Rachel Maddow is .. well .. wow!

Rachel Maddow makes Pat Buchanan’s head explode as she easily exposes the underbelly of conservative politics. If you’re poor and need help—you’re socialist scum—and screw your kids too.

Go watch this absolutely stunning takedown over at Crooks and Liars

William Kristol Proves He Has No Soul

Further to my earlier posts on SCHIP... From Crooks and Liars

We’ve joked that Weekly Standard Editor/PNAC signatory/Fox News Contributer William “The Bloody” Kristol is a soulless vampire, but he obviously wants to leave no doubt in our mind.

Listen to him on the subject of the SCHIP Amendment:

From whence he goes on to say (among other things)

you can do two ways: expand government insurance or make it easier for families to buy private insurance. Republicans want to try to make it easier through the tax code for families to get private insurance; Democrats want to expand government insurance. I think it’s a good philosophical fight for Republicans, if they can explain the issue well enough that the Democrats can’t simply get away with demagoguery

Just wondering if it would be considered demagoguery to point out that every single healthcare system in the world is LESS EXPENSIVE than the US system and that one of the major reasons for that is the built-in overhead of marketing and profit for the insurance companies?

And don't even bother trying to bring up "well it is the best system in the world". The overall results are below most industrialized nations even if you just consider the broadest measure, average life span.

SCHIP -- No Winner

I have to respectfully disagree with the characterization of this in the headline at Swampland.
No one wins from this. Not the Democrats, not the Republicans, not Bush and not the kids.

If this gets vetoed and the veto sticks EVERYONE involved should be ashamed of themselves for not making it work!

I do not understand how anyone with a soul could have voted against this bill. And yes Dennis Kucinich I am looking at you when I say that. It isn't a perfect bill .. so what .. it is a damn sight better than what the alternative is.

I do not understand for the life of me why there is any debate in this country that there needs to be some form of basic universal single payer health care. I live in the insurance capital of the country and you know what .. i don't give a damn that it might cost a job or two here. This is one of those times where the right thing to do just stares you in the face and all you have to do is say "yes let's do that"

Can someone explain to me why this is hard?