Maybe this will be the moment Canadians see Harper in a different light. Until now he's been the guy who hasn't done anything super wrong (politically speaking), but this might make him look weak enough to solidify support behind the Liberals in the spring.

No, I went from a Ford to a Mazda this time.

Since the post was first created, I was rear-ended on Nov 17th, less than two weeks later the car broke down because of problems related to the rear-end. I've since been through getting another car and going through insurance to get paid for the rear-end incident... Good luck, hope you have...

^That's not exactly how things work, but you're right in saying its a sidetrack of the main topic. For this particular bill its a gutted corporate giveaway and doesn't resemble universal health care at all.

The big 3 will learn to become competitive, hence why its good for Wind to enter the market. It doesn't mean that massive jobs will be gone because an entirely new company is entering the market. Like it was said, if Rogers lays off people then Wind will be hiring. And Wind will likely...

Not surprising, but also the numbers aren't that bad. If only 2.2 million viewers are exposed to Fox "News" on any given evening, its certainly not going to put the nation into some kind of conservative trance. They already did that to themselves before Fox came along, remember Reagan? LOL

On point number one its not exactly true that they can't deny coverage. Insurance companies can still deny payment of procedures they deem unfit, but what they cannot do is exclude the offering of a policy based on a pre-existing condition. This is the biggest problem with the bill, IMO, as...

I find it humorous that someone was trying to lecture me on how the Senate and House of Reps are co-equal branches when the Senate just removed the public option altogether and placed no substitute in its place what-so-ever, while the House is the branch that PASSED a public option just several...

Doesn't surprise me to find out that the US has even higher rates, the rates for cell phone services here are astronomical, but I'm lucky to be part of a huge corporate discount program and my bills are usually kept down to around $70-80 a month, maybe more if I roam some in Canada. Without...

The unions need to tend to their home companies and negotiate fair deals for their workers instead of trying to keep competition from coming in... Bad move IMO.

I found the above to be very true. I lived in Chicago for a brief time in spring 07 and the city, while great to be in, was pretty much dead in the loop after business hours. But then again, even lower Manhattan is dead after business hours relatively speaking. Toronto, while no Manhattan, is...

First the public option was dropped, now this... I stopped paying attention to health care last month.... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091215/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_overhaul Dems weigh dropping Medicare expansion in overhaul ^LOL, in one paragraph they speak of dropping the...

Obama may be headed toward one term presidency at this rate. The problem being that Republicans are still completely insane, but that doesn't make whats happening at present any worse than it is.

President Barack Obama received the Nobel Prize for Peace because of political reasons. People internationally bought his rhetoric. Yet recently he announced he's accelerating the war in Afghanistan with 30,000 more troops and a general goal to possibly start withdrawal after 2012, but no...

Whats the bed bug rate like over the lake here in Buffalo?

It sounds like you're capable of immense douchebaggery. Since when did every last topic on the face of Earth have to become some argument where everyone lobs unnecessary words toward one another? One douchebag lobs an unnecessary comment to lure someone else into an unnecessary debate...

I said the cable companies should pay the broadcasters a fee, not the other way around. It would help local TV programming if local broadcasters get a piece of the cable pie when the cable companies make a lot of money by broadcasting their signals. The only irrelevant discussion here is the...

BTW, you outlined the true power of the House: revenue bills initiate in the House. But remember they initiate, they aren't totally dictated, but that is where the House's true power lies. Otherwise yea, the House of Reps is fairly impotent.

That's how the constitution reads on the surface, in actuality the House has minimal power when it comes to the teeth of the bill. And in this case, the public option within the bill can be stripped out by the Senate despite the House passing that option.

The reference to what US cable providers do is because I work for the cable industry in the US and live in Buffalo and understand the business very well. Presenting that opinion was only to relate to the fact if you want local Canadian content there is no better way to fund it than for cable...