McCain urges town hall attendees to cut up their AARP membership cards.
McCain urges town hall attendees to cut up their AARP membership cards.
Last week, the AARP, a nonpartisan organization that advocates on behalf of those aged 50 and over, endorsed the House health care bill. “We can say with confidence that it meets our priorities for protecting Medicare, providing more affordable health insurance for 50- to 64-year-olds and reforming our health care system,” AARP vice president Nancy Leamond said. At a town hall meeting in Arizona on Friday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) vowed to “fight with every fiber of my body” to oppose a similar health care reform bill in the Senate. He then claimed that Medicare will actually be “cut” and reportedly urged the town hall attendees to tear up their AARP membership cards:
The 2,000-page bill would mean more regulation and mandates, he said. People wouldn’t be able to keep the coverage they had. It would also increase taxes and the cost of Medicare, he said.
The bill claims to save $500 billion in waste from Medicare, he said.
“I don’t think so,” McCain said. “I think it’s going to cut it.”
He encouraged audience members to cut up their AARP cards and send them back.
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Good luck with that, a-hole.
November 15th, 2009 at 12:16 pmLooks like McCain has jumped onto the loony wagon now. I shudder to think if he had won last year.
November 15th, 2009 at 12:19 pmMcCain urges town hall attendees to cut up thier AARP membership cards.
– - Sure, Johnny boy. AARP offers so many discounts on so many other things, but I’m sure all of its members would be glad to cut off our noses to spite out faces, you dementia-ridden fool.
November 15th, 2009 at 12:21 pmOkay, just so everybody understands the terminology (the trolls have trouble understanding this one, so I’m trying to help), when people in Congress talk about “cuts” to the funding of some program, they mean a reduction in the amount they planned to increase spending by. A program is slated to get $10B, then $11.5B, then $13B. They decide (for whatever reason, including it isn’t needed) to change that to $10B, $11B, and $12B. They will still call that a “cut” even though spending is actually increasing over that same period.
Most of the time, the “cuts” to which they refer happen near the end of the ten-year budget plan. Nobody ever spends what they planned to spend ten years ago.
November 15th, 2009 at 12:23 pmOver the last 20 years the reich-wing, American-hating conservative cult has done everything to get rid of Medicare. Now they are suddenly and desperately attempting to “protect” it from a bogeyman. Idiots.
November 15th, 2009 at 12:23 pmJust how many more organizations are going to be branded bad by these people? Why don’t they just come right out and say, listen to the Party. The Party knows all, can deal with everything. Your only chance at freedom is to freely choose the Party and then you can quit worrying.
November 15th, 2009 at 12:27 pmMcCain can afford to be a jack*ss, he has money to spare, unlike the average citizen
November 15th, 2009 at 12:27 pmI doubt that many will follow McNumbNuts’ advice. After all, he’s been asking his wife to tear up their pre-nuptial agreement for years now. So far, no luck!
November 15th, 2009 at 12:27 pm….oh, and thanks for Sarah, you senile flip-flopper.
November 15th, 2009 at 12:31 pmThe AARP has been around for a long time and I doubt that McCain is going to persuade retirees to cut up their cards. He is swimming against the tide. Most retirees with Medicare are getting jammed with the “donut hole” in prescription coverage. Every time they go to the pharmacy they are getting hit with high costs of meds. That is in addition to the rising prices on supplemental Medicare policies. The best thing the Dems could do with health care is get rid of the donut hole as early as next year. That would cement a large portion of the older voters for the Dems and that is the group that Republicans count on for votes in large numbers.
November 15th, 2009 at 12:32 pmWhile they’re at it, why don’t they cut up their Medicare paperwork and their Social Security checks?
White-wingers are so goddamned stupid and so goddamned gullible these days.
There are far too many of these obese creeps sucking off the government tit, all the while making it so tough for folks that truly need help from the government.
