McConnell: The Public Option ‘May Cost You Your Life’
McConnell: The Public Option ‘May Cost You Your Life’
For months now, conservatives have been scare-mongering about health care reform with outrageous claims that it would lead to “death panels” that could “pull the plug on grandma.” In Congress, some Republican backbenchers have claimed that Americans will die if health care reform passes Congress. “We’ve been battling this socialist health care, the nationalization of health care, that is going to absolutely kill senior citizens,” said Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ radio show. “They’ll put them on lists and force them to die early.”
Now, the scaremongering has been embraced by the congressional GOP’s leadership. In an interview on Dennis Miller’s radio show yesterday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said that the public option “may cost you your life”:
MCCONNELL: Well, it doesn’t make any difference frankly whether you opt-in or you opt-out, it’s still a government plan. You know, Medicaid, the program for the poor now, states can opt-out of that, but none of them have. I think if you have any kind of government insurance program, you’re going to be stuck with it and it will lead us in the direction of the European style, you know, sort of British-style, single payer, government run system. And those systems are known for delays, denial of care and, you know, if your particular malady doesn’t fit the government regulation, you don’t get the medication.
MILLER: Right.
MCCONNELL: And it may cost you your life. I mean, we don’t want to go down that path.
Listen here:
In his efforts to derail health care reform, McConnell has regularly fear-mongered about the British and Canadian health care systems, claiming that a public option would look just like them. Unsurprisingly, McConnell has gotten his facts wrong when he’s described other health care systems.
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October 29th, 2009 at 4:20 pmFearmongering and LYING. It is what the GOP does
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Caption Contest: Pull my finger…now THAT will cost you your life!
October 29th, 2009 at 4:22 pmand Dennis Miller just sat there and let him get away with it.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:23 pmA guy who has made a career of working for the government saying he is, basically, out to kill you.
Nice.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:24 pmIn an interview on Dennis Miller’s radio show yesterday…
– - McConnell and Miller. Geeze, 10 years ago this is the kind of politician that Miller would skewer.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:26 pmWell, McConnell is still alive, right? And the stupid fcuker has government provided/run healthcare, right? If it’s good enough for him, I’ll take my chances.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:27 pmDeath Panels? Still?
I thought we were past this shit already. McConnell must really enjoy sounding a complete and utter idiot. It’s well passed the point where he can whip up support in his state with these lies and this kind of rhetoric isn’t going to sway a single member of Congress.
He’s either
*A compulsive liar
October 29th, 2009 at 4:27 pm*A complete moron
*A typical Republican
*A whole lot of all three.
He mentioned medicaid to connect it to the poor, but didn’t mention medicare. His goal seems to be to get folk riled up about the poor looking to get something for free. He didn’t mention medicare because he knows that AARP is the republicans’ next target. Looks like the plan involves using a pincer movement. His name is on Congressman Wiener’s list of Congress-members who are on medicare. He’s a liar, but he ain’t stupid.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:27 pmZooey, that’s a real stinker.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:28 pmThe public option is going to kill me?
October 29th, 2009 at 4:28 pmNot the swine flu, or second-hand smoke?
What about that whole “axis of evil” thing?
Dennis Miller, what happened? You were once a comic, now you are a spaz. A Right-wing Rightie spaz. As for McConnell. I have a bit of advice, you tried the whole ‘Pullin the Plug on Granma’ and it fell flat. Oh Repugs, try to be more creative. You are recycling the same old Boogie-man. It’s starting to get stale.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:30 pmhellina,
What can I say? I gotta million of ‘em. ;)
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Oh, btw, McConnell, please stop saying insurance is health care, its not, the doctors and nurses provide that service and factually all insurance plans, public or private, are ’socialist’ as funds are put into pools whose funds are then distributed to pay claims. The difference is big huge checks to CEO and shareholder junket monkeys.
So, if we dont give huge sums to these poor suffering individuals, the government or McConnell will work to make sure the legislation kills you.
Sounds like extortion or maybe its more like holding your life as ransom.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:33 pmTime to put up or shut up Mitch. If you think government funded health care is lethal then publicly renounce yours and allow the media to follow you as you look for a policy on the open market.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:33 pmFOAD Doug. You are a punk
October 29th, 2009 at 4:33 pmWhat happened to Dennis Miller and Victoria Jackson? When they were on SNL, were they bit by a Radioactive Repug Spider? They both went completely bat-sh*t. Makes me wonder….
