people walked into the hospital and found out they didn t have coverage for maternity not only was that a raw deal for them, but we all picked up the cost because that person didn t have money squirrelled away to pay for those costs. it got put onto the taxpayers. the reason we set a minimum floor despite how controversial it is is because it s going to safe the system money in the long run. i get there s disruption. but it s disruption we needed and a disruption that will result in less money being spent in the long run. thank you so much. chris murphy of connecticut where things are working well. whenever i talk about the affordable care act, i make a point of calling it just that and not obama care. it seems like it might be catching on. politico magazine today reports that, quote, the president didn t say obama care once during his news conference last week. when he referred to the affordable care act a dozen times. and white house talking points distributed to democrats and
with. that s president bush s chief of staff saying it s not fair to president bush to compare it to katrina. because bush didn t get the cooperation. you know, the way obama gets it now. that is so great. it s apparent that michele bachmann didn t get it these days. she s joined a chorus saying i told you so. but as stephen colbert said last night, it may have gone to her head. we hate to say we told you so, we look like geniuses now. she s right. the obama care rollout is so bad that by comparison, michele bachmann is a genius. and if a self-certified genius like bachman was right about obama care, she must have been right about everything. the very founders who wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more. in the united states.
coverage for maternity not only was that a raw deal for them, but we all picked up the cost because that person didn t have money squirrelled away to pay for those costs. it got put onto the taxpayers. the reason we set a minimum floor despite how controversial it is is because it s going to safe the system money in the long run. i get there s disruption. but it s disruption we needed and a disruption that will result in less money being spent in the long run. thank you so much. chris murphy of connecticut where things are working well. whenever i talk about the affordable care act, i make a point of calling it just that and not obama care. it seems like it might be catching on. politico magazine today reports that, quote, the president didn t say obama care once during his news conference last week. when he referred to the affordable care act a dozen times. and white house talking points distributed to democrats and obtained by politico repeatedly
that s president bush s chief of staff saying it s not fair to president bush to compare it to katrina. because bush didn t get the cooperation. you know, the way obama gets it now. that is so great. it s apparent that michele bachmann didn t get it these days. she s joined a chorus saying i told you so. but as stephen colbert said last night, it may have gone to her head. we hate to say we told you so, we look like geniuses now. she s right. the obama care rollout is so bad that by comparison, michele bachmann is a genius. and if a self-certified genius like bachman was right about obama care, she must have been right about everything. the very founders who wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more. in the united states.
for something called gasgasohol. it then became known as ethanol and we renewed it. big oil tried to kill it and chuck grassley said i was the one person that saved ethanol from big oil. why do i believe in ethanol? pretty simple. if i have to choose between the next billion dollars going to saudi arabia or south dakota, i pick south dakota. if i have to pick between iran and iowa, i pick iowa. and the fact is, if we could make sure we retain the renewable fuel standards, go to e-15 as a blend and move towards flex vehicles and flex stations we re better off. brazilians have flex vehicles. auto companies say it s hard to do, every one of them do it in brazil. brazilians are independent of the middle east in their energy supplies. we can do this. we can get it done and it s important we do so. let me give you two quick examples of how totally wrong barack obama is on energy. as opposed to drilling offshore he put a moratorium in the gulf and he goes to brazil and he tells the