Michael Steele and Rep. Mike Pence to host a 12-hour online health care town hall called ‘Pelosi Plan Exposed.’
Michael Steele and Rep. Mike Pence to host a 12-hour online health care town hall called ‘Pelosi Plan Exposed.’
Today, the Republican National Committee (RNC) sent out a press release announcing that Chairman Michael Steele and Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) will be hosting a 12-hour online town hall called “Pelosi Plan Exposed” tomorrow from 1:00 p.m. to Friday 1:00 a.m. ET. The intent of the forum is to “expose the 12 truths of Nancy Pelosi’s health care bill” and promote the “Republican alternative.” Topics include “your money,” “the culture of life,” “taxes,” and “families and women.”
In his video announcement, Pence said that he and his House colleagues “will present an interactive broadcast marathon on the Democrats’ plans to launch a government takeover of health care. We’ll take your calls, answer your tweets, and talk to people on the street.” Watch it:
Maybe they’ll explain why they’re in favor of allowing insurers to deny people coverage based on pre-existing conditions.
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I wonder if it’ll be “off the hook”?
November 4th, 2009 at 4:24 pmAt 6 pm all the teabagging terrorists will be shutting down their computers to tune into Glenda.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:24 pmWhat’s the over/under on how many of the “12 Truths” are really truths?
November 4th, 2009 at 4:26 pmSo its pretty much a twelve hour bullsht session.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:26 pmOtherwise called the “Repuglican Healthcare Propaganda Smear” brought to you by the RNC and AHIP.
Sometimes doing “NOthing” really works……. for us.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:28 pmLet me guess, 11 hours 58 minutes of Pelosi/Obama Evil Socialists hellbent on World Domination…. and two minutes of the Republican Plan
November 4th, 2009 at 4:29 pmI’ll be calling.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:29 pmBy the way the phrase “culture of life” makes me want to scream. As if denying people health care is consistent with a concern for life. As if everyone but the RepubliSCUMs has a total disregard for life itself. As if the party of NO actually cares about anything but getting back in power, even if it means stepping over your cold, dead corpse.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:30 pmI have a feeling this is going to be the most entertaining 12 hours in political history. Everyone better go out tonight and buy lots of popcorn. We are going to need it.
Doesn’t this directly conflict with the protest planned for tomorrow in DC? I guess this will be their way of diverting attention away from the only 26 people that signed up on the protests website.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:30 pmMike Pence, another self-serving reactionary hypocrite, willing to lie and obstruct to further his own political ambitions. Expect him to run for either the Presidency (ahahahaha) or the potentially open Senate seat (Lugar’s not getting any younger. I think he’d be about 80) in 2012.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:30 pmchrislvb says:
Doesn’t this directly conflict with the protest planned for tomorrow in DC? I guess this will be their way of diverting attention away from the only 26 people that signed up on the protests website.
Beat me to it. Or maybe this is intended to dump Crazy Michelle because she’s getting too much attention.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:32 pmYeah, I’ll be sure to tune into to that.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:33 pmSo now it’s “Pelosicare” instead of “Obamacare”?
Why aren’t they trying to tie health care reform to Obama anymore? I could have sworn last night’s election results “proved” that he is deeply unpopular with Americans.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:33 pmPeople want Health Care reform. In every poll, in every state. These guys are deluding themselves if they think the people will want a bill that leaves out the poor and people with ‘Pre-existing’ conditions. And that is exactly what the Repugs want. Unreal.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:33 pmWill this be like a Jerry Lewis telethon? I mean what the hell are they going to talk about at 3:30 am.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:35 pm12 hours listening to these *ssholes? Are they serious?
I’d rather be waterboarded for 12 days.
Besides, how can you make the word “no” last for 12 hours?
