What shameful idiots!!!

Why don’t the Dems just line everyone up that disagrees with a takeover of our healthcare system (which happens, in case one forgets, to be the BEST IN THE WORLD) and shoot them?

After all, they are such a compassionate party…/sarc off

Abortions for all with our tax money. Healthcare for all illegals (‘coz they aren’t going to be illegal anymore)
Rationed care.

Yeah, all that sounds so darn great. What is wrong with us?

to believe future medical decisions, under ObamaCare, will be contingent on one’s political affiliation? I don’t think so.

No, they don’t have to line political opponents up against the wall. All those in power have to do is deny health care to Conservatives.

Big Brother is watching.

After they have killed off all the Republicans they are going to have to find someone else to pay for all this mess! Maybe they could raid ACORN’s coffers.

As Moe wrote, he is suggesting slavery and it also just an exagerration of the too common notion that Democrats have some right to use tax money for any and every arbitrary whim.

Besides that his comment doesn’t even make sense. His logic (such as it is) would seem to suggest that the 32% of the population that identifies as Republican are a burden to the state and our use of healthcare is draining the National coffers.

I haven’t seen the statistics, but other than medicare recepients it would seem more likely that people using government provided healthcare are voting Democrat. Exit polls showed that voters who self described as ” very worried” about their own finances (the only group likely to qualify for “free” healthcare) voted for Obama overwhelmingly.

Yes, I was, in the distant past, a faithful listener to A Prarie Home Companion. For years I enjoyed the simple humor and music of that show.

Then, at the beginning of the George Bush era, I suddenly discovered Keillor’s dark side, the cramped and sweat-soaked recesses of his brain where his dysfunctional, angry, hateful basic nature lay in hiding before.

It’s always disapponting when someone lets me down, and this was no exception. It was rather like discovering that sweet old Uncle Harold was, in fact, a secret fifth-columnist.

Perhaps Keillor’s problem can be assigned to something clinical. Or maybe it’s as simple as him being an ignorant braying jackass. Either way, it saddens me.

According to Keillor, thirty-two percent of the population identifies with the GOP. However, according to the last Ramussen poll, fifty-four percent of the population disagree with the Democrat’s position on health care.

Unfortunately the Democrats are refusing to listen to the majority, who in this instance, have finally found a situation where they think Obama and the Dems should hit the “reset” button.

I am not aware of any Republican or conservative who thinks we should not have some type of health care reform. But, the Democrats approach of remaking the whole system is unacceptable.

Open competition for health insurance between states, include some type of tort reform and keep the government out of health care as much as possible. With this plan, a majority of the country and even Republicans would be on board. I would even be willing to allow Democrats to participate in this plan, unlike the heartless Mr. Keillor.

The Democrats have proven, by their refusal to listen to the majority, that they are not interested in consensus health care reform, but only in a power grab.

I’m sure Keilor would be delighted at the comparison, but reading the interview with Vidal yesterday, I was struck with the stereotypical sense of infallible intellectual superiority, imperious manner, and near-total disconnection with reality; it immediately put me in mind of Keilor. Perfect Limousine Liberals.

Garrison seems to spend half his time in his pleasant fantasy world of Lake Woebegon, and the other half in a much nastier fantasy world in which he, and people like him, are the only protection that the vast masses of the opressed have from the evil, baby-eating “others” that he uses the generic term “Republican” to describe.

Funny thing, though – in this part of the country you hear a lot more about charity work being done by the local Vikings players than you hear about Keilor’s charity work. If he actually does anything for those masses that he seems to care so much about (other than excoriating others for not agreeing with him), he keeps it pretty well hidden. Of course, I’m sure he’s more than generous with his contributions to the local communists democrats.

How did he miss the obvious, that we’d love to opt out of the ridiculous Federal programs provided we get corresponding tax relief.

Let’s kill off half the population because of their political beliefs – and they call the right fascists?

…where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the voters are left of center.

What is in the water of those 10,000 lakes? Or is it the lutefisk?

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Leftists reveal themselves in their dark heart of hearts to be true Stalinists.

Rush mentioned Keillor yesterday or the day before and said he’d had a stroke earlier this month and is not right. I’m not sure he ever was. Humorist? In an alternate universe, maybe. He’s a crank and a whackjob.

