Displaying 9,421 To 9,450 Of 9,743 Comments KevenSeven banned at Huff, time for HuffNo Fridays again I think liberals were scrambling so much in this country in the 80’s and 90’s that they accepted too many conservative ideas like welfare reform. Democrats should have changed their political tactics instead of modifying some principles. That being said the only way to start recovering politically for Democrats on some fronts was to become the big tent party. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 25, 2009 @ 6:50 pm True I forgot that. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 25, 2009 @ 6:43 pm Kev I searched “huffno fridays” for a graphic idea and your post came up #1 on Google. I think we should come up with a different name since it’s already been used though. I made this graphic when the planet opened. I like the graphic but not the saying. Maybe we can call it “Friday Night Rock the Planet” or something like that. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 25, 2009 @ 6:06 pm Huffy does a pretty good job of getting people worked up as well. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 25, 2009 @ 5:53 pm I would have to say more than 50% of my posts either never get through moderation or are scrubbed so I haven’t been posting that much at HP. I’m convinced if a moderator sees certain id’s they don’t even consider posting it anymore. Face it if you are not constantly kissing Aryannas’ and other select Huffy geniuses’ asses you are seen as hostile. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 25, 2009 @ 5:44 pm Is this really any sort of health care reform? Cheers I will check it out later. Our “healthcare” system is fundamentally broken. We have health and malpractice insurance systems. Private profit healthcare insurance keeps insurance rates up and bloated malpractice insurance rates keeps the costs of unnecessary testing up. What is actually paid out in tort claims is a very small percentage of costs but the insurance rates providers pay is a much larger factor. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 25, 2009 @ 5:17 pm NICE TO BE AMONGST SOME OLD FRIENDS! Philip Taylor is mostly a cut and paster who thinks the Fed is at the root of all our problems. Actually my philosophy is not unique but goes to the bigger issue where money is the root of all our problems. The Fed distributes money so of course it’s part of the problem but just getting rid of the Fed will solve nothing. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 25, 2009 @ 7:35 pm Welcome! Great to see your moniker intact again. I think most of the progressive blog world is just cannibalizing itself these days with the constant outrage, narratives, and troll interference just to make more ad money. I hope you don’t mind the image I added to your post. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 25, 2009 @ 5:31 pm Wow Under Different Circumstances this could be Me. Actually being a cancer and now heart failure survivor looking back on it you go through allot. If you have the instinct in you to survive, I’m not going to say it’s easy but it does not consume your life. You just miss the things you cannot do anymore rather than think of what you’ve been through. In truth my wife has gone through more than me. She found out I had cancer about six months after her mother died from cancer in her mid forties. After I was cured from cancer 10 years later she had to watch me cling onto life while taking care of everything that had came crashing down in our lives. She has had her own share of health problems as well. I’m probably the least ideological person on healthcare reform because it’s such a close issue to my everyday life. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 23, 2009 @ 11:01 pm Markets with innovative products thrive on competition. Markets that serve necessities need to be highly regulated. That’s why I don’t begrudge drug companies, medical device and high tech equipment companies from making a profit. But insurance companies that offer no innovation are just leeches. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 23, 2009 @ 7:57 pm Sure glad to see you posting on the Planet! I haven’t been blogging that much and when I do I post an article here without all the drama. The rest of the blog world is just nuts these days with all the group think going on no matter if people call them selves conservative or progressives. When politics gets to be more about people’s various agendas and less about policies it’s so boring. I agree with allot of libertarian principles. I just wish the organized libertarians would make it less about taxes and more about civil liberties. I just think some things like national defense, education and healthcare are entities that free markets do not address well. I would love to see an article about what you think about the banking regulations debate. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 23, 2009 @ 5:08 pm I disagree completely with your premise. We went backwards for eight years under Bush and the Republicans. I have no problem dislodging the corporate Dems but that’s not what ends up happening when progressive get apathetic towards dominating the Democratic party and do things like look for third parties.. What happens is corporate Dems get replaced by corporate Repubs and things get far worse. It’s amazing how much people have forgotten that last eight years already. Face it apathy gave us W because too many progressives voted for Nader. Why can’t people learn from history? Target corporate Dems where we can. It’s the state wide Senate races in Mountain and Midwestern states that progressives need to act the most. The problem is progressives are too impatient we want all the change NOW. It took over 20 years of dominating electoral politics for conservatives to pass their agenda. The reason they did so was they did not accept going forward in their case. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 24, 2009 @ 10:43 pm This is the problem with that mentality. For example 210 Dems in the House by last whip count would go for the robust public option. ZERO Republicans will go for a robust public option. Part of what Republicans feed off is apathy and they love what you are saying. My point is we need to get the TRUE progressive Dems in Congress and if we don’t get all we want the first time and waiver that apathy will get more Repubs elected and we will be going backwards again. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 24, 2009 @ 2:29 pm This is exactly why negotiations like these are NOT public. Everyone reads something different in the same meeting. I should know working in corporate America for over 20 years. Nothing is final until it is put in writing and our part is to keep up the pressure for the public option. I’ve stopped worrying about the “daily” developments because they don’t mean anything. The momentum is for a public option now and that’s the only real development. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 23, 2009 @ 8:02 pm The Senate You Have Called Has Been Disconnected The next few days are critical for the public option as it continues to gain momentum in the Senate. There are conflicting reports out their to who is pushing what but it looks like the “opt out” approach is most heavily favored. