IMHO, if Edwards wins, the FIX is in

[itsrobert]

Edwards will FIX the economy
Edwards will FIX Iraq
Edwards will FIX Trade
Edwards will FIX Health Care
Edwards Will FIX the budget
Edwards will FIX Corporate Lobbyist
Edwards will FIX America's Standing in the World
Edwards will FIX the Energy Policy

[NastyRiffraff]

1. Well you got me to click on your topic

Ready to breathe fire! Good one! :thumbsup:

[samplegirl]

2. Brilliant answer

I feel the same way. :think:

[chimpymustgo]

3. Yeah, you got me. And you're RIGHT. Nice post.

:hi:

[judaspriestess]

4. damn I need a FIX

a John Edwards as president fix :P

[rwheeler31]

5. I am in your world.

[eridani]

6. He won't fix health care unless he advocates for single payer n/t

[slipslidingaway]

9. Agree, and it could slow the move to single-payer. n/t

[eridani]

10. That's why Kucinich belongs in the debates

Edwards has moved far closer to Kucinich in four years, but that's no reason to stop pushing for more.

[slipslidingaway]

12. Exactly and removing Kucinich allows some potential

back steps to be taken. Instead of simplifying health care we might be creating another level of bureaucracy to be dismantled.

[avaistheone1]

14. Edwards has said his plan will transition into single-payer universal coverage.

An infrastructure must be built.

[eridani]

15. He is mistaken. Further division of the risk pools is a recipe for disaster

http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/74039/

A fundamental mistake of all incremental efforts now underway across the country towards universal coverage is the disconnect between insurance and health care. Here we find an increasing gap. Many people with insurance find cost-sharing an increasing burden with benefits decreasing and out-of-pocket costs taking ever larger bites from their household income. "Underinsurance" is defined by the Commonwealth Fund as medical expenses amounting to 10 percent of annual income or more (5 percent for adults below 200 percent of the Federal Poverty Level, which is set at $41,300 for a family of four in 2007). Yet many millions of "insured" Americans are having to spend much more than that on health care. Two million people were forced into bankruptcy by medical bills in 2001, the most recent year for which data are available; three-fourths of them were employed and insured at the outset of their medical problems.

The Medicare-like public option is an interesting idea, but does not make sense for several reasons. We have yet to show that the political process can yield a level playing field for competition between public and private programs. Another round of government subsidies would give the private insurance industry yet another opportunity to further divide the risk pool, concentrating the sick in Medicare, which could threaten its future viability. We would likely march toward even more of a two-tier system than we have now, and Medicare would face an increased risk of becoming a welfare program for sick people with significant medical problems. It would perpetuate a role for private health insurance and accept the illusion that it provides a valuable adjunct to health care financing when it is already clear that it doesn't. The battle over the industry's future needs to be fought, as it inevitably will. The Medicare-like option would simply delay that battle, perhaps losing an opportunity for real reform. Whatever further structures were put in place to implement the Medicare-like plan could themselves add to the obstacles of replacing an obsolete private financing system. If Medicare became excessively saddled with the most expensive care of a smaller population without adequate funding, its conservative critics could correctly claim that, "The government program can't do the job."

[slipslidingaway]

21. I hope people are not counting on Medicare or at least not

Medicare as it is today.

As the number of people enrolling in Medicare begins to increase significantly in the next 10-20 years this could be a big problem. Spreading the risk across all income levels and ages makes the most sense.

Thanks for posting that.

[slipslidingaway]

18. It definitely will? Or did he say 'may' which also implies may not. nt

[unapatriciated]

64. correct a change like this takes planning

[dragonlady]

22. Here's some pertinent information

I was listening to a public health professor on Wisconsin Public Radio today. She mentioned research by herself and another professor that modeled how people would behave when presented with the choices in a health care system like the one proposed by Edwards. The results indicated that within a couple of years, 60 to 70 percent would be choosing the public coverage. This would be quite understandable because of the lower cost when there does not have to be a built-in profit. Let the insurance companies compete with the public plan for our business, and they won't do well at all.

[eridani]

30. The problem is how private insurers compete

They compete by denying claims. How can there even be a "market" in the traditional sense of the term for a product that people don't use? In any given year, half the population has no health care expenses at all. Health insurance is something that, like your local fire department, you hope to never have to use. And the chances of getting seriously sick are about 20%. Of the other 80%, those who have insurance from their employers will not want to bother thinking about changing. The government will be taking care of sick people, and private insurers will continue to take money from healthy people.