Thirty-two percent of the population identifies with the GOP, and if we cut off health care to them, we could probably pay off the deficit in short order.

Imagine how quickly we could pay off the deficit if we didn’t provide health care to 100% of the population. Oops….did I do that.

This is why I have been boycotting this guy for a long time. I refuse to give him one penny for any of his books and I refuse to give one second to his writings.

American citizens have purchased over 9 million weapons since the election of the Big “O”. They are not afraid of their neighbors. I believe they are genuinely afraid of a government that seemingly believes they have no limits to the ways and extent to which they can intrude into our lives and take our hard earned wealth. I pray this course will be corrected in 2010 and 2012, I hope we can fend off this march towards a Marxist/Facist government.

If not, I pray for our children and grand children because they will be forced to make some terrible decisions not seen in this country since the Civil War.

we were “crazy” to fear that political affiliation would have any effect on Heath Bureaucrats’ coverage decisions…as in “I’d love to authorize coverage for your daughter’s leukemia treatments, but you’re a registered Republican, so…”

Yet that’s exactly what Keillor is advocating.

You guys aren’t thinking this through. If we cut Republicans out of Obama care, the ranks of Republicans (call them “Republicans of Medical Convenience”) would swell. Everyone would be trying to cut to the head of line, or avoid the new health care taxes, by claiming to be Republican. But there would have to be some type of proof, so we’d demand evidence of a financial contribution to the party, or a completed absentee ballot for the next election.

This is a deal I would take in a moment. Democrats get to design their health care system, and live with it, and we get to design ours, and live with it. But the Democrats won’t go for it, ultimately, because the success of their plan – such as it might be – is contingent on roping everybody in.

Hey Garrison, what about us independents who are not republicans because we think they’re too squishy and spineless. Do we get to be included or not? Just wondering….

The quote is out of context. If you read the larger article, it’s basically Keillor complaining about Republican filibuster threats.

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Lefty windbag as an excuse for entertainment.

I really do like the Prairie Home Companion. The show is entertaining. The music is great and I love the sound effects guys. Unfortunately, it just lost me.

Just like “Whad’ya Know” lost me when it’s host started mindlessly repeating leftist screed on a weekly basis.

Unfortunately, I still have to go to public radio to get my classical music fix.

The fact that the left can’t wait to use health care access as a political weapon seems like a pretty good reason not to have the government in charge of it in the first place. Keillor proves what conservatives have said all along–when the government controls health care, they will control every aspect of your life, even your political views.

Do you have the “wrong” opinion on abortion? Taxes? Size of government? No health care for you!

Keillor is just further along in the process. But we see this happening all the time in American today, and throughout history too.

First you gain some success and recognition by the intelligentsia and the “important” people in LA, New York, and perhaps Washington. Then you adopt their arrogance and think you’re somehow superior to the “ordinary people” from which you arose (i.e Lake Wobegon). Then you start adopting their worldview that the American public is ignorant and bigoted and that only the enlightened class can save them. (Though in Keillor’s case, I think he may have adopted the European worldliness first before he went with the American liberal elite.)

Before long, as the people continue to go their “ignorant” way and interfere with your efforts to deliver them, you then decide that they are the problem and they need to disappear in order for your utopia to happen. Which is where Keillor appears to be momentarily.

And soon this effort to make opponents “disappear” turns murderous, with reeducation camps and the whole Stalinist endless cycle of purges and constant new sets of counterevolutioniariesand become utter monstrosity.

While the enlightened intelligentsia first applaud before they quickly get consumed by the evil they have prepared the way for.

After all, the Republicans are the bitter Bible thumpin’ gun owners. Or would that be better life insurance…. /snarc

I have a better idea: if they want their state-run health let’s give the NE to Canada.

I find it funny that Keeler thinks it would be helpful to kill off Republicans to pay off the debt. Maybe he doesn’t know how to do basic arithmetic.

If you have fewer people to pay off the debt, it costs those remaining more. therefore the burden is higher.

I also think he is using the same logic as those who want illegal immigrants to be covered by the health insurance bill. On one hand we are told they are needed because they are younger and healthier, so will pay into the fund, but not use the fund.

However,

They also tell us illegal immigrants need health insurance (the insurance they won’t or don’t use),

They also tell us we are going bankrupt with the epidemic of illegal immigrants using emergency rooms.