October 29th, 2009 at 4:34 pmHey Hoffman, what do you think about your Talibanistanian backer Rohrabacher?
October 29th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
[more McConnell]:
“Yes, there you have it. Single-payer insurance like Medicare may cost you your life (but don’t ask me for any actual data to show that).
But no health insurance. Now that’s been proven to cure everything, and cheaply too.”
Cheers,
October 29th, 2009 at 4:36 pmMajii you are absolutly right. The poor will be the getting the repug treatment again.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:36 pmTP–you have to mention when these lying sacks have Medicare themselves.
E-mail and call him and tell him you demand that he give up his public option.
Caption: I care about the people this much.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:37 pmRethuglicans are liars and not very good people. I think that in two more election cycles we will be done with these thugs.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:41 pmMCCONNELL: And it may cost you your life. I mean, we don’t want to go down that path.
McConnell, if your lie could somehow gaurantee the country a public option would cost you your life, it would only be one more reason to be 100% for it.
You are lying scum who, along with your bought and paid for gutless GOP colleagues, is perfectly content to let thousands of other Americans die due to lacking that health insurance you so cavalierly lie and fearmonger about. GFY.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:41 pmLOL! The Judge threw out Orly Taitz’s lawsuit AND he believes she urged her clients to lie on the stand. Now the crazy bi*ch is going after O’Liely because he refused to give her airtime. Is this a crazy soap-opera or what? Between ‘The Birther Queen’ and the Palin/Levi saga I have concluded that the remaining Repugs are mentally unbalanced.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:42 pmI’m not calling mitch a liar but there is a danger of going down that road.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:44 pmNow isnt it odd that people like this poli-tick [many bloodsuckers] will rant about how we need to spend trillions of dollars on defense [as well as offense today] industry to protect the people then turn around and say that he doesnt want everyone having protection from disease.
Well, whaddyaknow, we dont need a defense industry after all.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:44 pmHow can you believe what this little turd says – he doesn’t even have a chin!
October 29th, 2009 at 4:44 pmP.D. says:
What happened to Dennis Miller and Victoria Jackson?
I think it’s pretty simple, P.D. – they needed to “reinvent” themselves because they were tanking into obscurity and knew the wingnut right is an easy market to get into (if one is willing to basically embarrass themselves and have no shame) and would accept them with open arms.
Kind of like has beens and losers appearing on “Love Boat”, if you’re old enough to remember.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:47 pmDennis Miller is as funny as tooth decay. He’s now schlocking heating and air conditioning commercials on the local right wing radio station.
Miller fed on the fear fondue that Bush and Co. dished out and found out that his only path to a steady paycheck was to continue down that road.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:47 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
That’s what Dennis Miller wants to know.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:48 pmThen: The freedom fighters can prevent instability in the region and we must finance them.
Now: The Taliban terrorists are creating instability in the region and we must pay them off.
Its like something straight out of Orwells 1984
October 29th, 2009 at 4:49 pmP.D. says:
..AND he believes she urged her clients to lie on the stand.
More than just believe:
>>[T]he Court has received several sworn affidavits that Taitz asked potential witnesses that she planned to call before this Court to perjure themselves. This Court is deeply concerned that Taitz may have suborned perjury through witnesses she intended to bring before this Court. While the Court seeks to ensure that all interested parties have had the opportunity to be heard, the Court cannot condone the conduct of Plaintiffs’ counsel in her efforts to influence this Court.<<
http://washingtonindependent.com/65703/orly-taitz-smacked-down-birther-lawsuit-dismissed
October 29th, 2009 at 4:51 pmno, mitch you bitter old lesbian looking man,
October 29th, 2009 at 4:51 pmnot having access to health care will kill you.
lok@31, Yeah, I’m old enough to remember ‘Love Boat’. But the way these two are acting, even sappy series won’t hire them.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:54 pmSlappy are you promoting spraying mentally disabled american children for the crime of playing with toys?
Just because you would treat your own children that way doesnt mean others want to.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:55 pmAnyone that believes this crap has to be deaf, dumb and republican. In England are two systems if one doesn’t meet your needs you can use the other. However with the National Health system married people do not go bankrupt or have to divorce the spouse when one has an incurable illness to have the state take over. This I know from personal experience. England and Canada are not losing 122 people a day who die from lack of money for health care.
