would you guys feel better if the story read that the parents were swiftboated?

why should anyone have to choose between owning a home and being able to afford health care?? stop trampling on the american dream.

yea…great, lifestyle they lead. both parents work…kids on scholarship…parents own a modest home and some rental property.

you go and tell them to sell their home and the rental property to pay for the medical care…go ahead…i dare ya.

tell mr frost to work 3 jobs, and mrs frost to work 2…so that the kids have no one to raise them.

the lack of any intellect in these posts is amazing.

SD – It is more than just the appearance. It is the life choices that indicates a high probability that the Frost families has some very hippie like tendencies.

DLS – … in his fifties or sixties, lives in Eureka (extreme northwestern California). Now there’s a real (ex-)hippie.

“Very hippie like”? “a real (ex-)hippie”?

WELL, this “old hippie” enjoyed a productive, satisfying career that allowed required me to retire at age 55. For the last 5 plus years I’ve been walking the golf course five days a week.

Since I’ve gotten my index down to 10.6 maybe you two should reevaluate your definition of what a “old hippie” is.

“Peace Baby” and thanks for enlightening us on what old hippies are.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6BMSzdFQOs

Oh, and in another place I used to live, there was a club in town frequented by a lot of ex-hippies, still wearing tie-dye clothing. The place had a stage with plenty of black lights as well as colored lights and posters. Shaun would love it because all live performances there featured introductions of the acts and intermission appearances by the club’s owner, featuring innumerable anti-Bush remarks.

Which life choices would those be, SD? Choosing to let their son be a spokesperson for SCHIP? Redoing their kitchen themselves? Sending their kids to private schools? I mean I didn’t notice anything in any of the accounts saying that they had a few acres of marijauna growing behind their house, or that they meditated twice daily while burning “Passion flower” incense!

should have sold their house to pay for health insurance.

Brilliant idea, except they still have to live SOMEWHERE. And whatever money they received from selling their house would have to be put into a new place to live.

He’s the wrong person to argue against socialized medicine and the wrong person to argue against increasing the size of government. What a joke.

The GOP will go down and go down badly if its spokespeople continue to side against the poor and middle class. They will not attract new voters by taking this stand, and also are driving folks away by avoiding debates in minority venues. This veto is a gift to the Democratic party, who probably wouldn’t win against a more moderate, big tent Republican party.

Yes, I recall that thread- a C-Span caller that SD, I think, thought was black, even though no one else heard a ‘black accent.’

Damn those nigras and hippies! They just don’t unnastand what President Nixon is doin’ for’em!

Only someone like SD could think being a hippie (assuming they were, which is far from clear, I know ex-hippies who own homes, but no current hippies) is a- an insult in and of itself and b- disqualifying you from…what? Giving an opinion?

It was actually Superdestroyer who brought up the whole “former hippie” thing. See the second comment.

Sam–

Many thanks for see what I meant despite my messed up formatting. It’s not unusual in America for people who make $50,000 a year to be unable to afford health insurance.

Harto–

Hear, hear!!!

I think that some of you just proved a point, but not necessarily the point you intended to prove.

What tendencies were those? Having a family, working hard at an entrepreneurial business, home ownership, or was it something else? Is it because they are (horror!) Democrats?

I read on another blog that Malkin and her husband couldn’t get affordable health insurance because of pre-existing conditions. In her case, the condtion is being uunderweight. Irony of ironies, if true. Perhaps also, this may make debate unattractive.

Wouldn’t it be ironic, if she had chilfren that ended up on an SCHIP porgram!!

Intuiting the Dem’s motivation is well, intuitive.
I don’t know, but given that children have been paraded around the Capital for various ‘messaging” events, I can also accept the possibility that the depths of slime the opposition would descend to were unexpected.

What was the substantive reason for SCJ Roberts’s children to appear at his Senate hearings? I don’t remember anyone claiming that the children were illegimate offspring instead of being adoped. That’s what happened with MCCain’s ‘illegitimate’ daughter, and I thought discrediting the practice in that instance would have put a stop to it altogehter.

Now, of course, it’s a matter of hindsight.