Cokie Roberts blames liberals for the problems with the health care bill: She just loathes the public option
By John Amato Sunday Aug 09, 2009 1:00pm
Cokie Roberts and her husband just penned an article that attacks liberals who have gone after the Ben Nelson's of the Democratic Party that are sabotaging health care reform. Steve and Cokie Roberts: Blessed are the majority makers. You see in Villagese, it's the few Ben Nelson's that has given President Obama the majority in Congress and not the other 257 House members and 59 Senators that actually give him the majority. To Cokie, the public option is nothing more than a gift to liberals that has no inherent significant in it that will impact health care reform. Sitting from her desk on the set of ABC, Cokie says she can craft the perfect health care bill without blinking an eye. Isn't she special?
STEPHANOPOULOS: it'll force him to go slower, which is probably a good thing, but the problem he may have is actually managing his liberal base.
ROBERTS: Absolutely, I think that is going to be the problem because look....you could sit here right now, even though it's complicated we can sit at this table and write a bill...
STEPHANOPOULOS: Insurance reforms, some costs control...
ROBERTS: And, but no public option and it's a bill that's actually been there for a very long time. You can take the Wyden-Bennett, it is a bipartisan bill. And Howard Baker and Bob Dole have a bill, you know there are bills out there that are doable. And if I had to guess in the end I think that's probably what is going to happen is something much more watered down ...
STEPHANOPOULOS:...But will the Howard Dean wing of the party go along?
ROBERTS: No, they are going to be absolutely furious and that is the problem that he's got right now. He's already got the liberals
NOONAN: Maybe it would be good for the president if he got absolutely furious about something.
ROBERTS: Well, I think that's the middle advantage. (Cokie's last words were tough to hear)
NOONAN: I understand what's going on, we got a little middle stuff going on around here, we got some centrism. That ain't so bad.
Peggy Noonan is so cute talking about centrism. That's a word she would never use if Reagan and Bush were in charge. Cokie is insufferable with her rant because it makes no sense, but that's a Villager for you. See, any elitist gasbag can craft sweeping health care reforms in an hour. I'm shocked that ABC didn't devote a ten minute segment so that Cokie could lead the round table to write the exact legislation that Congress should vote on and President Obama would sign into law. It would have saved the country so much time and energy. Why didn't she think of that? That Cokie is so brilliant.
In Cokie's world, we're the problem. It's not the obstructionist Republicans and all the health care establishment groups that have fought to block health care reform since 1948. Naw, it's OK for them to destroy it just like ABC's first guest---Newt Gingrich did. What Gingrich does is perfectly acceptable to the beltway weenies because that's the way she likes it. It's those dirty f*&king hippies that want true health care reform that are the problem. We actually have a voice at the table now and that's too much for her. How dare we ask for a good bill and not some watered down piece of crap that Roberts has a hankering for? The serious people in Washington think that Obama should trash his base while Bush should embrace his. Typical 1988 conventional wisdom. Conservative opposition to everything Democratic is the way the world turns under Cokie and the DC insiders. Oh, and what type of health care does she enjoy today? Conservative opposition to everything Democratic is the way the world turns under Cokie. Oh, and what type of health care does she enjoy?
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She just loathes Democrats.
She loathes the Democrats - particularly for calling those Muslims from Bosnia "Bosniaks".
http://mediamatters.org/research/200810030001
Who cares if that is what they want to be called! IT doesn't sound as good as "Islamic Extremists"!
Yet again, another pompous asshole who is clearly out of touch with the rest of society. Some folks just don't give a damn about Americans who are really suffering.
Kookie Roberts has never struck me as someone of great intelligence, so I'll let this pass as something she regurgitated from the voices in her head. Her hate of anything Democratic is so clear that it will take a miracle to change her mindset.
In her little, little world, the Democrats are to blame for all of America's ills, not just health care. No one else is to blame. Just the Democrats.
The 2008 election and its aftermath have clearly shown the need for prompt institutionalizing of all these nutjobs out there.
has millions and health care she thinks she deserves so does not give a flying f about poor people. What can one expect from a corporate witch.
What salary does she receive by the corporate news media to spread her attacks on Americans which have lost their jobs , benefits and home , while she dines with the corporate ho....
This fight is about class and they are taking our taxes , jobs and benefits to attack us with...
These republican democrat need to be purged from the democrat party now.. If we do not "NOW" pick a real democrat to run against these corporate democrats then we have already lost the fight..
The news media is back to it's favorite game of attacking the people of this country with their BS and propaganda.. ..
