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Armstead

(47,803 posts)
8. Yeah Corporate Oligarchy is much more popular
Wed Sep 9, 2015, 11:25 PM
Sep 2015

It is quite possible that the rightward swing of thee pendulum may be preparing to move in the opposite not that the chickens from uncontrolled free-market "supply side" Corporate CONservatism are coming hiome to roost.

And it doesn't take five paragraphs -- Affordable health care. Make the wealthy share the tax load. Re-regulate business to restore fair pay for employees and protect rights of consumers. Restore a truly competitive and diverse busones climate and broadly based economy.

Really? How many times has the GOP voted to try and repeal Obamacare? MADem Sep 2015 #1
Really? How many times has the GOP managed to repeal Obamacare? Wilms Sep 2015 #3
Look, you're acting like the whole of America is ENAMOURED of Obamacare--they aren't. MADem Sep 2015 #11
I live in the sticks in Alaska and the governor by himself pushed through the expansion roguevalley Sep 2015 #33
That's good. But that's a long, long way from single payer. MADem Sep 2015 #42
Show me polling that suggests majority support for Single Payer Health Care brooklynite Sep 2015 #2
Here you go... Bjorn Against Sep 2015 #5
Hmm. So half the country agrees with what FLOTUS Hillary Clinton was saying back in the 90s! nt MADem Sep 2015 #12
She was hardly the only person supporting universal care Armstead Sep 2015 #13
Oh. PLEASE. She was the ONLY person heading up a TASK FORCE on the subject in 1993. MADem Sep 2015 #15
No it killed me at the time to watch them screw it up Armstead Sep 2015 #16
Yes, and "Bernie's" task force--they got it done? Never saw anything about that in the paper...? MADem Sep 2015 #17
He wasn't sitting on his ass, nor have millions of others Armstead Sep 2015 #19
He wasn't? What was he doing, besides running his mouth? Talk is cheap. MADem Sep 2015 #20
The failiure of Vermont;s system have nothing to do with Sanders Armstead Sep 2015 #21
Why was he trying to pass it off as a minor bump in the road, then, instead of the abject failure MADem Sep 2015 #23
Wellllll...maybe if we had a decent national systemm to support it..... Armstead Sep 2015 #24
Where's the ACTION? Hillary chaired a task force--all I see is talk, talk, talk, and a can-kick MADem Sep 2015 #27
Oh give it a rest -- I told you i don't feel like a nyah nyah match Armstead Sep 2015 #28
How could they "try again with a better plan?" MADem Sep 2015 #29
Excuses, excuses....there's always excuses. The All Powerful GOP Armstead Sep 2015 #30
You were either too young or your memory is short. MADem Sep 2015 #31
I wish I were too young Armstead Sep 2015 #36
I don't think either Clinton was a scared bunny rabbit. MADem Sep 2015 #38
well said Armstead LeftOfWest Sep 2015 #43
^^^^^^^^^^^^^ THE GOP, they are such a handy scapegoat! slipslidingaway Sep 2015 #32
good thing that LBJ didn't give up on his stuff becase of stupid opposition or civl rights roguevalley Sep 2015 #35
Not. The. Same. MADem Sep 2015 #40
If health care abject failure is the topic here, then Hillary wrote the book. roguevalley Sep 2015 #34
OK, cough up "the plan" then. Don't talk in generalities--get us to the place MADem Sep 2015 #41
Okay for what it's worth.... Armstead Sep 2015 #44
That's not real single payer, though. That's more like a hybrid approach. MADem Sep 2015 #45
It's not single payer -- that;s fine wth me Armstead Sep 2015 #46
Well, I think ACA was the first step on a long journey. MADem Sep 2015 #47
Majority still supports single-payer option, poll finds Wilms Sep 2015 #6
Looks like health care satisfaction has been trending DOWNWARD since that poll was taken. MADem Sep 2015 #18
Not hard to find Mnpaul Sep 2015 #9
The support has been there for years, but the corporate media and corporate candidates dismiss ... slipslidingaway Sep 2015 #10
Sorry. Socialism is not a winning platform in the General. redstateblues Sep 2015 #4
Yeah Corporate Oligarchy is much more popular Armstead Sep 2015 #8
They used to call that proposal HILLARYCARE. How soon people forget...! MADem Sep 2015 #14
Amen -- But that'll go through one ear and out the other with some Armstead Sep 2015 #7
And with some it makes a stop in a Waring blender and shot out their pie hole with enough english Juicy_Bellows Sep 2015 #25
They keep trying, and it's just not working because McCarthyism is from history, and not a very part sabrina 1 Sep 2015 #22
I agree, thanks for posting! nt. Juicy_Bellows Sep 2015 #26
Why Congress Did Not Enact Health Care Reform - 1995 slipslidingaway Sep 2015 #37
If we voted with our minds instead of our emotion, we would not be in this mess. McCamy Taylor Sep 2015 #39
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