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DJ13

(23,671 posts)
9. And eliminate any possibility of a $500,000 to $1,000,000 speaking gig at an insurance convention
Thu Nov 14, 2013, 08:46 PM
Nov 2013

Last edited Thu Nov 14, 2013, 09:27 PM - Edit history (1)

once out of office?

Not gonna happen.

Yep. Cleita Nov 2013 #1
Ya know, it's just so freaking sad. This is a perfect wedge for real HCR. grahamhgreen Nov 2013 #5
Yeah, except he doesn't believe in either. PeteSelman Nov 2013 #2
and of course then I am sure the whole congress will rally around him and immediately pass it lostincalifornia Nov 2013 #3
For God's sake - you DLC types need to understand us progressives have the grahamhgreen Nov 2013 #4
"You dlc types". Who the hell are you referring to? lostincalifornia Nov 2013 #10
In my view, you simply couldn't be more wrong. Not advocating for it in the first place is exactly grahamhgreen Nov 2013 #12
But he didn't even advocate for it in the first place. HuckleB Nov 2013 #6
If that ends up happening, we'll never hear the end of the eleventybillionth dimensional chess crap. NuclearDem Nov 2013 #7
HAHA! I'd give it too them!!! grahamhgreen Nov 2013 #8
And eliminate any possibility of a $500,000 to $1,000,000 speaking gig at an insurance convention DJ13 Nov 2013 #9
I doubt very much that Obama will be offered many speaking engagements. PragmaticLiberal Nov 2013 #17
Medicare part E, the E standing for everyone. muntrv Nov 2013 #11
Yes! phiddle Nov 2013 #13
uh, you can only bargain down to what your own party will vote for. dionysus Nov 2013 #14
Straw man--the issue should have been Medicare buy-in, rather than subsidizing the private market. phiddle Nov 2013 #16
Wrong. Joe Lieberman was the one who stood between the public pnwmom Nov 2013 #21
There was, of course, something we could have offered Lieberman or one grahamhgreen Nov 2013 #24
No. That is what every damned Democrat in the United States has to say. ALL of us DevonRex Nov 2013 #15
This is an amazing leap. gulliver Nov 2013 #18
Quite the contrary. Intstead of him admitting mistakes, he should be grahamhgreen Nov 2013 #19
Why? A public option would not have fixed the website. pnwmom Nov 2013 #20
In my view, the website issue really involves the interface between the private insurers and the gov grahamhgreen Nov 2013 #22
It still wouldn't have changed anything because the private insurers pnwmom Nov 2013 #23
Wha I see there is that everyone would have signed up for the cheaper, better grahamhgreen Nov 2013 #26
Then he needs to say "we're also going to hold a few torture camp trials" Corruption Inc Nov 2013 #25
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