LOL -- his objection is that the choice exists. In his world, folks aren't supposed to have a choice.

Sean Hannity is so dreamy , why he kills me .

Great, I'm in Alabama. I get screwed again;>

This kind of exchange is obviously intentional, designed to confuse viewers so that they'll essentially throw up their hands about health care reform and walk away from the TV, drive down to the bar, and have a few beers and then engage in blurry, slurred conversation with other like-minded viewers about how Democrats are ruining the country and how did we ever let a dark man in the White House.

This kind of exchange is obviously intentional, designed to confuse viewers so that they'll essentially throw up their hands about health care reform and walk away

Bingo.

"States, under the current proposal, can choose not to let residents have the choice,..."

i.e., The Blue State Public Option -- our generation's Missouri Compromise.

chuck grassley was quoted this summer as being against the public option because he wanted people to have a choice.
truly a wingnut confluence of ignorance, stupidity, and confusion - with a healthy dose of mendacity.

Wingnuts still watch Sean Hannity? Beck offers soooo much more bang for the viewing buck. Whether tearful tirades or cool chalkboard conspiracy diagrams, Beck gives the wingnuts what they want. Hannity seems seriously stuffy and out of touch by comparison.

It's possible that blockhead Hannity meant that individuals don't have the ability to opt out of paying for the public option. If that's the case, my response is that I didn't have the ability to opt out of paying for Guantanamo Bay.

But you guys are probably right. They are probably trying to deliberately obfuscate. Or else (and this is a real possibility with Hannity and Morris) they are just too stupid to understand the plan and are just repeating what Roger Ailes has told them.

This kind of exchange is obviously intentional, designed to confuse viewers so that they'll essentially throw up their hands about health care reform and walk away...

Bingo indeed. Notice they never used the term "public option"? Meant to mess with lefty bloggers, too. They didn't say it because they weren't talking about it. They were "discussing" the "opt-out" clause. Don't know if they're right on the "The feds can say, 'No, Alabama, you're not doing enough..." bit, since I haven't read it, but they made sure to say "opt..." enough for everyone--including ours truly--to get the wrong idea about their wrong ideas...

Problem is that individuals can't "opt-in". If it was really a public option, I could opt-in. But I first have to get my employer to drop my coverage.

I'm usually the first one on the dogpile when it comes to conservative idiocy, but this doesn't strike me as all that idiotic. Aren't they just talking about the individual mandate? If someone is mandated to buy insurance, couldn't that be construed as being unable to "opt out"?

I had to register just to add: I haven't read the bill, so I have no clue what's really in it. But to me, the fact that tax dollars pay for it means that I'm "opting" to pay for it regardless of my desire to be in the program.

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This kind of exchange is obviously intentional, designed to confuse viewers so that they'll essentially throw up their hands about health care reform and walk away

That is the way the GOP has always operated - get people to not want to take part.

Anybody remember 2000, when they told us all that there was no difference between the two candidates? There have never BEEN two candidates more opposite, and there they were telling us our vote didn't matter anyway, since we would get the same guy either way.

But that is only one example among many...

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Chris:

The Blue State Public Option -- our generation's Missouri Compromise.

Man, that is profound. In saying that, I assume you remember where THAT led.

That sheds so much light on how far we've not come as a nation. Red state vs blue states or Blue-Grey. What the eff have we accomplished?

Consider then the EU and how far they've come in 65 years - less than half the time. It is discouraging, isn't it?

But Europe had its Red State-Blue State-Orange State-etc., for a LONG time before they learned. Do we have to go through what they did, before the crazies wake up and smell our common humanity?

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