So, honestly, what will be the result of the health care summit?

[Javaman]

We have seen this play before, the rolls have only changed a little but all the players are still the same.

-the repukes will look like the asses they are

-then the Dems will scold them and use their patented feigned indignation/finger wagging

-then there will be all sorts of heated discussion about how the Dem's kicked their ass

-then there will be all sorts of puffed up buffoonery by the Dem's to "pass this now!!!"

Which will then turn into...

-wait wait!!! we can't! for some fucked up reason or another.

-Some false flag controversy will pop up.

-Everyone will look in that direction

-then finally the debate will slowly fade away.

Like all of this hasn't happened before.

folks, stop being so gullible to the manufactured bullshit that is constantly thrown at us to keep us off balance.

[tekisui]

1. Nothing will change.

Repukes will still be dicks. Dems will still be less-than-bold. The proposed bills will still lack a real public option. Obama will still be "the closest in recent history to health care reform". It is looking like he will carry that title through his term(s).

[tridim]

2. We're going to get HCR.

[Donnachaidh]

5. no - we're going to get Health Insurance BAIL OUT.

This is NOT healthcare reform. Not by a long shot.

[Cronus Protagonist]

7. +1000

This is not about health care, it's about insurance company bailouts, profits and regulations.

[flyarm]

24. +10,000!!

[readmoreoften]

27. +1500

I see your +1000 and raise you +500

[slackmaster]

3. That's about the size of it, Javaman. K&R

:kick:

[Alias Dictus Tyrant]

4. Nada, all political posturing. n/t

[Oregone]

6. Democrats will boast their guys kicked ass, and Republicans will claim their guys took it to em

Political gong show

[piratefish08]

8. HC Industry Bailout.

what else COULD come out of it at this point?

[gratuitous]

9. The Republicans are running true to form because they know they're going to lose

What I'd like to see is the Democrats, rather than arguing on Republican turf and terms about the "nuclear option" and the horrors of "reconciliation," simply say that they're governing by the time-honored concept of "majority rules." Toss that "elections have consequences" meme right back in the Republicans' insipid faces, and act like we the people handed the Democrats the White House and large majorities in both houses of Congress for a reason. Goddammit.

[Romulox]

10. Mandatory private insurace + tort reform. nt

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. Politicians telling their brokers to buy more Health Insurance stocks.

[FrenchieCat]

12. Speaking of ironies, Prejudging before it happens

is an exercise that doesn't do anything....

[tekisui]

21. That is the pat answer for every issue.

And, is as weak now as it ever was.

[maxsolomon]

13. it was the public demonstration of "bipartisan" outreach by the dems

it demonstrates (again) to the american public that the senate is a plutocratic, sclerotic anachronism.

it clears the road for reconciliation, and gives cover for the DINOs & other dems in tough races this november.

i'm trying to be optimistic - reid finally sounds like he's had enough and will move forward. at this point i want SOMETHING for a year of dysfunctional effort.

it will also highlight the DINO problem: the 8 democratic senators who vote against the bill (and there will be 8 of them) will clearly identify themselves as primary targets early enough to find challengers for 2012, 2014, 2016.

[havocmom]

14. yada yada yada, photos, sound bites, and what reply #5 said

[LSK]

15. the talking point will be that Obama talked to much

[timeforpeace]

17. It's his party, he can talk if he wants to, and talk if he wants to and talk if he wants to, if they

don't like they can find a mirror and talk too!

[Kablooie]

16. It will only give us some specific idiotic arguments that Repugs make up out of thin air

to support their unsupportable position that nothing productive should be done by the US government while Democrats are in charge.

[flyarm]

18. ummm.

:shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug:

[Javaman]

19. Perhaps I should use sound bites next time?

:eyes:

[TransitJohn]

20. Nothing.

Nothing will have changed whatsoever. It won't even provide the spineless Senate Democrats enough cover to Reconcile their monstrosity of a bill through.

[branders seine]

22. embarrassing stains;

more ammunition for each side to blame the other for failing our country again.

[DisgustedInMN]

23. Meh, so what's new about that?

:fistbump:

[EFerrari]

25. I'm waiting for the reviews in New Haven.

(Okay, :spank: me )

[flyarm]

26. watch the stock market tommorrow!! eom

[readmoreoften]

28. Many people aren't buying the bullshit anymore.

[Edweird]

29. I dunno. I keep forgetting whether we're getting the 'dog' or the 'pony'.