Lamar Alexander: Health Care Bill A ‘Political Kamikaze Mission’

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Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said on Sunday that if Democrats push health care through under the majority only process known as reconciliation, it will be a “political kamikaze mission.”

Though the individual parts of the bill are popular, he conceded, Republicans believe that opposition to it is strong enough that the party can run on a platform of repeal.

“For the rest of the year we’re going to be involved in a campaign to repeal it,” Alexander said on ABC’s “This Week,” adding that campaign would begin “the day it passes.”
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Alex, YOUR AN IDIOT! Americans want and need Healthcare reform. If you RETHUGLICANS can’t support it, Get outta the way and let US help the struggling American people. It’s not a ‘Political Kamikaze Mission,’ it’s just the opposite. If Democrats pass HCR and it works, You Idiots will be the minority for years to come and may never get the Majority back.

Now is the time for Republicans to come forward and show they want real HCR and not just some ‘Buying Insurance across state lines!’ crap. Or ‘TORT REFORM, TORT REFORM, TORT REFORM. Let’s look at how that’s worked in individual states!

Stop making this about Politics.

Democrats, IMO, Republicans have shown since we started this thing (with a blank sheet of paper I might add), they have nothing to offer for a HCR bill. They have had no intrest in a Bi-Partisan Bill, They just want to keep a bill from passing any way they can. I say if they don’t offer a better solution (and fast), re-conciliation awaits them– Within a month. Use it.
 
If Democrats pass HCR and it works...
If monkeys fly out my butt....


Stop making this about Politics.
Physician, heal thyself.

LOL! Obama doesn't even understand car insurance, how the hell can he understand health insurance? Junker? Liability only. Junker, even when not at fault? Blue book, not repairs.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmo1rATDE00&feature=player_embedded]YouTube - Obama Demonizes "ACME" Insurance Co For Not Covering His Liability-Insured Car During College[/ame]​
 
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said on Sunday that if Democrats push health care through under the majority only process known as reconciliation, it will be a “political kamikaze mission.”

Though the individual parts of the bill are popular, he conceded, Republicans believe that opposition to it is strong enough that the party can run on a platform of repeal.

“For the rest of the year we’re going to be involved in a campaign to repeal it,” Alexander said on ABC’s “This Week,” adding that campaign would begin “the day it passes.”
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Alex, YOUR AN IDIOT! Americans want and need Healthcare reform. If you RETHUGLICANS can’t support it, Get outta the way and let US help the struggling American people. It’s not a ‘Political Kamikaze Mission,’ it’s just the opposite. If Democrats pass HCR and it works, You Idiots will be the minority for years to come and may never get the Majority back.

Now is the time for Republicans to come forward and show they want real HCR and not just some ‘Buying Insurance across state lines!’ crap. Or ‘TORT REFORM, TORT REFORM, TORT REFORM. Let’s look at how that’s worked in individual states!

Stop making this about Politics.

Democrats, IMO, Republicans have shown since we started this thing (with a blank sheet of paper I might add), they have nothing to offer for a HCR bill. They have had no intrest in a Bi-Partisan Bill, They just want to keep a bill from passing any way they can. I say if they don’t offer a better solution (and fast), re-conciliation awaits them– Within a month. Use it.

Grasshopper, calm down. Alex is right.... If the Dems nuke this through, it is political suicide for them. Come November, spotting a Dem in DC will be like spotting a black rino.... (not African American Republicans) but a species on the verge of extinction. Because the majority of Americans do not want this bill. They want reform.... REFORM.... not some fucking monstrosity of a bill that doesn't actually solve anything. Try not to be an idiot all your life, little left one.
 
If Democrats pass HCR and it works, .

Yeah, when pigs fly.
For starters, the taxes to pay for this shitpile begin right away but the actual benefits don't start for 5 years. That was the only way to get the bill to score as it did.
No, Alexander is right. And he is pretty moderate. When you get a moderate like Alexander saying this, you'd better listen.
 
I don't understand why any Democrat actually considers this bill reform or for the good of our people. I am amazed they don't see the corruption of this debacle. Stunning.
 