The private Medicare Advantage has wreaked a lot of destruction on traditional Medicare, and it's not much consolation when after running off with the dough they then go out of business.

And where do you get the funding for the public plan if dollars are still being siphoned off by private insurers?

[dragonlady]

61. Small Businesses will be thrilled with the public choice

Right now my premium for basically catastrophic insurance is very high because I have to get an individual policy. This is true for many freelancers, business owners with only a few employees, and family farmers. We will be flocking to the affordable public plan and telling our friends and colleagues about it, believe me.

Also note that when the insurance companies are prohibited from denying coverage because of preexisting conditions, they will have to rethink their whole approach.

[eridani]

81. That "rethinking" will involve huge rate hikes

The whole notion that private insurance will like the pre-existing condition rule one whit better than they like full on single payer is just nonsense.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/01/24/cost_of_health_initiative_up_400m/


Spending on the state's landmark health insurance initiative would rise by more than $400 million next year, representing one of the largest increases in the $28.2 billion state budget the governor proposed yesterday.

N.H. Democrats, Republicans sharply divided on healthcare, poll finds
The biggest driver of the cost increase is projected growth in the number of people signing up for state-subsidized insurance, which now far exceeds earlier estimates.

State and federal taxpayers are expected to bear nearly all of the additional cost.

Although the price tag for the initiative is ballooning, the governor yesterday reaffirmed the state's commitment to ensuring that nearly every resident is covered.

"We have fully-funded healthcare reform," Governor Deval Patrick said at a news conference. Patrick listed the initiative among several programs started by previous administrations that he supports.

But the long-term cost of the insurance initiative continues to concern pol icy makers and analysts, who are worried that it may become unaffordable.

[frogcycle]

71. he has said repeatedly single payer is his goal

one can argue the merits of his position that we can't get there all at once - but he at least expresses it is desireable. He believes it will be a natural evolution. I would hope it would be encouraged to be a very rapid evolution!

[rpannier]

7. Got me

Nice Subject

[asdjrocky]

8. You're coming up with some good ones lately. K&R

[lapfog_1]

11. So, someone that's closer to the numbers...

how is John doing in SC? From the MSM you wouldn't even think he is running there, much less Kucinich.

Is he close to the front runners? Ahead of Hillary? What's the trend.

Look, I've picked Obama... but I'd love to see John win in SC.

[nxylas]

36. Kucinich *isn't* running here

According to my local paper, him and Gravel aren't on the ballot.

[balantz]

13. It's definately broke,

and he'll help us fix it!

:dem:

[Nutmegger]

16. Recommended and Kicked!

:kick:

[SeattleGirl]

17. Yeah!

Not that's the kind of fix that I am definitely for!

[Lucinda]

19. Nicely done!

:thumbsup:

[oviedodem]

20. Edwards is my second choice

I don't agree completely with his health plan partly because this countries economics cannot support a system like that BUT he would get my vote if he is the nominee and not Barack. I can't vote for Hillary because I know it would be Bill running the show and the Clintons are too polarizing to get anything accomplished.

I have read Edwards plans a lot and agree with most of it.

[focusfan]

33. please don't vote for Barack Obama

he has glorified Reagan and plus he said if he gets elected he
will let his advisors run the country

[DianaForRussFeingold]

58. K&R I agree! Obama plays it politically safe

He brings up the Iraq war when we have absolutely no proof he would have voted NO on the Iraq War Resolution. That's safe for him to say! -- But let's take a closer look at his background--

He's a protege of Liebermans and it wouldn't surprise me if he picks him for vice president in order to get some Reagan(GOP) votes...

Obama did have a chance to vote NO to war with Iran-- with the Kyl-Lieberman Amendment...
Obama and McCain played it politically safe
and didn't show up!

I don't trust him because I think he's another pushover for the Republican party, drug and insurance companies...
I wondered why corporate media loves him...

"As the Illinois senator prepared to join the presidential fray , he threw his weight behind the union-backed campaign against Wal-Mart. He declared that there was a "moral responsibility to stand up and fight" the company and "force them to examine their own corporate values.

