Biden’s enthusiastic introduction

I may not like this bill much — it shovels cash to the insurance companies and does not go far enough to ensure coverage of everyone. But you have to like the enthusiasm of Vice President Joe Biden.

I can’t make out what he said, but if Biden dropped the f-bomb, as it is euphemistically called, then he moves to the top of the list as my favorite vice president.

Dick Cheney dropped it, too, but he used it to demean and degrade Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. And that was just an ugly episode.

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I would have preferred single payer, Medicare for all or at the least the public option. But let's face it folks, and that includes Chris Hedges, this is the best we can do. 100% of the GOP was against health reform, 34 Demofailures voted against it, it's a miracle that we got this flawed bill passed. And now 13 states are suing. What if it goes to the right wing fascist supreme court? For sure they will rule it unconstitutional. When it comes to health care reform, what a stupid country. The first real effort began with Truman, then Clinton. I hope we can keep this crappy bill, it does have some good things in it and it's the best this country can do given the GOP, the conservoDems, the vast right wing conspiracy (it is very real) and the huge corporate anti-reform lobby that has billions to throw around.

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March 24, 2010 at 1:15 am

I would have preferred single payer, Medicare for all or at the least the public option. But let's face it folks, and that includes Chris Hedges, this is the best we can do. 100% of the GOP was against health reform, 34 Demofailures voted against it, it's a miracle that we got this flawed bill passed. And now 13 states are suing. What if it goes to the right wing fascist supreme court? For sure they will rule it unconstitutional. When it comes to health care reform, what a stupid country. The first real effort began with Truman, then Clinton. I hope we can keep this crappy bill, it does have some good things in it and it's the best this country can do given the GOP, the conservoDems, the vast right wing conspiracy (it is very real) and the huge corporate anti-reform lobby that has billions to throw around.

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