Posts Made By: david elosser

What can I say except, I told you so. :S

"Even though I do not believe we can extend coverage to those who are here illegally..."

Wrong Mr Obama-Kennedy, you DO believe you should provide extended health benefits to illegal aliens.

"...I also don't simply believe we can simply ignore the fact that our immigration system is broken,..."

Wrong-o again Mr Obama-Kennedy. Our immigration system is not broken, it's simply not enforced. But that's what you want isn't it? So you can offer amnesty as THE solution. Hey, when some pharmaceutical company illegally advertises their product, why don't you just declare the system broken and just give them amnesty? An insurance company overcharging their customers and not paying out benefits? Hey just declare the system broken and give them amnesty.

"Mr. Obama said legalizing illegal immigrants is a way to take the sting out of the entire issue." "...Mr. Obama is signaling that those here illegally eventually will get access to taxpayer-funded benefits."

I have just one question. When you hand out blanket amnesty, will they be allowed to keep their stolen or fruadulent SSN, or will you have to issue them a new one?

David E

James C Chandler Jr said:

I hope the Tea Party folk are paying attention. Them leftist demonstrators in Pittsburgh are providing valuable free lessons on how to implement a halfway decent protest. Gotta have the requisites-- Noise, disturbance, trashed streets, property damage, broken glass and tear gas.

Yeah, all they need to be complete is for Nancy Pelosi to call them Nazis.

David E

Of course, I'm absolutely certain no one here thinks that tax will stop at just the "high end" insurance premiums. When that is not enough money (and you know it won't be) they'll lower the threshold bit by bit until all insurance premiums have a tax. Of course, Pelosi's plan will immediately lower everyone's health care costs.


And it don't rain in Indianapolis in the summer time.

David E

Noted your source. Let the stoning begin.

David E

I like your proposal better.

David E

Mel Maki said:
What's wrong with having the actual language online for a couple of days before voting?

What's wrong with it? The American people find out what's in the bill before they ram it up our rears, THAT'S WHAT'S WRONG WITH IT!

David E

This article is a bit convoluted, full of contradictions and missing information. For example:
"An Associated Press-GfK poll says 56 percent of those surveyed in the past week approve of Obama's job performance, up from 50 percent in September." Okay, that's fine. But a few paragraphs later they state that six out of ten Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction! A contradiction? You bet! And the very title of this article is a bit convoluted: "Obama's job approval rises amid concerns".

I usually take media-generated polls with a grain of salt. We do not know what the breakdown of the polling sample is. AP only reports it as 1003 people surveyed over a five-day period. Did AP give extra weight to Democrats in their overall numbers? I don't know but we all know that is a favorite tactic of media pollsters (CNN had the most recent example during Obama's address to the nation's school children.) Also, I have a problem with the fact that this was taken over a 5 day period. We have no way of knowing how they coordinated (or manipulated) the polling data from day to day.

As an example of what I'm talking about, the daily Gallup Poll does indeed show a bump in Obama's rating around Oct 1st similar to AP claims. However, by the 5th the numbers had dropped back down again:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx

Another interesting poll: "Of note is the steep decline in approval among Democrats, who appear to be souring on the job Congress is doing despite the fact that their party controls both the House and the Senate." (Patrick!)

http://www.gallup.com/poll/123491/Approval-Congress-Falls-21-Driven-Democrats.aspx

Bottom line, Obama's approval numbers are never going to be straight-line: they will go up and down a bit. The trend though, is clearly downward when viewed over a historical context since January.

David E

Thomas Holst said:

...then "bombs" the Moon. Go figure.

And Russia:


"Moscow and Washington are now holding talks so Russia can "understand the configuration" of the new missile defence system, Lavrov said, but he added that reports of some US proposals were raising eyebrows in Moscow.
He said a recent US report that the United States might include Ukraine in its missile defence plans was "rather unexpected."

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.b7e17999d24b623dab177751add0db63.441&show_article=1

David E

Mike Strieber said:
Just some commentary coming from a 27 year veteran, who has been accused of being a warmonger here, one who typically does not support Obama's policies, and most importantly...works everyday with the men and women fighting in both Afghanistan and Iraq. It just might be time to bring them home….from the longest war in American history.
Mike

We have the best military in the world. They do not loose. Our wars are lost in Washington, not on the battlefield.

David E

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

"Just 31% of voters believe that Congress has a good understanding of the health care proposal."

"Overall, 47% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. Fifty-three percent (53%) disapprove."

"Support for the health care plan proposed by the President and Congressional Democrats is down to 42%. Fifty-four percent (54%) are opposed."

"Thirty-nine percent (39%) of Republicans have a favorable opinion of their party’s national chairman, Michael Steele."

David E