According to the couple's tax returns, Mrs Obama earned $51,200 (£25,700) for her work as a non-executive director on Treehouse's board last year, on top of the $271,618 salary she was paid as a vice-president of the University of Chicago Hospitals.

She also received 7,500 Treehouse stock options, worth a further $72,375, as she did the previous year, when she banked a $45,000 salary from the company.

The apparent contradiction between Sen Obama's political calculation to join the Wal-Mart-bashing lobby, and his wife's profitable role with a company that makes money from Wal-Mart" Sunday Telegraph has learnt." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/13/wobama13.xml

--"Chicago University Hospital Regularly turns away patients with no health insurance and made numerous patient dumping settlements.
She provides a happy friendly famous face for denial of care and showing the indigent the door."

-- "This story is a big eye opener about Obama's philosophical commitment to universal healthcare.
His wife is earning $300,000 from a hospital administration job that essentially amounts to PR work--Chicago University Hospital Regularly turns away patients with no health insurance and made numerous patient dumping settlements. "

"She provides a happy friendly famous face for denial of care and showing the indigent the door."

---"Another story in the Tribune highlights that her signature innovation as "Community Outreach" director/VP was to get unpaid volunteers to go through the Emergency ward to "refer" unisured and non emergency patients to other clinics.
Her role at the UCH seems to be a polite way to have folks removed from the waiting rooms.
It's kind of myth shattering to see she did this sort of work..." http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_opinion_letters/2006/10/hospital_positi.html


--" Martin Luther King III to John Edwards: I challenge all candidates to follow your lead"
'…I appreciate that on the major issues of health care, the environment, and the economy, you have framed the issues for what they are - a struggle for justice. And, you have almost single-handedly made poverty an issue in this election." http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4147131

[rhett o rick]

77. Clinton is my eighth choice behind Peroit. nm

[Invidious]

23. Edwards is my 2nd choice

and I still get to vote in November if he gets the nom...."Winning at ANY cost" HRC means I find other things to do that day.

[Hyper_Eye]

38. I don't want her to win but if she does...

I will vote for her on Nov. 2nd. I will vote for the Democratic nominee no matter who it is. At the very least we can get a president in there that won't veto the stem cell bill. If that is all my vote accomplishes on the 2nd it will have been worth casting.

Edwards is my first choice but I don't think he will win in this era of celebrity worship. In the case that he can't pull it off I will root for Obama. In the end my vote will go to the nominee.

[Seabiscuit]

24. Edwards is the Fixer and the next president of the United States!

Kicking! :dem:

[tom_paine]

25. K & R

[Laelth]

26. At least he'll try.

At least he stands for something.
At least he admits his mistakes.
At least he sounds like a Democrat.

Our other choices? Well, decide for yourself.

:dem:

-Laelth

[patrioticintellect]

27. Really?

Just what do you mean by FIX? Make it harder for Americans to tell they are getting screwed by corporations? Or how about, make Americans settle for less reform when they could have more?

Seven Years of Bush requires a leader like Kucinich if we hope to rebound. Anybody else is just a band-aid that's going to fall off after the first 100 days.

[stickernation]

67. i'll bet you !

ok, let's get Edwards in there and give him 100 days.

how much do you want to bet that his change mandate outlasts this ?

see here's what *I* believe - AMERICA IS ACTUALLY EASY TO FIX.

* end the wars
* punish usurious corporations
* cut red tape
* invest in solar
* fantastic diplomacy
* invest in education
* etc

yeah it boils down to bumper stickers. ok, so i make bumper stickers for a living. i think it is easier to focus on memes like this over long periods of time. Edwards knows that it is the ENERGY OF THE PEOPLE that create great change, and he is simply volunteering as a CATALYST to trigger our own better angels into action. It isn't just government action that will overthrow the institutionalized (and individual!) evils that stalk the American culturescape. The Edwards proposition is that if we elect him President, he will MATCH our energy and do his best to PLUG IN THE PEOPLE. The people electric can zap any problem, and Edwards clearly knows where to aim.

Edwards shares this opinion and it is clear that his focus gives him a strategic advantage in creating a wave of permanent changes. it is not for nothing that Edwards supporters bring up FDR. outside of the possible manipulation of the Pearl Harbor event, Roosevelt saved the US and then the world. And most of that time he did so through brilliant diplomacy and wielding the power of the executive with great consideration of the rights of Congress. Fighting corporations was a family trait he shared with Teddy Roosevelt and his brave fight with polio and sympathy with the masses over the madness of Wall Street and the Repugnicans who preceded him is so very similar to Elizabeth's fight with cancer and Edwards' repeatedly stated and promised positions.

