New Haven Independent

Posted by: Bill | October 13, 2009 2:38 PM

Rosa,
While you regulating insurance can I get the same life insurance rates as women? My rates are 50% higher than a women of the same age. Can I also get the same car insurance rates as women? Thanks for supporting equality for men.

Posted by: Walt | October 13, 2009 5:47 PM

While Rosa and her cohorts like Obama, Reid etc are gleefully taking millions from the Medicare program,which is already about broke, to pay for their new programs, seniors are cringing, seeing their medical coverage in jeopardy,

When did the Democrats surprisingly decide to turn against the old folks and strip them of their Medicare protection?

Posted by: dee | October 13, 2009 7:28 PM

So Walt, are you FOR government health reform or not? Seems you're not because you fear for your precious Medicare. Why should people be denied healthcare just because they have the misfortune of being under the age of 65?

My dad, on Medicare, went to a doctor for a tickle in this throat. Months of tests--including an invasive endoscopy--all done because Medicare would pay for it, ya wanna know what the diagnosis was? SEASONAL ALLERGIES. A Claritin made it go away. You trying to tell me there isn't waste in Medicare? That there isn't plenty of places to save money? Please.

Posted by: juli | October 13, 2009 9:40 PM

i think i am dreaming. did i just see in bill's comments the words "equality for men"????

can someone pinch me? preferably a woman, making .80 cents to the dollar that men make?

meanwhile, my friend's mother has just been diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer. somehow, it wasn't detected in her yearly exams. her ovaries are the size of softballs; her west virginian obgyn missed it. the republican states that are resisting health care reform are exactly where it is most needed.

i mean, really bill? kiss your mother with that mouth?

Posted by: Bo ItsHaky | October 13, 2009 11:08 PM

The REAL Party of No
Ever since the new administration was inaugurated, a tidal wave of legislation has surged forward from the Democrat leadership. Nearly all of this work is old. That is, most of the bills were killed in previous sessions of Congress, or were written by lobbyists and special interests waiting sometimes years for a moment such as this.

And, during the last nine months, the incumbent Democrats have accused the Republicans of being “the Party of No” because GOP leaders repeatedly urged their colleagues to slow down, if only long enough for legislators to obey the Constitution and actually read what they’re voting on. Furthermore, one after another, the Republicans offered bipartisan alternatives, only to be shut down and shut out.

In reality, the Democrats are the REAL Party of NO, and here are several reasons why:

1. TARP. Even before the election, Democrats accused the Republicans for not supporting the TARP bailout of the biggest, richest banks. For questioning the moral right of the government to pick and choose which bank should be allowed to take taxpayer cash and then use it to become richer and more powerful, the Republicans were already being called the “Party of Doing Nothing.” But the Democrats were the ones who said NO to sensibility and moderation.

2. Stimulus. When the Stimulus came around, the GOP was already stereotyped as “The Party of No” for not supporting a comprehensive recovery plan. But the Republicans denounced the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) (pronounced ERROR) as an inflation of welfare. Republican lawmakers issued dozens of amendments, but they were killed in committee by the Democrats, who said NO to steering tax money toward solid infrastructure projects this year.

Even progressive activists who advocated investment in public works as a good stimulus were unhappy with the expansion of welfare by ARRA. The progressives knew nothing in the stimulus package would actually help the economy or build public infrastructure. And, the Democrats said NO to stimulating the economy through tax breaks and targeted stimulus measures as the Republicans had requested.

3. Budget. The Democrats’ 2010 budget was released with great fanfare, and received by the public with great anxiety. Never before had so much money been committed to so many special interests. In response, the Republicans issued a structural blueprint of how they felt the next budget should progress: their plan called for moderation in the tough economic climate, especially as the IRS released a warning on revenue loss.

The incumbent Democrat leadership responded with ridicule, saying their budget had no numbers, and the media declared the GOP dead in the water. Within a week, the Republican alternative budget was fleshed out with numbers, but it was too late. Speaker Pelosi had the votes to pass her monolithic creation. And the Democrats said NO to compromise and NO to respect for the American taxpayer.

4. Cap-And-Trade. Rep. Henry Waxman’s job-destroying Global Warming bill was rushed through Congress. The quicker, the better. So many special interests stood to benefit from the penalties on American manufacturers, grants for unproven green industries, and carbon trading in the gambling house called Wall Street. All while doing literally nothing to alleviate climate change.

