LiveBlog for Wednesday, August 12, 2009

amprogPeter Harbage, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform.

schwartzRep. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform.

• At a town hall meeting in Portsmouth, New Hampshire yesterday, President Obama complained about opposition scare tactics against a proposed health care overhaul, but said failing to fix the problems in the current system would be the scariest outcome of all.

A hostile crowd shouted questions and made angry statements yesterday at a town hall meeting on health care in Pennsylvania led by Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA). At one point, Specter shouted into his microphone that demonstrators disrupting the proceedings would be thrown out.

• Under criticism for appearing extravagant, the House of Representatives is dropping a plan to make the Pentagon buy more civilian-style jets than it requested. The jets would have been used to transport D.C. officials, including members of Congress.

Former White House adviser Karl Rove was deeply involved in the firing of a U.S. attorney in New Mexico, according to White House e-mails and transcripts of closed-door testimony released yesterday.

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Commenting on the very first post today:
Mama doesn't need her bangs all the time. When I saw Steph in Seattle last Saturday, she was smokin' hot as usual. She was dressed very casually and had on a pair of really great looking boots. All the other speakers on the panel that night were fawning all over her, especially Mike Malloy!

stan "Hussein" near Seattle

Pickins - T. Boone or Slim? Hmmmmm...
Happy hump day!

And so ends once again the fastest three hours on radio. See you all tomorrow!

lol Chris! heels hitting their butts!

Where is Dan White these days. Maybe working for the federal government.

377- Yep. Have a good day every one!

Buh bye, Mookies!

Don't you change a thing.

L.

Pickens sponsored the Swift Boat bullshit. He's permanently on my list, I don't believe much in his ideas about "energy independence". I'm glad Al Franken confronted the bastard.

Hey Skyhawk, theres something up when T. Boone publicly pushes a business plan.

Bill Clinton standing next to Dear Leader was symbolic. Clinton was about twice as tall, Kim looked like a little kid. Clinton could have driven Kim into the ground with one sharp blow on the top of his head..

In the CONGA!!! LOL!!!

T. Boone Pickens is pushing natural gas because he owns most of the property where plants would have to be built.

So very true, TR.

369
They ARE wimps for the most part. Bought and sold wimps. Like Reid. That goes for reps like Pelosi as well.

367
I gotta keep up SOME appearances.

Actually, when I had a mustache many years ago, my avatar cat kept trying to eat it.

George, I usually tune from Morning Joke to Jerry Springer, since Joe Scarborough often acts the ass, and is incredibly rude and asanine toward all women on the show. It's a good show when Joe is not there.

There has to be a way to get these town meetings under control. The senators look like wimps. Like parents not knowing what to do with their unruly two-year-olds.

These people demonstrating at the town halls across the country are an embarrassment to America. They are not trying to discuss or debate the issues and they could care less about health care for all Americans. A few of them were shipped in by the health care companies to stop any rational discussion, and then they antagonized the rest, which are a bunch of frustrated, ignorant, angry, hateful, “fools”. And once again, they have been lead astray by the Republican Party and their corporate sponsors. These “fools”, time and time again, have fought against their own best interests. Because they are so easily duped, they are the perfect fodder for all kinds of nonsense: unnecessary wars, more guns, more jobs overseas, more corporate ownership of our country, more pollution, etc. They are loud and boisterous but have never learned that just being the loudest in the room doesn’t make you any more right.

You have to SHAVE to go buy cat food, TR?

Pussy!

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I was hoping to get a nice, scruffy 4-day beard growing, but I gots to go out after the show and get some cat food. Yes, my cats rule me. :(

But they're so sweet. :)

The Soylent Solution (tm)..

Hey can we talk about Minnie f**king Goofy again? How would that work?

The same townhall disruptive idiots were in attendance at the teabag rallies. I see little hope for them, they are sheep and will be shorn and fornicated with all their lives. Killing them early and eating them is a service to them, a kindness, helping them out of their misery..

Yes, the Media BITES

Every attempt at a dollar coin has failed. I haven't had the problem either, but I prefer to have paper in my billfold vs dollar coins in my pocket.

There was a newsphoto somewhere where a proud father had a sign including swastikas propped up in front of his kids' stroller! What a country!

Alan Colmes is on WWRL but through FoxNewsRadio.

The passion the health lobbyists are paying them to have?

#352 "an" machine? Man, I can't type.

#350, I've never been confused between a quarter and dollar coin, so that complaint has always confused me. And the new stamp machines take credit/debit cards.

#350 Our local post office has an machine that takes credit and debit cards.

#346 - not "privatized" -- but it is a independent governmental corporation. Done in 1971 - Nixon.

My problem with the USPS are the idiots who design the stamp machines, including such things as requiring the use of the dollar coins (you know, the ones nearly similar in size to quarters)..

339. They can turn in their medicare cards at the town hall meetings and somebody from health insurance industry could set up tables outside to sell them policies.

#346 It's a "government corporation."

And with that, chilluns, I have to leave you. I've got to work on this presentation about garageband. See yez when I do! :)

Buh Bye, Bloggoes! :mrgreen:

Wasn't the Post Office privatized several years ago?

And the former is prohibited by law from being so.

343 -- difference between USPS and FedEx and UPS is that the latter 2 are profitable.

I have never had the trouble with the Post Office that I've had with FedEx or UPS.

#341 Only some of the Free Market Repubs. Like Prescott Bush.

#336, wait, didn't the Socialist New Deal Dems beat the Nazis, while the Free Market Repubs tried to collaborate with them? I'm so confused.

Hey, I think this show stumbled upon the answer to this. The government should send out forms as part of this new health care option that let you opt out. If you don't want government health care then you opt out and you can't get it. Then, when they lose their insurance they'll have to beg to get the public option. I bet it would shut up a lot of people and take the wind out of the arguement.

At least once an hour Daisy T. Beagle comes in here and stands up with her paws on the arm of my chair and demands that I pet her for about two seconds. Then she leaves. I love that dog!

I'm off to work. See you all later.