Comments on: The video the Republicans don’t want you to see https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/30/the-video-the-republicans-dont/ Fri, 01 Apr 2011 08:52:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: arkham https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/30/the-video-the-republicans-dont/#comment-501486 Fri, 01 Apr 2011 08:52:39 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/30/the-video-the-republicans-dont/#comment-501486 A rethuglican talks about his pay…of course bullshit ensues.
Thanks Dr. Laden for providing more ammo that the bullshitters will not acknowledge. At least it’s out there now.

]]> By: Doug Alder https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/30/the-video-the-republicans-dont/#comment-501485 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:19:14 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/30/the-video-the-republicans-dont/#comment-501485 Gosh Ms. Mcain – you mean all those pioneers who settled AZ all had private Lear jets? Golly Gee and here I always though that Orville and his Bro were the first to have powred flight.

]]> By: Phillip IV https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/30/the-video-the-republicans-dont/#comment-501484 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:37:14 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/30/the-video-the-republicans-dont/#comment-501484 joemac53 @ #7:

Weren’t we also reminded recently (pleeeeze extend Bush tax cuts!) that $250000 wasn’t enough to live on?

Perhaps that only concerned Arizona where, as Ms. McCain pointed out, you can’t really get around without a private jet.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/30/the-video-the-republicans-dont/#comment-501483 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:33:13 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/30/the-video-the-republicans-dont/#comment-501483 The root issue here isn’t whether politicians get paid too much or even whether career politicians are a Bad Thing, it’s whether folks can get their heads out of their asses long enough to see their own rational self-interest.

Seconded.

Weren’t we also reminded recently (pleeeeze extend Bush tax cuts!) that $250000 wasn’t enough to live on?

Yes, that is in fact what that means. But, the Dems are bad at springing to their feet with the clear and concise message. Somehow that should have developed as a slogan. Our poor deprived rich people, they need welfare.

]]> By: joemac53 https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/30/the-video-the-republicans-dont/#comment-501482 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:20:28 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/30/the-video-the-republicans-dont/#comment-501482 Weren’t we also reminded recently (pleeeeze extend Bush tax cuts!) that $250000 wasn’t enough to live on?

]]> By: Blitherypoop https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/30/the-video-the-republicans-dont/#comment-501481 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:46:34 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/30/the-video-the-republicans-dont/#comment-501481 I make about $24k a year before taxes. He can go do unspeakable things to himself.

]]> By: Equisetum https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/30/the-video-the-republicans-dont/#comment-501480 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 06:29:04 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/30/the-video-the-republicans-dont/#comment-501480 From TPM’s rss feed:

Then this morning, our video hosting service received a take down notice from the Polk County Republican party trying again to prevent anyone from seeing the video. We believe that it’s wrong for a political party to use copyright to prevent the public from seeing something a member of Congress said in the course of his public duties. (This was a townhall meeting.) Equally important, our legal counsel believes they have no case. So we have now reposted the video on our own site along with a news report on the Polk County GOP’s effort to prevent anyone from seeing the video.

Link here.

]]> By: unclejeffie https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/30/the-video-the-republicans-dont/#comment-501479 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:56:31 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/30/the-video-the-republicans-dont/#comment-501479 As an Wisconsin resident I am embarrased by this man. He earns $174,00.00 per year plus he gets a “gold plated” health insurance policy (free)and all he has to say is that he “struggles”. Tough! Think of those who earn minimum wage and have to purchase their own health insurance. What self-justification.

]]> By: thomask https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/30/the-video-the-republicans-dont/#comment-501478 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:43:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/30/the-video-the-republicans-dont/#comment-501478 From the viewpoint of someone in the wilds of Canuckistan that video is rather puzzling.

It surprises me not at all that someone should focus on money because I don’t think that any people on Earth are as intent on money as Americans are…but I really would have thought someone would mention healthcare.

From up here it looks like you folks are going through a really painful debate over whether poor people deserve to go bankrupt or die because they’re poor and in Canuckistan we haven’t got that problem, yet, despite Conservative efforts to make it so. And yet there’s a curious similarity betwixt your legislators and ours, apart from their absurd salaries…your legislators and ours have complete and free access to a healthcare system that most people can only dream of, and it’s publicly funded.

The root issue here isn’t whether politicians get paid too much or even whether career politicians are a Bad Thing, it’s whether folks can get their heads out of their asses long enough to see their own rational self-interest.

Whether in the US or up here there’s only one real question:
Is every man for himself the highest ideal we can aspire to as a nation? In a greater sense, isn’t that a global question?

It’a going to be a bumpy ride…

]]> By: gwen https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/30/the-video-the-republicans-dont/#comment-501477 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:12:19 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/30/the-video-the-republicans-dont/#comment-501477 But, of course, HIS bills are MUCH more important than MY bills!

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