Immediately, the Republicans submitted their comprehensive “New Manhattan Project” for encouraging the strategic development of alternative energy. Grants for research and development would expand to full federal funding where progress toward sustainable energy solutions were proven. But Rep. Waxman denounced the bill as “a prize-giving competition” compared to his bill. The Democrat Party said NO to rewarding innovation and creative problem-solving.

5. Health Care Reform.Time and time again, Rep. Rosa DeLauro has denounced the Republicans for being a party without ideas, a party of “No.” In her House floor statement of April 29, 2009, Rep. DeLauro said:

If you listen to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, they were missing in action over this last 8 years. It is hard to believe that they were in charge. It is a little bit like “see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil.” They were gone from the playing field over these last 8 years. We will not let a party of “no” stand in the way of a reformed health care system that the majority of Americans so desperately want.

Long before Senator Kennedy’s terrible AHCA and Rep. John Dingell’s even worse AAHCA, there was the Republican’s bipartisan Patient’s Choice Act (PCA). It would enact major reforms to the industry and still keep government from intruding on the all-important doctor-patient relationship. The PCA promises to reward innovation, allow doctors the freedom to practice medicine as they see fit, and broaden the patients’ choices, while streamlining administrative work, reducing liability costs, and cutting down on fraud.

But the PCA is going nowhere. That’s because the Democrat leadership has said NO to giving the American people the right to choose what’s best for themselves and their families.

6. “Bipartisanship”. Like the rest of the veteran incumbent Democrat leadership, “bipartisanship” in the 111th Congress is simple: Vote with us! Or get NOas an alternative. Rep. DeLauro unequivocally stated:

We will work to craft bipartisan legislation, but the American people are not interested in process. They are interested in results.

For 12 years, the Democrat minority thundered about bipartisanship, about being included in the legislative process because they had been voted into office by Democrat constituents. President George W. Bush responded by including Democrat proposals into his agenda. The result was massive deficits. When Rep. DeLauro said,

But let’s be clear. It was under their leadership that a $5.6 trillion surplus turned into the historic budget deficit that President Obama and this Congress inherited a deficit of well over $1 trillion in 2009.

She really meant, “Let’s be clear. It was under Democrat guidance and authorship and pressure that massive entitlements were signed into law.” Only audacious denial of facts allow Democrats to get away with blaming the last Administration for debts and deficits when their administration will be tripling deficits each and every year!

Here is the truth about the last eight years: The problem was bipartisanship, offering the Democrat opposition a voice that did not belong to them. Because of this, an era of prosperity and record tax revenue still kept us trillions in debt.

When it comes to the last eight years, the blame game is rightly bipartisan. Both parties frittered away a great opportunity to use record revenues to balance the budget and reduce the debt while protecting manufacturing jobs.

What has happened since January 2009, however, sits squarely in the lap of the real Party of NO: The Democrats.
http://www.boforcongress.com/?p=1972

Posted by: Walt | October 14, 2009 6:56 AM

Dee

Weirdly, you seem disappointed that tests did not prove your Dad had cancer instead of just an itchy throat.

Tests can be wastes, and incompetent docs can be wasteful.

If my tests this year had been cancelled,my cancer would not have been diagnosed, and would not currently be under treatment. paid mostly by Medicare. and partly by myself.

I said millions, but it is really hundreds of billions of $$$$$$$$$$ the Obamacrats are taking from the shaky Medicare program to use for other purposes. .

It took us a hell of a long time to earn Medicare, but now you want to take it away to aid illegal aliens (in the earlier versions of the Bill) and others.

The Dems brought protection to old folks over many years and many Congressional Acts, but now they plan to dilute it so much that this protection will soon disappear.

Ask your Dad if he is not concerned re loss of his medical coverage.

I bet, if savings are made, that he would wish that they be used to shore up his Medicare than for the massive new Obamacratspending.

You may not recognize the value of Medicare until you, too, are old, and find that the Obamacrats killed Medicare, and you are up the proverbial creek without a paddle.

I guess I am lucky to have cancer this year instead of next, if the Democrat/Obama plan gets passed.

Posted by: cba | October 15, 2009 1:14 PM

When Delauro agrees to accept the public option plan in lieu of her lucrative congressional plan, then I will support her on health reform. Until that time, the hypocrite should go back to Washington where doubletalk is king.

Posted by: blue dog dem | October 17, 2009 3:01 PM

Juli,

WV is a blue state. Sen. Rockefeller, a carpetbagger and Byrd, a former member of the KKK, are both dems and the state voted for Obama.

BDD

Posted by: blue dog dem | October 17, 2009 7:16 PM

I got them backwards, but you get the drift