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Congressman John Conyers Tells It Like It is At Indiana University Southeast.

by: Hillbilly

Sun May 31, 2009 at 23:16:58 PM EDT

Congressman John Yarmuth co-sponsor of HR 676, single payer healthcare, introduced Congressman John Conyers , click here to view the video, and Congressman Conyers let it all hang out and with his soft unassuming voice and mannerisms exposing the maneuvering by the Whitehouse, Nancy Pelosi and members of Congress to kill HR 676, single payer healthcare. Click here to view the video.

Hillbilly :: Congressman John Conyers Tells It Like It is At Indiana University Southeast.

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Conyers had this to say to the the folks attending the event:
"What kind of Healthcare are we going to get?" I'm here to predict you get the kind of healthcare you deserve, not the kind you ought to have, not the kind that you want, but it's all going to depend on you."
Conyers had this to say about Barack Obama:
" We seem to be getting an inordinate amount of reverse advice giving."
"Well, listen to Amy Goodman." She's got the tapes of him making some of the most brilliant remarks in Support of HR 676 that anybody has ever made, but he ain't making them now."

Tags: Barack Obama, HR 676, Rick Scott, Amy Goodman, John Conyers, Nancy Pelosi, Single Payer Healthcare, Hillbilly, (All Tags)

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Congressman John Conyers Tells It Like It is At Indiana University Southeast. | 2 comments

Pelosi (4.00 / 1)

is NOT torpedo-ing single-payer. She is, though, vacillating. She was fond of the English system, even before this issue had traction. Most of Europe is Nationalized and she's familiar with it. It is also the biggest headache. Single-payer is the easy way out. But it may not be the best - and - mis-step here dooms the issue until we are nationally bankrupt.

Don't doubt it for a minute, if the rich could bankrupt this nation they would. I fit took eating feces, they would pour on the ketchup to bankrupt this nation. That is the number 1 issue on their agenda. Until we're bankrupt unions will have authority and power, until we're bankrupt, minority populations will have the vote.

Fundies believe they can be donated to the top of the money heap, so they are participating at the architectural level.

by: BimBeau @ Mon Jun 01, 2009 at 16:13:29 PM CDT

You may (4.00 / 1)

be right about bankruptcy. Here's what LAT's Dan Neil has to say about that.

"it's hard not to see GM's bankruptcy as a signal moment in a larger history. If mighty GM can fail, cannot also the United States? And the answer is, absolutely." The company's stark decline is "a rebuff of the notion of exceptionalism," notes Neil. "Any organization that fails to sufficiently safeguard its means of self-correction and reform, that forsakes long-term investment for short-term gain, that piles up debt year after year, will eventually fail, no matter how grand its history or noble its purpose."

Mark Twain: "When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky because it's always twenty years behind the times."

by: Hillbilly @ Mon Jun 01, 2009 at 18:58:39 PM CDT

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