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If we don't get a handle on healthcare it will destroy the economy. Joel Send a noteboard - 18/01/2010 06:01:18 PM
If a liberal bastion like Mass is up for grabs how much does that worry dems in red areas? Putting health care reform over correcting the economy may go down as one the great political blunders in modern American politics.

Not that this bill does squat for that, but things like that and the recent resurgence of TB (once thought eradicated) among the homeless is what that was (theoretically... ) about there. My bet is that the opposition to the healthcare bill in a state that elected Ted Kennedy for over 30 years is more from people who think they didn't get what they voted for than those who wanted no bill at all. I reckon we'll see in about ten months.
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Could the Dems really lose in Mass - Kennedy's seat? - 18/01/2010 03:19:29 PM 625 Views
to quote yogi berra: it ain't over till it's over - 18/01/2010 04:10:26 PM 214 Views
Oh, if Brown wins, I'm sure he will be out next election..... - 18/01/2010 04:28:05 PM 215 Views
it works both ways you know - 18/01/2010 04:37:40 PM 219 Views
I disagree... - 20/01/2010 04:11:15 AM 241 Views
Even if he loses and it is close I think it will scare a lot of democrats - 18/01/2010 04:15:03 PM 222 Views
You may be right on that last bit, unfortunately... *NM* - 18/01/2010 04:18:37 PM 99 Views
Agreed - blunder of epic proportions! *NM* - 18/01/2010 04:30:18 PM 101 Views
If we don't get a handle on healthcare it will destroy the economy. - 18/01/2010 06:01:18 PM 219 Views
It makes people question their priorities - 18/01/2010 08:17:16 PM 286 Views
Maybe they should. - 18/01/2010 09:47:11 PM 241 Views
You act like America is a collective - 18/01/2010 10:16:39 PM 298 Views
Is it? What are the Republicans offering for the non-insured? - 18/01/2010 10:20:42 PM 204 Views
Tort reform - 18/01/2010 10:33:01 PM 197 Views
purchase insurance across state lines - 18/01/2010 10:44:54 PM 198 Views
the dems don't see insurance companies as the enemy either - 18/01/2010 11:09:24 PM 201 Views
Exactly. - 19/01/2010 02:09:49 AM 308 Views
that simply proves they are inept - 19/01/2010 01:45:33 PM 200 Views
Of course they did nothing for the 6 years they controlled Congress. - 19/01/2010 12:39:44 AM 255 Views
That isn't true, my mother-in-law can now afford to buy her medicine - 19/01/2010 01:57:28 PM 281 Views
Curious about the last part. - 20/01/2010 12:05:40 AM 290 Views
There are some basic flaws in your argument - 20/01/2010 03:18:58 PM 202 Views
America, like all groups of people, IS a collective, however diverse. - 19/01/2010 02:02:24 AM 336 Views
but it doesn't think like a collective - 20/01/2010 03:25:29 PM 191 Views
Yes, I realize human beings are selfish; that's something to overcome, not embrace. - 20/01/2010 06:21:33 PM 185 Views
Human nature can not be overcome it can only be redirected - 20/01/2010 07:03:46 PM 198 Views
That's a bigger debate than politics. - 20/01/2010 10:42:02 PM 317 Views
I know who I'm voting for! - 18/01/2010 04:26:29 PM 243 Views
I'm starting to think..... - 18/01/2010 04:33:23 PM 227 Views
Certainly, he wouldn't stand a chance without protest votes. *NM* - 18/01/2010 04:45:37 PM 106 Views
That whole "filibuster-proof" concept was a lot more valid... - 18/01/2010 04:44:51 PM 290 Views
I have seen this argument elsewhere and I am not sure it makes sense - 18/01/2010 05:28:57 PM 280 Views
It does not make sense if it's used in a partisan way, that's true. - 18/01/2010 05:43:10 PM 307 Views
I think the fillibuster is with in the spirit and the law on the constitution - 18/01/2010 06:03:55 PM 282 Views
Fair enough. - 18/01/2010 10:00:16 PM 209 Views
Any argument made by Dowd is suspect from the start - 18/01/2010 10:39:28 PM 254 Views
They should keep making them actually filibuster, yes. - 18/01/2010 10:09:01 PM 373 Views
Fight the good fight, my man...er...dog! - 18/01/2010 05:48:08 PM 212 Views

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