If Edwards is elected President, he is ACCOUNTABLE and WILL BE HELD AS SUCH by US, the PEOPLE who helped spark the EDWARDS REVOLUTION. We won't be spurned by John; I have met this guy several times and he's totally cool. I will be RESPONSIBLE for his Presidency. That is what I have at stake - if you elect John, you elect ME, you elect all of his supporters, you elect YOURSELF - you will have access to the President like never before. That is what I believe - John will not be able to forsake the will of the people that elected him to the Presidency despite the most desperate machinations of the M$M and Rupert Murdoch and other devils.

EDWARDS IS THE ANTI-SCHWARZENEGGAR !!! !!!

[patrioticintellect]

74. How is he going to punish "USURIOUS CORPORATIONS"?

What is he going to do? I'm so curious.

Do your bumper sticker talking point ideas for change...do they have anything behind them like a policy? Can you tell me what would be happening when Edwards does these things?

Or has he kept that secret and asked us to just "trust him"?

[stravu9]

28. Please, God!

We REALLY need him!

[paparush]

29. Woot!

Nice headline OP!
/got me
//golf clap...

[johnaries]

31. YOU again!

You got me again! I had my rant machine revved up and smoking, and then ......

I couldn't agree more!

[focusfan]

32. I wish people would vote for John Edwards

instead of Obama or Clinton.

[bdamomma]

46. me too, he stands in shadows ready.

[redqueen]

34. Hehe...

:)

[EVDebs]

35. Whew, I was ready to tear you a new one ! JE can win vs. McCain

Don't know about the rest but I KNOW Edward's economic plan will benefit THE PEOPLE, not just corporate 'persons'.

[7horses]

37. Someway... somehow...

Edwards needs to get his message out to the public. Go, John go!!!

[Plucketeer]

39. The Fixit Man

<- That's him! There's LOTS what needs a-fixin' in our Capitol!

[femrap]

40. Another big K and R today....

The Top of the Greatest List is looking so good today!

[MonkeyFunk]

41. Sorry

but Edwards isn't going to win a single state.

[lisainmilo]

42. Dang I need a fix!

Nice Post! :)

[WinkyDink]

43. Ha! LOVE it!

[Divine Discontent]

44. ha...

in the immortal words of Ron Raygun....

"there you go again!"

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

45. I like your optimism

And agree JE is the best choice.

The prez can't work miracles without getting through congress.

The congress that passes a law forbidding negotiating with drug companies for a better price.
The congress that keeps pushing money at Iraq.
The congress that LOVES its corporate lobbyists.

But, I'd like to see Edwards nominated for prez. He'd have the best chance at beating McCain or Romney.

[ChiciB1]

47. OMG... Some Really SUPER Posts By SOME SUPER Edwards Supporters!!

I've just been checking them out, and not only are they enticing... THEY'RE POSITIVE!!

Thanks, btw... I feel the same way!!!

[tdiggins]

48. My day with Hillary Clinton

Well, I didn't get to drive an armored vehicle. I didn't drive
Hillary, and, in fact, I never got any closer to her than 30
feet or so.

Although I am firmly behind John Edwards, I volunteered to
drive in the motorcade out of loyalty to my friend Shawn
Bagley. Shawn is the local Clinton chair - among many other
Democratic Party credentials - and has been a Hillary backer
for years. He was more excited than a kid at Christmas.

The entire event came together in 24 hours. The Clinton
campaign had called Shawn on the holiday Monday morning, to
say that Hillary was coming to Salinas to receive the
endorsement of the United Farm Workers. Shawn leaped into
action, and set the rally for the Hartnell College gym.

It was raining, sometimes heavily, on Tuesday morning, January
22. I arrived at the Monterey Airport shortly before 11 AM,
called on the intercom, and walked through the gates to the
private Monterey Jet Center.  There I met my "boss",
James, the advance man in charge of motorcades; my friend and
fellow driver ( and fellow Edwards supporter) Cesar Lara; and
Mark, from the Secret Service.