November 4th, 2009 at 4:35 pmSteele and Pence think that because the rubes believe the health care plan is a government takeover, they can sell the same line to the younger, more sophisticated people who use computers. Steele and Pence are going to be very disappointed.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:35 pmAre they going to disclose who is sponsoring this blockbuster? I didn’t think so.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:35 pmAnyone who thinks MSNBC is the fox of the left must have missed Terence Rattigan’s totally softball interview of Mike Pence. It was totally shameful in not asking a single hard question. Why, Cris Wallace could have done that interview.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32450072/vp/33619400#33619400
November 4th, 2009 at 4:36 pm12 HOURS? It’s like a telethon of stupid.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:36 pmCan you smell the fear and desperation? They know if single payer passes, they will be politically irrelevant for the forseeable future, because their Chicken Little act didn’t fool anyone. Might one hope they might then begin telling the truth about issues?
[snerk, yeah, right.]
November 4th, 2009 at 4:36 pmWhile all the ignorant old farts are riding their buses around DC I guess it’s up to us to participate in this shindig.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:37 pmSounds & looks just like a flea market in Indiana…
Used talking points
Tired, old ideas
Finger pointing & dithering
Is being a Republic considered a pre-existing condition?
November 4th, 2009 at 4:37 pmI say we pass the word to all the blogs everyone goes to, and have everyone call. Progressives and Democrats should flood the phones, I know I’ll be calling.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:37 pmPence: “We’ll take your calls, answer your tweets, and talk to people on the street.
He left out: “Then we’ll smell your feet, change your sheets, and give you something good to eat.”
With amateurish stunts like this from the so-called leaders of the Party of No, it’s no wonder nothing’s getting done in Congress…
November 4th, 2009 at 4:38 pmThis will work about as well as their overnight harangue on the House floor, a short while back.
Did that effort succeed?
November 4th, 2009 at 4:39 pmIt would be interesting to see how they manage to spin this piece of garbage though.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:40 pmNo matter anyway — since 98% of repugs don’t know how to use a computer, and this thing’s on the intertubes, they may as well just broadcast dead air…
Come to think of it, it’s likely that that’s exactly what they’ll be doing…
November 4th, 2009 at 4:40 pmWhat are they going to do to fill the time? I know, invite on Tom Delay and have him shake his groove thing.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:40 pmOT:
Michell Bachmann’s chief of staff just resigned.
Maybe they’re going to Pence’s flea market instead of Bachmann’s ‘crying in the rain’ event…
November 4th, 2009 at 4:40 pm“Imma look at porn and hate minorities. Dang. Where’s the beer and cheetoes?”
November 4th, 2009 at 4:41 pmDylan Rattigan and he comes on after the 3 hour rant of former Republican Representative Joe Scarborough and his pet Mika. Nobody leans left until Tamron Hall and David Shuster show up in the afternoon.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:42 pmRepublic Fascist Party Propagandathon…
…how many lies and distortions can they pack into 12 hours?
November 4th, 2009 at 4:43 pmZim@30, Can you blame her? How much craziness can one person take. If I were on her staff, I would probably be Institutionalized by now.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:45 pmI WANT the government to take over health care! I WANT the fkucing insurance companies to go broke! I WANT Obama to succeed completely, to drive the right wing back into the wormhole from which it emerged! I WANT the Pentagon’s budget SLASHED! I WANT a progressive — ok, ten steps further — I WANT a SOCIALIST USA to rise from the ashes of the Reagan proto-fascism that holds us back! I WANT energy independence AND MASSIVE efforts to permanently cut carbon emissions! I WANT liberal abortion laws, especially applied to wingnut conservatives!
Etc.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:46 pmA conservative Republican House member, speaking on the condition of anonymity, suggested that Bachman’s views – and her willingness to state them – make it hard for her to keep staff.
“When your captain’s crazy, it’s time to find a new ship,” the lawmaker said.
Heh.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:51 pm12 hours of Steele and Pence? Did these guys forget Halloween was this past Saturday?
November 4th, 2009 at 4:52 pmCould anyone explain how so many citizens can be so misled regarding healthcare ? We just got advised that our premiums have gone up, a hospitalization doubled and other services dropped from last year’s plan.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:53 pmAre we the only ones this is happening to? How can anyone with commonsense be against reform ? I understand premiums and coverage vary plan by plan and state by state. However, I don’t believe we are the only ones facing higher costs and lower coverages.
