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Ding.

Patterico (9c670f) — 10/23/2013 @ 7:33 pm

The left has waited for the Oct. 1 moment ever since I have been alive. I know, because I used to be a lefty and I’m over 50 years old.

FDR, HST, JFK and LBJ are turning over in their graves.

The current leaders of the left must be aghast.

They worked so long and so hard to remake everything into a new vision of the U.S. They finally elected a black President, loved and adored by all, with the presence and voice to unite the people.

And all they got was a lousy Web site.

Ag80 (eb6ffa) — 10/23/2013 @ 8:00 pm

Imagine if he was smart enough to understand this is a half baked ponzi scheme that is being financed by turning a regressive tax scheme into subsidies and allowing greedy Insurance Companies to make lots more money on this wildly over priced policies which are much more expensive than comparable small business policies (risk pools).

Shit, JS is just pissed the Broker Platform does not work. JS should be happy the Brokerage Technology is broken, It actually prevents the ponzi scheme from being implemented.

Be happy for little things.

Rodney King's Spirit (5c6cbf) — 10/23/2013 @ 8:00 pm

Greenspan came on at the end and blamed everyone but himself.

AZ Bob (c99389) — 10/23/2013 @ 8:25 pm

#4 McCain and Rep. Kings/Grimm blamed Ted Cruz.

Rodney King's Spirit (5c6cbf) — 10/23/2013 @ 8:54 pm

Has anyone else noticed a lesser amount of trollage all of the sudden?

Ag80 (eb6ffa) — 10/23/2013 @ 8:57 pm

They can’t unfreeze their computers after going on the Obamacare site.

nk (dbc370) — 10/23/2013 @ 9:09 pm

Do you miss them, Ag80?

There are occasional troll droppings in moderation but they are probably in moderation for a reason: use of a proxy, info matching previously banned troll, etc.

Patterico (6f7a2b) — 10/23/2013 @ 9:18 pm

Nope, just noting.

Ag80 (eb6ffa) — 10/23/2013 @ 9:22 pm

It often seems there aren’t as many Obama supporters in the comments at times like this, when the news is bad for Obama. I could be wrong but that may be what Ag80 was noticing.

DRJ (a83b8b) — 10/23/2013 @ 9:23 pm

FDR, HST, JFK and LBJ are turning over in their graves.

Whatever idealism I had about or tiny benefit of the doubt I once gave to the American left and its icons has pretty much crashed over the past few years.

The grotesque, astonishing bigotry of Franklin Roosevelt behind closed doors — much less the Klanner-type vulgarity and vindictiveness of Truman — and the apparently even greater sleaziness of Kennedy compared with Clinton (as far as we know, Bill wasn’t into White House threesomes the way John was) tarnishes whatever tiny sheen I might have once associated with them. So in a way, the disreputable, incompetent aspects of Obama is a fitting tribute to his liberal predecessors.

Oh, and btw, liberal Democrat Woodrow Wilson initiated Jim Crow laws in the early 1900s, which is a fact of US history rarely, if ever, cited in public forums.

Obama is in good company.

Mark (58ea35) — 10/23/2013 @ 9:33 pm

Grr geoblock 🙁

scrubone (2f74d8) — 10/24/2013 @ 1:03 am

Why is team r not telling Americans about a superior, efficient, reliable option to clown care? Every day they should be explaining why their plan is workable.
Jhmfc, already.

mg (31009b) — 10/24/2013 @ 2:42 am

9.It often seems there aren’t as many Obama supporters in the comments at times like this, when the news is bad for Obama. I could be wrong but that may be what Ag80 was noticing.

Tlaloc is too busy eating that 404care crap sandwich. It will reappear when media mutters or thinkregress comes up with some mendoucheously plausible(in the left’s fevered mind) reason for zerocare’s failure. Most likely the make believe media will resort to blaming Republicans, the Tea Party, and Ted Cruz as a fallback position.

Amalgamated Cliff Divers, Local 157 (f7d5ba) — 10/24/2013 @ 3:40 am

Young ski resort workers are prime for a political change, why is team rove not pursuing the votes of the young? Big Ted should make an appearance in Summit County and gather the force of the young. Team rove is missing many opportunities to shove loser care down a double black diamond couloir.

mg (31009b) — 10/24/2013 @ 3:53 am

Stewart, was the shamwow salesman for Obama;

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/361887/enrollee-featured-healthcaregov-video-spent-three-days-trying-enroll-sterling-beard

narciso (3fec35) — 10/24/2013 @ 5:03 am

12. Comment by mg (31009b) — 10/24/2013 @ 2:42 am

Why is team r not telling Americans about a superior, efficient, reliable option to clown care? Every day they should be explaining why their plan is workable.