List all the sellouts in both parties to big insurance. We deserve to know how many pieces of silver they took.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:56 pmSlappyMORON
There is no pity here for you. You waste your time with your constant begging here. The MALL? You are once again mistaking youf life with mine. YOU are stupid and pathetic and will never have a job any better than asking if we want fries with that. We know. Someone as stupid as you cant do better but we STILL will not pity you. Giving a crack addict money is like giving you pity. It isnt good for you. You mined all our pity out. So for GOD sake try to find some dignity SOMEWHERE. The pity train is over
October 29th, 2009 at 4:56 pmlok@36, Wouldn’t that make her a felon? In that, case would she be deported? Think of the irony….
October 29th, 2009 at 4:57 pmStrange that the Republicans continue to use these old lines when it is clearly hurting them politically. Look at the polls. No American trusts the GOP.
http://www.political-buzz.com/
October 29th, 2009 at 4:57 pmAh, a partisan hack and a comedian, but which is which?
October 29th, 2009 at 4:58 pmWhen your paid to stop the American people from getting Health Care or unemployment you do what your paid to do. Now Mitch will come back and say it’s all Obama’s fault. When it passes and Americans are getting the Health Care they need and pay for in taxes look for the GOP to say it was their idea all along. Yes Mitch would rather the Health Care money go to Afghanistan and Iraq as they have been doing for 8 years. Few remember the 8 year Congress who gave Bush a blank check or the famous words of suck up Senator Feinstein who said we have to do what the President ask. Yes even Diane wouldn’t help the citizens who suffered in the California fires because she was made an offer she couldn’t refuse when Bush picked her up on Air Force One. Yes Senator Feinstein was smart to take the bribe in for of a big Government Contract for her husbands business. Pelosi did well in her illegal White House deals as her husband made enough kick back money in contracts that he brought a Football Team. Mitch is hoping the Justice Department doesn’t bring criminal charges on his wife who broke the law while holding office.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:58 pmand mitch should fear that someone should try to “pull the plug on grandma” since he clearly looks like one.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:59 pmDennis Miller – making a living by letting elected representatives of the people frame issues on the public airwaves to enrich his crony supporters.
Electrocutive!
October 29th, 2009 at 4:59 pmAh, a partisan hack and a comedian, but which is which? -=Bob=-
I cant tell both of their faces are buried in each others fruity looms.
October 29th, 2009 at 5:01 pmIf a terrorist killed 122 uninsured people in america this tick would be the first to go on TV and defend them by spending billions in another foreign land to avenge the deaths of those he could care less about.
October 29th, 2009 at 5:05 pmMitch is a TREASONOUS little PUNK.
Just like the MESSIAH of the RapePublics,
George W. Bush the TRAITOR to America.
BURN for ETERNITY, Mitch, along with the Bushes, Cheneys, and your MORON supporters of your TREASON…
October 29th, 2009 at 5:07 pmMitch McConnell sez:
BOO!
(gets no reaction)
BOO!
BOOOOO! BOOGLY BOOGLY BOO, dammit!!!
October 29th, 2009 at 5:07 pmYou know, Medicaid, the program for the poor now, states can opt-out of that, but none of them have.
Huh, none have opted out of a government plan. I think thats the real fear here and maybe a freudia slip by McConnell. If people had a national insurance the states wouldnt opt out and McConnells sociopathic cronies would go broke.
October 29th, 2009 at 5:08 pmHaven’t the Republicans kind of worn out the “you’re going to die” thing yet? I believe I was told that if I voted for Kerry in 2004 I was going to die, and if I voted for a Democrat in 2006, I was going to die, etc.
I’m still alive. I somehow doubt that providing affordable insurance for Americans will kill me. After all, Medicare hasn’t done that.
October 29th, 2009 at 5:09 pmP.D. says:
lok@36, Wouldn’t that make her a felon? In that, case would she be deported? Think of the irony….
Not sure, P.D., but her ability to practice law in CA – or this country – should be over after this nonsense.
Guess she can go back to being a dentist – if she can find those desperate enough to let her rummage around in their mouth.
Oh wait! We’re talking about wingnuts here – there would be lines of the demented outside her dental office. If you can find a picture (TP has one) of that NY-23 wingnut Doug Hoffman and see how yellow his teeth are, he’d be a perfect first patient for her to spray paint.
