotRider — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:07:47 +0000

Anthony Whiner the classic definition of a schmuck

By: Badger40

Badger40 — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:48:36 +0000

I am floored that it takes anyone to tell someone the obvious.
A lot of Americans may be confused about the ins & outs of health care- but they do know one thing:
Tying up health care with more govt red tape will be disaster.
And forcing people to have health insurance? Well it’s the same strong arm tacticts that force us all to insure everything we own.
Litigation litigation litigation.
Way too much of it.
But instead of going after lawyers, we’ll just go after the symptom, like rising health care costs.

By: ladyingray

ladyingray — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:33:09 +0000

this is a conservative country, has been and will continue to be and if you don’t like it, move to Russia or socialist Europe. Oh wait, Europe is turning against socialism, so I would suggest Venezuela. Good riddance.

immigrantchick on September 9, 2009 at 12:33 PM

Um…how long have you been posting at HA? Reading posts at HA?

Not very long, I’d wager…

By: connertown

connertown — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:22:09 +0000

Let me be clear….”Present”.

By: kelley in virginia

kelley in virginia — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:17:23 +0000

obama will lie. the dems will vote for it because pelosi & rahm tell them to do so.

it all falls to us to vote them out. the bottom line, it has always fallen to us.

By: Caper29

Caper29 — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:05:09 +0000

–snip—
Secondly, Eric Massa in NY is taking your advice and ignoring the will of his constituents. He knows he’s gonna get tossed out of office for it, too, and it will have been for naught, since ObamaCare isn’t going to happen.
–snip–
crushliberalism on September 9, 2009 at 11:41 AM

I know Massa’s constituents they are a bunch of Lexus liberals so he’ll have no problem getting re-elected. He’s in as tight as Louise Slaughter whose constituents are half functioning retards.

Thank God we have some sanity in the 26th district and elected Chris Lee.

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Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:57:34 +0000

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By: stldave

stldave — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:37:15 +0000

When Obama hints that he may be open to killing the public option tonight, he will immediately wink to the left side of the room. This will be the signal to make sure to sneak it through the back door steathily.

By: immigrantchick

immigrantchick — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:33:32 +0000

Knucklehead, you sure are dumb and if you call people comrades, you only serve to more damage your idiotic cause of outdated socilaism/fascism/communism, whatever form your ism takes. . Some of us wanted BO to win, just for such reasons, that he will likely destroy the political climate for democrats in the long term for many years, as he is doing, exactly asI thought he would. I said this during the election on may posts and I am beign proven right. If McCain had won, we would have amnesty by now and other stupid things like cap and trade and other things that will relegate the repubs to stupid moderate minority status forever. Nw, we have a chance to not only take back Congress, but a chance for this country to awake and kick out the liberals for many many years, until they start pretending ot be moderates again. this is a conservative country, has been and will continue to be and if you don’t like it, move to Russia or socialist Europe. Oh wait, Europe is turning against socialism, so I would suggest Venezuela. Good riddance.

By: GarandFan

GarandFan — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:30:06 +0000

Robert Gibbs said last week that Obama would put out a plan of his own, which now has been walked back to a list of fundamental principles

Now that’s real LEADERSHIP. Can always count on Barry putting NOTHING ON PAPER. You can’t see it, you can’t track it.

By: immigrantchick

immigrantchick — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:24:42 +0000

This so called Blue Dog or lap dog as Sean Hannity calls them is CONVENIENTLY NOW against the public option after he voted to allow it to get out of committee, i.e., bill with public option cannot be stopped in the house even with his vote against it, and he knows it. This is a game the dems play: support socialized med by pushing it out of committee and then trying to save his job with voters by saying, “but I voted against it.” People need to be told that, and these blue lap dogs should not be allowed to get away with it. This is another piece of info that conservatives need to mention at every turn so ordinary voters who don’t understand the inner workings of Washington don’t get fooled.

By: ladyingray

ladyingray — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:50:58 +0000

highhopes on September 9, 2009 at 11:48 AM

Miss!

By: TXUS

TXUS — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:49:24 +0000

LastRick on September 9, 2009 at 11:28 AM

There are some bluedog districts where I’ll agree with you, especially about primarying to the left.

But, these guys are scortched earth Chicago players, who’ll find and support a replacement who might even vote the same, just to send the message.

I’ve had two BDs tell me this is what’s going on, and I have no reason to doubt them.

By: highhopes

highhopes — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:48:42 +0000

Most Congresspeople and especially Blue Dogs are smart enough (barely, in some cases, but enough) to understand that thousands upon thousands of people turning out for town halls in the middle of vacation season in order to oppose Obamacare represents significant opposition to the bill.

Missy on September 9, 2009 at 11:43 AM

Ernesto is clearly one of those kamikaze liberals. He doesn’t care about the body count so long as the radical agenda of the filthy liar and the corrupt Democrat Party gets passed by party-line votes. Ross might not be into political suicide defending an idea that is unpopular with the majority of thinking Americans.