November 15th, 2009 at 12:34 pmAnyone see MSNBC this morning when they were discussing Silly Sarah and her ghost-written book? They mixed up the book covers and MSNBC kept putting up “Going Rouge: An American Nightmare” instead of Silly Sarah’s ghost-written book. Quite funny. Expect fake outage from the reich-wing teabaggers.
November 15th, 2009 at 12:40 pmNot sure why he’d want members of one of the biggest insurance lobbies in the country to turn on its’ corporate masters.
November 15th, 2009 at 12:41 pmHere’s how much McCan’t cares about Medicare:
http://www.alternet.org/election08/106019/how_john_mccain_would_dismantle_medicare/
November 15th, 2009 at 12:46 pmI doubt many seniors will take him up on that.
AARP is extremely popular, provides many discounts for its members, and in general is viewed as an advocate for senior interests.
This shows me again that John McCain is entirely out of touch with average Americans — since his birth to a military family, his entire life has been spent as a beneficiary of the government, then he married his current millionare wife.
He doesn’t have a clue about how regular people must live.
November 15th, 2009 at 12:48 pmSomeone needs to suggest to McCain that he cut up his government insurance card.
November 15th, 2009 at 12:50 pmDr. Hussein Matt says:
Anyone see MSNBC this morning when they were discussing Silly Sarah and her ghost-written book?
That would be the book that’s selling on Amazon for $9.00? Her book isn’t even out yet and they are selling it at a 69% discount. How embarrassing is that?
November 15th, 2009 at 12:52 pm“Big deal! When I was a pup, we got spanked by presidents ’til the cows came home! Grover Cleveland spanked me on two non-consecutive occasions!”
November 15th, 2009 at 12:54 pmThat would be the book that’s selling on Amazon for $9.00? Her book isn’t even out yet and they are selling it at a 69% discount. How embarrassing is that?
You can buy it through Newsmax for only $4.97. And if you subscribe to their rag-zine, you can get it for free.
And even then it’s still over-priced!
November 15th, 2009 at 12:54 pmdbadass,
Gotta love Abe Simpson. Thanks.
November 15th, 2009 at 12:54 pmI have a sneaking suspicion that few seniors will be cutting up their AARP cards because McShame told them to.
November 15th, 2009 at 12:55 pmHoodathunk says:
Just how many more organizations are going to be branded bad by these people?
They sure do seem to love to put groups in the ‘BAD’ column, don’t they?
AARP = bad
ACLU = bad
Acorn = bad
And that’s just the beginning of the branded groups beginning with the letter A!
November 15th, 2009 at 12:56 pmdbadass@18: Classic …
November 15th, 2009 at 12:57 pmIt seems as if John has been dipping into his old lady’s stash of pills.
November 15th, 2009 at 12:58 pmAttention THINKPROGRESS:
Check your headline.
THEIR – not THIER…
November 15th, 2009 at 1:00 pmyah, fight the power, McGrumpy, fight the power… bwa ha ha hah
time for Senator Senile to retire to Sun Shitty…
November 15th, 2009 at 1:00 pmSez the dick-head who’s had govt. healthcare from the day he was born on a naval base, & will ’til the day he dies!
November 15th, 2009 at 1:00 pmIncluding “America”. Hating America is the new fashionable trend for conservatives.
November 15th, 2009 at 1:01 pmA bit petty but since it is in the title, in bold, “thier” s/b their.
As for McC he forgets the public pays for his medical insurance.
November 15th, 2009 at 1:03 pmAre you going to pay my medical bills for my disability as my Secondary Insurer, McCain?
I didn’t think so!!
November 15th, 2009 at 1:06 pmPretty sure Republican hacks were right back in 1999…McStain is a loser with 75 brown skinned chillin’ by his 25 brown skinned girl friends.
November 15th, 2009 at 1:07 pmIt’s like Rethugs are in a competition to see to can get it more wrong and backwards.