October 29th, 2009 at 5:11 pmYou know what else is known for delays, Mitch? Turtles, like the one you see every time you look in a mirror.
October 29th, 2009 at 5:11 pmKind of like has beens and losers appearing on “Love Boat”, if you’re old enough to remember.
Hah.
I have a great idea! Lets film ‘Dancing with the Stars’ on a cruise ship!
October 29th, 2009 at 5:12 pm“And those systems are known for delays, denial of care and, you know, if your particular malady doesn’t fit the government regulation, you don’t get the medication.”
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Wow — McConnell could be talking about private insurance companies. They are certainly known for denial of care, rescission of coverage, delays in paying providers, delays in authorizing coverage when they DO authorize it, and if your particular malady doesn’t fit their profit structure, you don’t get the medication — or anything else.
Try a different song, McConnell — that one’e played out.
October 29th, 2009 at 5:13 pm“May Cost You Your Life”???
Did he mean “Met-Life”?
October 29th, 2009 at 5:14 pmObstructionism is a form of dithering
October 29th, 2009 at 5:14 pmXisithrus says
October 29th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
I have a great idea! Lets film ‘Dancing with the Stars’ on a cruise ship!
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And then send the ship into rough seas for a real challenge.
Oh wait — that scene was done in “Royal Wedding” with Fred Astaire and Jane Powell.
October 29th, 2009 at 5:15 pmAnd then send the ship into rough seas for a real challenge.
Yeh, and then have some Somali pirates hijack it!
October 29th, 2009 at 5:16 pmDancing With Hasbeens and Pirates with Explosive Sea Sickness.
I likes it.
October 29th, 2009 at 5:17 pmBozo The Neoclown says
October 29th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
no, mitch you bitter old lesbian looking man,
not having access to health care will kill you.
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Now, now — every lesbian I know is better looking than that guy.
October 29th, 2009 at 5:17 pmXis@56, Noooo! Tom Delay was torture enough. Shaking his butt on National TV was not only embarrassing, but cringe-worthy.
October 29th, 2009 at 5:19 pmOctober 29th, 2009 at 4:48 pm Add Karma Vote Up | Subtract Karma Vote Down | (-9)
He shoots! He scores the winning tenth point! The crowd goes wild!
October 29th, 2009 at 5:21 pmSaying it “could” happen while not offering any evidence.
Can you say “Fear Mongering” ? I bet you can if you try.
October 29th, 2009 at 5:22 pmShaking his butt on National TV was not only embarrassing, but cringe-worthy.
Indubitably. Did you see where the Daily Show just absolutely pwned Delays performance? Glorious!
October 29th, 2009 at 5:23 pmDon’t worry Mitch, whereas 65% of americans want a public option, it’s quite possible only 10% will qualify.
October 29th, 2009 at 5:43 pmFear and smear doesn’t work anymore, which is why the Republican Party is polling in the 20’s. Americans are waking up to the fact that the Republican Party leadership is filled with despicable people who have nothing to offer the American public. Mitch should retire…senility is setting in.
October 29th, 2009 at 5:55 pmyou’ll get there mitch.
you just gotta keep a stiff upper lip.
October 29th, 2009 at 5:55 pmMitch McConnell was torn apart by Conservative Senator Hugh Segal in the Canadian Senate for McConnell’s massive lies and misrepresentations of the Canadian health care system. The fact is that the average Canadian has far better health care than the average American.
The fact is that Canadians live an average of 2.6 years longer than Americans. It is a fact that, in preventable deaths under the age of 65, that Canada ranks 6th and the US ranks 19th and last in the industrialized world. It is a fact that American cancer patients diagnosed and treated in the US are 40.8% more likely to die of that cancer than Canadians diagnosed and treated in Canada. The US is the only nation in the industrialized world that refuses to cover 100% of its citizens for health care.
100% of Canadians can see a primary physician and receive health care, only 64% of Americans are able to afford to regularly see a primary physician, let alone to be able to afford treatment. 45,000 Americans die each year from the current insurance-run health care system in the US.
October 29th, 2009 at 5:56 pmWhat does it say about the old people of this country that they’d rather young people die from no insurance than risk having to pay a little more of their own health care. Frankly most older people are getting more back than they paid in while young couples with children are working two jobs and not making enough to pay for health care. Nothing but a bunch of selfish b@stards.
