No, I am not in favor of Medicaid either. My example was intended to illustrate that congress has a hidden agenda. If this was really about insuring the uninsured, then they could do it will little effort. There is little doubt that this is a power grab.

I believe the real solution involves tort reform. But we will never get tort reform because lawmakers will never pass legislation that puts lawyers out of work. Shakespeare was right — kill ‘em all.

I just don’t get it. If the problem is the 27 Million without insurance, why not just give them medicaid? That could be done for a few billion. Why spend $1.2Trillion?”

Wow, this is stunning. You oppose a public option… and yet you ask why we can’t get the 27 million without insurance onto Medicaid, which, last I checked anyway, is funded by the American taxpayer.

You’re basically against calling a public option a “public option”.

I agree with you on though, Medicare/Medicaid should be available to anyone who doesn’t have/can’t get private insurance. Keith Olbermann coined it “Medicare part E (the E stands for everyone)”.

I just don’t get it. If the problem is the 27 Million without insurance, why not just give them medicaid? That could be done for a few billion. Why spend $1.2Trillion?

And anyone believes they will stop spending when they get to $1.2Trillion is out of their mind. No government project has ever costs what they said it would. We are being duped by idiot. Every last one of them. And the Republicans are no better. They were spending money like crazy, which is why I Voted for Mitchell in the first place.

Mark my words Mr Mitchell. You vote on this bill ended your career. One year from now, you will be replaced. It cannot happen soon enough.

Question: Did he have it before?

Unemployment drops to 3.7% in Arizona in August 2007.

Unemployment rate in Arizona in September 2009: 9.1%, an increase of 245% in two years, while Mitchell is serving in Congress.

Did Mitchell cause unemployment? No.

Has he done anything to stop it or bring it down? No.

Has he done anything for jobs in Arizona? No.

Is there any bigger problem facing Arizona families today? No.

Should Mitchell return to Congress if he cannot do anything for Arizona? You answer.

Thanks for listing who you want for statewide office but i asked who are these good candidates in CD-5 not who you wanted for Governor.

If I had my druthers,…. Dean Martin for Governor and Schweikert for State Treasurer.

10.2% unempoyment. His stimulus bill helps save government jobs. It has done nothing, and I mean nothing, for private sector jobs. Unemployment is up 42% since January 20.

As Steve Wynn said, Congress and the President should have focused on jobs, jobs, and jobs. They have done everything but. Mitchell voted for a huge job killer.

He will pay for it, as unemployment continues to rise and the contrast is drawn for what he did for government jobs and what he has not done for private sector jobs.

Who are these three good candidates. I hope you don’t count schweikert who was endorsed by a labor union one of the countless times thid guy has run for office and run a bad campaign… Some great sonservative he is…

They rejected the conservative candidate. 54% (Owens/Scozzofava) to 45% (Hoffman).

You’re absolutely right, NY-23 might go back to the GOP. It shouldn’t have moved away this year… and it wouldn’t have had the GOP been able to accept some moderates in the party. But you’re believing your own press. A vast majority of the Tea Party movement believes 2 million people showed up on 9/12, that 4,000 people just came to Capitol spontaneously, and that it’s only the tip of a conservative spear.

I urge you to both run with that, and urge your GOP politicans to govern like that (which I know you will on both).

And that will wind up blunting the effects of what will undoubtedly be a difficult year for Democrats in 2010.