November 15th, 2009 at 1:09 pmThe Republican handlers have to be scrambling these days. So many puppets, so few brains. Retention of programming is slipping away so fast. Especially with the mavericks and rogues.
November 15th, 2009 at 1:11 pmAARP sold out during the Bush administration and supported the big Pharma giveaway that was rammed through congress in the middle of the night under the guise of giving Seniors prescription drug benefits. Too late, Grampa, I already tore mine up. Discounts on $hit nobody needs. Insurance sales to fearful old folks is all the AARP does.
November 15th, 2009 at 1:13 pmThese people are insane or extremely selfish. THEY remember how the Repugs fought S.S. and Medacare. THEY remeber how Reagan and the others bashed these programs. What we have now are older people who don’t like change and a black President. They will cling to the old ways. Do they remeber when Bush tried to privatize S.S.? Sure they do. But they are selfish and want to deny young people from the programs they enjoy. Unreal.
November 15th, 2009 at 1:14 pmThe fact that any teabagger would actually “cut up their AARP card” in response to a political figure is proof that conservatives are mindless drones.
November 15th, 2009 at 1:16 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
So you have a thing about guns do you? How do you feel about rocket launchers?
November 15th, 2009 at 1:27 pmI started getting mail from AARP when I turned 50. I sent them a letter and told them I would not join any group that supports gun control. They must be slow learners since I still get mail from them. I put it where it belongs, in the trash.
If you accepted their membership offer, you might have saved a lot of money by now. Possibly enough to buy yourself another gun that you don’t really need.
November 15th, 2009 at 1:31 pmMcCain….it’s so easy to talk tough when you’re living on your second wife’s millions.
November 15th, 2009 at 1:32 pmShorter CG: I want more gang bangers with guns
November 15th, 2009 at 1:32 pmHow about gun control for a Muslim Psychiatrist, who has free access to a military base, and whose coworkers wonder about his mental stability…and who then goes and buys a $1000 cop killer handgun???
November 15th, 2009 at 1:33 pmSpeaking of mindless drones, hey conservative guy, wouldn’t want to keep any potential mass-murderers from being able to get a good semi-automatice whenever they want one now would we?
November 15th, 2009 at 1:33 pmConGuy: We need to reduce military wages to the point they cant afford guns and take away govt health care.
November 15th, 2009 at 1:35 pmLet the teabagging senior zealots cut their medicare cards and go find private health coverage. That will save the millions needed.
November 15th, 2009 at 1:36 pmso confused. You already do. We have degrees of gun control now. Do you want to leave America because we are going to eveentually clamp down on idiots with illegal guns.
November 15th, 2009 at 1:36 pmI’d only do it after McCain cuts up his medicare card and stops having the taxpayers pay over $700/mo to subsidize his health insurance.
This would be real fiscal responsibility I could believe in.
November 15th, 2009 at 1:37 pmIf the military wasnt training psychiatrists, government mental health care, the FT Hood terrorist wouldnt have gone on a sociailst government postal service rampage.
November 15th, 2009 at 1:39 pmJohn McCain – If my net worth was $100 million, give or take a few million, maybe I’d be tempted to cut up my AARP card, too. And, with the health insurance policy you receive from the U.S. Senate, I understand why you don’t give a d*** about people from 50-65’s need for available and affordable health insurance and care.
November 15th, 2009 at 1:42 pmGuns are like belt buckles. Big ones compensate for small anatomy.
November 15th, 2009 at 1:45 pmThere are any number of professions in the US that require testing and licensing before one can use them. Doctors, lawyers, electricians, plumbers and so on.
We are required to pass tests and register to drive a motor vehicle.
These things are done in order to maintain an orderly society and provide for the common good by paying attention to public safety.
Yet anyone can purchase a weapon and ammunition.
November 15th, 2009 at 1:45 pmHe doesn’t take any money from United Health Group, at least. He might not have done this, if so. But he does get the bulk of his money from “retired,” whatever that means- directly from retirees?
