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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA short personal note to Rick Santorum
In Keene today, Rick Santorum told the mother of a cancer patient that people with pre-existing conditions should pay more for health care because they made "poor health choices."
Santorum To Mother Of Cancer Survivor: Sick To Blame For Pre-Existing Conditions, Should Be Charged More
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/01/06/399357/santorum-to-mother-of-cancer-survivor-sick-are-to-blame-for-their-pre-existing-conditions-insurers-should-charge-them-more/
As the husband of a woman with MS, I'd like to ask Rick what poor choices my wife made that earned her this affliction.
You stinking bag of fuck.
Say hello to Huck, fuck, cuz you're singing the same tune. From the Will Pitt archives:
Sick Bastards
By William Rivers Pitt
22 September 2010
http://archive.truthout.org/sick-bastards63456
xchrom
(108,903 posts)roguevalley
(40,656 posts)Maybe he needs to check himself out. WHich I am sure he does. Every night. With a mirror.
You can't talk about other men's genitals 24/7 for 30 years without hiding something.
Raven
(13,900 posts)a supporter of Opus Dei which is all I need to know.
Also, I believe Mitt Romney's wife has MS. Perhaps this is why one of the few good things he's done in his life is his Mass Healthcare system.
comipinko
(541 posts)I feel you're holding back.
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)Total. Little. Shit!
BTW Will, my best wishes for your wife and you!
PEACE!
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)roguevalley
(40,656 posts)no one's fault. This man is scum.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)my uterus. It was fun for a while, but I knew that sort of behavior would catch up with me.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)Having a uterus makes you culpable for everything.
(Eve was framed)
October
(3,363 posts)Best wishes to you and your wife and family.
For our family, we are grateful that the so-called "Obamacare" allows for our 21-year-old daughter to remain covered under our policy. She attends college part-time, and for that reason was excluded. Not any more!
Also, her part-time job offers no healthcare plan, which is typical.
No one cared before that her reasons for doing all of this "part-time" work is because she is also pursuing a career in ballet
-- which requires amazing dedication, focus, strength and grace 24/7, 365 at hours a day.
I've been upset with Obama for a number of things, but I am grateful that our daughter has healthcare.
Raven
(13,900 posts)comipinko
(541 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)It's these dangerous, irresponsible, liberal-enabled lifestyles that are causing high taxes and health care premiums. You are the Caddilac-Driving Welfare Queen of uterine fibroids.
RON PAUL
*punches self in face*
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)rearrangement of my innards. Totally worth it!
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)Stop complaining. You're lucky we don't treat you like a burned-down house.
*punching self in face again*
comipinko
(541 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)You'd be surprised.
comipinko
(541 posts)Most folks would be surprised how much blood one can lose, and how even a pint of blood looks like a ton when in a puddle on the floor. (sorry for the nasty visual)
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)in which one's body develops some compensations, and suddenly being down a few quarts and losing all that fluid volume and oxygen-carrying capacity at once. Same lab numbers, very different possible effects (feeling like boiled crap vs. MI/shock).
Taverner
(55,476 posts)Dontchya know his wife lost a BABY once! A BABY!!!!!
What kind of sick, demented, baby killing babyhater are you?????
I WANT MY MOMMY!!! WAHHHH
Iggo
(47,571 posts)Taverner
(55,476 posts)Except people here would feel sorry for poor widdle Santorum and his widdle wifey....
Iggo
(47,571 posts)It's my understanding they had to abort the fetus to save the mom. That's a tough thing right there.
But since they're against anyone else's right to do the same thing, it just looks like a really morbid case of "I got mine."
Taverner
(55,476 posts)Now, if they didn't trot out their dead kid to write a book for political gains ("Letters to Gabriel" maybe I'd shed a tear.
Iggo
(47,571 posts)Those fucking ghouls!
hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)If it's one thing that the Republicans have taught me, and taught me well, it is that the Democrats have to be willing to fight as dirty as the Republicans do in order to win.
Whenever a political candidate brings a personal issue to a public venue, then that issue becomes a public issue. The Santorums have publicly talked about this very private issue, so they must be trying to use it for political gain; therefore, it becomes political fodder.
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)abort-- I mean miscarriages? They must think they will be exempt.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Ya know, I don't understand how ordinary people can listen to these sick a$$hole$ telling them if they get sick and can't afford care - tough shit - all the while, knowing these sick a$$hole$ have access to affordable health care insurance, and yet STILL support and vote these over priviledged bastards.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)that you aren't praying hard enough or giving enough money to the church if bad things happen to you.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)I thought there was something about charity begins at home?
And why does god need money from mere mortals, anyway.
Do these people ask themselves that as they are handing over their hard earned dollars to the pastor of some mega church?
That Hagee fellow who has a mega church in my city, sure lives high off the hog, while telling others they shouldn't.
Guess it's that ' do as I say, not as I do' thing, eh?
Hypocrites, all of them.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)to the vulnerable. good example of how wrong 'let the market decide' thinking is.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)them threefold or something like that. I just don't understand it at all.
Taverner
(55,476 posts)Whisp
(24,096 posts)not to offend any Christians here but to show what the Sicktorums are really selling.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)HangOnKids
(4,291 posts)George Carlin is Gawd!
JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)happen upon him in Dogma:
Many lolz.
Julie
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Erose999
(5,624 posts)PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)to serve his corporate masters.
Thanks for posting this Will. I saw a clip of this interview yesterday and have been searching the web for it.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)this Santorum guy is really bugging my ass. I mean Newt and the rest ain't no picnic to be sure but Santorum is a special kind of filth.