We have absolutely NO representation in Texas but surely other states have a voice.
They’ll be lucky if this thing holds the attention of their audience for 12 minutes without this thing having to resort to cheap parlor tricks and stupid comedy.
We’ve all seen Amos Andy Steele can’t even keep a straight face for two minutes!
November 4th, 2009 at 4:55 pm“We’ll take your calls, answer your tweets, and talk to people on the street.”
Can I assume that they will be prescreening the questions ?
November 4th, 2009 at 4:57 pmPence said that he and his House colleagues “will present an interactive broadcast marathon on the Democrats’ plans to launch a government takeover of health care.
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They’re already marketing this event with a lie. Why should I believe there’s going to be ANY “truth” to these “12 truths” they’re touting?
November 4th, 2009 at 5:03 pmAnyone who sits through this mess is going to need universal care.
November 4th, 2009 at 5:04 pma) It’s not “Pelosi’s Health Care Plan”
therefore…well that’s all one needs to know about this supposed “marathon” and its substance.
I guess having seen no significant dent in Obama’s figures (obvs he’s lost a few points with Dems more than anyone else)with their “ObmaCare = Senior/Veteran Genocide” meme, the Crapublicans need a new target for their nonsense so naturally they pick one of their old targets, Nancy Pelosi (who was incidentally just proven correct when she said that the CIA lied to her, for which the Crapublicans called her a liar).
November 4th, 2009 at 5:07 pmtexaslady says
November 4th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Could anyone explain how so many citizens can be so misled regarding healthcare ? We just got advised that our premiums have gone up, a hospitalization doubled and other services dropped from last year’s plan.
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It’s “enrollment time” at my company, too. In order to continue providing us employees with health insurance benefits, my company suspended all pay raises this year, and the portion the employee has to pay has increased (of course, the portion the company pays has increased even more, which is why we’re not getting raises).
So, no raises and more taken out of our paychecks — the equivalent of a pay cut.
And the health insurance bloodsuckers are trying to tell me how much premiums are going to go up IF we get health care reform? It appears to me they’re continuing to skyrocket without it.
We need a public option. Now. We cannot continue to be at the mercy of the for-profit greedheads.
November 4th, 2009 at 5:08 pmWhy are constituents of Pence in favor of being denied insurance to anyone with pre-existing condition? Why are they in favor of private ‘for-profit’ insurers? Why are they in favor of keeping the ‘insurer middle men’ who are operating for GREED ONLY? Why are they so stoooopid as to support the billionaires of insurance?
Let’s hope they ask Pence how much money he received in campaign contributions from the insurance cartel!
November 4th, 2009 at 5:08 pmTWELVE hours of NONONONONO….how bucking foring.
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You should have seen Mike Steele on ‘HardBall’. What a jerk. ‘Big Tent’ my ass.
November 4th, 2009 at 5:11 pmThey somehow confused the 12 step program for alcohol abstinence with some truther crap.
November 4th, 2009 at 5:18 pmso Pence thinks he can keep Steeleye Mikey from tipping over or jumping into the mosh pit for 12 hours?
November 4th, 2009 at 5:22 pmWhat kind of health care plan does Rep. Mike Pence have?
Oh, that’s right – a socialized one.
Good enough for him, but not for his constituents.
November 4th, 2009 at 5:26 pmMr. Duke:
November 4th, 2009 at 5:38 pmWhat do you say you offer up a bulleted list of the parts you don’t like and the reasons you don’t like them. Then we can discuss them….
Teaxs Lady & Miss Molly: Ditto here for my employer sponsored plan: bigger deductibles, bigger co-pays, higher premiums and no raise. It’s $1500 /year just for the basics, god help me if I need anything beyond a doctor visit or a shot.
November 4th, 2009 at 5:53 pmMaybe…it’s just me.
But I feel like I’m under attack.
From every twist…every turn…lying, lying, lying…the Rushpubs are in full fu*k’n attack and assault. And if it isn’t them, it’s their enablers at ABC, NBC, CBS, NPR and newspapers/sites all around the country (that just roll over and play dead to the RushTerrorists.)