November 15th, 2009 at 1:49 pmThank God, if there is a god, that this asssshole isn’t in charge.
November 15th, 2009 at 1:49 pmAlso cup up your social security card.
It’s a social program, repugs.
November 15th, 2009 at 1:52 pmWhat happened to the repug version of AARP? I remember they said they were going to start their own repug AARP? Where is it?
November 15th, 2009 at 1:53 pmI remember they said they were going to start their own repug AARP? Where is it?
I think they are called country clubs.
November 15th, 2009 at 1:58 pmI hate getting the shells stuck between my teeth, but put some more popcorn in the microwave anyway, this show is a doosey.
November 15th, 2009 at 2:03 pmHow stupid are the repugs and mcwar? mcwar is telling the poor to stop using a card that helps them all awhile he is living in luxury.
November 15th, 2009 at 2:05 pmGosh, which AARP card should I cut up? They’ve been sending me one about once every 2 months ever since I hit 50, and that was 15 years ago.
/snark
Seriously, I never really thought joining AARP could get me any privileges that I didn’t already get through AAA coverage, or my very good car insurance company which is not any one of the ones you see ads on TV for all the time, or my reliable small array of credit cards — so why pay their dues?
But then, I’m not one of the town hall elderly shouters who haven’t a clue beyond what they hear and see from Faux “News”, and who do what those Faux people tell them to do — or what partisan and uncooperative politicians like John McCain, Presidential Campaign Loser, are telling them what to do.
November 15th, 2009 at 2:05 pmAnd to think he wanted Phil Graham as his Secretary of the Treasury. Who in my view is America’s own “abomination of desolation”. But there’s more than one.
November 15th, 2009 at 3:11 pmFor 20 years I’ve resisted joining AARP because as far as I’m concerned they are just a front group for United Health Care. However since McLame says we should cut up our AARP cards I believe it is the right time for me to join.
November 15th, 2009 at 3:21 pmI will cut mine up when Johnnie forgoes his Medicare, VA Healthcare, and the taxpayer paid for Government Employee healthcare he receives. Before that he received his father’s healthcare as an admiral and then Johnnie was at the academy and on active duty. We have paid for his healthcare all his worthless, hypocritical life. I do not diss his service to the country by I diss his hypocrisy.
November 15th, 2009 at 3:30 pmJohn . . . you have had free health care as a military brat growing up, FREE care when you “joined” . . . lifetime FREE VA care as a disabled Vet, a “free” Senate subsidized plan, no doubt you are on your wife’s “company plan” . . . and you collect Social Security AND VA Pension . . . AND have a wife worth over $100 MILLION . . . so I guess once you “resign” from YOUR “free” care and BUY a Blue Cross plan on the “open market”, I’ll have to pass on your “advice” . . . .
November 15th, 2009 at 3:33 pmNot sure what to think.
1. I see the passed health care bill as a give away to the insurance industry as many will be mandated to BUY their premiums. In fact, I suspect they are secretly celebrating big time.
2. AARP is in bed with the insurance industry. Didn’t they help push Medicare part D for Big Pharma? I do not view AARP as a friend to progressives.
Many have already torn up their AARP cards because of AARP’s interest in corporate insurance and pharma.
So, is McCain confused, or is he using a back door lying tactic by attacking a friend to corporations?
November 15th, 2009 at 4:22 pmBob Moon says:
For 20 years I’ve resisted joining AARP because as far as I’m concerned they are just a front group for United Health Care. However since McLame says we should cut up our AARP cards I believe it is the right time for me to join.
AARP is a front group for insurance and Big Pharma. And just because McCain says to tear up the cards, in my opinion, does not change that fact. Whether McCain is for or against AARP does not change my mind concerning AARP’s predator nature.
I say we need more info why McCain is making this statement.
