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Reply #125 - Aug 14th, 2009 at 11:10am  
Not necessarily a problem, Brew.  Reagan's approval rating was -21% at one time in 1983, and he got re-elected in 1984. These things reflect 'sentiment' - when the recession ended and the angst started to clear, his support increased to +30%.   

Lot's of other interesting patterns in the approval ratings:

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Reply #126 - Aug 14th, 2009 at 11:30am  
The National Health Service has become the butt of increasingly outlandish political attacks in the US as Republicans and conservative campaigners rail against Britain's "socialist" system as part of a tussle to defeat Barack Obama's proposals for broader government involvement in healthcare.

Top-ranking Republicans have joined bloggers and well-funded free market organisations in scorning the NHS for its waiting lists and for "rationing" the availability of expensive treatments.

As myths and half-truths circulate, British diplomats in the US are treading a delicate line in correcting falsehoods while trying to stay out of a vicious domestic dogfight over the future of American health policy.... The Guardian

Yup, it's in all the papers over here...!

All I can say is that the NHS has saved my mother's life. It is currently providing the best care possible to my little girl, who unfortunately suffers from severe allergies and asthma. I receive all my oxygen, imitrex injections and other meds for a minimal fee and from January absolutely free. So to you of a particular ideology, lay of the NHS, it has a momentous role in UK society and free for all.


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Reply #127 - Aug 14th, 2009 at 12:54pm  
Charlie wrote on Aug 14th, 2009 at 10:15am:
If we're lucky, Monty, there will be a backlash against the GOP for the Nazi references.


Oh, I think you'll see blacklash, plenty.  Maybe you'll open up your eyes.

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Not the only example, either.

I'm sure it's totally untrue since it is a blog, afterall.
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Re: The Prez & Politburo Want Single Payer Health Care
Reply #128 - Aug 14th, 2009 at 4:10pm  
Charlie wrote on Aug 14th, 2009 at 10:15am:
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Health care is a different animal and has the support of lots of people on the right side of the aisle as well as a majority of the country.


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If this board is even a small cross-section of what the country looks like, it looks pretty even to me.  I don't recall anyone saying that they don't want to see reform and adjustments made to the current system.  Hell, I, myself, have argued vehemently that something needs to be done.  My daughter is a prime example what lack of health care/insurance can do to you.

Why is it that if *I* do not like and am steadfastly against the current programs touted by Obama, am I labeled anything but what I am, an individual who is concerned about the complexity and convolutedness of a bill that is over 1000 pages long?
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Re: The Prez & Politburo Want Single Payer Health Care
Reply #129 - Aug 14th, 2009 at 7:03pm  
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All I can say is that the NHS has saved my mother's life.


Steven Hawking said it saved his life too. This was a blow to some people that thought he was a strong critic and would say otherwise.

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If this board is even a small cross-section of what the country looks like, it looks pretty even to me.  I don't recall anyone saying that they don't want to see reform and adjustments made to the current system.  Hell, I, myself, have argued vehemently that something needs to be done.  My daughter is a prime example what lack of health care/insurance can do to you.


Reform is just fine so long as it isn't reform that benefits Wall Street more than the people that need it. The one insurers and drug companies are all for the Wall Street "reforms."

Obama is doing just fine and no one on the right or left for that matter, comes close. 

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Reply #130 - Aug 15th, 2009 at 8:37am  
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LOL, quoting me won't make me un-ignore you Monty.

Whatever you said, I'm sure it was great stuff though.

-Shawn


The last one, even better.  Kinda funny, too.
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