Impeding changes to our Health Care system

Originally Posted by classicman

Its also a wonderful extremist position to believe everything your party tells you. Unfortunately, or fortunately for me, I belong to neither party and choose to not rely on either one as a source of information. Independent corroboration is best, in my ever so humble opinion.

To continually attack someone who disagrees with your position or whatever your party says is another classic extremist cop out. You, my friend have tuned it into a fine art. You should be proud.

Yep....I'm proud of my understand of federal policy. It comes with 20+ years of experience (all but two of which have been with non-partisan public policy organizations), a lot of reading and talking with experts..as well as "critical thinking" as opposed to just "thinking to criticize" in which you engage.

And I have said repeatedly that neither the stimulus program nor the health reform proposal represented my view of the "best" or "perfect" approach and I pointed out the short-comings I saw in both, but that, IMO, both were still better than nothing and understood that both represented an approach that could receive enough support to be enacted and have a good chance at success.

I was honestly shocked, for example, that Merc (and prerhaps you as well) did not seem to have a clue that the largest single component of the Recovery Act was tax relief and not spending....or that he would repeatedly post columns screaming "death panels" (before finally backing away from that ignorance when called out on it)...or post industry funding studies as "objective"...and of course, your many negative/critical links in which you dont even have the balls to express an opinion at all...but just sit on the fence.

I have tried to answer questions here to the best of my understanding whenever asked, pointing to specific language in the legislation, rather than dodge and weave like you and Merc. And I am not the one who has flooded the discussions with partisan columns/opinions...then runs away from them when challenged.

Finally, I was a little disappointed that you would privately seek out and accept my understanding of policy and then mock it publicly, but I have gotten over that.

edit:
BTW, your non-partisan, objective stimuluswatch.org includes the jobs created on that Jennie-O grant award:
Jobs Summary: represented as full time equivalent weeks of work (Total jobs reported: 286).

Does that mean stimuluswatch.org is now biased?