Every day there is another lie and more propaganda which is broadcast over the corporate news media to attach the citizens of this nation and to tell us what is good for us and what is bad , then they go about their merry way..
When are we going to stop bitching on the internet and take some real action to stop these crimes against our citizens and country and join together to select persons to defeat these blue dogs and centrists take have taken over our party..
These Global Empires are leaving our country while the government is allowing them to taken our wealth , jobs and power with them..
say that the Senate HELP committee had 40+ democratic amendments and the republicans had 140+ amendments to the bill but not one repub voted for the Bill..Now, that puts a cork into the whinning that the repubs are left out of the process---ANOTHER PACK OF BS LIES BY THE REPUBS..
Call them 1.800.828.0498...or the local offices tell them what you want politely but firmly!
call the MSM --tell them you want the report on McCaskills Townhall and to stop the loop of the Fl/Al mis-informed BS!
Politicians who don't like the public option for health care are a lot like what Bill Maher mentioned this past Fri. - teabaggers shouting at town hall health care reform meetings: "no government takeover of my medicare!" - Such sentiment only makes sense to those who are either mildly retarded or have severe learning disabilities, usually in Alaska and the south, as well as virtually any red state in 2008.
She's a lightweight intellectually, always was, and always will be. The only reason she gets to appear anywhere is because she is a woman who can speak proper English. And she does as she is told by her corporate masters. She is an empty shill.
and I'm being polite. This is a woman who along with her husband worked on the JFK presidential campaign!!
I think that "journalists" who attain a certain measure of wealth should be retired. Once you become part of the wealth class, you are useless for obtaining or serving up real information. Not to mention that she's a member of that child-molesting, woman-hating religion, a follower of Joey the Rat.
Every time I see Couric, Sawyer, Walters, et al, I'm reminded how appropriated the new media are, and how women's faces are used to make it all seem respectable.
And then there's Woodward, who during his book tour for "Bush at War" had his house featured in Architectural Digest! Really! Then we wonder why the book was such an incredible piece of uselessness.
It's the fear of rationing health care amped up to the next level.
I had one woman tell me in a grocery store that Obamacare would lead to rationed care.
And I asked her how so? It's a method of health care payment not a method of health care delivery.
Whatever the industry loses in per person profitability they would make up for it in economy of scale.
And she looked like she couldn't understand my question.
at the less privileged, while you get your tax breaks you dont need, take vacations in the Hamptons or the Berkshires or wherever preening BlueBloods like you go (but not 'exotic' Hawaii), thats where working class Americans go, and just cut out the pretense of trying to relate to 'Real Americans'. You can't thats why, you Harpy. Sheesh, can you be more 'white'. You get all 'Barbara Bush' there, and Marie Antoinette 'let them eat cake' sorta. just what are your credentials for sitting there and harrumphing like you do?!?!?
How much would everyone agree that getting free health care (thru our taxes) is better than waiting weeks or months on a medical reimbursement check to come in the mail thru a health insurance bureaucrat?
Honestly, wouldn't a "government bureaucrat" more likely grant medically necessary health care than a health insurance bureaucrat??
A Fat Cat in every pot.
http://image60.webshots.com/60/0/52/14/418005...
I remember, before 9/11, Steve Post used to be on in the morning. He always referred to her that way. He was right. Of course, after 9/11, they went all talk, just music at night and NPR lurched to the lickspittle right, salivating to serve the new masters. Despicably, they of course have her drivel on routinely.
Hey Sun! The new Marie Antoinette version (as offered by agribusiness) but also relevant to mainstream media is mostly "let them eat sh*t."
is necessary, and let the government pay for it. That's a start from my perspective. We'll work out the details later.
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you bet, Savnnah43! (As to China....I think agribiz has its fingers in other pots, e.g., high fructose crap and creating the garbage that creates obesity that feeds the maw of pharma with scripts for overpriced, sometimes crap drugs for cholesterol and diabetes...)
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I think we heard a load of hogwash. The end result we seek is cost reductions. The public option is a means, by providing competition. I'm open to anything that will align our costs with costs in the rest of the industrial countries and covers everyone. But, the real issue here is that cost reductions will necessarily have to come out of corporate profits, and that is what all the evasiveness, and spin, like the spin from Kookie Roberts is all about.
companies. Otherwise, why would she care? I mean other than the limited resources that we are beginning to experience, and her distaste for the great unwashed. Imagine her having to look at other women who don't have their hair done every day. The horror!
