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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTed Rall: Palin is right about the ACA; healthcare.gov is Obama's Katrina
In case people doubt that there are Ted Cruz types on the left.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/25/1250564/-Via-Sarah-Palin-How-Obama-s-Idiotic-ACA-Might-Lead-to-Real-Healthcare-Reform
It's not the same.
If Team Obama had been plotting Canadian-style socialized medicine all along, they wouldn't have floated all those dumb "heckuva job, Barry"-style excuses that turned healthcare.gov into the president's Katrina moment:
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"With Obamacare we have crappier health care (fewer choices, fewer doctors, and an IPAB rationing panel of faceless bureaucrats, aka the ol' 'death panel' that has been admitted to existing in Obamacare), but it is very expensive for the individual American Americans, if you're faced with a 300% increase (or even a 65% increase like my family) in your health care premiums for crappier coverage, doesn't 'free' socialized medicine all of a sudden sound appealing? And that's how Americans will be led down the primrose path to a single-payer system. People will be frustrated, worn out, and broke under this new government burden. Many will end up concluding they'll settle for then demand full socialized medicine because they'll see how the unworkable Obamacare will break our health care system (where, presently, no one is turned away from emergency rooms and we have many public and private safety nets for people in need), along with busting our personal bank accounts."
I never thought I'd say this, but: From Sarah Palin's lips to God's ears.
Ted Rall may be the stupidest fucking asshole on the planet.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)selection there.
Cha
(297,655 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)got it.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Still got that Kochpuppet image?
It'll work for this guy.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)scheming daemons
(25,487 posts).... then they said Hurricane Sandy was Obama's Katrina.
The thing is.. Obama is not incompetent ... so he wont have a Katrina.
mopinko
(70,215 posts)gollygee
(22,336 posts)In one, people have to put up with an annoying website.
In the other, the government failed to adequately help people after a tragedy and many people suffered and/or died who didn't have to.
Archae
(46,345 posts)This is the same ditwit who said "Maus" creator Art Spiegelmann "had no talent," and that Pat Tillmann was a racist who went to Afghanistan and Iraq just so he could kill Arabs.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)He registered at Daily Kos on October 7, and has been having a trolling out meltdown over Obamacare.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/07/1244947/-Minimum-Premium-For-Obamacare-for-Me-828-month
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/08/1245199/-My-attempt-to-register-for-Obamacare
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/18/1248598/-ACA-Website-to-New-Yorker-Drop-Dead-at-least-until-December
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/21/1249260/-Obamacare-Unexpected-Error
Cha
(297,655 posts)they are glitches.
rbrnmw
(7,160 posts)demosincebirth
(12,543 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,706 posts)I hadn't heard.
OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)Right!
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)For those who don't know it, HRs in DKos speak is "Hide Rate" or a sort of mega unrec. I've rarely seen any HRs on Diarys or comments there but there are a ton of them here. 8 on the Diary and 15 on one of his comments. That is huge.
I think he is going to get banned from the site.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)He is really bitter that his cartoons made him a laughing stock instead of making people laugh.
xfundy
(5,105 posts)Rall is not stupid. Let it play out.
If you want to call me stupid for saying so, feel free. Doesn't affect me a bit.
Progressive dog
(6,918 posts)Nah, unfortunately he has a lot of competition for that title.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)What will they ever do next month when the site is fixed? Another meltdown perhaps?
I hope he is punished by having to spend some time with her.
dionysus
(26,467 posts)sweetloukillbot
(11,068 posts)Nothing edgy, latest Spider Man, Green Lanter/Green Arrow reissues, that sort of thing. He sent me a copy of some 9/11 conspiracy graphic novel he did. I took one look at it and tossed it in the charity auction pile. He sent me nasty letters for months complaining that I wouldn't review it.
Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)titled, "'bin Laden determined to strike the United States.'"
Stainless
(718 posts)What a pathetic POS he turned out to be. He used to be a decent cartoonist. Now he's become a parody of a good cartoonist.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Lithos
(26,404 posts)I'm gonna invoke one too...
Ted Rall has jumped the shark.
I have just as much validity to invoke it as he does.
L-
brush
(53,862 posts)gtar100
(4,192 posts)This whole website crap is just bullshit.