If Rolland Burris filibusters the Senate Bill for lack of a Public Option

Is he worse than Dennis Kucinuch or worse than Hitler?

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/burris/1860330,burris-health-care-plan-public-option-110209.article

so i think he'd actually have more relevancy than DK.

and they are competing.

and I mean that in a chinese proverb kind of way.

I support this. The point of this is regualation and giving an actual option. I think this is fair.

Who did I leave out? :sarcasm:

helped start the Iraq quagmire.

He's a guy who may not run again. He's in because he replace the president. He's a career politician and he knows how to use his weight. He has the opportunity to force change now. So, no public option, then no bill. Why reward the big business that is killing our citizens?

Yes, forced corporatism IS worse than the status quo. Anybody who says it is not, is either paid to say that, or is simply fucking delusional.

There are many that would immediately benefit by the provisions in this bill.

Benefit from going to prison when they couldn't pay a corporate criminal for it?

Benefit from going to prison when they couldn't pay a corporate criminal for it?

For example, I will be running out of COBRA and can't get insurance on the open market because of pre-existing conditions. With reform, millions like me will have access regardless of pre-existing conditions and won't have to face recission.

In addition, there will be subsidies for those who can't pay? Did you look where you and your family fall on the chart?

Do you pay your taxes? Ever owe money to the IRS? Yes, they *can* throw you in jail, but show me the thousands of poor people they are throwing in jail for not paying taxes. The mandate will work much the same, targeting deliberate scofflaws.

Do you seriously think they are going to immediately round up thousands of people and throw them in jail?

The IRS is NOT a private corporation. THAT is one huge fucking difference. This would be corporate power enforced by the state. And a guy named Mussolini used to call that FASCISM. Right before he partnered up with some other dork with a funny mustache.

So he's not as bad as Hitler, but he's certainly a sociopath. This applies to everyone who said they would have voted No if theirs was the deciding vote.

20-40,000 people die in American each year due to no insurance, 90-110,000 die because our health care delivery system is not as efficient as France's. The bill makes progress towards alleviating both of those problems, so by extension, a vote to kill the bill is a vote to kill people. Alan Grayson was right about the Republicans being murderers, he just forgot to include Dennis Kucinich.

Dennis Kucinich is 1000 times the Democrat and public servant that your hero Spineless Harry could ever dream of being.

There's really no getting around it. I'm sorry.

If you asked Howard Dean how many people would die over the next decade if HR 3962 wasn't passed, he'd likely tell you tens if not hundreds of thousands. That's just reality.

Hundreds of thousands more people would be dead in the world in which health care reform isn't passed, and Kucinich said he would have made this a reality if he were the deciding vote. He's a sick individual, along with all the other Republicans and conservative Democrats that would have voted no as the deciding vote. Just as Ben Nelson and the Republicans have to live with weakening the social safety net in 2001 by passing Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy, Kucinich will have to live down his threat to kill thousands.

Kucinich doesn't care about the poor or the sick, he cares about his ego.

almost as good as the one of *.

BTW - I accidentily unrecorded. Sorry.

He's just another egomaniacal politician entirely uninterested in the poor and the sick. A cheap imitation of Nader's vainglorious and destructive late oeuvre.

You can talk.