‘This Week’ Sunday: Sens. Chris Dodd and Lindsey Graham

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, tell us what your doing to help the American’s in your state? Maybe opening up new shelters!

If the House voted to support the Iranian Green Party. How does the House plan to support them, with words, OOOOH the leaders in Iran are so worried about the Marshmellow US Congress. Glad France back in 1777 didn’t have the current US House courage..

Ron:
Why aren’t Sen. Dodd, Sen. Conrad, and Congressman Barney Frank being investigated by their Ethics Committees for their roles in the mortgage meltdown?
—————————————-
Because this CORRUPT liberal Congress is NOT going to investigate their own alligators in the swamp! I expect there will be an adjustment in the balance
of power in the House next year, UNLESS Acorn does their job of voter fraud again. We need WATCHDOGS INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE POLLS!! After all, Obama
had the New Black Panthers at the Polls in Philadelphia, wielding billy clubs. Eric Holder refused to prosecute these THUGS! Aren’t you proud of our new government? Change we can believe in!
pffft!

Ron posted “Why aren’t Sen. Dodd, Sen. Conrad, and Congressman Barney Frank being investigated by their Ethics Committees for their roles in the mortgage meltdown?”
——————————————————-
and what role was that Ron? They lied about the state Freddie was in? Perhaps they really believed it, like McCain saying the economy was strong. Maybe they did lie, but it will be hard to prove that, wouldn’t it.
In the mean time, the actually people doing the bad things in Freddie / Fannie get a free pass from the right. Why is that? Look up James B. Lockhart, see how much he had to do with our mortgage problems. Why isn’t he investigated.
What about Phil Gramm and his repeal of Glass-Steagall that allowed investment bank to merge with other kinds of business? What about Gramm getting a bill put through to keep derivatives from being regulated? Look that up to. Educate YOURSELF. Don’t relay on the likes of Fox News or Limbaugh. The truth is out there and the truth is Dodd and Frank were NOT that big of villain in this mess.

The Iranian situation now is a mirror image of our 2008 Presidential elections.They have had their version of Bush/Cheney which is Khamenei/Ahmadinejad.Think about it.They have had years of their Conservative rollacoaster ride and enough is enough!!They voted, and the results have been Cheneyed, they complain and they are labeled bad Iranians by the Iranian president.
Definition:Cheneyed– To manipulate facts and statistics to supplement a particular point of view.
Iranians voted get rid of the status quo and the Conservatives sent out thugs to beat them with clubs. The Americans voted to do the same and Conservatives are still sending out thugs,( Political Hacks )to verbally beat the public and who they voted for.

Sitting here listening to Dodd and Graham hitting all their carefully memorized talking points about Iran and losing interest fast. Then we moved on to insurance. Obama’s plan is an inadequate failure before it even starts. The republicans have no plan other than “find a way to pay or die” and screams of “socialism” which has started to look pretty good to me after 8 years of neo-con policies. No one is talking about getting out of the mideast; something which would free up a lot of money to help pay for single payer.
I need a third party. No one that I see in D.C. gives a flying flip about us. They all appear to be totally absorbed in their little power games. I’m sick and tired of them all.

I’m so glad you brought up auto insurance.
There was a clear cause and effect to be seen when mandatory auto insurance was passed and auto insurance rates soared to the outer atmosphere and beyond. It was an early indicator of the failure of the free market when the “free market” is catered to by the politicians and it is a clear and obvious reason why health insurance companies should be shut completely out and single payer should be implemented.

Jan,
On your issue of a third party, may I suggest support for the Fair Tax.
I like it because our current system taxes achievement. In every other case we acknowledge that taxing something is a way to discourage it. Why would we want discourage achievement.
The Fair Tax would also eliminate annual tax returns – returning privacy to citizens.
Finally, it takes the power to influence individual out of Washington. A good first step to moving influence not necessarily to a third party but to the people.

I might add that the republicans appear to be the party of the insane and the democrats appear to be the party of the oblivious. Both of them have failed. I need a third party to vote for.