Because they don’t have one! That’s the dirty little secret.

Not that you couldn’t write a better one (as Dem spin might be quick to claim) in 15 minutes on the back of envelope) but Republican unity would disappear as soon as they began discussing alternatives.

Even single payer (Medicare for all) is better than this monstrosity. Jon Stewart is probably forf that.

The problem with Medicare for all is that, first, it gives up completely on cost control, and then, later, you get rationing, and the lawyers and the politicians don’t complain about government like they do about private companies.

Sammy Finkelman (e9b54a) — 10/24/2013 @ 7:32 am

10. Comment by Mark (58ea35) — 10/23/2013 @ 9:33 pm

Oh, and btw, liberal Democrat Woodrow Wilson initiated Jim Crow laws in the early 1900s,

No, he didn’t. Jim Crow laws started in the 1890s (remember, Plessy v Ferguson, which concerned segregation on trains, was decided in 1896.)

What Woodrow Wilson did was extend Jim Crow into what the federal government did, into Washington, D.C., and fire all the black Republican postmasters in the south, who had bene working continuously at least since 1897. (I need to check if he might have done more than Cleveland did, either time, but I got the idea that he did.)

The low point for blacks in the United States was 1916, about which point blacks started migrating north, because immigration from Europe had been cut off by World War I, the last refugees from Russia in Denmark (almost stuck in Germany at the start of the war) having come in 1915, and some (richer) white people in the south started worrying they wouldn’t have any blacks to work for them.

Do you know that the House of Representatives wasn’t reapportioned after the 1920 Census (!) because southern members claimed the population loss was temporary (not a legal grounds, but they also tied up Congress in knots over how to reapportion)

There used to be job agents in the south around the time the migration started, and people in some towns would try to prevent blacks from leaving by cancelling some trains.

which is a fact of US history rarely, if ever, cited in public forums.

There is a lot of lost history. The NAACP was started because of a terrible, terrible, anti-black race riot in Atlanta in 1906.

It is also lost that Woodrow Wilson was a died in the wool southerner who grew up in the deep south and shared their prejudices, although it would have been a little bit more intellectual with him, and that he must have remembered Sherman marching through Georgia in 1864 when he was five years old, or people frequently talking about it later.

If anything people think Woodrow Wilson came from Virginia, because it is noted in the almanacs that he was born there.

Nor do people know that half of Princeton’s student body at one time came from the south.

Woodrow Wilson graduated from Princeton in 1879 (a transfer student I believe) and came back as a professor an 1890, and was President of Princeton from 1901 to 1910 and Governor of New Jersey for two years.

When Jimmy Carter was running for President and talked about being the first southerner since the Civil War, he didn’t mention that there had already been a president who grew up in Georgia, or that Harry S Truman (from Missouri) came form a family that had sided with the Confederacy, and that LBJ was a sort of a southerner, too.

Sammy Finkelman (e9b54a) — 10/24/2013 @ 7:34 am

Oh, and btw, liberal Democrat Woodrow Wilson initiated Jim Crow laws in the early 1900s, which is a fact of US history rarely, if ever, cited in public forums.

Obama is in good company.

Comment by Mark (58ea35) — 10/23/2013 @ 9:33 pm

Heck, let’s not understate the provenance here. Woodrow Wilson, stalwart progressive icon, urged the passage of the Espionage Act and Sedition Act that punished anyone guilty of:
– making false statements that interfered with the prosecution of the war;
– insulting or abusing the U.S. government, the flag, the Constitution or the military;
– agitating against the production of necessary war materials; or
– advocating, teaching or defending any of these acts.

And yes, people were sent to prison for violating these laws.

in_awe (7c859a) — 10/24/2013 @ 10:40 am

The idiocy and irony that plagues Jon Stewart and his viewers is that there is still a strong belief in a single-payer system. Run by the government. Which apparently would go smoother than this. Lulz.

ratbeach (f5aad4) — 10/24/2013 @ 11:53 am

18. Comment by in_awe (7c859a) — 10/24/2013 @ 10:40 am

And yes, people were sent to prison for violating these laws.

And later on in some cases pardoned by President Harding.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_pardoned_or_granted_clemency_by_the_President_of_the_United_States

President Warren G. Harding pardoned, commuted or rescinded the convictions of 800 people during his term.[3] Among them are:

Eugene V. Debs – convicted of sedition under the Espionage Act of 1917; sentence commuted

Kate Richards O’Hare – convicted of sedition under the Espionage Act of 1917; sentence commuted

Sammy Finkelman (4d9cfa) — 10/24/2013 @ 6:11 pm

Jon Stewart is an ass. The people that find him informed or entertaining are in the main moronic.

Colonel Haiku (32b8a6) — 10/24/2013 @ 6:32 pm

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