tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post5356043296983408467..comments2024-03-28T14:17:21.432-04:00Comments on the daily howler: The empress' new obsession!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-81629210796359670302012-03-09T12:01:42.318-05:002012-03-09T12:01:42.318-05:00More flashoods from DinC!
Insurance companies hav...More flashoods from DinC!<br /><br />Insurance companies have always been required to provide certain minimum coverages. And there have always been mandates to purchase insurance.<br /><br />Apparently DinC opposes compulsory auto insurance and has no problem with isnruance companyies issuing policies to consumers which don't, in fact, cover anything (this actually happens).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-44254798022248401892012-03-09T11:58:33.859-05:002012-03-09T11:58:33.859-05:00"We used to have freedom in the area of emplo..."We used to have freedom in the area of employee health insurance. Employers were free to offer or not offer whatever they liked. Employees were free to look for jobs where they liked the type of health insurance offered."<br /><br />And employers were free to discontinue coverage at a whim, and insurance companies were free to boot you out if you contracted an expensive medical condition, no matter how long you had paid into the system. And we were free to change jobs, as long as we could give up healthcare insurance for six months to forever, if we had a pre-existing condition.<br /><br />Let's hear it for the free, unregulated, unrestricted enterprise of the good ol' days!gravymeisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16075831177588700301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-27734240669244517692012-03-09T10:43:36.946-05:002012-03-09T10:43:36.946-05:00The problem here IMO is not so much the rumor busi...The problem here IMO is not so much the rumor business (ugly as that is) but Collins' trying lamely to joke about, and thus semi-ironically distance herself from, a burgeoning political media/political discourse disaster in which she had been a key player. Her excuse, of course, is her own alleged boredom with the process -- a state of mind that she generously extends to include all of us. It's a widely shared profile among the descendants of Dowd, and as you rightly keep pointing out, the damage it's done is immense.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-33700442386817436432012-03-09T10:31:00.544-05:002012-03-09T10:31:00.544-05:00It seems we have no need for laws against exploita...It seems we have no need for laws against exploitation. Caveat emptor!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-11888163595251684472012-03-09T10:20:47.532-05:002012-03-09T10:20:47.532-05:00Our political, legal, and economic systems are bas...Our political, legal, and economic systems are based on the premise that citizens make rational, informed decisions.<br />Politicians, cops, and economists all know we don't.<br /><br />At least Walter, David, and Chet were sane. We had them for a generation. I guess we should be grateful for that.<br />They've been gone so long it all seems like a dream.gravymeisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16075831177588700301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-85424625871715571942012-03-09T10:15:57.653-05:002012-03-09T10:15:57.653-05:00"Imposing your will upon others is the exact ..."Imposing your will upon others is the exact opposite of freedom."<br /><br />Exactly. That's why Obamacare is the opposite of freedom. <br /><br />We used to have freedom in the area of employee health insurance. Employers were free to offer or not offer whatever they liked. Employees were free to look for jobs where they liked the type of health insurance offered.<br /><br />Under Obamacare, the government imposed its will on employers, on employees, and on insurance companies. Government now forces them to have a certain type of health insurance coverage, regardless of their personal preferences.David in Calnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-63998043060736788742012-03-09T09:39:18.622-05:002012-03-09T09:39:18.622-05:00The metaphore doesn't work. They don't wa...The metaphore doesn't work. They don't want to provide it at all. The cost is not the issue. They want to have the advantages of being deemed a legitimate health care provider, but they want to make up their own rules. How should we decide whether an orginization is giving legally proper care? Should we use our legal system, or the Pope?<br /><br />Imposing your will upon others is the exact opposite of freedom. If the Republicans were more honest, they would change the slogan from Limited Government to Limited Freedom.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-89765670642575379382012-03-09T01:03:11.609-05:002012-03-09T01:03:11.609-05:00"Republicans, who...try to take away their ab..."Republicans, who...try to take away their ability to access contraception."<br /><br />Huh? Not providing something for free isn't the same as taking away the ability to access it. If it were, one could say that the government has taken away our ability to wear clothing, because they don't give each of us free clothing.David in Calnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-10587254996983550912012-03-08T23:37:37.493-05:002012-03-08T23:37:37.493-05:00Right, Patriotin, I'm sure that's what Ano...Right, Patriotin, I'm sure that's what Anonymous meant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-69048603191120569982012-03-08T18:12:52.115-05:002012-03-08T18:12:52.115-05:00I'm with you, Anonymous.
I'm only suppor...I'm with you, Anonymous. <br /><br />I'm only supporting Republicans, who slander women and try to take away their ability to access contraception and safe, legal abortions, and restrict the rights of workers to organize, the foundation of our middle class, and attack gays, lesbians and transgender people, denying them equality under the law. <br /><br />The GOP is wonderful, isn't it? I particularly love its regressive plans to explode the deficit even further open. Democrats aren't pushing to do that, they just have a few people who might not even be Democrats, named Blow and Collins, who say a few stupid things over and over, but that's far, far, far worse than unfunded wars, unfunded tax cuts, plans to destroy the safety net, denying man-made global warming and climate change, destroying public education, making life hell for working people, and sexual hypocrisy!<br /><br />GOP<br />you and me<br />death and destruction<br />and hypocrisy!Patriotinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-83879800437678776532012-03-08T16:38:54.698-05:002012-03-08T16:38:54.698-05:00What I know for sure is that I do not want to be a...What I know for sure is that I do not want to be associated with these sorts of Democrats, as illustrated by Blow and Collins, and will surely not be supporting any in this election.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-5849082115845210722012-03-08T15:11:08.018-05:002012-03-08T15:11:08.018-05:00(During the era of Walter and David, shit like thi...(During the era of Walter and David, shit like this couldn’t get into print. Crazy folk weren’t allowed through the door in those less democratic days. If you wanted to hear someone talking like this, you had to go down to the bar.) <br /><br />Wow, is this ever true. I find this scary and saddening.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-62407764042024921202012-03-08T14:28:32.261-05:002012-03-08T14:28:32.261-05:00I never read Collins anymore but I noticed the col...I never read Collins anymore but I noticed the column and was stunned even after the continually dag fantasy of these last months. I have no explanation, but I do know that apparently many people find this funny and revealing about Romney.<br /><br />Watch Blow call Romney "Mr. Roboto" opposite Collins today.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-9545181303546181792012-03-08T12:48:31.804-05:002012-03-08T12:48:31.804-05:00Collin's fixation on Romney's dog is truly...Collin's fixation on Romney's dog is truly bizarre. I wish it would stop.Quiddityhttp://uggabugga.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com