oddeye - 2009-11-06
I wish I could vote for Alan Grayson. He absolutely on-the-fucking-money with this.
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glendower - 2009-11-06
I can imagine this landing in a textbook on American rhetoric.
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CornOnTheCabre - 2009-11-06
America deserves more Alan Graysons right now.
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Cena_mark - 2009-11-06
At some point I didn't have health insurance and it didn't kill me. I had no Idea not having health insurance was so deadly. Does "didn't have health insurance" appear as the cause of death on their death certificates?
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Cena_mark - 2009-11-06 That's not my plan. I just know that no plan is better than Pelosi's 2000 page monstrosity. And I do have a plan, but the Dems won't like it because it gives power to the people and not government.
1. Allow people to buy health insurance across state lines.
2. Eliminate mandates from health insurance policies.
3. Allow employees to actually own the policies their employers pay for ... which would mean they could take those policies with them.
4. Allow people to form groups to buy large group policies.
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Smellvin - 2009-11-06 Agreeing with PoETV's resident troll makes me sad, but this is the rough equivalent of a Republican reading a list of people who had died in Democratic districts as a reason to vote for the Iraq War bill back in 2002.
An appeal to emotions is an appeal to emotions.
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William Burns - 2009-11-06 Soo...
1. Allow insurance companies to further consolidate on a national level.
2. Deregulate some more!
3. ???!
4. Allow people to buy group policies (as long as it's not from the government!) (unless it's one of the programs that old people like!)
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William Burns - 2009-11-06 To Smellvin: Our side is allowed to appeal to emotions, too. We've already won the minds, now let's win the hearts.
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simon666 - 2009-11-06 Smellvin, I think you're right when you point out the fallacy of appealing to emotion, however, a strictly logical discourse does not adequately address the issue of health reform, something that is necessarily a moral issue and therefore not easily divorced from emotion. There are the logical reasons we should reform heath care/insurance: it's too expensive, often it doesn't work the way it "should," it will negatively effect the economy and national security if left how it is, etc. But there is another reason why it should enact reform, the current health system, by virtue of negligence, kills people and this is ethically wrong. Reading the projected number of people who will die underscores this point.
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Cena_mark - 2009-11-06 Do you libs even know what's in the Pelosi bill? Its about 2000 pages of who knows what. The dems aren't even going to read it. You call that intelligence?
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simon666 - 2009-11-06 Logical fallacy, Cena, the fallacy of ignorance... "who knows what," ie: I don't know what's in the bill therefore it must be bad. College debate score: Simon 2, Cena 0
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Cena_mark - 2009-11-06 Fuck your college debate. In the real world nobody cares about what guys in togas said thousands of years ago. I know the Pelosi bill is bad because anything like that coming from the government is bound to be bad.
Cena_mark 1000000 Simon666 0 and is gay.
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Keefu - 2009-11-06 "In the real world nobody cares about what guys in togas said thousands of years ago."
another sick burn on philosophy from noted intellectual cena_mark of the "ethos, pathos, and 'mythos' " school
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simon666 - 2009-11-06 "Anything coming from the government must be bad."
And you were doing so well up until that point. You lost me here, too obvious. Here try again. Maybe a qualifier, like "...because the bureaucracy can never do anything right."
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jangbones - 2009-11-06
Framing his speech as "I want no blood on my hands" is evil and awesome.
He also clearly lays out a lot of data to support his conclusions. God forbid.
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zatojones - 2009-11-06
so is this sort of goofy acting out his thing now?
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Viator - 2009-11-06
Wow, he sure stuck it to the ten R deadenders in the chamber at the time. And such clever use of maths too.
Surely health care reform's passage is assured now.
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HoboTech - 2009-11-06 You're still here?
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simon666 - 2009-11-06 Take notes from Cena on this one.
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baleen - 2009-11-06
I think Viator is commenting more on the uselessness of this speech in the grand scheme of things than the actual passage of the bill.
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Toenails - 2009-11-06 One-star in response to your comment.
Not in the sense that I agree with you, just that your comment absolutely sucks at trolling the denizens of poeTV.
In case you believe that I'm playing into your hands by 1-starring this video, keep in mind that I'm actually siding with Cena_Mark (cause he's the good troll that gets many responses and you aren't) and the video is actually quite boring.
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Keefu - 2009-11-06 cena_mark isn't a troll, he's legitimately stupid and worthless with no intellectual curiosity at all
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Keefu - 2009-11-06 also viator is probably talking about how Grayson is a shitty double-dealing, lying motherfucker
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Toenails - 2009-11-07 Goddammit Keefu.
Stop curmudging it up all the damn time.
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chumbucket - 2009-11-06
I hope this solidifies his candidacy as president of the future zombie nation.
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cognitivedissonance - 2009-11-06
When the Michelle Bachmann is ready, the Alan Grayson appears.
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Frank Rizzo - 2009-11-06
why didnt he read off the number from democratic areas?
still pretty cool though.
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memedumpster - 2009-11-06
If only Democrats supported this guy. What are his supporter numbers up to now, six?
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