Here's another question..

[hkellick]

Is it me or is the Bush campaign getting suddenly rather desperate?

Kerry's, apparently, not a flip-flopper, but a die-hard liberal.
And his medicaire plan will swamp you in a mire of bureacracy (How is this different from dealing with the current system and HMOs, except.. you know.. giving more people coverage)?

Yes, I do believe tonight's debate shall be a good one :)

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[mythagon.livejournal.com]

there is talk around the office that if the dow jones is below 10,000, bush will not get re-elected. It's a purely mental level as there is nothing special about 10,000 except in the psyche of individuals, but that's really all that matters in an election--people's perception of the economy.

anyway, the dow has been hovering a little over 10,000 for the past few days and is currently at 9993.78. it was lower earlier. Bush _knows_ that is not good for him, especially with the debates tonight focusing on domestic policy :)

[mythagon.livejournal.com]

wtf is up with that post time??? 6:45pm?? where am I, the middle of the bloody Atlantic? oddness....

[phoenixsong]

Nope, GMT s:) Replies to S2 styled-pages are in GMT, and replies to plain-vanilla pages are in PST/PDT.

[lawchicky.livejournal.com]

I, for one, am looking forward to seeing GW's despiration. I can't help but giggle when he goes off on a rant that has nothing to do with anything.

It's really funny that the Bush campaign can comment on Kerry's "healthcare plan" because the whole thing is so vague, that it has little meaning. Kerry's ideas on healthcare will have to be hashed out in a MUCH more developed manner before they can even THINK about moving the ideas into effect. I think that sweeping healthcare reform needs to be done, but I think it's going to take a long time before the government is able to pass anything of that magnitude. Remember, Clinton had 8 years to try to pass healthcare reform, and he didn't have enough time to do it.


You'd be surprized how long it can take for things to get through the House and Senate. I had to read the entire legislative history for the provision we call OPA 90, which basically created laws concerning ocean pollution. A bill along the lines of OPA 90 was kicked around the legislature beginning in the early 1970s, but it didn't get anywhere but bounced around until the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989. The whole thing took form in late 1989, and by 1990 you had OPA 90. Pretty incredible when you look at it. It took about 10,000 pages and 18 years to get the bill started, but six to eight months to push it through when it actually became a priority.