Sun, 08/09/2009 - 14:29 — NoBuddy
I think we heard a load of hogwash.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAipJYYqDqw
That is soooo cute!
we could pass something very easily if we took the public option off the table. what would be left if we did that, mandatory private insurance?
...and then you would have the freedom to choose your in-network physician who could refer you to the approved short list of specialists who might do a procedure which subsequently the company would refuse to pay. Now that thar's what I call CHOICE! Sophie's?
pah!
That's why I would rather have nothing rather than something that was a BS compromise with blue dogs but ended up benefiting the usual suspects one more time.
Every Sunday, the same shit: The same group of rich white people sitting around, earnestly bloviating about what is best for us pathetic, uneducated peons. There once was a time when shows like "Meet the Press" actually did a good job fairly analyzing the events of the day. Not any longer. Now, they serve to push the same reichwing bullshit that you can hear being vomited by Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity on Fox, only with a veneer of "legitimacy" because, you know, these are the "serious" political discussion shows. Personally, Peggy Noonan, Cokie Roberts, George Stephanopoulos, et all are in no way, shape, or form qualified to discuss the issues which affect working class Americans in this country.
It's all part of a very sophisticated class warfare the wealthy elitists play on the working class. Corporate media and a 2 party system are also the major ways people are controlled. One party for the upper class, one for the lower with the same objective: capitalism. You thought 2 parties meant democracy, you were wrong. 2 parties are for a two tiered capitalist society with a phony veneer of democracy, that is the truth and the politicos of both parties know that.
That dumped Dr. David Scheiner, Obama's long time personal physician, off of their line-up in their "Town Hall Forum on Health Care Reform: Prescription for America".
ABC had to make absolutely sure that in spite of touting the lie that, "All points of view will be covered", that the words "Single-payer health care" or "Medicare for All" would not be uttered at that event.
It seems all too obvious that President Obama himself was in on the censorship considering it was his own doctor that had to be "disinvited":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqTzb-l9c3w
I say it's time to boycott ABC and every other "news" channel that is not FAIRLY covering ALL the options before us now, which includes an up-coming vote for H.R. 676 in Congress.
ABC=All Bastard Conservatives
love the elite. its always we have, but f. you.....
cokie needs some cockie....
Here is her contact info of one outlet:
http://www.unitedfeatures.com/?title=Contact%...
how about we let them know that we will not advertise or consume from media outlets that think we are not significant...
Or appreciate rich white folk telling the majority of Americans that they know what poverty is best for us...
Any other outlets we should give an ear about the woman who thinks Hawaii is an exotic location full of not really Americans? Yeah Cokie, what a jerk President Obama was for visiting his sick mom!
... they spelled Mrs. Roberts's name with an extra "i"... that explains why she has such a track record of being such a monumental idiot.
"Cocaine is one hell of a drug..." Indeed Rick James, indeed....
Cokie truly Represents the Extreme Right of the Republican Party,you
know the Ones I Got Mine Fuck You.
How typical, if I had a dime for every rich kid I've known that started out as a liberal and eventually heard the siren song of the moneyed and ruling elite and became just another boot licker... well you know the rest.
Cokie Robert's parents were two of the most corrupt politicians of their time from Louisiana. She comes in with a huge fortune from the bribes they took, cradle to grave security and she is a "news" person? Gimme a fucking break.
If she had been born to Louisiana cajuns, she sure as hell wouldn't be irritating me now with her bullshit.
Not to mention that she's a flat out idiot. And an arrogant idiot at that. She's the genius who brought us this piece of brilliance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwpUTHsFzlk
She appears on the same Sunday morning show that hosted Michelle Malkin as a panelist last week, on the same network that hosted the most moronic, useless presidential debate in history last year. ABC is a network of circus clowns posing as serious thinkers.
There are more of us Liberals out here than you might think - even here, where I live, in the middle of Nebraska. Sen. Ben Nelson is going to have to keep that in mind if he wants to run for re-election in 2012 as a Democrat. While we may be in the minority in this extremely Republican congressional district (NE-03) there are enough of us that are fed up with the way Sen. Nelson has cast his lot with the Republicans on the major issues that we are no longer willing to support him if he continues to do so.
In the interest of full disclosure, I am the Chair of the Phelps County (NE) Democrats and have served as an officer of the Nebraska Democratic Party.
What's his plan, leeches for the poor and huddled masses?
And more Viagra.
She is a party loyalist opinionator.
Speaking for the Health Care insurance companies. As has the entire Republican big business (profits first) party.