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 23, 2009 @ 2:25 pm This disproportionate representation in the Senate is one of the core problems with our “democracy”. The other problem is the all too powerful executive branch. I would much rather have a parliamentary system where the leadership is born out of the legislature. A parliamentary system also enables multiple parties to be relevant. I find it ironic that the system of government we instituted in Iraq is a parliamentary system because it is much better at representing diverse groups. Face it America is becoming more and more diverse every day. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 22, 2009 @ 1:25 pm There are two ways to control people through fear and through apathy. HuffPo is trying to control people with apathy towards progressive change. Day after day even there one time good columnists are so cynical it makes other progressives cynical and apathetic. They do this because of the old adage misery loves company so all they want to do is promote misery for more ad money. People ignore all the steady progress and focus on things that have not changed as of yet but are in progress. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 20, 2009 @ 2:58 pm Aryanna is double downing on her balloon boy obsession. Now she is saying we should put homeless children in a balloon so they get attention. That is utterly moronic even to suggest this idea to make a point. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 19, 2009 @ 10:01 pm There’s not much anyone can do because HP is the darling of the progressive media. What they are doing is creating a progressive echo chamber where I see fewer and fewer progressives not joining into the group think and memes of the progressive media subculture. All true independent thinkers can do is disengage themselves from the group think and evaluate the world for yourself. You have to ask yourself on each issue what are my beliefs and not be prey to the beliefs of any one group. Personally I disengaged from the blog world and opinion news world about 90% and my head is in a much better place. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 19, 2009 @ 9:58 pm Unfortunately the autopilots are the insurance lobby so to land this plan on target with out an insurance company bill someone is going to have to turn off autopilot and take the yoke. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 16, 2009 @ 8:13 pm Regulating the Financial Sector Begins The problem with the Senate leadership is the whole seniority thingy. It prohibits any younger Senators who really want to change things from getting power. It’s the same problem with the powerful committees. Senators like Russ Feingold and Sherrod Brown just don’t have the seniority. Also the Senate leadership is run by the DLC. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 15, 2009 @ 9:57 pm It’s all about power and the need for some elusive control for many pundits like Arianna. They want to feel like they are controlling the president’s agenda like the right wing controls the white house when Republicans are in office. So many people wanted Obama to be the progressive version of W even though they lied and said they wanted a president that listened to all opinions. Many progressives just don’t get that President Obama is an independent thinker and not the lock step ideologue they wanted. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 15, 2009 @ 10:44 pm The only problem with the right wing Republican thing you cannot make valid arguments with failed principles. It would be a GIGO machine. Garbage in, garbage out. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 15, 2009 @ 12:37 am You have to bee kidding me. Now she CNN is letting her spew her faux controversy. She is trying to be the tail that wags the dog and create a rift between Obama and Biden that just is not there. Biden disagrees with the other advisers to the president NOT the president. He is still making his decision. The worse part is that most of the HP lemmings are buying this. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 15, 2009 @ 12:15 am Aryanna views politics like a Republican. Politics is not about policies and principles it’s about personalities. Her whole celebrity was built off of personally hating the Clintons. When the primaries went on she fed the nastiness. People are lemmings and love delegating their thought process to people like Aryanna so she will always have a following. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 14, 2009 @ 9:54 pm Historic Day for Healthcare Reform I have a really excellent American football analogy to describe what part of the process we are in after the vote today but being from Europe and Japan you won’t have a clue what I’m talking about. 🙂 » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 13, 2009 @ 10:09 pm Insurance Lobby Promotes Public Option The only explanation I have for this report is that it’s a knee jerk reaction to any healthcare reform. But let’s start out and understand the report is right and wrong. Under any plan insurance total costs are going to go up because providers increase the cost. But premiums will go down even with the Baucus plan because of spreading the risk more. Yes healthcare reform with the public option will be lower the percentage healthcare costs increase and lowest premiums but an independent study by the Commonwealth Fund shows expanding the insurance pool will slightly bend the curve as well. http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Content/Publications/Fund-Reports/2009/Jun/Fork-in-the-Road.aspx With no universal healthcare costs will rise 6.5% If you don’t think 1.3% is much it’s about $2 trillion dollars over 10 years. Moreover insurance rates will go DOWN 25% with a strong public option. The bottom line is I think this move by the insurance companies to obstruct only eases the way for the public option. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 12, 2009 @ 3:55 pm President Obama Awarded Nobel Peace Prize AdLib you should know better than most Americans how we are treated around the world now compared to before. You should write a story about your experiences some day. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 9, 2009 @ 10:38 pm You make a real valid point. It raises expectations even more for sure and he probably would rather not receive it now when he has so much to do. But Obama has had to live with the highest of expectations anyway so it’s nothing new to him. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 9, 2009 @ 10:29 pm Bush is part of the equation for sure but you have to give the president his due for what he has done and represents. Bush is the toughest act to follow in many ways because of how he turned back the progress on so many aspects of this country. Things like the finance system collapse and Iraq war has drained much of what the president can get accomplished. For example there would not be the financial limitations saddled on healthcare reform if those things did not happen, I’m sure President Obama would have rather followed Clinton instead of Bush even though the Catch 22 is he would have never been elected under those circumstances. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On October 9, 2009 @ 7:33 pmComments Posted By KQµårk 死神
With only private universal healthcare costs will rise 5.8%
With universal healthcare with public option costs will rise 5.6%
With universal healthcare with public option and Medicare limits costs will rise 5.2%
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