October 29th, 2009 at 5:57 pmMitch McConnell doesn’t want to tell the truth, which is that the current system is ALREADY costing people their lives and well-being. I’m thinking of the young Ohio woman who didn’t go to the doctor when she had the flu because she had no healthcare coverage, and died. I’m thinking of the mother who decided to go blind in favor of having her daughters treated for the same sight impairment. McConnell isn’t telling people the truth, and that may cost lives. Will the American people believe him? Or not?
October 29th, 2009 at 6:01 pmAnother death threat from Republicans.
October 29th, 2009 at 6:10 pmMcConnell is a slimy lying sack of dogcrap. How I loathe him!!
October 29th, 2009 at 6:31 pmtexaslady says:
Anyone that believes this crap has to be deaf, dumb and republican.
Another group I have been running across too often lately are the frenzied religious upset about abortion. To them, whatever it takes for Obama to fail they are for including and especially failed HC reform and are blindy follow the GNOP. Amazing how they can turn their back on 45,000 dying a year because of our present HC system hoping to save embryos and prosecute physicians.
October 29th, 2009 at 6:35 pmSlappy’s a lot like Denny. Keen humor will win over the undecided. “Toys Are Us”? That’s funny!
October 29th, 2009 at 6:36 pmgo see the bill – read it.. post comments – and throw in your vote on it.
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3962/show
October 29th, 2009 at 6:41 pmThat’s perfect. Exactly what Republicans like, is for people to die. Mitch should be smiling.
Fear mongers. Reptilian brain functioning. Fight or flight mode. No thinking.
October 29th, 2009 at 6:54 pmFunny.
Going on Medicare, after being uninsured for years due to preexisting conditions, SAVED my life.
October 29th, 2009 at 6:59 pmWhat happened to Mitch’s chin? I guess with all the teabags” that have rested beneath that mouth, it wore Mitch’s chin off!
October 29th, 2009 at 7:00 pmSomeone should tel Mitch that Insurance companies can cost you your life too in the form of:
Legal wiggle room language in policies (past history, incorrect information on initial application,or whatever.
preexisting condition clauses.
Right to refuse treatment due to their “experts”
Requiring further tests, tests, and more tests.
etc….
And we’re paying for this shit. What a deal!!!!
October 29th, 2009 at 7:04 pmMcConnell conjures up a point I take to heart: Living in a designated war zone could save your life.
October 29th, 2009 at 7:18 pmIt may be cheaper to pay the fine for not having health care insurance than to buy a policy. If you can’t be denied health insurance for a pre-existing condition, there is no motivation to buy insurance when you are healthy. Just wait to get sick, then get insurance. … Imagine if the car insurance industry ran that way. Only get car insurance AFTER you have an accident. Because big daddy govt. says you can’t be denied coverage. … Congress is great at passing laws with unintended consequences. … think and grow rich.
October 29th, 2009 at 7:27 pmDoug Hoffman says:
Slappy’s a lot like Denny. Keen humor will win over the undecided. “Toys Are Us”? That’s funny!
I can’t even do my patented laugh for this one.
All I can do is bask in the realization that my party truly doesn’t understand humor.
sigh, GOP …
October 29th, 2009 at 7:29 pmksw, our party has turned everything it has touched into shit in eight short years. Why don’t we stop digging and maybe a passerbyer can fetch us a looong rope?
October 29th, 2009 at 7:31 pmksw doesn’t mention that the states already require people to buy car insurance. If you have a license you must show proof of insurance. Maybe my fellow republican can explain, how then could someone wait until a wreck to buy insurance?
October 29th, 2009 at 7:35 pmWe can only hope that this does cost McConnell his political life.
October 29th, 2009 at 7:46 pmDennis Miller????
That moron backed the wrong horse nine years ago, and he still can’t figure out anything.
Since when does that failed “comedian” have any expertise about medical issues?
October 29th, 2009 at 8:15 pmJackie says:
Yes Mitch would rather the Health Care money go to Afghanistan and Iraq as they have been doing for 8 years. Few remember the 8 year Congress who gave Bush a blank check or the famous words of suck up Senator Feinstein who said we have to do what the President ask.
First, I would agree with the above sentiment. Republicans did not have any problem with Bush spending billions in two wars which are sucking money like a bottomless pit. Yet, when confronted with doing something in our own country, the Republicans talk about the high cost. They need to be beat over the head with this argument. Dems need to remind everyone that the conservaDems and Republicans voted to spend billions abroad but refuse same here.