November 15th, 2009 at 4:38 pmWhat a joke. McCain is telling AARP Members to cut up their membership cards and send them back to AARP, because AARP had the audacity to support President Obama’s Health Care Legislation.
Well, since McCain is “rolling in the dough”, to the point that he couldn’t even remember how many houses he had during the last campaign; may I suggest that everyone who is a member of AARP and uses them as a Secondary Insurer for their Medicare Bills, simply forward all their medical bills to the McCain Residence.
I’m sure McCain will be “Just As Bold” in telling current AARP Members that they HE WILL PAY for any unpaid portion of their Medicare Bills.
Happy Check Writing Johnny!! Oh, by the way Johnny, does your mother know about your “well thought out” Plan?
And this clown wanted to be President? He still doesn’t have a clue!!!
November 15th, 2009 at 4:40 pm@sshat he is, nuff said.
November 15th, 2009 at 5:02 pmI’ll bet AARP sees a spike in enrolment this week.
November 15th, 2009 at 5:07 pm“McCain urges town hall attendees to cut up their AARP membership cards.”
Grandpappy McCain has lost his mind. He told the seniors, what? And I know many of the seniors will tell the Maverick how easy he can tell them to cut up their AARP cards when he is well kept man with a wealthy sugar mama wife, homes that he doesn’t know how many he owns, social security, pension, and a health care coverage to die for.
November 15th, 2009 at 5:13 pmMcCain is jumping on the bandwagon about 3 months late. I attended a town hall meeting on August 6 and that was the cry of the fringe nuts as they were drawing Hitler mustaches on pictures of President Obama. Somebody told McCain he needs to say it to get re-elected so now he does. There is probably a special interest donation involved. McCain is a pathetic opportunist. It’s not surprising he’s buddies with Joe Lieberman.
November 15th, 2009 at 5:18 pmI can only see one possible reason why McCain would be advising senior citizens to cut up and/or send back their AARP cards — because the AARP is actually an extremely powerful political voting bloc. Not only are most Conservative Republicans like McCain against the House health care reform bill (which the AARP supports), they’re also generally in favor of eliminating or at least privatizing Medicare which is the only means by which many senior citizens are able to receive quality health care and which many of them quite understandably do not want to give up.
In short, McCain is attempting to instill fear in senior citizens and thereby encourage them to act against their own interests for his own benefit…and why not? Let’s remember that he is ex-military…and one of the most elementary military strategies is “divide and conquer.” After all, what motivation does he honestly have to care about what happens to them? It’s not as if he himself has any reason to fear that he might have to share their fate. Even if he were not entitled to health care benefits for the rest of his life regardless of whether he does or does not maintain his seat in Congress (on top of a six-figure salary and heaven knows how much extra money for speaking engagements), he’s conveniently married to an heiress — and if memory serves, he also receives around $58,000 a year tax-free (more than the median income for this country) for a mysterious disability which apparently fails to impede his daily life in any readily discernible way. Really, if he can convince seniors to act against their own best interests for the sake of his party, why should he care — even if the citizens of his state should decide to retaliate by voting him out of office? He’s in the catbird seat…he has absolutely nothing whatsoever to lose by doing it (except perhaps his Senate seat), and everything to win as far as he and his fellow Republicans are concerned.
November 15th, 2009 at 5:19 pmI’d urge prog/libs to do the same thing.
AARP is a front group for big insurance interests.
You can get the same travel disounts with AAA, and it’ll be a lot more useful in the long run getting jump-starts and tire changes.
Screw AARP. It’s a huge scam. It’s just another insurance company, whic does all the things all other insurance companies do…Have you forgotten how they backed Bush on Medicare Part D?
November 15th, 2009 at 5:22 pmGame of Life says:
What happened to the repug version of AARP? I remember they said they were going to start their own repug AARP? Where is it?
You mean the Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC)? I get e-mails from Newsmax so I can keep track of what’s getting the right wing’s knickers in a twist, and I got one today that was an advertisement (many of them are) for AMAC. If you’re mad at Obama, you can give AMAC $12.50 to show it.
