Quotes of the Day: ‘We Are Going To Do Something Historic This Weekend’
Email“It’s the weekend to determine a presidency.” – Rick Klein, ABC News
“We are at the point where we are going to do something historic this weekend.” – President Obama, at George Mason University
“There’s still no change — my group is holding firm.” — Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos
“I said, ‘For God’s sake, he desperately has to be kept away from working with children.’” — Psychiatrist Werner Huth, quoted in The New York Times, about a priest accused of sexually abusing boys in the German archdiocese led by the future Pope Benedict XVI
“Axelrod shot three-pointers…. Rahm called a lot of fouls.” — Gov. Pat Quinn, D-Ill., recalling basketball games of yore, with now-senior White House officials David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel, in the Los Angeles Times
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They think they are, in any case….that is, rob from the elderly and the middle class, to give to the poor.
Posted by: Rick McDaniel | March 19, 2010, 2:14 pm 2:14 pm
Thanks Diane for the calender of when health care benefits kick in.
You did forget when the taxes, fees, new federal employees and cuts to medicare kick in. Remember Federal employees are exempt for “our” health care.
Posted by: Tom Gill | March 19, 2010, 6:48 pm 6:48 pm
A spokesman for the archdiocese in Germany where the priest sexually abused children is quoted as saying that things were different thirty years ago. Well, I remember hearing forty years ago that the psychiatrist’s couch was the modern confessional booth.
Posted by: Candadai Tirumalai | March 20, 2010, 9:31 am 9:31 am
Carl Rove…acted like a bitter bully interupting any sound discussion this morning. We, the people want to hear both sides, go back to the dog house…bulldog.
Posted by: Deb Cat | March 21, 2010, 11:39 am 11:39 am
“Carl Rove…acted like a bitter bully interupting any sound discussion this morning.” – Deb Cat
Yeah, he was a bit over the top. I don’t think his rant helped the American People avert disaster. On the other hand, David Plouffe was nauseating with his spin and avoidance of the facts. He was much dumber than I was led to believe.
Congrats ABC News, two lame guests to start off your show.
Posted by: Noz | March 21, 2010, 12:54 pm 12:54 pm
Thank God it passed. I scheduled to lose my COBRA 5/1/2010. I received in the mail my individual plan that costs $400 a month and excludes, mental health care, maternity and a pre-existing condition and a litany of supposedly conditions associated with my pre-existing. Now with the passing. I can stay on COBRA. I have to pay the hold premium but I don’t have the 20 to 40% premium increase that are regular increases for individual plans. It’s a start. It’s not perfect. But I am so thankful.
Posted by: Sharon Pikula | March 21, 2010, 11:47 pm 11:47 pm
Historic……of the worst kind. A real disaster in the making.
Posted by: Rick McDaniel | March 22, 2010, 9:44 am 9:44 am
If you don’t have a regular paycheck (not just unemployment – which is very low), how can you pay for the insurance premium? I’ve been there; done that. It just does not work.
Companies will just lay people off and keep a skeleton crew only. I can guarantee you that that’s the way they will cut their costs.
What’s the government going to do about that? Make the companies hire and keep people? Corporate America will cut their cost by firing people, and the government will then say, “Oops!”
More people will then be on the unemployment lines with their hands out.
We do have to address health care costs.
My question is this: *If Medicare and Medicaid are now broke (which is run by the government), why do we think this new bill is going to work?
Posted by: ddg | March 22, 2010, 12:18 pm 12:18 pm
Yes, this disaster is likely to become a real historic mess.
Too bad it will become a historic disaster, and not a positive.
Posted by: Rick McDaniel | March 22, 2010, 5:46 pm 5:46 pm