Comments on: Why Republicans are Worried

By: LeeMG

LeeMG — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:07:01 +0000

Alex said he does not want the same people who run Amtrak and Fannie Mae to run health care. Does he want Blackwater who had to become Xe to avoid terror, or LehmanBros who went broke, to run health care? No, Healthcare administration should be trained civil servants who have to pass tests and are supervised by people accountable to the voting public. The present system is being run by criminals who deny health care simply to gain more profits.

By: philogratis

philogratis — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:15:24 +0000

Gay bashing is a pennywise, pound foolish strategy for GOP, but not nearly so much as immigrant bashing. Latinos were vital swing voters in 2000 and 2004, but swung strongly for the Democrats in 2008. I don't see the GOP doing anything to reverse that trend. Many Latinos are young, and at this rate, Texas could be a swing state in the next 15 years.

By: peter

peter — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:13:14 +0000

Two valid schols of thought here:
1. I left home when I was twenty and my father wqas an idiot,however when I returned 20 years later I couldn't believe how smart he had become." Mark Twaine..
2. "If your kids knew how dumb you were they would murder you in your sleep." Frank Zappa…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:55:02 +0000

Funny how strong a meme can be even when it's completely out of touch with reality. For however "disillusioned" people seem to want to think young people are of Obama his approval rating with them stands at 84% and has been very steady. Contrast that to their 11% favorability for the Republican party and 60% favorability for Democrats. Republicans need to ask themselves how they plan to change minds and win elections in the future when 83% of 18-29 year olds, 70% of women, 87% of blacks and 73% of Latinos look at them unfavorably. Numbers are by research 2000.

http://www.dailykos.com/weeklypoll/2010/1/7

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:55:55 +0000

Obama is a figurehead for a Democratic Congress that is merely posturning when they present themselves as Democrats. There is little difference qualitiatvely between Republicans and Democrats in Congress. Both take funds for corrupt, monied interests and do their bidding. Otherwise they would never have the necessary funds to become elected in the first place.

The Republicans are in your face about where their bread is buttered. They will tell you it is the large corporate interests. Democrats try to conceal it or sayt that it is OK to take money from health insurance companies while shepherding legislation on health insurance reform through the United States Senate. Senators like Max Baucus are no better or different than any Republican. They just lie about it to their liberal constituents in Missoula, Montana.

The Democrats are as corrupt as the Republicans, even if they appear to have better manners.

Where Obama has failed is his anticipation, overassessment, and in the final analysis, fear of Republican opposition. So what if the Republicans are opposed to your agenda? He was compromising based on their vocal opposition to his plans even before any real showdown. He flinched even before he looked them in the eye.

He has shown himslf not to be a man of courage but a puppet of Congress whose most important need is to get money to become re-elected. To become re-elected so they can lie to the Democratic constitutents that they are really Democrats when they are no different than the Republicans.

Obama failed to lead so he came up with a monster of a health plan drawn up by the greedy members of his own party who wanted to outdo the Republicans in bending over not backward but forward so they could be sodomized by coroporate health insurance interests and pretend they were bringing universal coverage. Universal coverage for the rich has always been available. Universal healthcare coverage for the poor and for the middle classs will become exorbitant as the middle class and the poor begin to subsidize the rich who have pre-existing conditions and will be able to afford expensive private, guaranteed-issue health insurance policies for the very young.

Now instead of extracting a bundle from older Americans, the healthcare industry will try to extract a bundle from the rich and the sick who will have pre-existing conditions. Older Americans will die but that's what American industry wants, fresh meat for their office cubicles. The rest can be fodder for the funeral home industry and the cemetery industry before being fleeced by the nursing home industry.
That's all you and I are to politicians in America, fodder for the politics industry, the health insurance industry, the nursing home industry and then the funeral home and cemetary industries. You dont' count. They are corrup and useless and we have to form new poltiical parties and start all over again.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:19:00 +0000

Unless Obama and his Administration actually start delivering on some of the issues that brought out the youth vote ie. stop the wars, close Guantanamo, fight not cajole the insurance industry, then they will most likely sit the next one out and may not engage again until the "security" the Repug party always promises sounds attractive to them- in about 5 years or enough to have another 8 to 12 years of Republican control of the Government. The Democratic party has proved itself yet again a timid, weak governing body, afraid of bold action.(Thanks Rahm!) THIS is why Republicans win, at least you know what they will do without any waffling or psychic conflict. Sometimes people vote for efficiency even if it is against their own interests.But given that the level of Obama HATE is much larger than the Media wants to cover,beware of a southern Repug run in 2012 that galvanizes the white vote to overcome any ideas of the youth supporting a man who has continually told them to "be patient" after they worked their hearts out for him.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 02:53:25 +0000

can't undo what the repubilcan party and money-driven politicians have done since the late 70's in one year.

we need more progressive democrats elected in 2010 and beyond to get America on track to help the regular folk -- and to stop the violence abroad.

-- peg1

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:53:24 +0000

"Republican wedge issues such as gay-bashing"

- like opposing gay marriage or refusing to end don't ask don't tell...

"cutting government services and help to people"

Under pressure to pay for his ambitious reshaping of the nation's healthcare system, President Obama on Saturday outlined $313 billion in Medicare and Medicaid spending cuts over the next decade to help cover the cost of expanding coverage to tens of millions of America's uninsured.

"and the promise of more wars "

Pakistan, Yemen, who knows, maybe Iran...