My God, you are an idiot.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

So taxing Wall Street is unconstitutional too now? I suppose that was predictable.

There was a time when one could tax or over-regulate finance to rein it in. This time was over a decade ago. It's all too interconnected now. Consider London's threats of bonus taxes two years ago. As soon it was announced, people started packing for other locales. And that was just a ruse... a political slab of meat for populists. Imagine what'd happen to us if we actually taxed Wall Street enough to drive people out of the finance industry. Half this fucking board would be unemployed.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

If the charge is that I don't spend a lot of time trying to accommodate policy to the whacky, anti-Obama constitutional theories the GOP has discovered in the last couple of years, I plead guilty as charged.

what have article 3 judges have to say about that so far? whacked out hate theories or legit challenges?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

what have article 3 judges have to say about that so far? whacked out hate theories or legit challenges?

It would be more fun to discuss constitutional law with you if you were to have something to say about constitutional law.

A great many Republicans who now say the individual mandate is unconstitutional previously saw no problem with it. How to fit that into your jurisprudence?

[Penske 2.0]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

do any of the Libs feel embarrassed that team-obama almost let wikileaks waste the intel on osama that W generated?

I'm a registered D, and on behalf of my felloe cohorts, yes. Duly ashamed.

Also, on behalf of my felloe Ds, I apologise to George W.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

plus, they pay a huge % of what they make for malpractice insurance

You didn't read the chart?

Hey Ty! what do our malpractice insurance costs look like compared to France?

I'm guess less than 2% of spending. What do I win?

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Cletus Miller

Isn't that just an argument that (1) medical education is too expensive, and (2) the malpractice piece of health insurance is *also* broken?

You aren't suggesting that med school prices might come down if doctor pay was lower are you? What are you, some kind of economist or something?

[Penske 2.0]

Is anyone else missing him?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

A great many Republicans who now say the individual mandate is unconstitutional previously saw no problem with it. How to fit that into your jurisprudence?

Before Griswald I might have thought it okay to ban condom sales, but after I'd realize the state cannot do so.

Originally Posted by Penske 2.0

Is anyone else missing him?

Him and Bush, equally.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Penske 2.0

Is anyone else missing him?

One thing I'm hoping is that we'll get a good hollywood-style (I'd take bollywood style, too) tell-all from one of his wives. You know, a "Married to the Terror Cell" kind of thing.

"Layla, I'm home!"

"Of course you're home, you never leave."

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

do any of the Libs feel embarrassed that team-obama almost let wikileaks waste the intel on osama that W generated?

Under Obama, "almost wasted" = bin Laden dead.

Under W, "not wasted" = bin Laden alive.

Huh.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

Under Obama, "almost wasted" = bin Laden dead.

Under W, "not wasted" = bin Laden alive.

Huh.

I was just messing with that one (though your logic= "Nixon put a man on the moon, Kennedy and Johnson couldn't") but the wiki-leak thing is scary, and I wonder why it hasn't been reported (not as an anti-obama thing as an anti-guy who leaked it thing)

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

I was just messing with that one (though your logic= "Nixon put a man on the moon, Kennedy and Johnson couldn't") but the wiki-leak thing is scary, and I wonder why it hasn't been reported (not as an anti-obama thing as an anti-guy who leaked it thing)

My understanding is that the Gitmo files contained some oblique references to the courier, but not necessarily anything that would have specifically jeopardized the mission. Have you heard otherwise?

Obviously, that won't necessarily be the case next time, which I agree is scary.

[Adder]

Not that what he thinks matters (as he doesn't seem to have much control over his caucus), but I'll credit Boehner for this:

"Pete, I love you to death, but I don't think the taxpayers ought to be paying your Medicare premium," Boehner said. "And under Paul Ryan's plan, what it says is, let's allow the American people to decide which health care plan fits their needs. And if you're middle-income, lower income, we are going to pay, just like we do today, for the cost of those premiums. But for people of means, there's no reason why we should subsidize Pete Peterson's premium. I'm sorry. He ought to pay the full cost of his premium to be in Medicare."

link

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Cletus Miller

Isn't that just an argument that (1) medical education is too expensive, and (2) the malpractice piece of health insurance is *also* broken?

Perhaps. But neither of those things is going to be fixed any time soon. And in the interim, people like the group of soft-headed graphic artists who put that chart together may cause further damage to medicine by causing a meritless argument to gain traction.