The real stealth public policy that may be affected by the Tucson shootings

[hal2kilo]

Say it isn't so. Peoples opposition to the new healthcare law may be weakening in the aftermath of the Tucson shootings?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41104102/ns/politics-more_politics/

 

[HamburgerBoy]

That is an article on public healthcare with a few obligatory interjected paragraphs on the shooting. No where are the two correlated, and by acting as if they are you have proven yourself to be the kind of gullible imbecile that actually gets excited by irrelevant openers.

 

[Darwin333]

Say it isn't so. Peoples opposition to the new healthcare law may be weakening in the aftermath of the Tuscon shootings?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41104102/ns/politics-more_politics/

Wow, you like statistics and polls now? Just a few hours ago you posted, and I am quoting:

There are lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Personally I think the entire debate is retarded. It isn't getting repealed anytime soon so both sides need to STFU about it. OTOH, the more they argue about this the less fucking other shit up they do...

 

[hal2kilo]

Wow, you like statistics and polls now? Just a few hours ago you posted, and I am quoting:



Personally I think the entire debate is retarded. It isn't getting repealed anytime soon so both sides need to STFU about it. OTOH, the more they argue about this the less fucking other shit up they do...

Oh I agree that it isn't going to get repealed. The GOP is sure making their new vocal base, that they are using by the way, the Tea Partiers, think that it's really going to happen though.

I guess the point of my OP is that the gun fetishers are getting all worked up that new gun control legislation is going to seriously be considered. I would say, not in my lifetime. The leadership of the Democratic Party has realized this since Al Gore lost the election in 2000 but whenever some outlier on the Demo side brings it up, they go ape shit. That's why I think it funny that there was when Obama was elected and now, a renewed run on guns and ammo. Paranoia at it's best. Something to do with the lizard brain I guess.

 

[feralkid]

Let's get it right:

T-U-C-S-O-N

Not to be picky, but it gets annoying to some of the locals.

 

[MooseNSquirrel]

You mean the perceived opposition?

 

[hal2kilo]

Let's get it right:

T-U-C-S-O-N

Not to be picky, but it gets annoying to some of the locals.

Oops! I'm a dyslexic fuck. I'll edit my post if I remember how to get back into it.

 

[hal2kilo]

You mean the perceived opposition?

With those damn humans, perception is everything.

 

[ProfJohn]

I think the real reason approval of the bill is going up is because it really isn't doing much at this point.

Wait another year or two before the harsh stuff kicks in and healthcare rates go up to cover all the 'free stuff' people can get etc etc.

Hell.... approval for the Iraq war was insanely high, and then people started coming home in body bags.

 

[Infohawk]

What's the connection between the two things? Doesn't seem like there is any

 

[First]

Hell.... approval for the Iraq war was insanely high, and then people started coming home in body bags.

Except the average American won't feel a net negative effect from healthcare reform. Meanwhile, the average American certainly will feel a net negative effect from fellow citizens dying or being maimed, many of them friends and family. Isn't it interesting you once said disapproval of Iraq would wane from the 60% it was at years ago, yet it's still at 60% today.

 

[irishScott]

What's the connection between the two things? Doesn't seem like there is any

I suppose in theory the right has something new to rage against now, so attention is diverted. No confirmed correlation though.

Personally I oppose it on grounds of getting nothing more than a deficit compounding complex bureaucracy of a healthcare plan, but like most point out it probably isn't going anywhere. So I'll roll with it, see where it goes, and get to sing told-ya-so in a few years if it goes the way I think it's going to. Here's hoping it works.

 

[feralkid]

Oops! I'm a dyslexic fuck. I'll edit my post if I remember how to get back into it.

Thanks!

Actually happens very often...one of the local stores even had some mis-printed novelty license plates. I regret not buying some.

Further confusion arises from the airport code. TUS.