Let’s Get Personal

Speaking of personal, Sebelius must be blushing from Rockefeller’s Guinness compliment: “Brilliant!”

I thought that Harkin was particularly effective with his commentary. His use of a letter from a farmer in his district was a good tactic. It typifies the problems that individual consumers have in the private insurance market.

But let’s get to the important part:
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Who were each of the gentlemen wearing?

I don’t know who Harkin is wearing, but as for what he is wearing, it’s the same kinds of white shirt / blue tie as Obama and Biden.

“Rockefeller’s son was uninsured for a time, until the senator and his wife found out and ordered him to get coverage.”

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I wonder if the family trust fund administrator is still unemployed for that faux pas

That’s my knee-jerk reaction to this post, too, but it’s worth noting that Kate Pickert has done a lot of really good reporting on this issue.
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I agree that this is substanceless, but this is just a blog post, it’s not a terrible thing.
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Not even sure we’re disagreeing about anything, Stuart, just wanted to make the point. Blog posts can be silly and fun sometimes.

Liberal though I may be… Rockefeller’s son was uninsured? They’re Rockfeller Rockefellers. They’re loaded. If any of them go uninsured it’s only because they can afford to pay out of pocket.

Here’s a personal story of Mike Enzi’s. He dodged the draft during Vietnam, then told the Casper Star Tribune in 2006 that the person who took his place didn’t fight long enough to win the war.
http://trib.com/news/local/article_95d3b321-4d47-5726-912d-2325a23fb6a9.html

The U.S. could have won the Vietnam War if we had stayed a little longer, Enzi said.
“We left the job too early,” Enzi said. “If we keep retreating, we’ll never win another war.”

A letter “allegedly” from a farmer.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/2/25/840658/-Quote-of-the-year:-Cantor:-…people-who-are-ALLEGEDLY-wronged-by-our-health-care-system…-VIDEO

Coburn just claimed that seniors don’t want to add to their children’s debt to close the donut-hole.
From what I have seen of this debate, seniors would sell all of us to the Chinese if they could get one of those a free scooters or an adjustable bed out of it. Then they would write letters to the editor and stomp around with tea bags taped to their hats complaining that we are spending to much money on Mandarin classes in High School.

Cantor is a douche. I’m surprised he hasn’t read letters from insurance companies crying about potential lost profits……

Ryan: start over. Skoal! Have a shot of Stoli yourself, Rep. Ryan; you’re taking this waaaay too seriously, esp. your own CBO numbers.

Sen Grassley babbles about Medicare Advantage plans: 75% to beneficiaries and benefits and 25% to the government — Looks like he’s having a “senior moment”

Elvis:
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I do see your point, but I’m actually responding to the awful, awful “smackdown, thrilla-in-manilla” framing that this is rapidly descending into.
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This is not Celebrity Deathmatch .

Grassley: “…rural …or even urban America.”
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Sarah, Sarah, no time is a good time for goodbyes….

Grassley rambles about protecting small businesses. Apparently he hasn’t really read the Senate bill:
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From the Kaiser Family Foundation comparison tool:
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Provide small employers with no more than 25 employees and average annual wages of less than $50,000 that purchase health insurance for employees with a tax credit.
Phase I : For tax years 2010 through 2013, provide a tax credit of up to 35% of the employer’s contribution toward the employee’s health insurance premium if the employer contributes at least 50% of the total premium cost or 50% of a benchmark premium. The full credit will be available to employers with 10 or fewer employees and average annual wages of less than $25,000. The credit phases-out as firm size and average wage increases. Tax-exempt small businesses meeting these requirements are eligible for tax credits of up to 25% of the employer’s contribution toward the employee’s health insurance premium.
Phase II : For tax years 2014 and later, for eligible small businesses that purchase coverage through the state Exchange, provide a tax credit of up to 50% of the employer’s contribution toward the employee’s health insurance premium if the employer contributes at least 50% of the total premium cost. The credit will be available for two years. The full credit will be available to employers with 10 or fewer employees and average annual wages of less than $25,000. The credit phases-out as firm size and average wage increases. Tax-exempt small businesses meeting these requirements are eligible for tax credits of up to 35% of the employer’s contribution toward the employee’s health insurance premium.
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http://www.kff.org/healthreform/sidebyside.cfm

Gee if he only went to Oxford to not inhale he could be President one day.

It’s not the draft dodging that makes Enzi a jerk. It is the playing armchair general years after the fact and Enzi pretending he didn’t have anything to do with when and how the war ended.
If good little war mongers like Enzi had been putting their butt’s on the line instead of letting the war get fought by kids who couldn’t skate out of it and had no horse in the race, maybe the war would have been “won” or lasted as long as Enzi was willing to keep fighting.

That’s right the war is over now. The press is harping about it in the press every day. The left isn’t protesting everywhere and calling the President a killer an drunning an illegal war. The NYT has stopped with its body count because no one is dying.

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Oops the war is still on and the left just ignores it now.

Last I checked Obama was, at least, nominally, the Commander-in-Chief, not Enzi. But Obama doesn’t ave time for that between campaign stops er I mean focusing like a laser on whatever thought floats into his head.

Politics and leanings aside, am I the only one who thinks Boehner or whatever his name is is a complete idiot? …. he just ranted and raved about issues that were already discussed in the meeting … it is like he wasn’t listening at all, he has made up his mind on what rubbish and he is going to go ahead whether it makes sense or not ….

Yep, Boehner’s an idiot of the highest order…….Captain Orange.

“…am I the only one who thinks Boehner or whatever his name is is a complete idiot?”
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No.

Is Boehner Agent Orange? At his own website, his biography page says upfront how to pronounce his name, no “boner” there, it’s “Bay-ner”.

Maybe they could have trotted out Al Gore (But he is probably trapped in by 12 inches of global warming) and he could shed a tear about how the family nearly lost all of their money paying medical bill for his sister who died of ling cancer. He could tell us how long and hard the family worked growing tobacoo… Never mind.

it is like he wasn’t listening at all, he has made up his mind on what rubbish and he is going to go ahead whether it makes sense or not ….
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He actually had his office issue a press release trashing the summit as a failure … in the middle of the summit.
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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/02/boehner-rips-health-care-plan-in-statement-sent-mid-summit.php?ref=fpa