Moore: Democrats behaving like ‘frightened animals’

[G_j]

http://rawstory.com/2010/03/moore-democrats-frightened-animals/

Moore: Democrats behaving like ‘frightened animals’

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"Democrats are in for an ass-whipping of biblical proportions in November if they don't get off the dime and do the job they were sent there to do," he said Wednesday on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show. "Don't they see that?"

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"When the Republicans come into town, they get in the hummer, and they drive down Pennsylvania Avenue and mow down anybody in sight," Moore quipped. "They walk into Congress with both guns blazing, and they say 'we were sent here to do a job,' and then they do the job."

"Democrats come in," he continued, proceeding to mock them in a baby voice "and go, 'Oh, hi, hi. I guess we don't need universal health care for everybody. We can, we can, no we can compromise. It's okay.'"

Pulling no punches, he said, "They used to at least sing 'Kumbaya.' Now they go in like frightened animals. I don't understand it."

Maddow played a clip from Moore's latest documentary Capitalism: A Love Story and asked the Oscar-winning filmmaker why Democrats haven't implemented stronger banking regulations "even in the midst of the financial system collapsing."

"They are blind and they are deaf to all of this," Moore said, predicting that "the next collapse or crash is right around the corner." He alleged that the issue hasn't been dealt with because banks are "lining the pockets of our members of Congress."

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[Echo In Light]

1. k/r

[Wapsie B]

2. K & R

[Craftsman]

3. Health care is not the issue now, it is jobs

It's teh economy stupid is a sword that cuts both ways.

Besides I hate to tell everyone if HCR does not get the Presidents desk in 2 weeks it is dead. Once teh reps and senators go back to their voters the townhall meeting of August will look tame.

[G_j]

4. well a single payer system would create a lot of jobs

but that's another story..

[kenfrequed]

6. Agreed.

For that matter programs to train and educate people that agree to be family practice or internal medicine doctors, provided they practice for six years in their communities would also be helpful.

[G_j]

7. and those are good jobs

not Walmart..

[Craftsman]

8. So a single payer is a likely as I am to be the next American Idol

[kenfrequed]

5. I think 'teh' expert voice you seem to wield

Is undercut by something.

I am confident if we pass a healthcare bill with mandates and corporate wealthfare and without a public option it will be a big red mark against the Democrats for a generation.

Propping up the healthcare insurance industries corporate profits, an industry whose shareholders demand profits absurdly out of step with the rate of inflation, with public money is a recipe for economic disaster. They will continue carping for more profits which will leave them the option of increasing premiums, rates, copayments, and incoming monies, as well as begging for more corporate wealthfare from congress continually, and/or they will cut service to the point where the kind and character of coverage provided is miniscule, expensive, and useless.

To suggest otherwise is to misunderstand the nature of corporations and the insurance industry.

As far as jobs go we need to stop paying industries to hire people and put the money directly into public works programs managed by the state. A new WPA to help rebuild infrastructure and employ people at doing work in their own communities. A lifetime education program would also reduce the pain of people being out of work by providing retraining and reeducation. It ought to be free as it pays off in technologically and culturally. Enslaving would be students to banks for decades is actually a wet blanket on the economy, unless you happen to be a banker.

[troubledamerican]

9. "Frightened animals" is good practice for our own upcoming Operation Condor

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

[leftstreet]

10. K&R