Comments on: Glenn Beck: Who Cares! Dem Supermajority Was Useless Anyway

By: rmbltmbl

rmbltmbl — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:16:27 +0000

Credit where credit is due, Glynnis.. thank you for finally treating Beck like Mediaite treats the Daily show. Progress is a funny thing.

By: disgusted

disgusted — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:36:11 +0000

PROMISES, Promises, promises!.. What is LEFT?

By: Trickletown

Trickletown — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:38:06 +0000

Hey, do y’all remember back when the Dems had a SuperMajority and didn’t get anything accomplished? I do!

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:42:09 +0000

Ben -It’s just that as a general rule of thumb anytime I hear Glenn Beck use words like logic or facts I involuntarily laugh…for a long time. He is an entertainer so mission accomplished…bad choice of words.

By: Ben Linus

Ben Linus — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:55:55 +0000

@ Ted
What the hell kind of “logic” do you use? The Democrats had the power to do anything and didn’t.

By: writer

writer — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:07:03 +0000

Bottom line: Dems have the numbers to do anything they want. No one else to blame.

By: m

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:01:10 +0000

It’s called the Senate:
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/images/cloture-stats-chart2.jpg

By: writer

writer — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:43:19 +0000

Okay, if Beck isn’t being logical, explain it to us. How is it that the Dems control the WH and the senate and the house, yet it’s the Republicans who held everything up?

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:20:31 +0000

Jim W – It seems you and GB use the same “logic.”

By: timzank

timzank — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:17:14 +0000

Bottom line is, repubs didn’t block a damn thing. If you want or wanted healthcare/health insurance reform and don’t get it, you sure as hell can’t republicans, you can blame democrats. THAT is simple math.

By: m

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:39:25 +0000

This bill pretty much is a centrist bill. If Democrats were going to pass a Democratic bill, it would’ve been universal health care. But it’s not. It’s not even close. This is the ultimate Moderate bill on the liberal-to-conservative ideological scale.

By: JimW

JimW — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:26:27 +0000

Oh, Ted, you’re back! Yes! You really should actually read what Sara said: “It should have been bi-partisan in the planning stages, it should have been on c-span, it should have had things like tort reform, and no back door deals with Pharma, etc.” She and Beck make sense, no?

By: puck30

puck30 — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:24:27 +0000

‘Glennhouse Rock’! Glynnis that’s too funny!

I started to dvr his show to watch when I get home. I’m telling my friends it’s like an old Social Studies class.

‘Logic and Math’. You can use that on both sides. Heck, you can use that in everyday life.

The supermajority was pretty useless this time around because the Dems didn’t need a Republican to peel off. All eyes were on the Dems where as if they had one Republican. All eyes would have been on the one Republican.

How much stuff could have been passed if the Democrats could have used Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, John McCain etc. as cover? Dems could have used the old, “we could not have got this done with out help of…”. And ‘right wing radio’ would have been going nuts, screaming at…..

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:20:21 +0000

Glenn Beck and logic? Oil and water anyone?

By: ImNotBlue

ImNotBlue — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:17:23 +0000

m says:
January 29, 2010 at 11:52 am

Health care is basically a done deal as far as I am concerned. Only 50 Dem Senators need to agree and we’ve got it as law.

As far as you’re concerned? Well, okay then. Too bad that’s not even close to reality.

But about the HC bill… what part of it do you really like? Out of curiosity.

By: m

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:52:59 +0000

> They finally had the perfect storm – control of WH, Senate and House, and they couldn’t get it done.

The Bush Administration did too back in 2004. You know what we got? The least active Congress in modern history. Couldn’t even privatize Social Security, something the Republicans consider a bigger priority than fixing our broken health care system.

Health care is basically a done deal as far as I am concerned. Only 50 Dem Senators need to agree and we’ve got it as law.

By: Moderate

Moderate — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:43:17 +0000

The Obama administration’s deal with labor unions on taxing high-value health insurance plans was the straw that had Independents saying the Obamacare plan was getting far too ridiculous. The optimal way to pay for health-care reform would have been to eliminate the tax-free treatment of employer-provided health care.

By: ImNotBlue

ImNotBlue — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:34:23 +0000

They had the supermajority… the only thing they lacked was support from the people.

And as Joe Klein showed us earlier this week, they Democrats aren’t real fond of them either.

By: sarainitaly

sarainitaly — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:38:01 +0000

This video was so funny! I love the under my grandma’s sink bit.

Beck is right. I have been saying this for a year. The dems for DECADES have been wanting, craving, campainging on health care reform. They finally had the perfect storm – control of WH, Senate and House, and they couldn’t get it done. Their jobs should have been a small price to pay, if they really truly believed it is/was the right thing to do. They were more concerned with the next election, and keeping their own cushy health care, then to get together and pass universal health care, or whatever they wanted. They keep blaming Repubs and tea partiers. They had it within their grasp, and they woosied out. They want Repubs on board because they don’t want to take responsibility for something that can be a massive nightmare?

The problem from the beginning, IMHO, is that Obama had a crappy plan to begin with, he snubbed ideas from McCain and Hillary, and he left it up to other people to *handle*. He didn’t seem to care, or to want to get involved, or to know what to do. He turned it over to Pelosi, who ran around like a hyperactive kid in a candy store.

It should have been bi-partisan in the planning stages, it should have been on c-span, it should have had things like tort reform, and no back door deals with Pharma, etc. They were too concerned with their jobs, and ticking off their big donors like lawyers, unions and the HC industry.

Thanks for posting this. It was a classic.