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Republicans just don't understand health care

Posted: Nov 16, 2010

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Notice the use of "government-subsidized" instead of... - sam

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employer-subsidized....oh what a difference semantics makes. LOL. And I am SURE he is the VERY first Democrat or Republican frosh who has ever *GASP* asked that question. Or ANY new employee...LOL. Good grief.

Hey thanks for posting tho...I needed a giggle. :)

I don't think I have ever seen an employer - cover insurance on day 1

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Another one who is pretty used to living the good life out there representing us. I wonder if he knows what the minimum wage is?

Well....then most of the Dems in Congress must not know.... - sam

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what it is either, or they would stop putting through entitlement programs that pay better than working and tax the hoohah out of the rest of us to pay for it.

Ah, but we all know the congressional Democrats are living the good life so maybe you have a point. They are doing good and building a voting base that will be totally dependent on the govt for money, food, and now health care...

hello Venezuela, good-bye individual freedom. Sigh.

This story is about a newbie REPUBLICAN Tea Partier who (sm) - mm

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is against government-run healthcare for everyone else and is moaning and whining that he must wait the customary 28-day wait for his insurance to kick in. He wants to know if he can BUY into the government-run healthcare. This new lawmaker apparently doesn't know about COBRA or is refusing to pay for it.

In other words, he wants his NOW, and the rest of Americans can go pound sand.

Wow, that sounds just like those pushing Obamacare... - sam

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Obama and you and the others want it NOW, and the rest of us can go pound sand. Basically that is the message you sent us when you rammed it through although more than half of us were against it.

Why is it okay when you are demanding and childish and foisting what you want off on anybody else and get all incensed because this guy doesn't understand about a waiting period.

Or perhaps he is just yanking Dem chains to get a rise. He got one, didn't he? lol. He got more press in a day than Charlie Rangel's ethics hearings...talk about slanted media...LOL.

The guy is a hypocrite, plain and simple. - nm

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nm

And Obama isn't? How many of the Dems, when... - sam

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public option was on the table, did not want to give up their sweet plan and be on it (UHC in other words)? Talk about hypocrites!!

It is just AMAZING to me how easily you people can see the splinter in the other guy's eye and can't see the Sequoyah in yours!!

lol.

You can't write one post without insulting people, - can you? Then you think (sm)

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people are "stalking" you. I do believe you're "watcher," because, as the other poster pointed out, the similarities are uncanny.

I just love the way you run around all over this board and call others paranoid, especially when YOU'RE so paranoid that you believe you're being "stalked."

Try dropping the personal insults, and maybe more people would be willing to communicate with you.

I clicked this by accident - where is the unclick?

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Oh well, as long as I'm here--Rachel covered Rangel story quite well last night. You weren't watching?

I am not interested in Rachel's take, however, I would be interested in yours. - sam

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You do have one of your own, don't you? Or just Rachel's?

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