Mr. Velshi get’s this week’s Edward R. Murrow award, although watching Andrea Mitchell (finally) hound a totally mute Rex Tillerson at least twice to answer some very basic and badly needed questions was a close second.
The panicked look of Tillerson’s people trying to shove Andrea out the door said volumes.
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There are countless imaginary worlds where tax cuts decrease deficits, billionaires create jobs, and Republicans don’t kill poor people.
[/quote]And also where dumping coal ash into streams is good for the environment, killing unions actually raises worker’s wages, and earthquakes caused by fracking are somehow good for humans.
When confronted with a reasonable, fact-based arguments, these guys crumble. When people make claims and allegations, it’s the journalists’ job to question their claims and to ask for proof. Jordan couldn’t substantiate any of his statements.
Great job by Ali. We need to see more of this from our media - less overblown analysis, speculation and prediction and more challenging questions. Woe is America, if Jim Jordan is one of it leaders.
The ACA becomes law. Republicans in congress and many Republican governors do everything they can to ensure that it fails. As a result, it does not achieve every result it was intended to achieve, although it does provide health insurance (and not just “access” to health insurance) to up to 20 million Americans. And that saves lives.
What conclusion do you draw from those facts? That enacting the ACA was a cataclysmic disaster? Or that Republicans have acted against the nation’s interests and deserve to be abandoned by those newly insured voters?
Now how are the doctors going to keep their chickens with avian flu separate from their human patients with whatever flu is going around? And would Perdue and Tyson have some sort of buy back program?
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”
Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked (1935)
First all Republicans will have to define “wonderful.” How much you want to bet that they wouldn’t agree on the same definition?
That look is what you get when you hire some one who has never had to answer to the press/public.
Trump voter: “But if we vote out the Republicans who will keep us safe from teh gays and our restrooms/locker rooms safe for decent folk?”
No one’s arguing that America used to be great before the Tea Party came into existence, but the point is that the policies of the GOP have resulted in less freedoms for all of Americans, and their tenure at the helm of our Nation’s institutions has been a complete and utter disaster.
Whoever interviews this asshole is wasting their time. This jerk thinks his job is to be a potted plant in Congress, collect his taxpayer-funded salary and deny anyone else any kind of assistance from the government, in any form, except for him and his buddies in the form of corporate welfare…because freedumb or some such shit.
Its people like this that add farce to the line about GOP-led governance. Simply put…they don’t govern or have a desire to do so. That’s they whole point of why they’re there. Its their only core principle.
With that…the sun just came out and I just can’t let myself believe today that assholes like this will win the day…so I’m outta here.
No bet.
All TV pundits should be forced, like Malcolm McDowell in Clockwork Orange, to watch this clip.
THIS is how you interview a lying Rightwing politician. The full clip is worth watching.
The GOP can go suck the barrel of a .44 magnum but I will say that there is clearly a “supply and demand” aspect to health care that can be used to our advantage. There is no doubt that Americans, on average, are overweight, sedentary, and many are TOFI (thin outside, fat inside). We all have an enormous amount of control over our health but it’s so easy to just be lazy and eat horrible crap. Of course there are very serious congenital health issues, cancer, and unforeseen ailments that we suffer, but the “elective” obesity and heart disease comes from food choices and activity choices.
There would be far, far fewer doctor visits if people took more responsibility for their own health. That results in less demand for physician services and that means doctors will lower rates (and insurance premiums will fall too). There would also be far less demand for pharmaceuticals and other associated medical treatments and all of that would contribute to less demand.
The free market is more in our hands than we think. We can quit eating sugar and harmful fats. If the only thing people do to reverse bad health is to STOP EATING SUGAR, we’d be worlds better off and our national health costs would plummet.
Great film about how horrible sugar is: THAT SUGAR FILM (on Netfilx)
He has short stubby fingers, Jordan must be a Trump relative.
“No one is arguing that health care was wonderful before,"
Check in with your colleague Mo Brooks, from Alabama. Just this morning on NPR, Brooks declared that the repeal of Obamacare would return us to “the greatest healthcare system in world,” the one we had pre-2009.
Actually looks like Guthrie is sound asleep while Lance yawns and fights off the fatigue of “governing”.
I’m convinced that the GOP, especially the “Freedumb” Caucus, are too ignorant or mentally weak to actually comprehend all the problems that need to be addressed in US healthcare. They can tick off a few things they don’t like and attribute them to PPACA, but they never mention some of the major ones (like healthcare costs being the main driver of financial ruin) and never connect up things like the mandate, pre-existing conditions, and affordability. Their response is always a hodge-podge of disconnected things: tort reform, selling across state lines, and “personal responsibility,” whatever they happen to mean by that. Then they offer counterproductive policies like penalties for discontinuous coverage so that if you slip once, you’re possibly permanently locked out of insurance. I’m fatigued from being angry so much lately. Their aggressive stupidity drains me.
