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"...more details on health money lavished on Ross..." Why bother.

The people of Ross' & Berry's districts don't care whether they're dying and/or going broke from their inadequate healthcare, just so long as their tax money doesn't go to help any blacks the HIAA & PhARMA bitches will have their votes as long as they're asked for them.

PS. I ain't real damn happy with my own St Vic's disappearing act during all this discussion.

At my blue name is another article in the NY Times that talks about how freshmen Democrats in the House are Blue Dogging and mini-Republicaning because they're afraid they'll be voted out of office if they don't fight Obama's plan. Oh....I see......millions of Americans must suffer and die because some young used car salesman Rep from a mostly Republican district is afraid to cast an offending vote.

So this whole health care reform thing will die just so some smarmy dude will keep his seat in the Congressional Lottery Game in DC. Now I understand....now I understand Mike Ross. This isn't about America...it's about Mike Ross. Hell....I should have learned that lesson from watching Blanche Lincoln & Mark Pryor. It's never about us down here in Arkansas....it's all about the care and feeding of Lincoln & Pryor. Mark Pryor didn't hang around the C Street Mafia for our benefit.....it was purely for Markie.

One thing for sure....in the future our grandchildren won't be bored with thick history books about gallant acts of Congressional statesmanship cause there won't be any to write about. Future Arkansas history books will have to rehash the sins & glories of the Brooks-Baxter War or little tiny David O. Dodd, who I swear has the same eyes as the baby Jesus, in order to generate some pages. Arkansas representatives in Congress haven't made any good news since Senator Fulbright lashed out against the Vietnam War. No, our grand kids won't have to waste their beautiful minds learning any recent Arkansas history worth knowing.

But I can rest well at night knowing our Reps in DC are safe in their seats and super well paid by outside interests. I'll be thinking about all that as I die in my soiled bed at home biting on my leather belt to forget about the pain and how my illness bankrupted my family. Or maybe I'll just crawl up in Mike Ross's yard to die. He won't be there, but I bet it will scare the hell out of his wife and kids.

Calling them Blue Dogs is an insult to canines everywhere.

How about Blue Turds?

From our mouths to God's ears: may that money do none of them a bit of good.

Unless they choose to donate it to the many children throughout the country who have no access at all to basic health care.

Blue Cross Democrats will not get reelected.

The CIA has compiled a list of countries and the life expectancies of their citizens at birth. At the top is Macau (People's Republic of China), with life expectancy of 84.36 years. Japan is third at 82.12 years. Of course, quality of "healthcare" is not the only determinant of life expectancy at birth, but it is interesting in light of all the nonsense about "socialized medicine" and "government-run healthcare" that Canada, France, and Sweden ranked 8th, 9th, and 10th, with 81.83, 80.98, and 80.86 years, respectively. J. Robert Godbout, a freelance writer Salon, comments, "The United States a.k.a. the country with the 'best healthcare in the world,' as many healthcare non-reformers call it, placed 50th on the list. As a country that is supposed to have the 'best healthcare in the world' - why are our citizens not living as long as the other 49 countries ahead of it? "

Clicky.

"PS. I ain't real damn happy with my own St Vic's disappearing act during all this discussion."

No shit.
He is a Doctor for Christ's sake and it seem like the crickets are chirping at his office....of course it could be that Ross's strange rise to national attention is sucking all the air out of our other Congress Critters.
Is he part of the progressive caucus?

Blue Turd Mikie, I like it. Thanks, SB66. BT Mikie is doing just what he is programmed to do: stall, stall, stall until recess. Keep the money coming in, BT Mikie, and keep yourself in office on the backs of the people in the 4th district without hopes of a public option and everyone (not almost everyone) having health care. Let's leave out BT Mikie and his family. They can pay for their own health care with the money he's getting from insurance companies.

The entire Congressional delegation is an embarrassment.

Yeah, if only Vic would display the same courage as he did when voting against the Iraq war. He worries more about the health of our soldiers than he does about the health of our children.

Maybe getting that great congressional health insurance has clouded his vision. If he had to live out here in the real world with real world insurance for those 4 kids of his, I think he'd see things differently. He would be on the edge of bankruptcy and losing his home. But that's not how they think over there in the wealthy part of Little Rock.

Just a bunch of cold hearted bastards....

"Blue Cross Democrats will not get reelected."

Regretful Breaking News for pistolPete . . . Ross and Berry WILL be reelected. No doubt about it.

Snyder needs to sign on to the letter at
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/documents/2009/07/57-house-progressives-say-no-compromise-on-public-option.php?page=1

Blue Turd Demos. Love it.

Blue Cross Demos...!

You guys are great label makers!

Yes, durango, they will get elected. They do such good work for Corporate Party Arkansas. Never fail to deliver no matter if its keeping them fuking U-yins at bay or keeping 'marginal' tax rates the lowest ever. Just so they make the Coon Supper or whatever, a watermelon feed now and then and the welfare payments flowing to corporate farms. Gotta be church goers too. No "Family' shizz for our boz.

Meanwhile the waiting rooms at the ERs grow more crowded, waits for care are averaging 8 hours, more Ark families will file medical bankruptcies, more industries outsourced to slave-labor nations. Corporate Party gonna take of U-ins. REALLY!

