My oh my was his press conference interesting this morning. Scott Brown defeated Martha Coakley last night in Massachusetts to win Sen. Ted Kennedy’s seat and he did it on the premise that health care reform needs to be killed.
Well, guess what?
(OMG! This is too much! I’m so excited to tell you teabaggers this!)
He basically said (paraphrasing but pretty close) in his press conference this morning after last night’s election based on giving ‘Obamacare’ a big ole slap: “Here in Massachusetts I’m proud to say, we have 98% of our state insured. It needs improvement but we know how to fix it. As you know health care is my issue and I was the only republican out of 5 in the state Senate to vote in favor of our current health care plan, but what I think needs to be done in our (Massachusetts’) case is we should have the opportunity for the government to help supplement our insurance. We or each state should have this choice”.
Say wha?
Scott Brown is saying the government is useful when it comes to health insurance and making sure Americans have a government option or choice or supplemental or all three?
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bah hahahahahahahahaha! Of course, the teabaggers will say, “But Kay! what Scott Brown is saying is that it’s up to the states to decide if they want government help or not” to which I will say, “Yes maybe, but he’s saying for Massachusetts he would like for the GOVERNMENT to be there for them!”.
Oh, and did I tell you he said this too: “We’re past campaign mode: I think it’s important for everyone to get some form of healthcare…”
Oh boy. Bah hahahahahahaha! I thought you right wingers elected the guy who will kill health care reform because he’s ‘just like you’? Bah hahahahaha! Ummmmmm….
I’m not the only one who caught this response today. Over on Reason.com, a post was done asking the same thing: What Sort of Health Care Reform Does Scott Brown Actually Support? It’s a doozy of a question, but wouldn’t it be funnier than hell if Scott Brown ends up being the 60th vote in the Senate so his colleagues couldn’t filibuster health care reform?
*smaking hand over my mouth so I don’t laugh too loud and wake the horses up the street*
FBI is going after Medicaid fraud! Woohoo!….
http://washingtondc.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/wfo012010.htm
This is how our country will save money (the republicans laughed at this idea!) on these social programs….by cracking down on the fraud (not the $7 stuff….but the companies who charge for things they didn’t do etc etc etc to the tune of millions!)!
Good for the Obama Administration. I hope the FBI continues this.
Tooooooo Funny, K. I’m afraid he might just be really stupid and doesn’t know what he said. I’m sure Mitch McConnell rang him up on his cell phone minutes after that press conference and said “whaaaaaa?”
Jim, can you believe it? I’m so glad a few others online heard what I heard him saying. Seriously…..the quote near the end of my post is word for word. He thinks everyone should have some form of health care. THE TEABAGGERS ARE GOING TO HATE HIM! You watch. Of course, they will all say, “You voted for Obama because he’s good looking, has charisma, and you just got so caught up in him you weren’t paying attention at all!”………..and look….THEY DID IT ALL IN A WEEK WORTH OF TIME! LOL Too funny.
I got a good night’s sleep and feel energized today! Love it.
You mean I don’t get a high priced “scooter” to run to the mailbox or a new spa bathtub with a door? I have my diabetes supplies shipped to my door as Medicare now will pay 100% for mail order which Aetna won’t supplement if I drive to CVS pharmacy for some reason. I also told (when asked) the medical supply company I am on a CPAP machine and now they want to send me a new expensive mask every three months and many nose pillows in between and I don’t need them! The mask I have now I’ve had for two years! They say I need them replaced OFTEN for “hygienic” purposes but I do know how to use soap and water!
I also got some New Balance walking shoes with special insoles made from a form of my feet. They billed Medicare about $200 but now the podiatrist wants me to get a new pair every 3 months, now! It’s not like I run marathons every weekend. I am not paying attention to these health hucksters as I don’t feel like charging other taxpayers for items I don’t really need.
I do think there is a lot of fraudulent healthcare practices out there.
Now Harry Reid wants to wait until Scott Brown is sworn in before the Senate proceeds with health reform, you know just like the Republicans bent over backwards for Democrats between 1995 and 2007.
I am getting so tired of this desire to “play nice” with folks who want to stab you in the back. Lanny Davis is on The ED Show says we need to continue to be BI-Partisan!!! Gag me with a spoon!
I’m with ya Grant! Playing nice with vicious disgusting dogs is not the way to get things done! Nonetheless, wouldn’t it be funny if Scott Brown ends up being the exact opposite on health care that the teabaggers who voted him in thought him to be? I think so!
I purposely didn’t watch news shows this morning, it would have just pissed me off I’m sure. That Jane Hamsher needs to go down, no pun intended. I went over and read her post last night and she sure is a republican, isn’t she. I also saw the clip Grant typed about when she was agreeing with the FreedomWorks guy, unbelievable.
Lanny Davis, former worker for Hillary in the primary, and currently treasurer for Joe Lieberman’s Reuniting Our Country PAC, told Ed Schultz with a straight face that we should continue to reach out to John McCain and Olympia Snowe! Of course Davis continued to support Lieberman after he became an Independent. Wonder IF Democrats like Davis actually in their heart of hearts are hoping for Obama to fail. Axedrod even said “IF Obama chooses to run in 2012″ which threw me for a loop!
6:18 minutes into interview at:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/#34962467
Hillary running again? Was there a “deal” made with the Clintons??? I am about ready to register as an “Independent” myself as tiring of mamby pambies like Axelrod and Davis.
The Lanny Davis interview:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/#34963837
Wow Grant! President Obama has said that if this is his only term he’d be fine with that. It does make you wonder if he said to Hillary back along that she could be the candidate in 2012. After what I’ve seen of her at the State Department I would be inclined to vote for her now….well….as long as Obama wasn’t running.
Jim, Lame Jane’s post last night were pitiful. Apparently, she’s a typical republican because she’s blaming everyone but herself! What an ass she is.
I think Hillary may have bigger balls than Obama! Good editorial in Truthout that Obama needs to listen to one of Molly Ivins favorite Texas adages, “You got to dance with them that brung you!”
http://www.truthout.org/president-obama-remember-who-your-friends-are56226
Marc Ash, founder of Truthout writes this morning:
Grant, I’ve been thinking to myself that Obama would be wise to not run again. The MSM who tries to tie everything to polls and process wouldn’t know WTF to do. It would take all the wind out of Hamsher’s sails….her real goal is to prove that Hillary should have been president.
I’ve been trying to find FDL archives from during the election but so far I haven’t been able to, unless I click “next entries” about a thousand times.
Dan Kennedy writing for London’s The Guardian says it should be no more “Mr. Nice Guy” TRYING to reach across the aisle to Republicans:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/jan/20/obama-brown-massachusetts-senate
What the election looks like to a liberal Brit:
Obama’s attempts to find compromise solutions did not stop Republicans from labelling him as a radical – or their nutty tea-party allies from calling him a “socialist” and worse. And, in retrospect, that was going to happen no matter what he did. His real problem has been that, to his supporters, he looked as though he’d been sucked into the very system he was elected to reform.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/jan/20/obama-brown-massachusetts-senate
Two postings in a row blocked. Jim, never understood why Obama wanted the thankless job of cleaning up Bush/Cheney crap in the first place.
Really, Grant, who needs that crap. I continue to support him because he stepped up to the plate to try, I give him major credit for getting in that rat infested cess pool to begin with. We can all monday morning quarterback whether he’s approached the job correctly, but of course it’s really easy to do sitting in our comfortable houses typing at the computer.
Robert Reich has a composed assessment of the Brown victory on his blog today:
http://robertreich.org/post/344459321/what-scott-browns-victory-really-means