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To: LindyBill who wrote (346724)	1/31/2010 3:21:44 PM
From: Bearcatbob	Respond to of 793895

A simple test of the health care bill is that if was so good it would not have needed the La purchase or the Cornhusker kick back. Alternately, I guess one could say the two senators were simply playing the system in the same old corrupt bribery ways of legislation. Bob

To: LindyBill who wrote (346724)	1/31/2010 7:30:26 PM
From: mph	6 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793895

In a later segment of the show, Krugman stated that the reason the health care legislation failed was that the American people didn't understand the bills due to misrepresentation by Fox News. (Roger Ailes, who was on the show, shot Krugman down on that.) Krugman lamented that people did not read the NY Times more thoroughly. Krugman not only is clueless, he is so enamored with himself that he is incapable of understanding that the health care legislation failed precisely because the American people did understand the big points. People may not have understood all the nuances and details, but neither did the members of Congress who didn't read the bill and who learned important details only when exposed by bloggers and "right-wing" news organizations. Krugman and BHO are either blood brothers or share the same drug distributor<g>

To: LindyBill who wrote (346724)	2/1/2010 3:13:31 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793895

Krugman not only is clueless, he is so enamored with himself that he is incapable of understanding that the health care legislation failed precisely because the American people did understand the big points. Far be it from me to defend Paul Krugman, but lots of Democrats are being driven to say idiotic things about the failure of the dumb ignorant American people to appreciate the awesomeness of Obamacare. They are being driven to say these things because Obama is saying them. Obama is still committing his followers to try to pass the current bills. So they can't back off to a more reasonable position, such as "we made a mess of those bills. We need to try again, take out the bribes, and write a hundred page bill."