November 15th, 2009 at 5:30 pmBack in 2003, Republican leaders praised the AARP for its support of President Bush’s unfunded and deeply flawed Medicare prescription benefit. But now that the 40 million member organization has endorsed the House Democrats’ health care reform bill, the GOP is declaring war on its one-time ally. Helping lead the attack is an array of industry-funded front groups and their reactionary has-been spokesmen like Pat Boone.
For the details, see:
November 15th, 2009 at 6:09 pm“The Right-Wing War on the AARP.”
AARP also opposed the privatization of social security.
November 15th, 2009 at 6:10 pmThis from the man who chose Sarah Palin as his running mate. Is anyone really listening to him?
November 15th, 2009 at 6:15 pmJust because someone might cut up their AARP card, doesn’t mean they’ve quit the organization.
Does McCain really not understand that?
November 15th, 2009 at 6:37 pmMcCain encouraged audience members to cut up their AARP cards and send them back.
Hey McCain! As long as morons like you are cutting up membership cards, make sure you chop up your Social Security card along with your monthly Social Security check. You stupid teabaggers wouldn’t want to be caught with socialist money in your pockets, would you? Send all that money back to the U.S. government, ASAP!
November 15th, 2009 at 7:55 pmHow about they cut up their SS cards and their medicare cards while they’re at it. I always find it funny when people who recieve these benefits and then turn around and complain about how “evil” these programs are. Nothing like biting the hand that feeds you, eh?
November 15th, 2009 at 8:04 pmSlightly OT, but relevant:
When I hit 50, I started receiving membership requests from AARP. I sent them a check for a $12-dollar membership, the check was cashed, but that was the last I ever heard from them.
Did not inspire confidence on my behalf.
November 15th, 2009 at 8:45 pmdbadass, wayne,xisithrus,mary, fred and hoodathunk. Gun control is using both hands and hitting the target every time.
November 15th, 2009 at 8:47 pmMcCain should just retire and give up his government sponsored health insurance plan. It’s OK if he benefits – just not anyone else.
November 15th, 2009 at 9:29 pmJohn needs to show that he has a real set of balls and introduce legislation to rescind Medicare.
Then he can lead the charge to cancel any healthcare reform that gets passed, when the Republicans are sure to take back Congress in ‘10.
At that time, all the current Medicare enrollees can join the rest of us and shop around for insurance, and pray to God that they don’t get rejected for pre-existing conditions, or get dropped for no good reason after they’ve had insurance for a few years.
Yeah, John, that’ll show ‘em.
November 15th, 2009 at 10:41 pmReagan so detested Medicare in the ’60s…can anyone tell me if he and Nancy were/are beneficiaries of it?
November 15th, 2009 at 10:44 pmGun control is grabbing a gun pointed by chicken$hits that are living in fear and shoving them up their a$$es.
November 15th, 2009 at 11:06 pmoops, sorry, should read it not them.
November 15th, 2009 at 11:08 pmAARP also opposed the privatization of social security. — LeftIsRight
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Damn good thing, too! Considering how far the market dropped last year, can you imagine how much trouble many seniors would be in right now if Bush had succeeded in his aims to privatize Social Security??? Frankly, it doesn’t bear thinking of…
November 15th, 2009 at 11:47 pmMcCain’s got his retirement years taken care of by his rich wife. So, he’s one of the last people entitled to pontificate about AARP and their endorsement of national health care reform. There’s no end to the kind of stupidity possible from such people. Thank heaven for the 2008 election results.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:43 amDear Johnny we happen to need rules,regulations and oversite by our Gov`t because of the 1929 crash and subsequent depression and our 21st century recession we are currently living in.For over 40 years this country prospered with the policy`s that F.D.R and his administrion put in place to undo the very same things that have happened to be going on now, so I hope that my very large and deomcratically run gov`t gets more rules and regulations back into our financial,manufacturing systems that will undo what people like you and yours don`t want have happen ahealthy economy where a strong middle class can live without the fear of losing their home to bankruptcy due to healthcare,where trade policy`s bringback our manufacturing jobs and where our gov`t works “for the people,by the people and of the people” or we will vote your lousy @ss out.