We were briefed on motorcade protocol - when the lead car
rolls, we roll, whether any one is in our car or not, and stay
directly behind the car in front. The Secret Service issued us
clip on pins, authorizing us to be within the security
perimeter.

For the next 45 minutes, we waited in the VIP lounge, eating
cookies and drinking coffee. We met  other Secret Service
guys, and chatted with a CHP officer who had worked for
several California governors.

A little before noon, Enterprise delivered our two Chrysler
Town & Country minivans. James put signs in the windows;
James assigned Cesar to Staff 1 and I got Staff 2. We spent a
few minutes adjusting seats and mirrors, etc.





A new team of Secret Service drove in behind the wheels of
hunter green Suburbans with Maryland plates and bullet proof
glass. We got the hand waving in a circle "head 'em
up" signal from Mark and headed to the vehicles. We drove
from the Jet Center VIP lounge on to the tarmac. I was near
the end, with the press bus and a CHP car behind me. In front,
four CHP motorcycles, a CHP car, the two Suburbans,  a Secret
Service Buick sedan loaded with weapons, and Cesar in Staff 1.

We opened the hood, all the doors and the rear hatch as our
CHP buddy and his K-9 conducted the "sweep",
sniffing all vehicles, including all corners of the press bus,
for explosives. Doggie got a little excited at the Buick.

. Fortunately, the weather had cleared a bit while we waited
on the tarmac for the sweep and for "wheels down".
Even when the sun came from behind the clouds, it was chilly,
with temperatures in the low 50’s. We walked back to the Jet
Center to urinate, and I ate the sandwich I had thought to
bring with me.

Wheels down came at 1:55, and as the chartered ATA 737 taxied
towards us, we rolled up to where the stairs were waiting. The
rear hatch opened, and the press began to get themselves and
their equipment on the bus. Young men in suits typing on
Blackberries headed for Cesar and me.

The front hatch opened and the Secret Service when in and out
a few times. Secret Service agents were on the tarmac,
constantly scanning the surrounding buildings. Finally,
Senator Clinton deplaned, shook hands with a small welcoming
committee and the ground crew, and headed for the lead
Suburban. With just one passenger, I rolled.

Out the gates and along the access roads, we headed for
Salinas, 15 miles away. The four motorcycles behaved like
sheep dogs, chasing up and down the motorcade, first ahead to
block cross traffic, then coming up from behind. We watched
cautiously for them in the mirrors, since they sometimes
passed on the left, then on the right.

When we reached Highway 68, I was excited and a bit nervous. I
thought our high-speed motorcade would soon hit speeds of 70
mph or more on the narrow, hilly, two-lane, 55 MPH highway to
Salinas, driving fast, nose - to - tail,  but I was ready.

What is this? We're stopping for a red light? Ok, now we'll
get going. What's this, another red light? What's that,
traffic in front of us?

What a disappointment! We did not push any traffic out of our
way, and I don't think that we ever went faster than 55, even
when we reached the four lane part on the highway. The lead
CHP car didn't even have his lights flashing! Very often, when
the motorcycles got behind us, that meant cars were turning on
to the road in front of us. 



After about twenty minutes, we arrived at Hartnell College.
The motorcade turned into a parking lot over a specially made
ramp, down a service road, then on to a sidewalk. We pulled
right up to the main entrance and everyone got out and went
inside. The bus reversed into a special parking space and the
entire motorcade laboriously u-turned, and pulled up to the
entrance facing the other direction.

James had warned us to stay with our vehicles, in the event of
a crash departure of some kind, but Cesar and I were able to
enter a secured portion of the foyer and see some of the rally
from near the doorway.

The place was packed! More than 3000 supporters had crowded
the gym, and another thousand or more were in an overflow
auditorium next store watching on TV. Clinton was on a stage
on the floor, with a huge American flag backdrop (borrowed
from the Navy, Shawn told me later) and the bleachers behind
her were full of UFW members in red shirts waving Hillary
signs. The bleachers across the floor were jammed with more
supporters, and folding chairs were on the floor for local
dignitaries. Many others stood wherever they could find a
space big enough.

From the ten minutes or so that I heard, Hillary gave a good
speech. She thanked the UFW and spoke about jobs, immigration,
education, the middle class, and so on and so on. Cesar and I
eased out and once again hung out with the guys with guns,
shaking hands with other Democrats and some bodies in the
secure foyer. Shawn was aglow; he really did a fantastic job
pulling this off. As the speech ended, Hillary headed for a
meet and greet with the locals, and Cesar and I headed to our
posts.

