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Aramchek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-08-09 10:31 AM
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14. because that state is filled with jackasses?
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  -Isn't any PO supposed to be self sustaining? (So why would a state opt out?) Kurt_and_Hunter  Oct-07-09 06:35 PM   #0 
  - Political grandstanding and corruption would cause most the opposition  WonderGrunion   Oct-07-09 07:00 PM   #1 
  - I thought this was a national plan  Canuckistanian   Oct-07-09 07:08 PM   #2 
  - Exactly - Look at Mark Sanford of South Carolina - He Ended Up Accepting The Stimulus  TomCADem   Oct-07-09 11:52 PM   #4 
  - The point is that no state will actually opt-out.  Scarsdale Vibe   Oct-07-09 07:13 PM   #3 
  - For Freedom!  DrToast   Oct-08-09 12:03 AM   #5 
  - right! One day you're joining the Public Option, the next you're praying to Karl Marx  Doctor_J   Oct-08-09 12:19 PM   #24 
  - If such a compromise gets a strong PO created and established, so be it.  phleshdef   Oct-08-09 05:05 AM   #6 
  - Anyone foolish enough to opt out are fools of course.  LiberalFighter   Oct-08-09 08:34 AM   #7 
  - There appears to be no foolishness great enough for these diehards.  CTyankee   Oct-08-09 08:41 AM   #8 
  - Exactly. Let the idealogues opt out  Doctor_J   Oct-08-09 11:23 AM   #23 
  - Death panels and schoolhouse abortions.  geek tragedy   Oct-08-09 08:51 AM   #9 
  - Because it's a Democratic (party) plan.  Phx_Dem   Oct-08-09 09:42 AM   #10 
  - To protect the governors' corporate funding.  Overseas   Oct-08-09 09:56 AM   #11 
  - Look at it from a different point of view.  lumberjack_jeff   Oct-08-09 10:11 AM   #12 
  - But where does their standing come from?  Kurt_and_Hunter   Oct-08-09 10:21 AM   #13 
  - "Standing" isn't required. Pretexts and political ability are all that is required.  lumberjack_jeff   Oct-08-09 10:31 AM   #15 
     - Without some nexus I am having Constitutional issues  Kurt_and_Hunter   Oct-08-09 10:45 AM   #16 
        - I'm not sure why.  lumberjack_jeff   Oct-08-09 11:01 AM   #17 
           - Gottcha. Thanks.  Kurt_and_Hunter   Oct-08-09 11:01 AM   #18 
  - The house plan is a sliding scale  sandnsea   Oct-08-09 11:09 AM   #20 
     - But the sliding scale is backwards.  lumberjack_jeff   Oct-08-09 11:14 AM   #21 
        - Here's a comparison  sandnsea   Oct-08-09 01:18 PM   #25 
  - because that state is filled with jackasses?  Aramchek   Oct-08-09 10:31 AM   #14 
  - Ideology  karynnj   Oct-08-09 11:03 AM   #19 
  - Because psychos like Inhofe would rather their constiuents die than be saved by Obama  Doctor_J   Oct-08-09 11:21 AM   #22 
 

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