Far more problematic than O'Donnell's alleged flirtation with witchcraft

[Uncle Ted]

Her lying about Princeton wasn't in high school.

Her defaulting on her mortgage wasn't in high school.

Her failure to pay back student loans wasn't in high school.

Her being an unelectable waste of what would otherwise be a Republican seat with a suitably moderate Republican for a state that will not - EVER - elect a conservative Republican - also wasn't in high school.

Americans, including Delware voters who went with O'Donnell, are indeed stupid.

I can tell by this list that she isn't a Democrat by the fact you left off "hasn't paid her taxes"

It's no wonder why I usually end up voting for the Libertarian year-after-year.

One thing is for sure... The former Delaware Senator does have a f'ing sweet ride:

[YOhio]

Bennett deserved to get thrown out because of his vote for TARP, but you're wrong in making the comparison because a Democrat won't win a Senate seat from Utah.

If the Utah GOP convention delegates are stupid enough to nominate Chaffetz over Hatch in 2012, I could very easily see Jim Matheson taking the Senate seat. Sadly I think Utah GOP convention delegates are that stupid.

[happyone]

If the Utah GOP convention delegates are stupid enough to nominate Chaffetz over Hatch in 2012, I could very easily see Jim Matheson taking the Senate seat. Sadly I think Utah GOP convention delegates are that stupid.

Having been one - I agree.

[YOhio]

Having been one - I agree.

Same here.

[statman]

The fact that Obama was elected is proof of American's stupidity. I would say the same about Bush, but Kerry and Gore were the other choices, so there was a minute decrease in that stupidity at that time.

What I don't get about people's attitude about Bush is that as a candidate he said EXACTLY what he was going to be as a President - a "Compassionate Conservative." Where anyone got that he was going to be a solid fiscal conservative is a mystery. The very first bill he signed onto was Ted Kennedy's education bill - the whole 'No Child Left Behind" nonsense. Then there was the new Medicare entitlement...


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BTW - the new Medicare entitlement hasn't cost nearly as much as everyone had feared - the donut hole designed into the benefits stream worked as intended, and the second WalMart started selling $4 prescriptions for many of the maintanence drugs (or alternatives to them) the cost of the new senior citizen health care benefit went WAY DOWN

The donut hole means that senior have the first few hundred dollars of their drugs (per year) covered by Medicare, after that, the patients pay everything until they hit a certain point on the other side of the 'hole,' and from then on, the governemnt picks-up the rest.

The $4 script (also now a $10 3-month script) made it so many seniors found that they could switch from one or two expensive montly maintanence BP/cholesterol/acid reflux/etc drugs to one of the cheap $4 alternatives, with little change but inconvenience (many $4 alternative drugs still have low side-effects, but patient may have to take 2 or 3 times a day instead of 1). If they could do this, they could keep themselves out of the hole altogether.

Many did made the switch - and many seniors who used to have $300 - $400 per month prescription bills, had their drug costs drop to $20 a month range with little-to-no change in their health.

The American People owe a big "Thank You" to the Walton family on that one.

WalMart's own internal estimate of how much they've saved the US Federal Government in Medicare payments, solely because of their $4 script, is nearing $60-$75 billion (They can measure the change in Medicare spending on their own patients. They think they've had $4-$5 billion impact from their stores alone. They know their marketshare of the Medicare demographic (about 6%-7%) and can roll that out to the entire industry across the US. They assume similar changes across the entire market, and come up with a total number for the savings.).

And no, this NEVER would have happened without Wal-Mart doing it. Grocery store pharmacies used to be break-even propositions - are now generally loss leaders to get people into the stores. Places like Target are in the same boat. Even stores like Walgreens, Rite Aid and CVS are now having a hard time actually making money in their pharmacies, and are more adn more dependent upon 'front end' sales for profitability. They all can tread water and maintain the WalMart pricing. WalMart, on the other hand, gets the best price on EVERYTHING, and has a distribution network that is so good that it can almost completely avoid using the extremely expensive 'supplementary distributors' (McKesson & Caremark & a couple of smaller regional ones (Caremark is owned by CVS, but CVS pharmacy managers still get charged a premium if they use Caremark's services)). And the sales-per-square-foot and sales-per-employee at WalMart's pharmacies is off the chart compared to their competition. In total, WalMart took a hit to their profitability on the $4 scripts, but it was a hit they could afford WAY MORE than any of their competitors...

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