I simply cannot believe what is going on with ALL these nut jobs…you’ve got Rushpubs at the national, state and local levels…you’ve got FauxNoise…you’ve got terrorist talk radio.
All the while…those of us that just want good…just want to be resonable and somewhat caring about our fellow man (and woman!) seem to be without representation. The leadership we have seem to be impotent…or non-existent. I look and look for anything resembling Progressive and I’m left with a few websites and some bit-and-pieces of MSNBC. Every once in a while, there seems to be a glimmer of hope, a few voices that speak up, and maybe some kind of real actions…and then, nothing.
Maybe I really am in some kind of minority…Maybe the vast, VAST majority of America wants the Rushpubs and their Rule-With-An-Iron-Fist society.
…maybe I’m just alone.
The “Visitors” seem to already be here…and are doing everything they can to take over.
November 4th, 2009 at 6:27 pmThey only promised 12 Truths but don’t promise only truths. How many misrepresentations, distortions and outright lies can they come up with in 12 hours?
November 4th, 2009 at 6:33 pmSoapbox–Please cheer up. Our plan is to keep the pressure on. Keep calling, emailing, writing letters to editors in local newspapers, etc.
Cenk from TYT published a diary on DailyKos today calling for hc rallies outside CNN studios all over the country tomorrow, beginning at 12 Noon. I’m thinking about going to the one in Atlanta. The point is to rally outside their locations, hoping they won’t be able to refuse to cover them since it’ll be right at their doorstep.
November 4th, 2009 at 6:39 pmPelosicare / Obamacare – You guys need to pick something and stick with it – I think Obamacare has a better ring to it.. Pelosicare is a bit ‘clunky’.. doesn’t really roll off the tongue..
whatever it is – it beats the hell out of Republicare..
November 4th, 2009 at 6:42 pmOne can only imagine how many citizens these two silver tongued, geniuses will offend during 11 hours. Soon the tent will be shredded canvas, blowing in the wind.
November 4th, 2009 at 6:56 pmP.D. says:
You should have seen Mike Steele on ‘HardBall’. What a jerk.
‘Big Tent’ my ass.
not to mention his charge of lefty loonies preventing his
November 4th, 2009 at 7:14 pmgramma from getting healthcare…! …WHAAAaaa??????
“Michael Steele and Rep. Mike Pence to host a 12-hour online health care town hall called ‘Pelosi Plan Exposed.’”
Steele and Pence[a former practicing attorney and radio talk show host]who are both non-health care experts to host an on-line healthcare town hall? lol This is a joke. So, is this where I get my healthcare info and expertise from this clowns? And who is going to stay up for 12 hours to listen to this? I rather listen to Dr. Phil then Steele and Pence. Pass the popcorn please…
November 4th, 2009 at 7:14 pmWe can only hope for a D.O.S.
November 4th, 2009 at 7:22 pmOnly 2 of the 12 “truths” are actually true according to Politifact.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2009/nov/04/gop-health-bill-analysis-meets-truth-o-meter/
November 4th, 2009 at 7:23 pmDumb a-holes, both of them…
November 4th, 2009 at 7:40 pmFrugalchariot says:
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I WANT the government to take over health care! I WANT the fkucing insurance companies to go broke! I WANT Obama to succeed completely, to drive the right wing back into the wormhole from which it emerged! I WANT the Pentagon’s budget SLASHED! I WANT a progressive — ok, ten steps further — I WANT a SOCIALIST USA to rise from the ashes of the Reagan proto-fascism that holds us back! I WANT energy independence AND MASSIVE efforts to permanently cut carbon emissions! I WANT liberal abortion laws, especially applied to wingnut conservatives!
I also want to announce to the World that I am the most extreme, radical Whacko that ever lived! Find me a vacant billboard!
November 4th, 2009 at 9:33 pm.
Of course it’s not partisan when the G(no)P does it, no?
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November 5th, 2009 at 12:47 amRe: Kenneth @ 64:
Tell us something we _don’t_ know, WHACKO!
