He appears to have the instincts of a horned toad, but not quite as handsome.
I am swell indeed. I have certainly made mistakes, but I try not to run my mouth off about things I know jack shit about.
So you didn’t even read the thing you actually said – that Congressmen and the President are “exempt” from the ACA (which, again, I’m interpreting to mean “exempt from the health insurance mandate”). You read something totally unrelated and then decided that they were “exempt” from the ACA.
What the hell these “extras” have to do with your bizarre statement that the President and Congress are “exempt” from the ACA is really unclear.
“I’m FoieGrasIsEvil and I have made up my own fantasy numbers and I am going to use them in place of the real numbers! Come with me, and you’ll be in a world of pure imagination!”
I’ll type slowly so you can read this: the federal government already subsidizes health care to an enormous degree. Eliminating inefficiencies and requiring people who can pay for their own health insurance to do so saves money overall. By reducing inefficiency and making people pay their own way if they can afford to, the government saves money, even though the ACA is only scratching the surface of the deep and bizarre inefficiencies in the health care market.
Yeah, and I don’t give a shit about the opinions of people like you who make up your own facts, and evidently don’t care about the fact that one group of “corporate money whores” :rolleyes: are the ones responsible for almost all of that debt. If you actually gave a shit about this, and bothered to learn anything about it, you’d see that there’s one group of “corporate money whores” :rolleyes: who are disproportionately responsible. But you don’t actually give a shit about this, which is why you’re yammering about something that you, as we have discussed previously, know jack shit about.
No, I’m not allowed back at K-Mart. Not ever. They are…unforgiving. 
Really now, Humpy? Who hates it? Besides maybe the asshole type of cop, that is.
I’m old enough to remember this, and from what I recall it was hot in California. Southern California, to be sure (Orange County) for sure.
Nah, anyone who thought not giving suspected criminals the third degree and beating the crap out of them to help their memory was coddling criminals thought this was a bad decision.
I suspect Congress does indeed get better medical benefits than the average federal worker. But this isn’t even in the same galaxy as what the law covers. What do you think the law covers?
You are confusing cost and value. The interstate highway system cost a lot of money also, but it returned far more than that to the economy. The military costs a lot of money also, but I think it is mostly worth it.
I do give a shit, that’s why I even said anything at all about it, as ignorant of the facts as I may be. I worry about this tremendous debt being foisted on future generations and anything that resembles massive government spending makes me nervous.
I’ll extend the olive branch and apologize for insulting you and for my ignorance of the facts. I suppose I have some homework to do.
Or increase taxes to Reagan-era levels. Or even Clinton-era levels.
Or maybe even a little of both.
Maybe that’s too moderate for some people. The ones to whom “compromise” is a dirty word.
I ought to quote that.
Some highlights from that thread:
Perfectly reasonable views, really.
Thank you for taking the time to do that, and saving the rest of us from having to read so much stupid shit.
No, sir, you are a Virginian and Southerners should be noticed…well, never, actually, but they did come in handy during the inconvenience of 1861-65. 
What’s wrong with nuking them in 1945?
Isn’t a big part of the issue WRT government revenues that something like 46-48% of Americans don’t even pay taxes? That’s a huge problem if so. I would have no problem with tax increases if it would help make the government solvent in x number of years, but…putting increased revenue into their hands makes me believe they will just spend it fruitlessly rather than pay down the debt.
Only if you’re Sean Hannity. Everyone pays taxes. Only ~50% pay* income* taxes.
No billboards yet AFAICT but you can get “Impeach John Roberts” buttons.
I think there are multiple t-shirts out there right now. Not interested in looking. Just sitting here, gloating. Will keep me going the rest of the year.
It’s starting to feel like a reverse 1960s, with the right wing being the counterculture this time around. I remember all sorts of “Impeach” buttons and not just for Nixon, but even for LBJ.
Beau Brummel was a silly snotty clotheshorse, Dean Martin was a Mobbed-up drunk, Prince is a legendary asshole . . .