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winter 03/05/2010 12:27 AM Report
His wife is on the board of Wellpoint Health Insurance. This guy is the biggest hypocrit there is. He runs the lecture and talk show circuit and he's the one voting on the other side and obstructing progress. Guaranteed he lands in some lobby's lap if the deal isn't the real reason he's giving it up. Dad would be ashamed; cheap crook.
robdverity 03/03/2010 03:41 AM Report
Well, he impressed the hell out of me. Level headed. Vice President? Fantastic! Helluva ticket. Now if they would reduce terms to one - say eight years to reduce constant campaigning, restrain filibustering (maybe 51 votes?), constrain lobbying and make it more transparent and prohibit ex-congressman totally, as well as military suppliers from lobbying entirely (war's too critical to be based on profit), and financial wise-guys likewise as economic influences should not be manipulable for greed alone (as current sub-prime crisis shows). Why who knows, we might even become a worthwhile nation again. (But don't hold your breath.)
joankelly 03/02/2010 06:14 PM Report
I truly think Evan Bayh decided to leave politics at this time because his wife sits on the board of many health ins co's. earning in the millions for same. How does he explain that in the face of health care reform? Could be a sticky wicket in a national election. His stance as the guy calling for drastic change is a good one but it doesn't truly fit.
charlizecourriers 03/02/2010 05:19 PM Report
The American two party system is operating in its usual bipolar way and the Senator senses it but because he also demonstrates the 'reduction to the mean' dynamic, something he shares with Al Gore, he is at a loss when it comes to self understanding. And thus a perfect guest for Rose. Good bye, Bayh. Thanks for the laughs!
doodahdaze 03/02/2010 04:27 PM Report
Both parties are bought by the rich (over-paid liberals & snake-oil salesmen posing as conservatives), and just like the WWF, they yell in each others faces for the public, but they're really on the same side, sharing in the profits for being natural fools. Since Joe-Public is a product of a degenerated public educational-cultural system, they easily believe the hype and pick a side. Not understanding that that mentality is why the politicians ignore them, because if you're already for or against an issue (party) without really knowing what's going on, based some distorted dogma that their redneck grand-pappy told them. Then it's easier for the politicians to just take the money and act like monkeys and accomplish continued degeneration and break down of society in all aspects of life.
It's like a big corkscrew in the side of humanity's head. :(
"So as your President, I would like to announce, tonight I'm going to end all your pain. Tonight, I'm going to, push, the button."
AkagiKong 03/02/2010 04:21 PM Report
A reply to the first comment, we need to stop dancing around the pink elephant, bite the bullet and raise taxes. Personally, I think we need a gas tax; otherwise I don't see how we can bail enough water, fast enough, to keep the Chinese from stepping on our throats.
Back to Mr. Bayh...
Maybe it was the slice of Viga pizza I was chewing on at lunch today, but it sure sounded, to me, like the 2012 United States Democratic Presidential Election ticket will be: Obama/Bayh; I knew he was blowing smoke about why he stepped down, but...
Charlie, you need a round-table on that topic(all the usual suspects).
REMant 03/02/2010 12:28 PM Report
But the cost of insurance is directly related to the universality of it. If you have no-fault insurance, you will certainly encourage abuse and overuse. And it is clear that these bills will not reduce the deficit even if they do force a lot of the cost onto the health care industries. It is entirely laudable to want to pay for this by increasing taxes on unearned income and on drug and device mfrs, but it can never keep ahead of the price increase unless there are caps on prices, and if there are, it is likely that firms and personnel will leave the country or go into another line of work. You have to make health care affordable by making it possible for ppl to afford it, not by trying to force ppl to sell it more cheaply. The only way to do that is to do that is thru increasing the value of productivity by controlling easy money and credit, which at the same time will reduce the price rise caused by the increase in money occasioned by the credit. Blaming it all instead on industry is pretty typical of the Democrats. I think, BTW, you can forget pushing Bloomberg, Charlie. A partly black man may have been elected, but I doubt a Jew identified with New York and Wall St will be elected any time in the near future. He was barely re-elected in NY.