Blue Owl
(50,513 posts)How in fuck's name do motherfucking idiots like this "rise to the top"???
tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)day in and day out had it coming.
I really hate this guy.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Sperm should have run in the opposite direction to avoid egg. Fact that it didn't, and the parents decided to go forward with the pregnancy clearly indicates they knew of the pre-existing condition and ignored the knowledge. THUS, No health care. Case closed.
What morans.
Like you Will, when these matters hit home, when these politicians are attacking our own, I get mad. I feel rage. This becomes my default setting towards these unfeeling monsters.
Good for you to come out swinging in defense of your loved ones!
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)as a cancer survivor. POS Rethugs!
Zenlitened
(9,488 posts)Erose999
(5,624 posts)cyberswede
(26,117 posts)I thought you might be interested.
http://www.news-releases.uiowa.edu/2011/November/111411MS_study.html
University of Iowa researchers, using an innovative therapy involving intensive nutrition, progressive exercise, and neuromuscular stimulation, have observed evidence of improvement in patients with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (SPMS).
This treatment approach, described as radical by the researchers, was selected as a "Hot Topic" at the Neuroscience 2011 annual meeting, presented by the Society for Neuroscience and held this week in Washington, D.C. Babita Bisht (photo, right), a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Health and Human Physiology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is the first study author and presented the research Sunday afternoon at the meeting.
Terry Wahls, a clinical professor of internal medicine at the UI Carver College of Medicine and the Iowa City VA Medical Center, is the senior study author and living proof of the effectiveness of this treatment plan. Wahls was diagnosed with SPMS in 2003 and soon became dependent upon a tilt-recline wheelchair. After developing and using this protocol, she is now able to walk through the hospital and commute to work by bicycle.
More: http://www.terrywahls.com/
BTW - Dr. Wahls is the mother of Zach Wahls, the college student who went viral on YouTube defending his two moms to the Iowa Legislature.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)wandy
(3,539 posts)The more he stands on his soapbox and shills for his corprate masters. The more he stands at the paupet and brags the wonders of his vengfull cloud being. The more he preaches that his and only his is the way to the light.
The more easely it can be seen what a shallow, hollow, pathetic little man Santorum is.
A man who doubts his own convictions to a point that he must accept the convictions of his masters.
A simp who doubts his fellow man.
A pathetic smoke wisp doubting even his own masculinety.
A frightened child, cowering in a corner awaiting the wrath of his god simpley because he allowed his own wife to live.
Easly seen as a circus parson, takeing the center ring only to fill his pockets and hide his own inadquities.
He convinces me that I am not a true christan; for I can not pity him.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)I'm right there with you.
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)kentuck
(111,110 posts)Cold-hearted bastards.
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)that is the scariest part. It's not what he says, cause he says some crazy ass things, always has, always will (I think psych eval is in order for him) but people who claim they'd vote for this clown with all the shit that spews from him. They are the real problem.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)Some people like Christmas music.
There's no accounting for taste.
ProfessorGAC
(65,212 posts)I did not know that. I've been likewise afflicted since 1993. Hope she is doing well and tell her to hang in there.
GAC
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)And the same to you.
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)we are dealing with the GOP base who probably agree with him--or at least 80% of them probably do.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)an ambulatory turd that fouls the earth with his every utterance. He deserves every bit of whatever misery he has experienced or will experience in his life. He is an evil waste of perfectly good oxygen.
wellstone dem
(4,460 posts)it's his fault. Or his parents, even though none of their older children, aunts, uncles, parents, siblings, nieces or nephews had juvenile diabetes. He and they should have known better.
First post on the new DU...I hate how these people talk and believe and do.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)Bruce Wayne
(692 posts)11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)of your wife's courageous battle; I will tell you that when I read Santorum's comments, my thoughts eventually turned to you. I initially considered my own cancer-surving ass (14 years and counting), and wanted to lash back at Ricky. But the simple fact is, while I may be a wordy sonofabitch, I am no William Rivers Fucking Pitt. Your heart, soul, and erudition made our point better than I could have hoped to do. (Although, as a former combat infantryman, I think you could have used a few more "fucks".)
In any case, thanks, Will. And please, keep on doing what you do.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)powergirl
(2,393 posts)And he will wrap himself in the banner of religion while demonizing those who need healthcare. Nice Christian values.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Long he has ridden high upon my shit list.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)They are all really awful, but Rick Santorum makes me angry. Objectively on paper, they all measure up to be about equally terrible. But Santorum has a little extra-something of vile.
He deeply offends me.
JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)I am stunned anyone would say this, much less someone aspiring to be our President. Just stunned.
Julie
marasinghe
(1,253 posts)on another note: shit-spawn like Rick 'Torum, Huckster-b & the rest of the effluvia that make up the current population of the anal orifice that is the GOP -- is the reason that revolution was invented by desperate beings, trying to sustain their families. hopefully, you & i will get to see the day when Nature flushes this effluvia down the black hole they belong in.
sellitman
(11,607 posts)If he wasn't born.
Poor choices? I thought they are for Life?
Maybe only as a Zygote?
tomp
(9,512 posts)....if that kind of excremental verbiage gets any publicity he will never get elected anywhere.
p.s.: "stinking bag of fuck"....especially well put.
tpsbmam
(3,927 posts)And yeah, go fuck yourself Rick. I had no fucking choice to make when it came to getting MS. You did, however, have a choice to be a decent human being or a stupid fucking moronic, bigoted, total asshole. Too bad you chose the latter.