Senate Leader Takes Risk Pushing Public Insurance Plan

[Knowing]

Yes!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/healt ... nted=print

In pushing to include a government-run health insurance plan in the health care bill, the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, is taking a calculated gamble that the 60 members of his caucus could support the plan if it included a way for states to opt out.

[silkworm]

就是的。
那天不还有人讽刺么，Olympia Snowe跟民主党一条心了，yeah，bi-partisan大获成功！

[Jun]

if it included a way for states to opt out.

I like this. Please let states like South Carolina and Arizona and Texas opt out.

[Knowing]

Texas should become independant country. They will do such much better by themselvse. And we will not have to worry about having another republican president for a while

[豪情]

如果德州独立了, 我要考虑搬过去.
其实加洲稍为保守一点的都搬NV, FL, AZ, CO去了吧.

[Knowing]

你搬吧，我等着看你哭着喊着回加洲. 大部分你认为加州比西雅图差的地方：太阳大，天气热, 没绿色，不下雨，太干，公司里白男当道。。。。德洲通通是加洲的一百倍。西雅图比加洲不如的地方, 德州比西雅图更不好 -- 工资更低，产业更单调。唯一的好处就是地方大，生活便宜－－你有钱都没处花，天天吃牛排。

[豪情]

我怕哪天加州来个PROP WHATEVER加入墨西哥去. 墨西哥人已经是主流了.
华州入加拿大的话我倒没意见.

[Jun]

我怕哪天加州来个PROP WHATEVER加入墨西哥去. 墨西哥人已经是主流了.

Texas has just as many if not more Mexicans. In fact, Texas was part of Mexico until not very long ago.

[豪情]

加州也一样吧, 过去也是墨西哥一部分. 至少德州不动不动搞全民公投.
我一直算LIBERAL也倾向民主党的, 来了加州看到地方政治和公共服务搞的这么烂, 实在是受不了了.

[Knowing]

人多的地方公共服务当然没人少的地方弄的好。要怪只能怪加洲气候好就业机会多对移民友好大家都爱去。你为什么去啊, 还不是工作机会多嘛。

[豪情]

都是来掏金/打工的, 没人想把它弄好. 跟东莞工业区一样, 捞完就走, 谁也不想真住下来.等好光景一过, 就是死城.

[Jun]

I hate California too. And I am as liberal as you get. Perhaps even more so than xiao K.

California is not a normal place. It's neither Democrat nor Republican. It's just insane.

Don't get me started.

[Knowing]

都是来掏金/打工的, .

starting from you. you have been planning to move away the minute you arrive

[simonsun]

I hate California too. And I am as liberal as you get. Perhaps even more so than xiao K.

California is not a normal place. It's neither Democrat nor Republican. It's just insane.

Don't get me started.

So far SF has been good to me... Guess the bad days are yet to come

[Jun]

You should be OK as long as you don't get into the real estate market.

[Knowing]

I hate California too. And I am as liberal as you get. Perhaps even more so than xiao K.

Huh? What do you mean by "perhaps"? I don't think there is any doubt you are much much much more liberal than I am. I don't even consider myself democrat.

[Jun]

I hate California too. And I am as liberal as you get. Perhaps even more so than xiao K.

Huh? What do you mean by "perhaps"? I don't think there is any doubt you are much much much more liberal than I am. I don't even consider myself democrat.

What are you talking about? Democrats are supposed to be liberal? Not these days. Not the Democratic president. Not the Senate majority leader. Not the chair of the Senate Finance Committee. Not all those blue dogs.

[Knowing]

I know! I am pissed! I supported Obama because I thought he was a secret liberal communist!

[dropby]

通过了呀。怎么没人评点一下？

[Knowing]

It only passed congress, not senate. Senate will be a real fight.

[simonsun]

通过了也还要等个好几年才开始。到时候帅哥下台佩林上台，哼唧⋯⋯

[Jun]

到时候帅哥下台佩林上台，哼唧⋯⋯

Wouldn't that be a huge amount of fun?

[Knowing]

I want to make Obama the king. With absolute power. No more elections. Wait, one more. to replace Joe Lieberman.

But honestly, if senators can't pass the bill with some form of public option, I am for Bloomberg 2012. F--k the Democratic Party. Obama is young, he should come back for the second term when he can run his party.

[Jun]

我早说过了，民主党一点也不 liberal ，只不过现在共和党保守到吓死人的地步才显得他们相对有点 liberal 而已。全民倒退么，什么样的人民就有什么样的政府。