It is unclear at this point even what Democrats are proposing. "Reform" is not any better than "hope and change." It is a slogan, not a serious proposal.
So far we have the House bill with a public option, the senate bill without one, and the Obama bill without one but with "exchanges" that cannot be scored by CBO because it lacks details.
So which bill do they want to pass?
 
I don't understand why any Democrat actually considers this bill reform or for the good of our people. I am amazed they don't see the corruption of this debacle. Stunning.

Lots of Democrats don't like the bill. I think the only people who do like are:

1. Progressives
2. Stupid
3. Obamatrons
4. All of the above
 
I don't understand why any Democrat actually considers this bill reform or for the good of our people. I am amazed they don't see the corruption of this debacle. Stunning.

Lots of Democrats don't like the bill. I think the only people who do like are:

1. Progressives
2. Stupid
3. Obamatrons
4. All of the above

That's obvious. Otherwise they would have passed something.
In the end Democrats will defeat this bill, not Republicans.
 
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said on Sunday that if Democrats push health care through under the majority only process known as reconciliation, it will be a “political kamikaze mission.”

Though the individual parts of the bill are popular, he conceded, Republicans believe that opposition to it is strong enough that the party can run on a platform of repeal.

“For the rest of the year we’re going to be involved in a campaign to repeal it,” Alexander said on ABC’s “This Week,” adding that campaign would begin “the day it passes.”
Read more


Alex, YOUR AN IDIOT! Americans want and need Healthcare reform. If you RETHUGLICANS can’t support it, Get outta the way and let US help the struggling American people. It’s not a ‘Political Kamikaze Mission,’ it’s just the opposite. If Democrats pass HCR and it works, You Idiots will be the minority for years to come and may never get the Majority back.

Now is the time for Republicans to come forward and show they want real HCR and not just some ‘Buying Insurance across state lines!’ crap. Or ‘TORT REFORM, TORT REFORM, TORT REFORM. Let’s look at how that’s worked in individual states!

Stop making this about Politics.

Democrats, IMO, Republicans have shown since we started this thing (with a blank sheet of paper I might add), they have nothing to offer for a HCR bill. They have had no intrest in a Bi-Partisan Bill, They just want to keep a bill from passing any way they can. I say if they don’t offer a better solution (and fast), re-conciliation awaits them– Within a month. Use it.

You do Realize that even if all the Republicans Voted No we still couldn't Vote the bill down?

It's a Battle between your OWN Party, Stop Blaming the Republicans for not having Health Care.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE_0UdjElNQ]YouTube - Rep. LaTourette Mocks Democrats for "Big Lie" About GOP Opposition to Health Care[/ame]
 
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said on Sunday that if Democrats push health care through under the majority only process known as reconciliation, it will be a “political kamikaze mission.”

Though the individual parts of the bill are popular, he conceded, Republicans believe that opposition to it is strong enough that the party can run on a platform of repeal.

“For the rest of the year we’re going to be involved in a campaign to repeal it,” Alexander said on ABC’s “This Week,” adding that campaign would begin “the day it passes.”
Read more


Alex, YOUR AN IDIOT! Americans want and need Healthcare reform. If you RETHUGLICANS can’t support it, Get outta the way and let US help the struggling American people. It’s not a ‘Political Kamikaze Mission,’ it’s just the opposite. If Democrats pass HCR and it works, You Idiots will be the minority for years to come and may never get the Majority back.

Now is the time for Republicans to come forward and show they want real HCR and not just some ‘Buying Insurance across state lines!’ crap. Or ‘TORT REFORM, TORT REFORM, TORT REFORM. Let’s look at how that’s worked in individual states!

Stop making this about Politics.

Democrats, IMO, Republicans have shown since we started this thing (with a blank sheet of paper I might add), they have nothing to offer for a HCR bill. They have had no intrest in a Bi-Partisan Bill, They just want to keep a bill from passing any way they can. I say if they don’t offer a better solution (and fast), re-conciliation awaits them– Within a month. Use it.

Ah, the certainty of youth.
 
