great response, attacking me for my handle as if that proves anything and assessing me a 3 second attention span from where? who knows. and yeah the "full of shit" comment, i know nothing about debate and i dont read, real nice and very convincing, your arguments. your debate style is replete with personal attacks and swearing, is that impressing anyone? maybe it makes you feel good to let out all the demons but so much for a decent discussion.
in your response you ascribe to me things i never said, that obama constantly interrupted, well he did a few times, however. and somehow you say my memory doesnt remember a link where i read them, well whered you get that? I didnt read a link or anything to remember them, i remembered them from watching cpan when it happened
but one of the biggest things you havent been able to grasp so far is my original post was sarcastic and in the line of a parody but as i said..it was fairly close
the "summit" went on for 7 and a half hours, and after a while it was too much to stomach so i didnt watch it all, it was pointless. that was COG's point and mine in my original post.
you say you posted the link of the meeting, so why was my post bullshit when you had already posted a link? all you have to do is read it or watch it or whatever it was you posted.
below i have gone through it and copied direct quotes that substantiate what i posted. and yes the meeting was contentious and yes i think obama is a weasel and it was merely political (the meeting) and how obama responded was brusque at times and at times uncourteous. you dont think so , thats fine, you love him, i dont. i see and feel the pain of him and you see and feel the delight of him.
john mccain was there...filmed by the c span...went something like this.... john mcain, "mr. president, i feel that there are several issues we need to discuss and...".... obama snaps, "the election is over john!" and he goes on to talk forever about his talking points
Originally Posted by nevergaveitathought
From the raw transcript:
THE PRESIDENT: Let me just make this point, John, because we're not campaigning anymore. The election is over.
lamar alexander, "mr. president we have these concerns, we have discussed issues with many governors and....".... obama chuckles, " the bill on the floor that my friend Lamar is lamenting here has significant input from the Republicans." and he goes on to talk forever about his talking points
Originally Posted by nevergaveitathought
From the transcript:
SENATOR ALEXANDER: .......As a former governor, I also want to try to represent governors' views. They have a big stake in it. I know you met with some governors just the last few days......
THE PRESIDENT: But as I said, we've adopted a lot of the ideas that we've heard from your side of the aisle. So I hope maybe you could say, well, those are the ones that we think are good ideas; here are the things that we think are bad ideas, as opposed to just painting in broad brush.
(there is another section somewhere where he more closely states what i said, but here obama says he adopted repub ideas and he also says "as i said" so he said it before also)
paul ryan, "mr. president, one reason Democrats are saying their bills will reduce the deficit is because they put in a separate piece of legislation the very costly idea of fixing the formula by which Medicare pays doctors and hospitals. If you add that in, this bill would not even be close to deficit neutral." obama dodging, "we disagree about the numbers and now about Medicare Advantage....." and he goes on to talk forever about that
Originally Posted by nevergaveitathought
From the transcript:
OBAMA: I'm going to call on Xavier Becerra, but I just want to follow up on a couple points. There are some strong disagreements on the numbers here, Paul, and, you know, but I don't want to get too bogged down in -- the first question I have is whether your side thinks Medicare Advantage is working well.
various repubs, "mr. president...." obama without patience. "its not time for your talking points" and he goes on to talk forever about his talking points
Originally Posted by nevergaveitathought
he said that, i just quit looking for it, you have a browser like you said look for it.
it went eerily like the above and is a paraphrase but fairly close
Originally Posted by nevergaveitathought
and so it goes
obviously you should feel chagrined, but im sure you dont
here is one guys analysis of the healthcare meeting which i think goes to COG's point of transparency and obama breaking that promise and how conservatives feel about being shut out. when a major change is made to america, like taking over 1/6th of the nations economy, it would be nice to not ram down one-side's wants only but to find a way to bind the nation into one, and for a majority of the american people to have agreement with what was passed. but that wasnt the case, it was a heavy handed one side only take over without support of the american people, poll after poll showed that. it was accomplished because he had control of the congress.
Paul Ryan was one of the few bright spots during the 7 and a half hour long “bipartisan” Health Care Summit. I wasn’t able to watch as much as I wanted because of my work schedule, but what I did hear was more of the same. From the Democrats, it was sob stories and ideas based on emotions. From the Republicans, it was tort reform, buying insurance across state lines and anger at the President and Democrats for shutting them out of the process and breaking promises of transparency.
Even though the Republicans gave some great ideas, we all know that Obama isn’t going to incorporate any of them. This health care summit was designed to make Obama and the Democrats look good and the Republicans look bad. Unfortunately for Obama, I think it backfired on him. Several Republicans, in addition to Paul Ryan, had some great things to say and I’ll try to post some of them as I’m able. I also got the impression that the Republicans knew more about Obama’s plan than Obama did. They definitely came prepared.
If you missed Congressman Ryan, you can listen to him by clicking on this link —> Paul Ryan Health Care
He lays out the reasons why conservatives are opposed to the Obama’s health care plan while at the same time advocating for free market solutions to health care.