If something has the potential to be desperate enough to work for less, it's worth keeping alive.

The second it wants to be paid, let it die.

Pop quiz for Democrats: What presidential candidate made this comment w/ respect to the Individual Mandate.

"If the mandate is a solution, we could solve the problem of homelessness by mandating everyone buy a house".

She's also the one who called a Congressman who was a decorated veteran who lost his arm and leg serving in the military a "coward" because he said that the Iraq war might be a bad idea.

Surely this out of context Obama quote is comparable to people cheering about stripping people of health insurance and will make people realize both sides are just as bad! Ron Paul!

Thing about the ACA and its Individual Mandate is, it addresses the issue from the campaign by making it income-based: below a certain income there's no individual mandate, and up to a certain level you get tax breaks to offset part of the cost of insurance.

Not that I'm going to credit Obama for 11th dimensional chess mastery: the thing people left and right forget is, Obama didn't draft Obamacare. Obama provided a set of goals and parameters to Congress, and let them do whatever was required to meet those goals. Individual states are even allowed to draft their own health care legislation to replace Obamacare provided it meets those goals.

Part of the reason health care didn't go through under Clinton is because the White House drafted its health care plan and tasked Congress with passing it ... but it wasn't what Congress was willing to pass. Obama didn't make the same mistake.

Full stars for commenters thinking that one of the defining differences between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama ( support/oppose Individual Mandate ) didn't happen. BTW, are we at war with China or are they our allies? I haven't checked the telescreen today.

Same here.

She probably climaxed again, to the shock and dismay of all of her supporters.

you know, those 6 or so millionaires and the billionaire.

One of the unifying values of all reactionaries is their absolute belief that life is a zero sum game. Whether it's the redneck who thinks that stripping the poor and minorities will mean a boost for them, or the billionaires who view all money not theirs as a problem.

I have this "fantasy," and by "fantasy" I mean I'll do it if absolute power ever falls into my lap. I want to sit everyone down across a table from a researcher (who I guess would go last), and connect them to an EEG. I want the researcher to say one word to them, "peace." If their brain has a violent reaction to that word, a trap door opens up under their chair and they are dropped into a furnace.

It would be a logistical nightmare, but the Nazis give me hope on pulling it off.

I hope she says 'hi' to Reagan for us when she gets there.

For both of you.

I think being reincarnated into a slum in Lagos might be more fitting.

baleen, you a modern day poet... V

Hey, now Baleen no need to call her cunt.

Save all the vitriol for Bobby Jindal and the bald mother fucker from Florida that refuse to let Obamacare in their states.