Sen. Cornyn "Most insurance companies are honorable."

[ej510]

Really? :wtf: He said this on C-Span 15 minutes ago. He mentioned it while talking about waste, fraud, and abuse in medicare.

[Sub Atomic]

1. And Richard Nixon was not a crook.

:eyes:

[Kingofalldems]

2. I love that story.

[Canuckistanian]

3. honorable

hon·or·a·ble
adj.
1. Deserving or winning honor and respect: led an honorable life.
2. Bringing distinction or recognition: honorable service to one's nation.
3. Possessing and characterized by honor: an honorable person.
4. Consistent with honor or good name: followed the only honorable course of action.
5. Distinguished; illustrious: this honorable gathering of scholars.
6. Attended by marks of recognition and honor: received an honorable burial.
7. Honorable Abbr. Hon.
a. Used as a title of respect for certain high government officials: The Honorable Jane Doe, Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.
b. Used as a courtesy title for the children of barons and viscounts and the younger sons of earls.
c. Used in the House of Commons as a title of respect when speaking of another member.

Does Cornyn know what the term means?

[GoCubsGo]

33. I'm not sure a lot of people know what that means...

Or "honest", for that matter. I keep hearing that we need a public option "to keep insurance companies honest." Keep them honest??? LOL!!! That would be wonderful--if they actually WERE honest!

[thunder rising]

4. Maybe right, but it's the Big 10 that counts. The corps that make up the cartel style monopoly

[Aragorn]

5. What he really meant

is, their checks don't bounce.

[hobbit709]

6. Cornpone is so crooked he has to screw his socks on.

He wouldn't know honorable if it bit him on the ass.

[Barack_America]

7. Scamming the federal govt. while crying "free market " and "capitalism"....

....is honorable to Republicans.

[FarLeftRage]

8. Yeah, they are honorable in keeping their deeds

of paying him his bribes...

[BootinUp]

9. This is why we need to make noise ala Grayson

you just can't keep letting these myths go unanswered, unchallenged, or only weakly challenged.

[Arkana]

10. And Joe McCarthy wasn't a loud, stupid drunk.

[boppers]

15. Please don't dishonor drunks that way.

We have enough problems without guilt by association.

[The_Casual_Observer]

11. With these kooks, the free enterprise system is honorable as long as no laws

a broken, no matter how many people are utterly fucked in the process.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

12. Somebody needs to take away the socialized health care this freak receives as a

politician.

[harun]

18. Exactly, let him go shopping in the "free" market for insurance and then come back

and tell us how that works for him and how "honorable" the options were.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

13. What is the definitionof honorable?

[brentspeak]

14. Yes, they honor their financial commitments to corrupt senators who'll protect their interests

[davidpdx]

16. You mean this dude?

[Orsino]

17. Therefore, they aren't.

Profiting from the denial of health care is the opposite of honorable.

[ej510]

19. Sen. John Cornyn is a money first person he could give a damn about his country.

[zulchzulu]

20. Honorable = jacks up prices 11% a year

Cornyn mentioning honor is like Charles Manson mentioning civility.

[ej510]

21. This is why Sen. John Cornyn believes insurance companies are honorable.

Health Professionals $759,113   $628,063  $131,050              

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-332804

[krispos42]

22. How can a difuse corporate entity have honor?

A corporation is a legal construct. It's a bunch of signed and sealed papers in a filing cabinet in a government office somewhere.

Let's not forget this. Corporations are obliged to generate profit, and will only have as much morals, patriotism, "honor", etc., as they can afford to have, which is not very much.


We cannot forget this. Corporations, in part of their ongoing thirst for profits, invest a fair amount of money on advertising and PR campaigns to convince the average citizen that they have human morals and such... so that they can get laws passed that make them more profit.

[Cleita]

23. Yes, they are honorable insofar as their checks to the politicians'

campaign coffers don't bounce.

[ej510]

24. His comment is another reason to pass campaign finance reform.

[Avalux]

25. Yeah, about as honorable as he is. n/t

[busybl]

26. well Blue Cross isn't

[ej510]

27. Insurance industry needs to die, because like most

powerful industries they are parasitcal.

[Vidar]

28. What world does he live in? Oh yes, the rich one.

[BeyondGeography]

29. I call gaffe

What a fucking blunder. We can use that quote to define the GOP through the mid-terms.

Props to Corny.

[DrToast]

30. Someone should ask him which companies does he not consider honorable

Surely he has an obligation to tell the public the identity of these companies.

[Odin2005]

31. And the fundamentals of our economy are strong!

:eyes:

[Vinca]

32. Dove chocolate has no calories.

[area51]

34. Honorable?

In what respect, Charlie? :eyes:

Fucking elitist nazi party member, stealing our tax dollars and using them to get better healthcare than the rest of us are able to get.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

35. Yeah, like lots of other bastards.

My old man warned me about classes of people you can't trust:

Pimps, wrecker drivers, repo men, claims adjusters, used car salesmen, aluminum siding salesmen, some lawyers...