Thursday, June 11, 2009

Obama Pretends that Nobody Has Offered an Alternative Plan

Ummm...

“To those who criticize our efforts, I ask them, `What’s the alternative?’” Obama said at a town hall-style meeting, surrounded by supportive citizens in the heartland.

Hey, President Obama?  It’s over here.

 

(5) Comments
Posted by Owen at 2119 hrs
Politics + Politics - General

  1. It’s too bad the Republicans don’t ever seem to talk about stuff like this.  Obama would have a much harder time getting away with acting this part if the GOP was more aggressive in discussing alternatives.

    I mean, the fact that we have to dig through Paul Ryan’s website to find this on a page coded in 1994-style HTML says it all, doesn’t it?

    Posted by Recess Supervisor on June 11, 2009 at 2328 hrs


  2. IIRC, Ryan did the rounds on radio and TV when he released this.  It’s not that he wasn’t talking about it.

    Posted by Owen on June 12, 2009 at 0640 hrs


  3. I do have to agree with Recess on this. My mother is still spouting that Rove is evil and the whole mess that we are in is because of Bush and company. In her defence, she reads newsweek, watches only network news and has some very activist family and friends, but I see the issue being that no one else but Dems are loud and proud. If more folks took the Socratic method of answering questions, one of two things would happen, either the networks would just stop interviewing because it would be too uncomfortable being in the hotseat or folks would start seeing that they are being fed a line of bull.

    Sample interview:
    So why do you think Sarah Palin has such thin skin and feels the need to get catty when responding to Letterman’s comedy routine?
    Answer: So do you think it is comedy in good taste to refer to a former Vice Presidential candidate as slutty? Do you really feel that rape of a minor is acceptable?

    or
    The Governor of the state of WI has said that the budget is cut to the bone and no additional spending can be cut so we will have to raise taxes to pay for things like schools for children and gas for police cars.

    answer: I agree that we need to pay for gas and schools but do we really need to pay for the governor to go to the superbowl with his family and friends? Do we need to pay for vacations for Milwaukee aldermen?

    People, I am finding out are voting simply because they don’t know. If we here have to look for something on the web then you can be assured that the information is not known to the majority of voters. Messages have to be hammered and repeated in order to break through the opiate fog most of the voters are in right now.

    Posted by fishaddict on June 12, 2009 at 0829 hrs


  4. If we de-couple insurance from employment (as Ryan suggests), what happens to the uninsurable employee if the employer’s health plan no longer has to take him or her?  (As I understand Ryan, each worked gets a tax credit which can be used to buy insurance in the private sector—that won’t work it no insurer has to take him or her.)  The beauty of insurer-based health insurance is that the group carrier has to take the employee and dependents on the same basis as other healthy employees.  Sending people into high-risk pools like HIRSP is no answer as the co-pays and deductibles are insane.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 12, 2009 at 0854 hrs


  5. C’mon, Owen.  Don’t you know that libertarian/conservative answers aren’t “alternative solutions,” they’re “tired old rhetoric, and failed ideas?”

    Sheesh.  Get with it, man.

    Posted by Mike Gallo on June 13, 2009 at 0801 hrs


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