GOP pushes charade to 'protect' seniors' health

[steven johnson]

Hypocrites.

RNC chairman Michael Steele in an October 2006 interview on NBC's "Meet the Press," then then-Senate candidate said that cuts to Medicare "absolutely" had to be "on the table" in order to "control runaway federal spending."
My how the worm turns.
Former Senate Candidate Wanted Medicare Cuts 'on the Table' in 2006

In a despicable attempt to scare the elderly, the Republican National Committee is out Monday with its plan to "protect" seniors from health care reform.

The Republican proposal is a charade, meant to make seniors think their health care is under assault from proposed changes.

The GOP is continuing its attempt to whip people up into a frenzy, and its latest attempts to scare seniors is particularly off target.



GOP pushes charade to 'protect' seniors' health

[grassfed]

1. "Medicare is Tyranny" - Dick Armey (Video)

On this morning's Meet the Press, Rachel Maddow backs former congressman Dick Armey (head of the Freedomworks lobbying group) against the wall and lets everyone know exactly what his radical opinion is on Medicare:

MS. MADDOW: Do you really think that there’s a major uprising of seniors wanting to get out of Medicare? I know you’re suing the government for your right personally to get out of Medicare.

REP. ARMEY: Right.

MS. MADDOW: But do you really think that’s the problem...

SEN. COBURN: Is it...

MS. MADDOW: ...that Medicare—that seniors hate Medicare and they want out?

REP. ARMEY: No, I didn’t say that. Most seniors—I was talking to my minister the other day. My minister says, “Dick, I’m so fortunate I’m in Medicare.” I said, “Bless you, my, my friend that you get to be in it if you choose to be so.” But if you give a government program and you let me choose to be in or choose to be out, that’s generosity. If you force me in, irrespective of my desires, that’s tyranny. Now, if Medicare’s $46 trillion in the red, with no idea how we’re going to pay for it, why, why do they not let people who don’t want to be in out?

MS. MADDOW: This is...

MR. GREGORY: Let me—I want to get it...

REP. ARMEY: I mean, that’s...

MS. MADDOW: Just—I—very briefly.

REP. ARMEY: This, this, this defies logic.

MS. MADDOW: This is a really important point. The anti-healthcare reform lobby thinks that Medicare is tyranny, OK?

REP. ARMEY: I did—I said...

MS. MADDOW: This is an—I mean, you said in 1995 that “Medicare is a program I would have no part of in a free world.”

REP. ARMEY: Right. Absolutely right.

MS. MADDOW: You said in 2002, “We’re going to have to bite the bullet on Social Security and phase it out over a period of time.”

REP. ARMEY: And I’m going to enumerate exactly what I’m talking about. Medicare...

MS. MADDOW: Americans need to know this is your position and this is the position of the anti-healthcare reform lobby.

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/rachel-maddow-unmasks-dick-armeys-rad

[NoSheep]

2. They prey on the poor and otherwise disadvantaged. Why not seniors too?

[zbdent]

3. How about this bumper sticker?

"Save Medicare - Deny Government-run socialized Medicare for Republicans!"

[JohnWxy]

4. while Dems try to get something real accomplished, the GOP engages in political theater.

It's like the guy sprinkling salt on his lawn to keep the elephants away.

here's a few people the Corporate Lobbyist Party has saved from the machinations of the Democrats to see that health care be made available to more people:


REALITY: Grandmas death by Profit Motive NOT imaginary (future) death panels