what could go wrong

[Anonymous]

Let me get this straight.

Obama's health care plan will be
written by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it,
passed by a Congress that hasn't read it,
signed by a president who smokes,
funded by a treasury chief who did not pay his taxes,
overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and
financed by a country that is nearly broke.

What possibly could go wrong?

[Anonymous]

The republicans could be running the country.

[Anonymous]

Amen! At least he is trying.

[Anonymous]

Well, given that the previous president invaded the wrong country, at least he is addressing a problem which really exists!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Let me get this straight.

Obama's health care plan will be
written by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it,
passed by a Congress that hasn't read it,
signed by a president who smokes,
funded by a treasury chief who did not pay his taxes,
overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and
financed by a country that is nearly broke.

What possibly could go wrong?

Did Rush write this?

[Anonymous]

Well, this is America. Land of opportunity for all.

[Anonymous]

When Bush was in, we of liberal tendencies made our own digs at the President. As they go, this one is less malicious and a bit more relevant and witty than many, so, OP, my response is to chuckle and give you a pat on the back.

[Anonymous]

Bush would have looked health care in the eye and gotten a sense of its soul.

Then Cheney would have sent that soul off to a secret prison in an undisclosed location.

Halliburton contractors would be put in the soul's place, and they would be immunized from prosecution for actions taken to stabilize health care in the middle of such an extreme national emergency.

Once the Halliburton people finished banning all the things that needed banning, they would complete the reorganization of HHS. It would either become a part of HHS or DOE.

The first act of the new health czar would be to start a national initiative to develop a vaccine for smallpox. Public health officials would cry out that this is the wrong virus, but the government would push forward anyway.

By now all our kids, unvaccinated and sick with the swine flu, would be going to the Exxon Minute Clinic, where the copays would occasionally jump from $20 to $140. (Cheney would smile out of one corner of his mouth at this). We could fill our prescriptions at the pharmacy, but most of us would just buy pils off late night television infomercials because they say they cure anything, and because it's all we can afford. But we would NOT buy anything from Canada. You can't trust those people.

Those people of means would avoid this mixing with the rabble and go to the sparking new concierge medicine facility at their local country club. They would pay in cash but that's just okay for them, plus the kids get free MRI's on their birthdays.

But to entertain the discontented public, they would offer televised hangings of malpractice attorneys. Fox would cover them all.

And our health care would forever be at threat level orange.

[Anonymous]

Oh snap, 10:02!

[Anonymous]

Typo: Should read DHS or DOE

[Anonymous]

I miss Bush-the country had high GDP and low unemployment and no threat of government take over of private business, healthcare and more czars than Russia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I miss Bush-the country had high GDP and low unemployment and no threat of government take over of private business, healthcare and more czars than Russia.

Oh yeah, everything was peachy keen until January! Here is what Bush himself had to say about it: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/24/bush.bailout/index.html#cnnSTCVideo

Good times!

[Anonymous]

Yes in fact very good times. The only problem was the Democrats getting control of the house and ruining the housing industry. My only problem with Bush is that he caved during the last few months and he should have stuck to his principles and let the free market work. Now we have government attempting to run everything which is a disaster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes in fact very good times. The only problem was the Democrats getting control of the house and ruining the housing industry. My only problem with Bush is that he caved during the last few months and he should have stuck to his principles and let the free market work. Now we have government attempting to run everything which is a disaster.

Obama is trying to solve messy problems. It contributes nothing to snipe at the fact that it's hard to solve messy problems. For example, I don't know whether cooperatives are a good substitute for a public option, but at least the idea is a contribution to the debate, whereas "government attempting to run everything" is like "death panels", just a weapon of mass distraction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes in fact very good times. The only problem was the Democrats getting control of the house and ruining the housing industry. My only problem with Bush is that he caved during the last few months and he should have stuck to his principles and let the free market work. Now we have government attempting to run everything which is a disaster.

Oh yeah. Let's look at the timeline:

2006 Housing prices start to decline.
January 2007 the Democrats regain the House
April 2007 New Century Financial Corp (major subprime lender) files Chapter 11
June 2007 Moody's downgrades companies with subprime exposure
July 2007 Countrywide and Bear Stearns start their death spiral
August 2007 American Home Mortgage Files Chapter 11
October 2007, S&P 500 begins its decline.
By October of 2007, 16% of mortgages are 90 days past due or in foreclosure.
January 2008 Countrywide gets merged into B of A.

So either Nancy Pelosi is the fastest working person in the history of Congress, or the housing bust was in the works long before the Democrats retook the house.