If I remember right, the reason they went beyond the 100 days is because it was an election year anyway (Presidential and Cochran on the ballot) so they granted time to put it all on the same ballot.
LOCKED - Looks like the universities are all supporting Cochran...
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I never called you stupid or racist, nor did I ever blame you personally for all the names conservatives regularly call liberals on this board and off it, so quit whining to me.
Again, just because the U.S. health care system has some consumer protection laws doesn't make it socialist. Unless you are over 65, poor (extremely poor in some states, below 133% FPL in others), or a veteran, you must buy your own health insurance (no one is forced to, although they must pay an extra 1% tax if they don't) on the private market AND seek treatment in a private facility. The vast majority of doctors offices and insurance companies are NOT owned by the government and are NOT owned collectively by workers who stood up and seized them from the owners. Therefore, not socialist. Yes there are regulations, but regulations are not the same thing as socialism, which is the collective ownership of industry by workers.
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Unfortunately, it is a fact that the ignorant can rule. If Cochran loses it will only further demonstrate to everyone in the country that our state (I wanted to use "great state" but it's hard when we do dumb things) is incapable of doing anything right, even when it's the most beneficial course for itself. Others have said it correctly, that Senator Cochran should have retired so a legit candidate could have opposed the batshit crazy that we are now in danger of accidentally electing, but it didn't happen that way. At this point Thad is still 1000> than the alternative. Anyone that doesn't understand that is simply incapable of looking at dollar figures and understanding how the world works. Tell me that "pork" is bad, and I will agree. But if everyone else says yes to pork and you say no, then guess what!? Everyone else gets money and you lose jobs, which the tea party will then try to blame on someone else even though they ****** us proper themselves.
If I were a tax payer from another state and observed the people of Mississippi sending a big spending 42 year veteran bureaucrat who appears to be in some stage of senility home even though it may cause their state to have to make some sacrifices......quite frankly I`d tip my cap. Bottom line is it didn`t have to happen this way. This is the direct fault of the greedy republican "establishment" in Mississippi for not listening to a what used to be a large part of their core constituency.
you don't come in and do an automatic socialist change with a country like the U.S. that built its greatness on free market capitalism and individual responsibility. you have to do it gradually. like when he told his union audience before he got elected that his primary goal is single payer health care but Obama care would be the first step. reminding them to be patient. like when he re-wrote bankruptcy law in the Chrysler case screwing over the secured creditors in favor of the union. like when he said of business owners "you didn't build that". it's his mindset. nobody who claims his mentors being frank marshall davis, reverend wright and sal alinsky can be considered a fan of what made America # 1. but you have to do it gradually. kinda of like putting a frog in tepid water and turning the eye on medium low. he'll just sit there and gradually burn to death not realizing what's happening..
It's tough to buy groceries with hat tips. Otherwise, nobody gives a **** if MS sends Thad home or McDaniel to congress.
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