I quit watching Lou Dobbs a couple yrs ago but every once in a while I stop while channel surfing. Damn was I glad I did. Dobbs was playing a rerun from late July. This was mainly between Bernie and Hatch since Dobbs could barely get a word in edgewise. Lie by Lie Bernies calls Hatchs crap at every turn but don't take my word for it.
Hatch tried to filibuster the conversation but Bernie would have nothing to do with it. For once in my life Dobbs just let the 2 have at it. The excitement starts about a min. into the Video if you really can't stand Dobbs or his voice like many I know. Here is a bit of the first set-to. I enjoyed the hell out of this. Compliments of http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/...
HATCH: Look, Bernie, I -- have a lot of respect for you, but come on. You know the doggone federal government is half the problem here.
SANDERS: Well, look, is that right? Well, then you go back and you tell veterans of this country that we should disband the Veteran's Administration, which is 100 percent government run. Is that your suggestion?
HATCH: Well, I'm not telling them that. I...
(CROSSTALK)
SANDERS: Wait a minute. That's a government run program. Do you want to expand Medicare?
HATCH: There are things government can do.
SANDERS: Right.
HATCH: I don't think they're doing it as well as they should do, but to throw over the whole private sector approach that is competitive...
SANDERS: But...
HATCH: To throw it over so we can have a bunch of bureaucrats, nameless, faceless bureaucrats...
SANDERS: But nobody is talking about...
HATCH: ... get in between your doctor and you, it just isn't right.
SANDERS: First of all, nobody is talking about that. What people are talking about is...
HATCH: Well, I'm talking about it.
SANDERS: Well, we're talking -- nobody is talking about a government-run health care system. We're talking about...
HATCH: Well, sure they are.
SANDERS: No, they're not. They're talking about a public...
HATCH: What do you call the public plan? What do you call that?
SANDERS: A public option -- a public option that will compete and give people the choice of whether they want a public plan or a private plan. Why are you afraid of that? If the private plans are so much better, people will go into the private plans. If the public plans are more cost effective, more reasonable, people prefer a Medicare type program, they'll go into that. Why are you afraid of the competition?
HATCH: Not afraid at all.
SANDERS: Good.
It is completely worth the 7 mins. it take to watc this video especially after today and leading up to Weds showdown on the Public Option. Pres. Obama might even want to have Senator Sanders at his side. Enjoy.