Second, for some people rationed care is better than what they are getting now—none, nada, zilch, zero, naught. McConnell keeps repeating the lies with the expectation that people will believe them. But public opinion is not buying these arguments. People are selecting their health care benefits for next year and this is producing the public opinion in favor of the public option. Dems need to capitalize on this issue. Lieberman or any Dem who supports the filibuster should be stripped of their committee chairmanships.
October 29th, 2009 at 8:35 pmAccording to Dennis Kucinich only 3% of the american people will qualify for the public option – I’m sure his numbers are better than mine.
And as for me, I have a moral dilemma in purchasing health insurance even if it is mandated.
I’ve been denied coverage, canceled, and sued in court vis a vis the insurance company’s right in denying coverage. And lost.
Grayson was just on MSNBC and said he would vote for the reform as it now stands. Please note that Grayson has taken to reading letters from constituents regarding the denial of care leading to death. One such letter was from a young woman who lost her mother to cancer because her insurance company refused to pay for her treatment.
Now imagine forcing that young woman to purchase insurance from (perhaps) the very same company that caused her mothers death.
Yes, I think there is a moral component to this – and I think Kucinich is right. We have to do better.
October 29th, 2009 at 8:56 pmOh, I should add, I’m not holding my breath.
October 29th, 2009 at 8:56 pmFour out of five American doctors want either the Public Option or Universal Single-payer.
Is this right-wing nutjob McConnell implying that four out of five American doctors want to kill their patients?
October 29th, 2009 at 9:10 pmMitch, drop your government health insurance, ok, you lying chinless SOB. But your not going to do that are you? Because it works damn well for you, just like it will work well for the rest of us, right, you miserable vomitus excrescence of a human?
October 29th, 2009 at 9:12 pmDoug Hoffman says:
Slappy’s a lot like Denny. Keen humor will win over the undecided. “Toys Are Us”? That’s funny!
Dennis Miller is only funny when someone writes his shtick.
Hire better writers patsy, because you aren’t funny, just stupid sounding as usual!
October 29th, 2009 at 9:19 pm“no, mitch you bitter old lesbian looking man…”
“and mitch should fear that someone should try to “pull the plug on grandma” since he clearly looks like one.”
I swear to the gods that Mitch McConnell looks just like my 80+ year old Aunt Helen. Eeww!
October 29th, 2009 at 10:23 pmObama vowed to call out the lying liars when they lie. FOX was first in the President’s sights. I believe it is time the Church Lady was exposed from the seldom used bully pulpit. The majority of the People are behind him and the minority fall into one of two camps, the elderly and/or wealthy who’ve got theirs and the needy and struggling can just go piss off or you have the hopelessly ignorant Right Wing media zombies. Oh yeah there’s also the pathetic ones who are all of the above.
October 29th, 2009 at 10:46 pmA Patriot Acting,
I would say that there are three categories.
1. The stupid.
2. The gullible.
3. The greedy.
(NOTE: Numbers one and two often overlap but they are not synonymous.)
October 29th, 2009 at 11:12 pmThis was a great one minute speech by Kucinich. I put a video together of it: Is this the best we can do?
October 30th, 2009 at 4:51 am“And those systems are known for delays, denial of care and, you know, if your particular malady doesn’t fit the government regulation, you don’t get the medication.”
If you remove the word “government” from this sentence and replace it with “private insurance company” you have what millions of insured Americans are faced with today. Methinks the good congressman is “projecting”.
October 30th, 2009 at 8:53 am“may” cost you your life is much less serious than NO care that “Shall” cost you your life.!
October 31st, 2009 at 2:26 amOMG, enough with the scare tactics, senator mcconnell… You guys already tried the “death panels” schtik, and we didn’t buy that, so now you guys are throwing out the phrases “socialized medicine” and “rationing of care” in the hopes that any of those would scare people. Too bad people are starting to see through this nonsense.. I guess when Fox Snooze starts repeating these talking points again, it means that the GOP knows that healthcare reform is popular and if it passes, they’re going to be voted out in ‘10, so they’re doing one more last-ditch effort to try and derail it for good. I guess that healthcare reform/ public option is going to pass, so the insurance industry (with the help of their puppets, the GOP) are fighting with all they have, but unfortunately for them, it’s not good enough.
November 1st, 2009 at 4:04 pm