So Many Outrages, So Little Time

[filkertom]

I think we could go on for days and days about the Senate health care compromise, including the fact that Joe Lieberman is apparently going to join the Republican filibuster against it -- can't have them common folk gettin' something they need, and all that, ya might take profit from somebody we go to parties with or somethin' -- but there is one glorious bit of sunshine today, truly a defining (in the dictionary sense) moment of right-wing fucktardedness.

You might've heard that, last week, Rush Limbaugh and others got pranked. The gist of it is, a satirical site made up a phony thesis that Barack Obama had supposedly written in college, and Rush believed it. And then it was exposed as a hoax, while he was still on the air Friday.

Well, here's what Rushbo said about it:

So we stand by the fabricated quote because we know Obama thinks it anyway.

I would say "you can't make this stuff up", but obviously you can.

Thoughts on any and all of this? Political open thread. Please keep it civil.

Comments

[ebenbrooks.livejournal.com]

As much as health insurance needs to be reformed, I am against the bill in its current form. Why? Because, starting in 2013, it will mandate insurance for everyone. People will have to buy some kind of health insurance plan or face a stiff penalty. I blogged about it here: http://ebenbrooks.livejournal.com/295484.html

Mandatory coverage is WRONG. But no one's talking about it. All the debate has been on the public option, which I strongly support, but no one mentions the fact that, should this bill pass, the insurance companies are going to get millions of involuntary customers.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I know. The idea that you have to buy insurance or you will be fined is beyond insane. People who can't afford insurance can't afford the fines either.

[catlin.livejournal.com]

Last time I did the math, this current bill may very well ruin my husband and I. Our through work insurance is 700 a month. BCBS wanted to charge us over 800 a month... eight years ago. I can't imagine with it would be now, if employers no longer cover part of the cost. And at that "low" cost, the government will not help pay for it, even though 700 a month at our income bracket is crippling. The fine is less damaging then the insurance.

[singingpatient.livejournal.com]

they are doing this in massachusetts and from what i hear people are not happy with it.
i wish we could just pass tiny bills with only one thing on it. e.g., public option, nothing else; insurance companies can't drop people once they get sick, nothing else. and so on.