That Dubya! What a cutup!

[Bullshot]

During a campaign stop on Monday, Bush took a poke at John Edwards by claiming that you can't support health care reform if you're siding with the health care industry, the consumers and the TRIAL LAWYERS.

Gee, but those trial lawyers sure come in handy when your wife is running stop signs and killing people.

They also come in handy when you're covering your ass in the Plame investigation.

What a moronic hypocrite!

[tomfodw]

1. No...

...the American people are, alas, the morons if they swallow Bush's transparent fumbling lies and idiocy.

Conservatives are all like this - they can do whatever they want, but God help you and me if we do it. Oliver North, for example, can have his conviction overturned on a technicality, but all dem boyz in da hood - why can't they just plead guilty and take their punishment like a man? The US can do whatever it wants in what it calls its national interest, but no other country can. George Bush can get into Yale as a legacy, but now, years later, he's learned that legacies are bad, mkay?

As I've said before, the problem the wingnuts have with John Edwards is not that he's a trial lawyer, but that he's a trial lawyer for ordinary, powerless people. The worst sin you can commit, see, is to become rich and not immediately turn your back on your roots, where you came from. The right wing dream is to climb the ladder and pull it up behind you, not try to help others climb it.

[lottie244]

2. Healthcare costs are high because MDs want to be wealthy!

Pharmeceutical companies want huge profits and fast. Insurance comapanies want huge, fast profits...it's that simple.

Just heard a discussion about milk prices. The price the farmers charge is about 50-60 cents per gallon lower but none of these decreases have been transferred to the public. In fact, the per gallon costs of milk have escalated recently. The windfall profits are going to the "middleman" not the dairy farmer. More and more dairy farmers are going out of business because they can't make a decent profit but they see the agraconglomerates and the retail stores reaping huge profits while the dairy farmers get the blame. It's them same in medicine and healthcare.The public is simply ignorant of the facts and no one will tell them because to tell them means that politicians will lose huge contributions from the lobbyists and corporations that pay them.

I was amazed to learn that the profit on a gallon milk at the retail level is anywhere from 100-110%