Comments for The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy http://jeffreyjena.wordpress.com Looking at politics and life from the right side Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:10:36 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: Facebook Comment to Folks in the News by JC http://jeffreyjena.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/the-vast-right-wing-conspiracy-facebook-comment-to-folks-in-the-news/#comment-653 JC Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:10:36 +0000 http://jeffreyjena.wordpress.com/?p=758#comment-653 Well done. Well done.

]]> Comment on The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: Healthcare Revisited by Stilton http://jeffreyjena.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/the-vast-right-wing-conspiracy-healthcare-revisited/#comment-651 Stilton Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:01:02 +0000 http://jeffreyjena.wordpress.com/?p=756#comment-651 Following that link, it indicates that of doctors who <i>favor</i> expansion of coverage, a majority support a combination of public and private option. But note that the survey only asks doctors to express their preference for HOW coverage is expanded...not IF it should be expanded, or if other options (ie, clinics, vouchers, etc) should be considered. So a majority of a subset of doctors favors a combined public/private option...but the poll results can't be extrapolated to doctors at large. Following that link, it indicates that of doctors who favor expansion of coverage, a majority support a combination of public and private option. But note that the survey only asks doctors to express their preference for HOW coverage is expanded…not IF it should be expanded, or if other options (ie, clinics, vouchers, etc) should be considered.

So a majority of a subset of doctors favors a combined public/private option…but the poll results can’t be extrapolated to doctors at large.

]]> Comment on The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: Healthcare Revisited by Ben Hoffman http://jeffreyjena.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/the-vast-right-wing-conspiracy-healthcare-revisited/#comment-650 Ben Hoffman Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:01:06 +0000 http://jeffreyjena.wordpress.com/?p=756#comment-650 There are many sources out there, but here's one from the New England Journal of Medicine: http://healthcarereform.nejm.org/?p=1790 I realize that they don't slant the facts to the right so you wouldn't consider them a valid source. To right-wingers, without the right-wing spin, that means they have a liberal bias. There are many sources out there, but here’s one from the New England Journal of Medicine:

http://healthcarereform.nejm.org/?p=1790

I realize that they don’t slant the facts to the right so you wouldn’t consider them a valid source. To right-wingers, without the right-wing spin, that means they have a liberal bias.

]]> Comment on The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: Healthcare Revisited by Stilton http://jeffreyjena.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/the-vast-right-wing-conspiracy-healthcare-revisited/#comment-649 Stilton Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:31:32 +0000 http://jeffreyjena.wordpress.com/?p=756#comment-649 I'm not aware of the (ahem) statistic that Ben refers to. But I AM aware of the study that said up to 45% of doctors would consider retiring early from the practice of medicine if healthcare reform (with a public option) as currently described is passed. Here's one of many sources: http://www.nevadabusiness.com/issue/1109/1/2132 I’m not aware of the (ahem) statistic that Ben refers to. But I AM aware of the study that said up to 45% of doctors would consider retiring early from the practice of medicine if healthcare reform (with a public option) as currently described is passed.

Here’s one of many sources: http://www.nevadabusiness.com/issue/1109/1/2132

]]> Comment on The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: Healthcare Revisited by jeffreyjena http://jeffreyjena.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/the-vast-right-wing-conspiracy-healthcare-revisited/#comment-648 jeffreyjena Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:59:25 +0000 http://jeffreyjena.wordpress.com/?p=756#comment-648 source, please! source, please!

]]> Comment on The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: Healthcare Revisited by Ben Hoffman http://jeffreyjena.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/the-vast-right-wing-conspiracy-healthcare-revisited/#comment-647 Ben Hoffman Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:21:39 +0000 http://jeffreyjena.wordpress.com/?p=756#comment-647 The majority of doctors and nurses support health care reform including a government option. The majority of doctors and nurses support health care reform including a government option.