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Well Snapback, we are also the fattest, laziest, bring it to me bunch on earth. But our health care is the greediest bunch of profit driven blue-turds on earth. But the bottom line is it has got to be fixed, or the earth, as the bring it to me crowd, has got us to, will cease to exist.

Or as the Blue-Turds would say, I got mine, screw the rest of you!!!!!!!!!!!

Seem's Americonio can't get it all in one box on this subject. A Joe Mayhew contract negotiator for Labor. Once said The problem is the skyrocketing costs of health care, it's making, it harder and more difficult for employers to provide coverage. It was only 10 years ago he was representing groups in Connecticut, the costs they were asking labor for was two percent of policy expense about $10. a week. Didn't seem like a big deal. But here 10 years later they are asking for 15 to 20 percent. The labor market can not afford it any longer. It's time for health care reform. It has to happen now. Or the price's of products and goods is going to go through the ceiling.

It's about damn time!!!!

"Liberal Democrats threaten to reject House healthcare compromise"

"On Thursday, 57 of these liberals sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) warning that they would vote against any bill that contained the terms of the deal.

"We have compromised and we can compromise no more," an angry Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Petaluma) said at a raucous news conference outside the Capitol."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-health-overhaul31-2009jul31,0,2426079.story?page=1

Lynn Woolsey and Donna Edwards belong to the small number of "real" Democrats left the the House. In addition to being on the right side of the health care debate, they also resisted enormous pressure to vote for President Obama's expansion of the Afghan War.

Ok, enough complaining. I did it so can you.

The best way to reach Congressman Ross is:

El Dorado
(870) 881-0681
(870) 881-0683 Fax

Hot Springs
(501) 520-5892
(501) 520-5873 Fax

Pine Bluff
(870) 536-3376
(870) 536-4058 Fax

Prescott
(870) 887-6787
(870) 887-6799 Fax

Washington, D.C.
2436 Rayburn HOB
Washington, DC 20515

(202) 225-3772
1-800-223-2220
(202) 225-1314 Fax

Please let Congressman Ross know that Commonwealth report showing that a public-private plan (like HR 3200) will save $265 billion over ten years while a private-only plan will cost us an extra $32 billion.

Commonwealth report is on blue name.

I'm calling on Mike Ross and the other blue dogs now profiting from their opposition to universal health coverage to share this new-found wealth, particularly with the millions of poor families in the U.S. whose children lack access to basic, quality health care.

I feel sure these blue dog Democrats will want to put that money to good use. They're Democrats, after all, and most of them proudly profess to be ardent church-goers.

For my proposal, please click blue link.

THAT, eLwood, is why I love you. Thanks.

Plus the other thing.

I appreciate your suggestion to contact Mike Ross's office, too, elwood.

And since it occurs to me that, because I suggested contacting him, too, I was taking your idea and trying to move it in another direction, I wanted to note that I was composing my posting at 3:07 while you were posting yours at 3:06.

I didn't see your posting until mine had gone through. It's interesting synchronicity, that we were both posting at the same time on the same forum, each suggesting that Mike Ross's office be contacted.

Gee, are you really sure that politician's receive money from special interest groups? G O L L Y!!!!
Isn't it wonderful that the liberal politicans don't take money from special interest groups? Isn't it wonderful that they don't compromise themselves for campaign contributions? Isn't it wonderful that you just found out that democrats who don't tow the line might be influenced by someone other than voters! SHAZAAM!!!!!

Snyder is the only physician / attorney in Congress. Therefore, one of the smartest.

Now that everything's tabled until after the recess, everybody has more time to push their health-care agendae -- including the insurance lobby.

The "socialized medicine" fear mongers (Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats who're dependent on the insurance lobby) aren't tracking, despite MSM's best efforts. After the past 8 years of Bush, nobody trusts big business. Except, of course, Fox "News' " dwindling constituency.

So the longer this drags on, the better -- for getting truthful information out.

Snyder's better informed on all this than anybody in Congress. Yet he's been on deep background.

Watch for that to change dramatically.

I suggest we take a tip from the last 30 minutes of that always great movie, Oh Brother Where Art Thou? and run Mike Ross out of Arkansas on a rail! We don't have to wonder if he's taking money from Big Health Care.....his dirty cash is exposed like a nerve in a broken tooth.

Arkansas needs to join Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin in having the ability to recall our Senators & Representatives in Congress. Ross must go, he must go before he has a chance to ruin our chance to get health care reform. We've been waiting for this opportunity to come around since 1992. How many of us will be alive for a 3rd try in 2026? We can't let the enrichment of one man cause the suffering and death of millions of people over the next 17 years.

Or we could make a quick job of this by taking up a collection and out-buying Big Health Care for Mike Ross's services in Congress. It came out a while back that Saddam offered to step down as head cheese in Iraq if we would pay him 1 billion dollars. Seems like chicken feed next to the trillion we've spent on the War for Oil in Iraq so far...not to mention the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people including our own troops.

Let's just buy Mike Ross off. We know he has a price....let's trump big Health Care....get Ross to vote our way and then worry about impeaching him later. I'll start the ball rolling by offering 100 dollars to the Buy Mike Ross Fund. No more Blue Cross Democrats!

I'll up the ante, DBI, to $300.