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indictrichardperle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-03 07:07 PM
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OMG : another Lieberman outrage
(speaking on C-Span, moderator Bill Press) Holy Joe proclaimed in response to the large number of uninsured Americans "The era of big government is over"...and .........."for the un-employed poor i am all for giving them a chance to buy into medicaid"

Did you catch that last part folks? Hed give the unemployed poor "a chance to buy into" medicaid. :grr:
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orangecoloredapple Donating Member (290 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-03 07:11 PM
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1. I don't know how privileged his life has been
but he doesn't understand basic economics if he'll allow people who are broke to buy into health care.

If only I had been born so far away from the real world, and didn't have to concern myself with worrying about getting by.

Who elected this fool to the Senate in the first place?
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DrBB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-03 07:17 PM
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5. "Who elected this fool to the Senate in the first place?"
The insurance companies, the high-end finance and accounting firms.

--Oh, you mean which voters?

Ha ha ha.

Ha ha ha ha ha.

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bodhisattava Donating Member (98 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-03 10:47 PM
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15. Coming from CT his whole life has been one
of shilling for the insurance companies
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-03 07:11 PM
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2. Methinks he indeed wants his ass kicked n/t
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cthrumatrix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-03 07:14 PM
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3. why pay attention to this fool.....
he's bought and paid for...nothing but a mouthpiece for corporations
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WillyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-03 07:14 PM
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4. He Has Not A Clue !!!
Hey Joe, get your head out of your banking\insurance industry sphincter!!!

The LAST thing an unemployed poor person is gonna spend money on, is a health plan. It's cheaper to buy and administer your own anesthesia, ya know???

What an idiot!!!

:grr::mad::puke:
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Wonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-03 07:17 PM
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9. not a clue

but at least he is clearer to read than some of the others... No reading between the lines necessary.
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ThorsteinVeblen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-03 07:17 PM
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6. Fuck that guy
No, really, fuck him.
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DemLikr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-03 08:11 PM
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12. Um...how about YOU fuck him, Thorstein.
the thought of porkin' ol' holy joe sort of grosses me out. He's all yours.
:puke:
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burr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-03 11:34 PM
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16. Why bother, he does it to himself everytime he opens his mouth?
:shrug:
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donco6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-03 07:17 PM
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7. Why doesn't he just officially change designations.
At least he'd be more honest calling himself a Republican.
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JanMichael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-03 07:17 PM
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8. Do the outrages never cease with these people?!
No. They don't.

We either stop them or roll over to their dictates.

My choice is to stop them in their tracks.
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-03 08:07 PM
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10. He must be channelling Marie Antoinette
"Let them buy healthcare". Splendid idea. Can't afford the bus? Buy a car. Can't afford rent? Buy a house. Won't let you into the country club? Start one of your own.

Such insightful thinking deserves to be enshrined in the Republican Hall of Fame right up there with, "Ketchup is a vegetable." and, "Compassionate Conservatism".
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LondonReign2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 08:21 AM
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22. And "Trees Cause Pollution"
n/t
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liberalhistorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-03 08:10 PM
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11. Is he really that clueless and heartless?
Does he have ANY idea at all the stupidity of what he said? Does he have ANY idea at all what it's like not to have access to and/or money to pay for even basic health care? But of course not, he's a senator, which means he has the best health plan in the country that he doesn't have to pay a dime for, so the hell with everyone else!
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Nobody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-03 08:19 PM
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13. Mark Dayton had the right idea
A few weeks ago, Mark Dayton proposed that health care coverage for citizens should equal the health care coverage for senators.

A lot of senators were outraged that Mark Dayton was talking about cutting their bennies. No. He was talking about increasing the bennies for everyone else.

What is it about some people that they can't stand the idea that everyone have the basics. And health care coverage is a basic.
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northernsoul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:12 AM
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27. he called it the "Taste of Our Own Medicine" plan
that Dayton is one fine human being! Too bad he's possibly one of the worst public speakers to hold a senate seat, I'm afraid that's going to be a liability for him.
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-03 08:21 PM
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14. um you guys are just being unfair
if this was a different democrat offering all these very non-democratic approaches to solve problems, you wouldn't be so hard on him. {\Sarcasm}
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jos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 07:48 AM
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17. But how different is he from Clinton?
After all, it was Clinton who declared that the era of "big government" was over at his second inagural.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 08:12 AM
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18. Where is the Dem Filter??? Why is this guy still around ??
Toast, he is toast.
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indigo32 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 08:18 AM
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21. I suppose he's not
Edited on Tue Aug-12-03 08:18 AM by indigo32
in that sense. Though Clinton was far more charismatic. That still doesn't make it acceptable to me, if can have any say about it at all, and luckily the elections aren't over.
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Loonman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 08:13 AM
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19. Well that's mighty nice of him
Get out of town, Joe, nobody cares about what you have to say.
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dusty64 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 08:14 AM
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20. I wish joe would
just go away. I guess we should let him piss away his corporate dollars cause his campaign is not going anywhere, but I wish someone would stuff a sock in his mouth. On the bright side he is making a lot of other candidates look pretty good. Does anyone think after he drops out he will support the nominee or we he run around undercutting them at every turn?
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Snellius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 08:28 AM
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23. Is Joe Lieberman a Republican mole?
After blowing the election debate with Cheney (that's the guy who Joe, without a word, let get away with "My company has never gotten any government help.") and especially, that fateful Sunday morning on Russert's show, after conceding the illegal overseas ballots in Florida to Bush, there is every reason to believe that, if Joe Lieberman is not in the direct pay of the RNC, he is doing everything in his power to insure its success.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 08:37 AM
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24. Lieberman plays for the Washington Gonorrheals.
His mission seems to be to make the Bushoilini Globesquatters look "good" by taking a dive.
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northernsoul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:14 AM
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28. I've ben suspicious of the same for quite a while now
And of course, the corollary question now is: If Joe gets the Democratic nomination should we consider the fix to officially be in and the 2004 elections a complete farce?
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nn2004 Donating Member (172 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 08:39 AM
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25. Meanwhile, if nominated, everyone here would pull his lever
Am I mistaken?
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jos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:39 AM
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29. Yes you are
Big time:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=165092
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Noordam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 08:44 AM
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26. Why does the DLC love this Repug in Dem clothes
<\dumbass question>


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