R.A.Danny: what_now: A very quick google shows that 18% of the people in NY state are uninsured. Are you sure you want to run with that, Pete?

That's the stupid 18%

No, that's the perfectly healthy 18% that doesn't want the gub'ment interfering with their choice to not have insurance.

Considering I just mailed my COBRA paperwork in after getting laid off, and that the 65% subsidy included in Obama's stimulus package is what makes continuing my health care actually affordable while I look for a job, I beg to differ.

This is the same guy who went on TV enumerating the many reasons why France sucks back before America started the occupation of Iraq when France was the only voice of reason. He sounded like an ignorant dumbfark hick American vomiting the party line.

This might just be the stupidest thing any elected official says all day.

I believe last weeks comment of "why should we read the bill" was stupider.

Mr. King, I beg to differ. And so does America.

Lt. Cheese Weasel: Pay no taxes?

It is impossible not to pay taxes. While it may be possible to not pay income tax, it is impossible to avoid paying all taxes all together.

WhyteRaven74: Lt. Cheese Weasel: Pay no taxes?

It is impossible not to pay taxes. While it may be possible to not pay income tax, it is impossible to avoid paying all taxes all together.

Don't be such a nitwit. You KNOW I meant federal income taxes.

Lt. Cheese Weasel: Want free healthcare? And Welfare? And Food stamps? Pay no taxes?

Take a drug test, or STFU.

I'm not arguing.

WhyteRaven74: Lt. Cheese Weasel: Pay no taxes?

It is impossible not to pay taxes. While it may be possible to not pay income tax, it is impossible to avoid paying all taxes all together.

Apparently, it is also impossible for wingnuts to post with using bold text.

Lt. Cheese Weasel: Take a drug test, or STFU.

I'm perfectly fine with that.

Lt. Cheese Weasel: Want free healthcare? And Welfare? And Food stamps? Pay no taxes?

Take a drug test, or STFU.

Nah, I think we will just keep it as it is. You can leave the country though.

BMulligan: WhyteRaven74: Lt. Cheese Weasel: Pay no taxes?

It is impossible not to pay taxes. While it may be possible to not pay income tax, it is impossible to avoid paying all taxes all together.

Apparently, it is also impossible for wingnuts to post with using bold text.

Well, I was just feeling a bit ornery,, I don't always do that...

Lt. Cheese Weasel: Want free healthcare? And Welfare? And Food stamps? Pay no taxes?

Take a drug test, or STFU.

Ok. Done.

Wait...*counts back three months*...yea, I'm good. Is it a deal then?

PascalsGhost: Lt. Cheese Weasel: Want free healthcare? And Welfare? And Food stamps? Pay no taxes?

Take a drug test, or STFU.

Nah, I think we will just keep it as it is. You can leave the country though.

If I leave, who will fund your socialistic revolution?

Diogenes: Shaggy_C: Lt. Cheese Weasel: Take a drug test, or STFU.

I'm perfectly fine with that.

I really can't disagree either. But I'm of the mind that Congress members should undergo testing before they're allowed to legislate it to anyone.

Bad news for Patrick Kennedy....

Yes, line all of the uninsured children up and make them take a piss test.

I'm a grad student who makes about 10k a year, is too old for his parents' insurance, and is underinsured.

My insurance doesn't cover doctor's visits, so I can either pay for it out of pocket, or wait and hope that it doesn't get worse or go to an emergency room when it does.

I had a friend who died of Hodgkin's Lymphoma. She was uninsured, so she waited months to go to a doctor even when she was having pretty severe symptoms. She was in her early 30s.

Congressman Dickwad can go DIAF.

Soup4Bonnie: Yes, line all of the uninsured children up and make them take a piss test.

That is so stupid. The checks don't have their names on them, now do they?

"Health care reform ranks a distant third on the issues list, after Brett Favre and free coffee."

Lt. Cheese Weasel: The checks don't have their names on them, now do they?

What checks are you babbling about, retard?

Soup4Bonnie: Lt. Cheese Weasel: The checks don't have their names on them, now do they?

What checks are you babbling about, retard?

Bah disingenious troll is duly ignored. Keep up or you can STFU also.

It isn't one of my big concerns.

To the point of the article, I mean...if healthcare was really such a big deal, why aren't there people out there making a big scene about it?

I'll tell you why. Because the people who want to see real reform were disheartened and depressed from the get-go about Obama's Republican health care bill. If you're a single payer advocate, why would you be out there cheering for something even he said is off the table?