I don't understand why any Democrat actually considers this bill reform or for the good of our people. I am amazed they don't see the corruption of this debacle. Stunning.

Lots of Democrats don't like the bill. I think the only people who do like are:

1. Progressives
2. Stupid
3. Obamatrons
4. All of the above

That's obvious. Otherwise they would have passed something.
In the end Democrats will defeat this bill, not Republicans.

There is a 5.... people who haven't read it, don't understand it and just think 'hey, Obama wouldn't fuck me over'... But then, I guess they could be '2'.
 
I have been saying the same thing for some time.

That bill is never going to happen, if forced through it will either be unfunded or repealed.
 
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said on Sunday that if Democrats push health care through under the majority only process known as reconciliation, it will be a “political kamikaze mission.”

Though the individual parts of the bill are popular, he conceded, Republicans believe that opposition to it is strong enough that the party can run on a platform of repeal.

“For the rest of the year we’re going to be involved in a campaign to repeal it,” Alexander said on ABC’s “This Week,” adding that campaign would begin “the day it passes.”
Read more


Alex, YOUR AN IDIOT! Americans want and need Healthcare reform. If you RETHUGLICANS can’t support it, Get outta the way and let US help the struggling American people. It’s not a ‘Political Kamikaze Mission,’ it’s just the opposite. If Democrats pass HCR and it works, You Idiots will be the minority for years to come and may never get the Majority back.

Now is the time for Republicans to come forward and show they want real HCR and not just some ‘Buying Insurance across state lines!’ crap. Or ‘TORT REFORM, TORT REFORM, TORT REFORM. Let’s look at how that’s worked in individual states!

Stop making this about Politics.

Democrats, IMO, Republicans have shown since we started this thing (with a blank sheet of paper I might add), they have nothing to offer for a HCR bill. They have had no intrest in a Bi-Partisan Bill, They just want to keep a bill from passing any way they can. I say if they don’t offer a better solution (and fast), re-conciliation awaits them– Within a month. Use it.



You are wrong and Lamar is right...it's not just Republicans that don't want this bill...it's Democrats too...and especially Independents.

I posted this in the Healthcare Forum earlier today:

"It is worst than political suicide...it is ignoring the will of the constituency that they are elected to represent!

They arrogantly believe that they know what's best and the will of the people be damned.

The most telling results of the CNN poll were among Democrats and Independents.
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Dems.............49%..........................50%

Indies.............18%..........................79%

Repubs.............6%..........................93%

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Notice that even the majority of Democrats are opposed to Obamacare in it's current form.

Also of note is that CNN seems to go to great lengths to obscure that fact.

In an unbiased news agency, with all the talk of Democrats using reconciliation...that would (and should) be the focus of the story. "

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.CNN Poll link: CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - CNN Poll: Health care provisions popular but overall bills unpopular - Blogs from CNN.com

USMB Thread link: http://www.usmessageboard.com/healt...7310-cnn-poll-73-oppose-health-care-bill.html
 
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Young Lefty, you passed the Bill in the House and had one republican vote with you (and that was because of a bribe for New Orleans). Then, in the Senate you had 60 votes...enough to stop a filibuster. You have the White House with a president eager to sign YOUR democrat "health care" bill. Yet, you didn't do anything...you had to bribe democrats just get them to vote with you. You did it...Nelson gets free Medicare for Nebraska and Mary Landrau (sp?) in Louisiana gets $100 million...no make that $300 million for LA according to her. Obama even made sure that SEIU and other labor unions won't have to pay 40% for their Cadillac health care plans. Strange how all your liberal friends are wanting exemptions when it comes to the democrat health care bill. I thought ALL Americans wanted it?

Still you didn't have the balls to pass HC. Why?

Maybe in your heart you know, at least many of the democrats in Congress know, that Alexander is right. You will be on a kamikaze mission if you pass this via reconciliation.
 
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I don't understand why any Democrat actually considers this bill reform or for the good of our people. I am amazed they don't see the corruption of this debacle. Stunning.
What matters to them is getting their Socialism spread all over America. They are blinded to any faults there may be in the Bill or its constitutionality.
 

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