]]> Comment on The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: The Best Halloween Ever! by newsjunkie_ky http://jeffreyjena.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/the-vast-right-wing-conspiracy-the-best-halloween-ever/#comment-646 newsjunkie_ky Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:56:38 +0000 http://jeffreyjena.wordpress.com/?p=743#comment-646 Such a small world, I recently moved from Iroquois in that small eastern Kentucky town. We are very close in age and I remember those wonderful Halloween times, wandering through so many neighborhoods, with my pillowcase. Thanks for sharing the memory. Such a small world, I recently moved from Iroquois in that small eastern Kentucky town. We are very close in age and I remember those wonderful Halloween times, wandering through so many neighborhoods, with my pillowcase.
Thanks for sharing the memory.

]]> Comment on The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: The Best Halloween Ever! by dennis http://jeffreyjena.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/the-vast-right-wing-conspiracy-the-best-halloween-ever/#comment-645 dennis Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:16:29 +0000 http://jeffreyjena.wordpress.com/?p=743#comment-645 Jeffrey, what a great story... i remember the cash i think the next year he gave me a pair of sox.... i thought you were gonna talk about the house with the round table, where you signed the yellow legal pad and made a trip around the table in the dining room...seven or eight different trays of goodies AND the giant pyramid of cracker jacks in the center... do you remember that guy too? dpi Jeffrey, what a great story… i remember the cash i think the next year he gave me a pair of sox….

i thought you were gonna talk about the house with the round table, where you signed the yellow legal pad and made a trip around the table in the dining room…seven or eight different trays of goodies AND the giant pyramid of cracker jacks in the center… do you remember that guy too?

dpi

]]> Comment on The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: The Best Halloween Ever! by harleyb http://jeffreyjena.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/the-vast-right-wing-conspiracy-the-best-halloween-ever/#comment-644 harleyb Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:41:56 +0000 http://jeffreyjena.wordpress.com/?p=743#comment-644 Jeff, We had a similar place on our street, a couple of blocks up from my house in Columbus. "Witch Hazel" lived there - our name for her. Dark stone and wood construction, overgrown grass and weeds, rarely an electric light on at night (just candles), strange sounds emanating from the house (as the legend went). When she died, the paperboy found her at the door. The paperboy told the neighbors, who passed the word up and down the street. Us kids got together, cut the grass, pulled weeds, helped the Dads with trimming bushes and trees. You guys had more guts than we did - we never got the nerve to go to the door! Cheers! Jeff,

We had a similar place on our street, a couple of blocks up from my house in Columbus. “Witch Hazel” lived there – our name for her. Dark stone and wood construction, overgrown grass and weeds, rarely an electric light on at night (just candles), strange sounds emanating from the house (as the legend went). When she died, the paperboy found her at the door. The paperboy told the neighbors, who passed the word up and down the street. Us kids got together, cut the grass, pulled weeds, helped the Dads with trimming bushes and trees. You guys had more guts than we did – we never got the nerve to go to the door!

Cheers!

]]> Comment on The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: Random Thoughts on a Rainy Friday by Ben Hoffman http://jeffreyjena.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/the-vast-right-wing-conspiracy-random-thoughts-on-a-rainy-friday/#comment-642 Ben Hoffman Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:30:49 +0000 http://jeffreyjena.wordpress.com/?p=739#comment-642 [She was being interviewed by CNBC money babe Maria Bartiromo and said this when asked about tax increases due to allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire, “That wasn’t a tax increase. It is– it is– eliminating a tax decrease that was there.” Folks you can’t write stuff that stupid and expect it won’t be cut from your script.] In the same vein, Reagan was responsible for one of the biggest tax increases in U.S. history. That was not long after he passed one of the biggest tax cuts in history and saw the enormous deficit. [She was being interviewed by CNBC money babe Maria Bartiromo and said this when asked about tax increases due to allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire, “That wasn’t a tax increase. It is– it is– eliminating a tax decrease that was there.”

Folks you can’t write stuff that stupid and expect it won’t be cut from your script.]

In the same vein, Reagan was responsible for one of the biggest tax increases in U.S. history.

That was not long after he passed one of the biggest tax cuts in history and saw the enormous deficit.

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