November 16th, 2009 at 1:14 amConservaTROLL
Why havent you killed yourself yet? You are the stupidest most pathetic creature on the face of the Earth. Just go quietly and do the right thing
November 16th, 2009 at 1:20 amI never got one from them to begin with, democrats think it was great idea just like unions? Why would you pay somebody for something that you can get on your own anyways?
November 16th, 2009 at 2:03 amRight and they should refuse to accept Medicare or social security. What a moron. Dementia has really taken over in Arizona.
November 16th, 2009 at 5:26 amThe man who brought us Sarah (drive out the withes and evil spirits) Palin wants us to cut up our AARP cards? Another brilliants move by the Arizona Idiot. He needs to stay under his mesquite stump with the rest of the rodents.
November 16th, 2009 at 9:09 amWow, I like that idea. This guy actually has some god ideas!
JES
November 16th, 2009 at 9:18 amOnline Privacy when it Counts
The only people dumber than McCain are the ones who listen to him blindly. But watch out, he might get his own show on FauxSnooze like Huckabee! I’ll laugh if I have to watch him and Hannity or Beck, or even Huckabee himself fight over who’s the bigger conservative! Wheres the popcorn?
November 16th, 2009 at 9:20 amAnd by the way, you only have to be 50 to join AARP (which, yes, provides LOTS of great discounts, especially in traveling, which we benefit from). Most members will absolutely not cut off their nose to spite their face – and those that do, well they’re just fools.
November 16th, 2009 at 10:53 amIs it not the same mccain moran that brought us palin this clown is a snake oil salemen say anything for a buck.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:23 pmMcCain is a national hero for getting himself shot down over enemy territory and then only divulging name, rank and serial number (plus having meals now and then with the Cuban ambassador to Hanoi and trading stories with him, cutting a propaganda film with the North Vietnamese and looking pitiful when seeing a camera aimed at him).
Being a national hero for having been shot down, McCain is a natural expert on not only being shot down, but every other damn thing anyone asks him about.
So let him advise old folks that their Medicare coverage is about to be cut. At least he’s consequent — he’s never stopped lying.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:32 pmMedicare is $38 Trillion unfunded. The current healthcare bills aren’t even budget neutral, let alone starting to deal with the $38T. And the AARP thinks the healthcare bill “meets our priorities for protecting Medicare”? Makes you sort of wonder what their “priorities” are?
What the hell is the matter with us?
November 16th, 2009 at 1:42 pmMcCrashed Three Planes…..
November 16th, 2009 at 2:53 pmMy medical insurance, numerous physician office visits and medication bills are over one third of my income. I think I will start bundling copies of these things and sending them to McCain.
Wonder how long before he sends the FBI to by door.
November 16th, 2009 at 5:39 pmWake up and smell the coffee already. I’m almost 60 and took the AARP magazine for a few years. When it first arrives if you shake it several loose ads fall out – all insurance and pharma related. Then if you want to get rid of the rest of the cardboard inside you tear along the perforations and ultimately, end up with a magazine only half as thick as the original. Who do you think pays for the lion’s share of these ads that keep AARP alive? The insurance industry and big pharma, that’s who. And they are still conning you, America! Of course AARP support’s the health care bill! It’s all part of the current sick – care system that has never worked in this country except to drain your wallets as fast as it can. I’m tired of all the leaches posting here who can’t wait to see my taxes raised to pay for their poor health choices. Ultimately, when the rest of us loose our jobs, too, who is going to pay for YOUR health care then? Look beyond your noses people!
November 17th, 2009 at 11:57 am