We ended up waiting an hour. It had started to rain again, on
and off, so we were in and out of our vans, watching the cops
around the perimeter get soaked and the Secret Service agents
ducking in and out of the gym, and James searching for
umbrellas.

My passenger never left the van. Moe, a 22 year old from
Chicago, was the "equipment manager". His job was to
get campaign and press luggage and equipment to and from the
airport and the sites and hotels, coordinated the
"sweep" before "wheels up", During the
rain,  he kept pushing buttons on the van’s radio, schooling
me on Akon, Fitty, Tupac and other crap. Another staffer came
over and called him the "baggage bitch"; all the
staffers I met were sharp, friendly twenty-somethings. Poor
Moe – this was his first visit to “Cali” and he saw nothing.
He was disappointed not to see some young California girls –
“talent”, as he called it.

Finally we got the signal from Mark, Clinton came down the
steps, and we were off again on another slow speed motorcade,
back to the tarmac and the steps to the plane. Press and staff
rushed aboard, Hillary shook a few more hands, and the hatches
closed. We had to wait for "wheels up" - in case
something happened, I guess - and back to the Jet Center.



The Secret Service thanked us, Cesar and I positioned the vans
for Enterprise to pick up, James collected his signage, and we
received discharge papers. It was a little after 5 PM, and
getting dark. The day did not go quite the way I had expected,
not  all that exciting, but it was an adventure, and I will
gladly volunteer to drive Hillary again on her next visit -
campaigning for John Edwards for President.

Thom Diggins
President, Democratic Club of the Monterey Peninsula
[e-mail]
www.montereycountydemocrats.org

[jcg996]

55. Welcome to DU

Nice story as well.

[unapatriciated]

66. Sorry she didn't take time to shake your hand or thank you.

Go and see John if you get a chance I'm sure he will take the time to shake your hand as he did mine and others in Atlanta. Maybe you could drive for him.


http://youtube.com/watch?v=vZxOYF9ZAe0

[sazemisery]

49. This is a FIX I can live with! K&R n/t

[CorpGovActivist]

50. KNPnta

[hisownpetard]

51. K&R!

[Dinger]

52. Damn Right!

:patriot:

[Iggo]

53. Are you SURE your opinion's humble?

Just checking...heh.

(Along with the other things mentioned, if he could FIX the hole in the ozone, that'd be great.)

[McCamy Taylor]

54. Proud to be recommendation number 100. But we know the corpporate media will tell any LIE

about John and his family before they will let THAT happen.

[Puckster]

56. YEEESSSSSS!

Of all the candidates, he's the only one who gives me any hope for real, MEANINGFUL change, not just hot air.

[Mad_Dem_X]

57. AMEN!!!

[rniel]

59. Electronic Voting machines

will fix Edwards

[mother earth]

60. We are in dire need of this fix! Go Edwards!

We are heading to destruction thanks to the corporatocracy that brought us into this chaos.
Please, let the Edwards fix go forward!

[Dukkha]

62. Fix it! Fix it! Fix it! Fix it! Fix it! Fix it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnhdw7DhRu4

[destes]

63. Fixed

How clever you are. 

[stickernation]

65. it is hard work ahead

A BIG FAT CTRL-Z (UNDO) ON THE DAMAGE OF THE * MAFIA !!!!!!!!!!!

GO JOHN EDWARDS !

edwards rising in SC ? http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/1/24/171621/896/805/439558

[Canuckistanian]

68. I wondered what the Hell you talking about

But now I know.

Thanks. Good post.

:thumbsup:

[Sarah Ibarruri]

69. We need the FIX! nt

[southerncrone]

70. Yep, the ole USA in now a "fixer-upper".

I definitely prefer "the fixer" to "the decider".

Go, John!!

[lonestarnot]

72. Woot!

[BrklynLiberal]

73. Sure got my attention...

[annabanana]

75. HA!. .good one!. . . . n/t

[wicket]

76. Amen!

:thumbsup:

[George II]

78. SNEAKY!! Good post - he's got my support.

[Infinite Hope]

79. K&R Edwards headlines through SC. n/t

[Digit]

80. K&R!

:thumbsup: