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Bush Looks at New Health Care Initiative, Advisers Say
NY Times ^
| January 17, 2004
| ELISABETH BUMILLER and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Posted on 01/17/2004 4:43:41 AM PST by dread78645
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To: dread78645
Take another issue away from the dems. < /sarc >
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posted on
01/17/2004 4:45:55 AM PST
by
dread78645
(Sorry Mr. Franklin, We couldn't keep it.)
To: dread78645
You just don't understand the political genius of it all, we defeat our enemy by becoming him. BOHICA
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posted on
01/17/2004 4:51:11 AM PST
by
steve50
("There is Tranquility in Ignorance, but Servitude is its Partner.")
To: dread78645
White House officials have made clear that they do not want to cede the politically potent issue of health care to the Democratic All politics, all the time.
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posted on
01/17/2004 4:51:50 AM PST
by
RJCogburn
("Hooray for the man from Texas!"........Mattie Ross of near Dardenelle in Yell County)
To: dread78645
Many of the uninsured are illegal aliens and their families.
To: dread78645
My L-rd.
I voted for GW Bush and I got Hillary Clinton.
I want my f***ing vote back.
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posted on
01/17/2004 4:56:01 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(New York City has always been, and always will be, America's switchblade.)
To: dread78645
Well, I guess I can drop my insurance at work - i'll be covered by other taxpayers. Shoot, I don't even need to work anymore! THanks W!
To: steve50
... we defeat our enemy by becoming him. Yeah, I bet you're right. That's what happens when I read more Carl von Clausewitz than Sun Tzu ...
;->
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posted on
01/17/2004 5:15:18 AM PST
by
dread78645
(Sorry Mr. Franklin, We couldn't keep it.)
To: dread78645
Like it or not, this is going to happen anyway. In fact, it's already happening - do you really think the lower income uninsured are paying for their own health care? No, you already are, probably through your city or state taxes.
I'd like to see something setting up insurance funds, requiring at least a minimal contribution from the users (which, if they couldn't pay, private charities could cover).
In any case, here's hoping it's not just a Hillary Clinton total care look-alike. I doubt that it is, so I think I'll wait to hear the details before getting outraged.
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posted on
01/17/2004 5:18:50 AM PST
by
livius
To: dread78645
But White House officials have made clear that they do not want to cede the politically potent issue of health care... ...or immigration, or CFR, or socialism.
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posted on
01/17/2004 5:24:17 AM PST
by
Djarum
To: dread78645
Somebody jail this a-hole before he spends the entire GDP on being on his re-election.
When is this insane punderous raid on the treasury going to end?
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posted on
01/17/2004 5:26:11 AM PST
by
AAABEST
To: Howlin
I know you're compiling a list of the names of FReepers critical of Bush's liberal Democrat agenda so you can "hunt them down one by one" if Bush ends up in exile at his Crawford ranch next year. Here's a few more names for your list.
Let me suggest an easier, more efficient revenge strategy. This is Bush's election to lose, and if he does lose it will be because Rove miscalculated the number of crossover Democrat votes Bush could pick up while by abandoning his base. If Bush ends up in early retirement next year, I will mail you my old combat boots. You can put them on, find Rove, and kick his nether cheeks up around his ears (I mean figuratively, of course--but just barely).
To: AAABEST
My #11 is a masterpiece in a horrible paragraph. Typo, bad grammar, spelling errors the works
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posted on
01/17/2004 5:29:47 AM PST
by
AAABEST
To: dread78645; steve50; RJCogburn; Lazamataz; Principled; livius; Djarum
Bush is a consummate politician who is sewing up votes every way he can. Will he pander shamelessly or will he lead with courage? Unknown at this point. Bush could go either way.
As distasteful as this might be to many on the right, lack of health insurance will be the major issue of the rat party in 2004 (and in the 2008 Hillary campaign for sure). I mean, what do the rats really have left as an issue?
Bush is doing the Republicans a major favor by bringing up the issue now. The Pubbies will have to face this problem at some point, sooner or later. Better now on the Republicans' terms, than facing Hillary and her endless army of media winged monkeys all screaming and raving to a frightened public.
My only prayer is that I hope Bush will lean heavily on Medical Savings Accounts (IRA structured health insurance, personally controlled) and massive tort reform. It has been clearly shown that the money wasted on the trial lawyers could easily pay for health care for the uninsured in the US!
I hope this is not going to be another "Republican" mega-pander festival. I was not particularly worked up about Bush's immigration proposal, I didn't think it was too bad. The bogus Campaign reform law is a 1st Amendment horror show. So Bush could go either way. I wonder?
To: Kevin Curry; Howlin
I know you're compiling a list of the names of FReepers critical of Bush's liberal Democrat agenda so you can "hunt them down one by one" if Bush ends up in exile at his Crawford ranch next year. Here's a few more names for your list. Did you say this? Please tell me no.
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posted on
01/17/2004 5:36:10 AM PST
by
AAABEST
To: AAABEST
I don't know. The word "punderous" appeals to me. I don't know what it means, but it has a certain style and swagger.
To: Djarum
I voted for GW Bush and I got Hillary Clinton.
Does GW wear a drag in private? I want my vote back too.
Then again, Gore would have been a real prize. I could probably put on a blindfold, walk into any crowded shopping mall, select anyone at random, and still come up with a better president then either of these guys. Where do they dredge up these treasonous imbred morons?
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posted on
01/17/2004 5:37:50 AM PST
by
ARCADIA
(Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
To: livius
Yeah, right. It's just like rape. Just lay back and enjoy it. Don't fight. It just takes away from the experience.
This "political genius" of a president of ours has to realize pretty soon that by licking the a$$ of every constituent but his base, he WILL lose the election. And especially if he signs the AW ban extension.
Buh bye, George. It was(n't) nice knowing ya.
To: AAABEST
Of course I wrote it. It was intended as a sarcastic comment on Howlin's misguided outrage. I don't know how you took it.
To: Kevin Curry; Howlin
Gee, Kevbo, leave the drug stuff and you make sense.
I think that while Bush may not loose that many votes from conservatives....'where else they gonna go?'is the thinking, he is more likely to have a whole lot less enthusiasm from that quarter. I don't see too many doing the broken glass thing this time.
And why should we? He simply has not governed as a conservative.
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posted on
01/17/2004 5:40:59 AM PST
by
RJCogburn
("Hooray for the man from Texas!"........Mattie Ross of near Dardenelle in Yell County)
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