Wouldn’t the hospitals and insurance companies and independent practices have to be owned (by the government) for it to really be socialism?

i’ve been arguing for people to call “obamacare” the “affordable care act” when writing about it since day fucking one.

people that dont want it, hate obama, so they dont want obamacare. but they want the ACA because they’re losing their toes and teeth.

For the most part the label strategy works. There is a segment of the population that will not listen to the ideas in isolation no matter how good these ideas and supporting policies are for them. The hope is that there are enough people who will listen.

I think it’s also because the word “socialism,” particularly in English, means something very different from what its current “advocates” (using quotes for the reason I’m leading to) are using it to mean (something that I would say falls closest to the “Labour” label used by most countries’ liberal parties). It’s…

Notice how McCain and other concern trolls in the media will focus almost entirely on the label and not the substance. When substance is brought up, they will deflect as quickly as possible to the label, and to Venezuela, and to anything other than the actual policies and ideas being proposed.

Let me guess, they then ran off like the cowards they are.

I love Savannah Guthrie, and my father was OMG SUPER EXCITED to call and tell me about the cactus incident (because he knows I have a special section of my heart devoted to hating Matt Lauer).

I'm loving Savannah Guthrie! I think she's smart and funny, but Matt Lauer making snide remarks on air (i.e. "Owwww! Who gifts a cactus!!!!*cries*) is not cool.

The other thing is that uh...Good Morning America has anchors (?) with chemistry. You can tell that they get along real well probably off the set as well as they do on the set. It's silly but it's comfortable. Plus there's that whole feel good "Robin's Cancer" story that keeps you coming back. I don't know, they…