Let's close out the evening by listening to Rick Santorum explain how Obamacare is actually a plot to kill people who didn't vote for it, or ...
something?
“If we have a system where the government is going to be the principal provider of health care for the country, we’re done. Because then, you are dependent on the government for your life and your health… When Thatcher ran for prime minister she said—remember this, this is the Iron Lady—she said, ‘The British national health care system is safe in my hands.’ She wasn’t going to take on health care, because she knew once you have people getting free health care from the government, you can’t take it away from them. And the reason is because most people don’t get sick, and so free health care is just that, free health care, until you get sick. Then, if you get sick and you don’t get health care, you die and you don’t vote. It’s actually a pretty clever system. Take care of the people who can vote and people who can’t vote, get rid of them as quickly as possible by not giving them care so they can’t vote against you. That’s how it works.”
He ran for president, you know. Did pretty well in certain quarters.
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2006—The Carroll County One:
Members of the notorious Detroit Sleeper Cell were convicted after one of their members made a video tape of a vacation to Disneyland -- a tape the FBI considered preparation for an attack. The convictions were later overturned, but not before the government had held several press conferences on how they had protected us from the hazard of bad camera work.
Even more publicity went to those crafty karate school members who were arrested in Florida after they tried to recruit an FBI agent into their schemes. Schemes which never went beyond the talking stage. And the Lackawanna Six... we're not sure what they did, but they earned media immortality.
So imagine how much publicity there would be if the government were to catch and convict a would-be bomber who was known to belong to a terrorist organization, who idolized the mastermind behind a previous terrorist attack in the US, and who plotted to use chemical weapons or a dirty bomb to kill thousands. A terrorist who plotted attacks on a federal courthouse and even on Washington D. C. If we were to catch someone like that there would be... there would be.... (sound of crickets chirping)
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today's Kagro in the Morning show, "Happy Holidays!" POW! AZ woman punches a Salvation Army bell ringer! David Pakman (another Netroots Radio fave) informs us that $4K of the taxes paid on a $50K salary end up as corporate subsidies!
Joan McCarter joins the show to round up the non-budget "budget deal" and renewed debt ceiling threats, the lack (so far) of serious post-nuclear Senate drama, the expiration of UI, the NSA lawsuits, and Dan Drezner's "Tone-Deaf at the Listening Post." Also: "Accidental Tax Break Saves Wealthiest Americans $100 Billion," which Alec MacGillis points out is more than half the latest cut in food stamps.
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