November 5th, 2009 at 1:05 amThe Party of Yes We Can vs. the Party of No and Fear! Democrats must again take up their chant, Yes We Can and lead by leading and accomplishing reforms — like health care which is tied to the deficit and the bankrupting of businesses. Those timid Dems who refuse to take issue with the insurance companies will lose their seats in the coming elections. Those who stand firm for the people will be re-elected to fight on! It is interesting to note that the three Democrats who won houseseats in Tuesday’s elections which had previously been held by Republicans in New York and California, all embraced the current health plan and a Public Option! Democratic congresspeople should not be led astray by the Party of No and Fear…. and remember and again Reiterate confidently everyday on the house floor — “Yes We Can”!
GOP politicians and operatives continue to dishonestly and deceptively say that they cannot support a public option, they claim that they want to keep costs down for the American people! Really? They claim this all the while knowing that a public option/competition is the only way to really control cost and to bring about true reform thereby putting a definite Halt to the “out of control” medical costs and premiums crippling people and businesses today, making it harder and harder for average Americans and young people to realize and take advantage of the American Dream. One must ask themselves, If you happen to lose your job today or tomorrow during this time when we do not have health care reform for all, who will pay you or your family’s health care bills, that is if you are lucky enough to be able to see a doctor without insurance? This American Dream, which has slowly been slipping away, is in the last throes of dying, if we do not forge a new path ahead on toward inclusion and cooperation for all. This dream of America will die to be replaced with just another third world country — becoming another failed experiment and promise, only to go by the wayside.
There is a reason that GOP always say Gov’t is the problem. They know that when you have a party of men and women in power who do Nothing for Main Street but say no or complain, who stymie reform, then government is a problem! And so it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Whenever GOP are in power or in control, the government has been a do nothing, problematic government for Average Americans and a big Boom and Bonus for the Rich and well connected. We must remember, this is Bush & the GOP’s recession. They had the power for 8 years and did nothing to uplift this country, only to rape it from Main Street, to add it to Wall Street. The GOP does not even like to raise the Minimum Wage! They care nothing if you are making it. People we must wake up now! Because look around, assess the United States’ situation that we are in and ask yourself over the last 10 years of GOP rule, what have they done for you lately? Or this country? Do you like what the United States has become? And ask yourself this, if we let them get power again, how much more further will this country be destroyed until the United States will no longer be. That is a very frightening thought!
November 5th, 2009 at 8:14 amI’m curious as to where all this faith in our government comes from? Both sides of the aisle have a knack for messing up everything. We really want to have them in charge of an insurance company? Based on what financial responsibility? They sure did a bang up job with the housing market right?
Sure! Public option! Drive those evil insurance companies out of business! What is their average profit margin? If the companies were gouging us so horridly wouldn’t a new company come in and offer it cheaper and clean house? The cost of Medicare and Medicaid are going right up with the insurance premiums. So, if they do intend to keep the public option affordable, then they must be subsidizing it with other tax payer dollars.
If insurance companies are truly running at around an average 4% profit margin, then it must be actual costs of health care that drives up those premiums. Medicare and Medicaid both increase the cost of health care for privately insured patients, due to reimbursements that are lower then the actual costs of some procedures. They have to make up the difference somewhere, so they are forced to raise prices in other departments. I’m not sure exactly how taxing medical device makers will help lower the costs of care, everything I’ve ever purchased that started to get taxed more, started to cost more.
I’d argue that the health care field itself is where we need more competition. At very least people should actually care how much the doctors are charging their insurance companies. No one thinks about price checking if they aren’t actually getting the bill. People want their insurance to pay for whatever doctor they want to see, which is understandable, but I doubt it’s helping foster healthy competition.
They don’t bother to contemplate the actual cost to effect on all the tests, another thing to drive up pay outs by insurance companies, who then have to raise premiums to pay for it. If the doctor wants to order all the tests in the world, have at it! Who cares? Right? I mean, insurance is covering it.
As for the same coverage as our elected? That’s not likely what we’re going to get, as far as I understand it, the people who made these bills strangely decided to exempt themselves from it.
November 5th, 2009 at 8:42 am