Boehner at the Tea Party

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• SpartacusIsNotDead // Nov 6, 2009 at 7:14 pm

  Jim_M,

  I agree there’s nothing wrong with being a good lobbyist. I just find it ironic that you admonished other commenters for name-calling and asked them to engage in actual debate while, at the same time, you offered no actual debate, but instead relied upon calling the AMA and AARP names.

  As further irony, you went on to call people who disagree with you “Statists” without analyzing the merits of their arguments.

  I guess your idea of debate is to issue grand platitudes like “Allow a free market to compete for each dollar.”

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• Jim_M // Nov 6, 2009 at 9:00 pm

  “”SpartacusIsNotDead // Nov 6, 2009 at 7:14 pm

  Jim_M,

  I agree there’s nothing wrong with being a good lobbyist. I just find it ironic that you admonished other commenters for name-calling and asked them to engage in actual debate while, at the same time, you offered no actual debate, but instead relied upon calling the AMA and AARP names.

  As further irony, you went on to call people who disagree with you “Statists” without analyzing the merits of their arguments.

  I guess your idea of debate is to issue grand platitudes like “Allow a free market to compete for each dollar.””

  We have a disconnect, obviously. Calling the AMA and AARP liberal lobbyists is not name calling. It may sting some, but certainly not “name calling”. They are what they are. So I fail to make that connection. Sorry. “Grand platitudes” ?? How can making private insurance company’s compete for every dollar be described as something whimsical or platitudinous? Great market solutions are something we make. The State has never produced market solutions, it only consumes. And that will never change. And lastly, whats keeping the leadership in D.C. from just getting this thing done? Their aren’t enough wet noodle Republicans to stop them. What could it possibly be?

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• Churl // Nov 6, 2009 at 10:37 pm

  ottovbs mentions “….On a day when Obama and the Democrats secured the backing of the AMA and AARP for their “wacky” bill….”

  The AMA backed the wacky bill because Obama agreed to drop the threatened $200 Billion cut in Medicare payments in exchange for support on Obamacare.

  This agreement may have an expiration date, however.

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