# GOP at it again. This time with Medicare. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 15, 2005, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-at-it-again-this-time-with-medicare/299425 "2005-04-15T03:06:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2005, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-at-it-again-this-time-with-medicare/299425/1 "2005-04-15T03:06:26Z")
Well, we all know the GOP marches in lockstep to the beat of a war drum, and all Republicans are racist, right-wing, women-hating, oil snorting homophobes. It’s a given around here. As a gift I present to you not one, but 44 HoR GOP’ers to bash in the latest Medicare budget [story](http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/11395740.htm) You’re welcome. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2005, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-at-it-again-this-time-with-medicare/299425/2 "2005-04-15T03:16:05Z")
Umm-- according to the article it is Medicaid, not Medicare. Even the most dimwitted of Republicans aren’t stupid enough to cut MediCARE! ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2005, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-at-it-again-this-time-with-medicare/299425/3 "2005-04-15T03:21:55Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > Well, we all know the GOP marches in lockstep to the beat of a war drum, and all Republicans are racist, right-wing, women-hating, oil snorting homophobes. It’s a given around here. > > As a gift I present to you not one, but 44 HoR GOP’ers to bash in the latest Medicare budget [story](http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/11395740.htm) > > You’re welcome. Nope, not all of them. Nor are all of them total idiots. You, however, are all of these things. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2005, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-at-it-again-this-time-with-medicare/299425/4 "2005-04-15T03:45:06Z")
Medicaid. :smack: For some reason I keep lumping the two together as one entity. Thanks for clearing it up. Hey **galen** , get bent. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2005, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-at-it-again-this-time-with-medicare/299425/5 "2005-04-15T03:47:40Z")
Yeah, and you just wait. It’s only a matter of time before some fucking GOP apologist like **duffer** shows up in here to… uh… oh. Hi, **duffer**. [sub]nevermind[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2005, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-at-it-again-this-time-with-medicare/299425/6 "2005-04-15T04:30:49Z")
I guess it’s time for **Brutus** to wander in and yell 'YU R THE UXX0R!!!111OMG!!!111 ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2005, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-at-it-again-this-time-with-medicare/299425/7 "2005-04-15T05:19:44Z")
So, 44 out of a couple of hundred GOP congressmen are interested in not cutting the poor’s medical benefits. Good for them. In the same week, the House has: - passed a bankruptcy bill that restrains bad borrowers, but does not restrain bad lending. - voted to enshrine Paris Hilton’s inheritance as tax free. Thank goodness the republic is looking after her. Color me unimpressed. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2005, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-at-it-again-this-time-with-medicare/299425/8 "2005-04-15T06:10:53Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > So, 44 out of a couple of hundred GOP congressmen are interested in not cutting the poor’s medical benefits. According to [this page,](http://www.house.gov/fattah/features/faq.htm) there are 222 Republican representatives in the House. Dare we ask how the other 178 feel about cutting Medicaid benefits? ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2005, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-at-it-again-this-time-with-medicare/299425/9 "2005-04-15T07:34:14Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > Well, we all know the GOP marches in lockstep to the beat of a war drum, You like _A perfect Circle_ too? ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2005, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-at-it-again-this-time-with-medicare/299425/10 "2005-04-15T11:33:15Z")
Hooray! 20% of Republican congressmen are not completely heartless fuckers! Yee-haw!