Diogenes: But the fact that there are digital cameras that don't make a shutter click sound is of the utmost importance, right Congressman?

Wow. That's insane.

He's a repub.

You know the people that spent the last 8 years demonstrating that they are completely out of touch with what americans want.

Lt. Cheese Weasel: Want free healthcare? And Welfare? And Food stamps? Pay no taxes?

Take a drug test, or STFU.

This is just as guess, but many people who know how to "work" the system can probably figure out how to pass a UA.

That's keeping in mind that UAs are really more about catching Cannabis users than users of heavy drugs, since most of the really "bad" drugs no longer detectable via the urinary system within a few days of discontinuing the use of those substances.

Of course, under the current system they can be abusing the hell out of alcohol, tobacco and OTC drugs (not to mention stuffing their faces with fast food) and pass any "drug test" anyway.

Shaggy_C: To the point of the article, I mean...if healthcare was really such a big deal, why aren't there people out there making a big scene about it?

I'll tell you why. Because the people who want to see real reform were disheartened and depressed from the get-go about Obama's Republican health care bill. If you're a single payer advocate, why would you be out there cheering for something even he said is off the table?

I would be certainly more open to the whole idea if there was a single person on the face of this miserable rock that has actually read the entire bill.


This rush into madness is yours, not mine.

Shaggy_C: To the point of the article, I mean...if healthcare was really such a big deal, why aren't there people out there making a big scene about it?

I'll tell you why. Because the people who want to see real reform were disheartened and depressed from the get-go about Obama's Republican health care bill. If you're a single payer advocate, why would you be out there cheering for something even he said is off the table?

Obama farked up.

And I said as much back when his office sent out an email to go shill for an unknown. It's miserable on account of the Administration. He thinks it's 1992.

Lt. Cheese Weasel: Bah disingenious troll is duly ignored. Keep up or you can STFU also.

I get it now. You don't know what the hell you are talking about, either.

Take you're 1995 Newt Gingrich Welfare Queen talking point somewhere it will be effective.

"I think the last poll showed 14 percent see health care reform as being a major issue," said the New York Republican...

King's polling reference was to an NBC/Wall Street Journal survey released last week that showed health care was the third highest priority for the public. Job creation was the top priority of 38 percent of the public; the deficit, 17 percent; and health care 14 percent.

What an asshole.

If I'm being attacked by a shark, my main priority is not dying. My next priority is not being paralyzed. My third priority is keeping all my limbs. That doesn't make dismemberment a minor issue.

Bob16: He's a repub.

You know the people that spent the last 8 years demonstrating that they are completely out of touch with what americans want.

Slightly less than half of America still thinks that the Republican Party is still the better choice. A third of this country supports Palin as a potential presidential candidate.

Either the Republicans have become masters of catering to the middle class while truly only serving the needs of the wealthy, or this country is going full retard.

I'm afraid it's more of the latter. Was watching clips today of people at town halls yelling and screaming over Democratic representatives trying to discuss healthcare issues. Waving Bibles in the air and yelling over any attempt at reasonable discourse. This is how fanaticism grows out of hand, people.

Lt. Cheese Weasel: Want free healthcare? And Welfare? And Food stamps? Pay no taxes?

Take a drug test, or STFU.

Want the fire department to respond when your house is on fire? Want police protection? Want to drive on a road?

Take a drug test, or STFU.

Precedents are a dangerous thing...if you say it's ok to drug test people who receive certain benefits, you open the door for drug testing for any other benefits. You may think I'm being stupid, but 30 years ago, roadchecks of any kind were illegal. Then they said they could have them to look for DUIs. Now they stop you to see if your seatbelt is fastened, your inspection is expired, or whatever else they can find since they have you stopped. Government never stops when they get a precedent established for something reasonable, it always progresses into the unreasonable.

Diogenes: DarnoKonrad: Diogenes: But the fact that there are digital cameras that don't make a shutter click sound is of the utmost importance, right Congressman?

Wow. That's insane.

Not to diminish the severity of sexual crimes, King is one of those people that goes into hysterics about it. He sees pedophiles around ever corner.

Well he should stop hanging out at the RNC.

health care reform is only important to those who go to the doctor. I don't. It isn't important to me. I'm also not addicted to painkillers. If I were, then I would be desperate for free drugs, err, free health care.