I know Popwatch isn’t so much the place y’all go for politics, but watching all the breathless coverage about the impending health care vote in Read the full post.
Mar 20
2010
03:32 PM ET
The health care vote: Is anyone else reminded of 'The American President'?
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That’s funny-this was so my first thought.
I am totally with you Adam! Every time they start talking about a jobs bill I think of “Dave,” but most of all when stuff like this is going on I break out the West Wing DVDS.
Dave is the best political movie I’ve ever seen.
Nice shoes, Dupont Circle, Rose Garden, and Lewis getting votes. I love this movie. Will watch this movie over and over. Thanks for he suggestion, I will watch it tonight.
I can’t believe I ran across this article … that scene from this movie is EXACTLY what I thought of. Glad to see I’m not the only person who thinks life imitates art.
Talk about paranoia and fear of change! What I hear is a lot of uninformed people preying upon the fear of others and putting out a lot of rhetoric.
Paranoia? Really?
We’re trying to pass a health care plan written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn’t understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn’t read it but exempts themselves from it, to be signed by a president that also hasn’t read it, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn’t pay his taxes, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that’s broke. ???
Hey Mad Maggie – go read more about the plan and get back to us. You ARE paranoid. The name suits you.
I love this article; good call, Adam! I think many of us filter contemporary experiences through various media texts – I know I do (though for me it’s most often television shows). The tv shows from my youth in the 70s come to mind in so many circumstances (especially MTM and Norman Lear sit-coms), and in terms of contemporary politics I’m almost always comparing to the scenes in my head from various episodes of The West Wing.
Seems like a LOT of posters here are not paying attention or have absolutely NO understanding of whta is going on. You’ll be grateful for the plan because one of the provisions of the plan PROHIBITS an insurance company from denying you insurance or charging outrageous premiums because you have a pre-existing condition. Something as simple AND widespread as high blood pressure is considered a “pre-existing” condition as is high cholesteral. How many of you out there have one or both? Yeah….keep complaining instead of actually finding out about the health care plan. Oh yeah – and go study your world history.
And you don’t pay attention to what the other side says! We can pass laws to require insurance companies to eliminate pre-existing condition without a TRILLION dollar health care bill that creates more “cradle to grave” government bureaucracy. The problem has always been that the DEMS don’t want a bipartisan bill that addresses the real problems. No, they want the government to run more of our life, because they think they know better. A clue – they DON’T. Maybe you need to listen, Charlie – who’s going to pay for this bill? The Chinese? The 10 million people out of work? This administration has done ZERO to eliminate unemployment and spent almost a trillion failing at that! We don’t have the money to do this – our people need jobs and NOT government jobs! Our government can’t generate wealth! You study your world history – when in the history of the world has anyone EVER spent their way out of debt? This health care bill is a BIG mistake.
The only way to know what’s going to happen is to watch the poop hit the fan. Just bring your umbrellas and maybe you’ll get lucky.