Cokie Roberts said during the
roundtable that “No one agrees with Obama on auto bailout”! She hasn’t been to Michigan, I guess, in a long time. She ought to come and visit Detroit, Grand Rapids, the UP. Highest unemployment in the US; families truly struggling. Maybe you “guys’ need to get out of Washington and see what is really going on in this country!

Jennifer,
While Cokie is in Michigan, I invite you to come to the south where the US has an automotive industry that works, pays taxes and supports communities.
It is stunning what happens when companies serve the market instead of the unions.

Morgan,
Get out of BCBS ! When you are in a group plan, you are subsidizing many services that you don’t need. You can get individual plans that offer catastrophic coverage and what you save in premiums will more than cover any out-of-pocket maintenance costs that you pick up. I found I could pay for all regular, preventive care cost less than 2 months premiums and I still have great coverage for things like hospitalization, cancer care, etc.

Jan,
You are correct. I live where there is a county health care system that will NOT provide services to anyone with private insurance so NO ONE is denied access. I don’t think our system is unique since we are a small county in a relatively rural area.
Back to BCBS – the money for the co-pay comes from dramatically reduced premiums. Therefore, these folks would actually have more money in their pocket than they do now.

I can appreciate (not like) how politicians like Chris Dodd are non responsive to questions. Like most, Dodd offered no specifics, detail or remedy other than to repeat “we must reduce cost”. Heck, we’ve know that for decades.
To have a press related panel repeat the same thing? Geesh George, who the are you inviting to chair the panel? Maybe your panel should include those in the trenches: from the blue collar auto worker to corporate CEOs.
Lets see the facts and start a national dialog on resolutions:
In short… Doctors can earn as little as $110K annually – hopefully most are earning more. Yet, at $135 for a fifteen minute office visit, medical facilities are earning $540 per Hour. A single doctors insurance is still relatively low at about $80K annually.
Where the heck is the money going?
George, the show, your guest and panels are digressing. The subject matter has become a rant of ill-advised content. If your guest can’t come to the table with facts and suggestion, where’s the entertainment or more “the education”?
Will you ever simply call a politician “Non-Responsive” and move on. Your audience does and for them its “changing channels”. And then what? So much for those advertising dollars.

Dodd reminds me of a character from Atlas Shrugged.
What a creep that guy is.
He is the epitome of what is wrong in Washington.

The Fair Tax is exactly as its name implies.
We all get one vote…we should all pay the same tax but even the Fair Tax addresses concerns on the poor with a rebate to the lowest earners.
Anyone opposed to it is an obvious die hard close minded liberal. That kindof thinking is why we are tripling our debt and thus sending up interest rates up which will in turn hurt the housing market…which is at the root of our current financial woes.
If the Democrats are allowed to remain in power the result will be a far larger government, a stagnant at best economy though probably declining, much higher energy costs due to Cap and Trade and a Value Added Tax that will increase the cost of every purchase you make.
I can hardly wait. Things are going to be so great.
Ladies and Gentlemen….your Democrat party will lead you down a road to doom …all the while flashing silver tongues that tell you nothing but lies and half truths. Their future does not have to come to pass.
Some will no doubt scoff…but if so go study Europe. Is that what you want? Really?

Sam,
You are right. I lived in the UK with socialized medicine and it was a fiasco. For instance, doctors were paid by the number of patients assigned to them – regardless of what care they provided. So when I went to the dentist with a cavity, he decided not to fill it (because he would incur cost for the materials). He told me to come back when it was causing me so much pain that I thought it needed immediate attention.

Sam:
I think that a fair tax is flat tax. Because, an increase of 25 to 30 percent on everything they buy is not going to seem very fair to most people. I know, their’s the pre-bate program. If it’s ‘pre’ it certainly requires some guessing. In a case of hyper-inflation this could be a problem. Plus, the pre-bate program is additional beauracracy. We need to cut down on beauracracy, not increase it. A flat tax income tax could be determined on 3″x5″ index card. And loopholes would be eliminated.

American Healthcare works fine. Lowering the quality for 90% of Americans in order to insure illegal aliens will not go over well.