For All Massachusetts Residents - Don't forget to Vote
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For Scott Brown on 1/19!
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+1 Not talking politics, but +1.
But the title immediately made me remember a TV ad from when I was a kid in RI:
"And they don't call us Taxachussetts any more."
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That's not what was said in the debate last night.
Brown said that he is for health care reform, just not the bill that's currently being debated. He just wants a say in trying to help trim some of the enormous fat from the bill, which would never happen under Coakley's watch. This notion that this specific bill needs to pass because "That's the way Teddy wanted it" is ludicrous.
Sorry, I just can't help myself from abstaining sometimes.
Also, regardless of which candidate you like, just make sure to vote. It is our civic duty and our responsibility as Americans. This stuff matters a lot!
The bill needs to pass because there are people dying because they either have no coverage or inadequate coverage! Because families are being bankrupted by health care costs. How long do we have to keep debating this? No one is really saying it needs to pass because Teddy Kennedy wanted it... that's just bullshit Republican rhetoric, just like the idea that the reform bill will bankrupt us. The current non-system is bankrupting us and fucking people over left and right.
Stop listening to corporate shills on the radio who are nothing but experts on how to spur on rabid liberal haters, stop spending billions on bombs that piss off already destitute countries, and start spending money to fix our roads, our schools and our health care!
You're right... it does matter a lot!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJEEQHOnI2Q
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opini ... 67542.html
Don't forget to vote for Scott Brown!
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Which pisses me off because one of my biggest concerns is the fact that we live in a country in which no one is guaranteed health insurance. Why do we guranteee protection of our private property, but not our health? Unfortunately, the current health care reform bill is a convoluted mess which got that way because HMO lobbylists made it that way, to make sure they can keep and probably expand their profits. We should have a single-payer health care system, and we should have had it 50 years ago. Year after year, polls have shown that people want this. I really hate politics in America. Democracy is a joke here. Scott Brown, if he wins, will do nothing but ride a wave of discontent that leads to nowhere but the self-satisfaction of self-righteous conservatives. If Martha Coakley wins, at least we know millions more Americans will have health insurance and all of us will have better protections. So while I'm not a fan of her, I hope she wins. It comes down to the issues.
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Let's work on getting Pelosi out too!
If Bush or ANY other President was in power under these same circumstances would they do ANYTHING different? Would they?
Peace
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Probably not. I agree with you on that. Sad but true. We'll see what happens.
This has been by far the closest Massachusetts election that I can remember. It's impossible to get away from it. TV and radio ads nonstop. Regardless of political belief, it's so important to vote.
Rest assured, health care reform will pass before either Coakely or Brown take office, and after the changes take place, no one will be complaining about it anymore.
Meanwhile people with "pre-existing conditions" and people who lost their job due the unstable economy that the deregulated capitalism supported by guys like Scott Brown helped to create, have no health insurance. That's something worth complaining about. Brown would rather complain about the new taxes that only the rich will have to pay.
And having thought about it some more, I agree that Coakley should make an issue out of Scott Brown's legislation that would allow hospitals to deny the morning-after pill to rape victims. So I take back what I posted earlier. I hate to think if I were in that position that I would be told to go somewhere else.
So Coakley's got Clinton, Obama and the Democratic machine on her side... Brown's got McCain, Guiliani and the Republican machine, and all of the conservative mass media on his side. That psychopath Jay Severin on 96.9 FM in Boston is buddying up with Scott Brown... and for the record Severin the other day said Rush Limbaugh was "100% correct" in his recent statements regarding Obama and Haiti.
But guess when the Democratic and Republican machines are going away? NEVER. I'm sorry but thinking that voting for Scott Brown is a revolutionary act against "the machine" is delusional. I don't expect greatness from Coakely, but I do prefer the Democratic machine.
I find it ironic that Scott Brown grew up on welfare, because he's supported by those who would love to get rid of the welfare system, or who are always complaining about it.
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Rooting for Scott Brown!
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/column ... ott_brown/
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That must be a good sign for Brown.
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
I would guess it is going to be a low turnout... both seem to be pretty shitty candidates.
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“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
I just voted and it is snowing. It will be interesting to see what role, if any, the inclement weather plays on today's election.
It's looking like a classic suburb vs. city showdown. I live out in the suburbs, and there's no virtually no Martha Coakley yard signs near where I live, but I've seen plenty of Scott Brown signs in yards, some big signs on the backs of pick-up trucks, and many people standing by the road holding Brown signs at intersections and such. The only Coakley sign I've seen near home is in front of a public school. But I work in Boston, and once I got off the highway during my commute this morning, I saw a huge group of people with Coakley signs and no Scott Brown signs anywhere.
The turnout for Brown seems like it will be much higher in the suburbs than I've seen for Republicans in the past, including Mitt Romney, who was elected governor with 55%........ it's not looking good.
Coakley bristles at the suggestion that, with so little time left, in an election with such high stakes, she is being too passive.
“As opposed to standing outside Fenway Park? In the cold? Shaking hands?’’ she fires back, in an apparent reference to a Brown online video of him doing just that.
Well yes, politicians go out to meet the voters even if it means standing out in the cold. At least politicians who want to win in Massachusetts.
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So Coakley is a horrible candidate? Thanks for the breaking news.
No problem - oh wait I'm the thread starter.
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Mexico=1, Colombia=1
How the Healthcare Reform Bill.....
Could possibly come down....
To one election....
Involving 2 candidates....
That 99% of the nation, has never fucking heard of......
Strange little country we live in.......
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....