I bet Cokie worries that if enough people go into the public plan, there. There won't be enough little people that will have policies that can be recinded to allow her usage without being denied. After all the money has to come from somewhere to pay for her even though she has a policy.
Not to mention the earning potential she has from the health care insurance lobby.
Its capitalism, and people like Bernie Maddoff are simply businessmen offering products. Why is Bernie in prison for being a capitalist.
is Bernie the ONLY person in jail for being a capitalist?
and BINGO!!!!!!!!!
Tom Delay isn't in jail, Newt Gingrich, Dick war profiteering Cheney, and all the rest including those Wall Street continue the bonus's as usual types are not in prison? So why ironically is Bernie Madoff?
Hell if you rob someone by gun point aren't you simply applying the capitalistic business exchange and hard nose business principals of selling them safety for a fee? You won't shoot them if they buy your insurance policy......
Maybe those folks have something about putting the 10 commandments in stone smack in the court room. We can put a ten commandment marble placard placed in the middle of the NYSE.
Palin would be proud and that will take care of that.
is one of the standard cast because they need a distraction to keep the focus off steph-is-not-smart-2-us as a total shill like the former DLC operative he is.
2 wars, no end in sight
tax cuts, tax cuts, municipalities going broke
tax payers do bail out banks however heh, BIGGEST JOKE EVER!
fundamentally basic human service run by a cabal of corporations that will let you die to make profit, you pay them to let you die !? :D
austerity measures congruent with above trend?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgpa7wEAz7I
Never to give to NPR. Not that Juan Williams and Mara Liason aren't enough reason.
NPR---Never Provoke Republicans
profits give prosperity to corporations, not to people. the general prosperity that would come from a public option, single-payer or whatever, is not supposed to be realized by the citizens.
Tho operating paradigm is to re-create royalty, with financial guarantees through law, using payouts to chief corporate officers.
It is already being done. I wonder if Obama's TARP team is jealous of the guy from CITI who will get the $100Mil bonus!? and why is a conflict-of-onterest this brazen not in bold print?
A number of years ago her and her brother were busted for accepting big bucks for personal appearances by corporate interests, then writing and commenting on issues affecting those same corporate interests posing as an alleged "independent journalist". She has a history of being a corporate mouthpiece, which is a polite way to describe what she is.
it would be nice for one of these infotainment jugheads, to answer this BS with valid questions/responses. For instance, Hey Kookie, name some liberal politicians, actual liberal politicians. Anybody can call themselves liberal. Let's see these windbags prove how liberal someone really is. Out of all the Washington hacks, how many in CONgress are really liberals? A handfull maybe? This spin is tiring. There is no such thing in this day and age, as a liberal politician. If there is, they won't be long, what with all that lobbyist bribery going on.
Cokie Roberts is still alive??
Who knew?
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Her father helped Johnson push the Great Society bills through the House. She's not only betraying her father's work, but also the Roman Catholic ideals taught to her in the 50's. She was a Southern liberal elite, now she's got the religion of Ayn Rand. She's 65 now, a good time for her to retire.
the more traditional values of the RCC. Bless the poor, cause they'll always be with us, and take what you can in the meantime.
Re: You can take the Wyden-Bennett, it is a bipartisan bill. And Howard Baker and Bob Dole have a bill, you know there are bills out there that are doable.
Well, Cokie, that just fkn great. Where were these offers from the Republicans the last 15 years?
Seems the only time the Repubs want to even consider offering anything resembling health care reform is only after a Democrat takes the lead.
When I turned George on this morning and saw Newt I just turned it off. Why waste my time?
Why is she still paid to do something totally useless. No one listens to her and most of all her husband.
I just loathe Cokie Roberts!
Maybe that's why I haven't watched this show since David Brinkley left.
Dopey Roberts is so out of touch that it is amazing they are still on the air . To listen to these elitist high society neandertahls , bubble people , makes me want to puke . She needs to be retired and put out to pasture .
Nice balance ABC...NOT! They had three right-wing pundits on this past Sunday, and not one moderate or liberal. Hmmm. It's just Faux News on Sunday. Don't bother. And Cokehead Roberts is total shill for the Insurance companies. And that Peggy Noonan and her whispery, Mr. Rogers, speech pattern is clinically ill if she believes the nonsense coming out of her mouth.
The show reeks of Blue-blood elitism. Usually has guests that are white, old, and republican.
Funny cause I keep wondering when George Steph and Cokie are gonna come out of the closet.
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