Did you hear this clip of Glenn Beck sreeching? LOL!
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907150016
Well, Beck is the man who agreed that this country needs a good Bin Laden attack to save it.
Another Steel moment: The guy doesn’t know who his health care provider is. It must be nice.
How far out of touch can this guy be?
That’s a bit much. I don’t have a primary care physician, and while I know who my insurer is I know plenty of people who don’t.
How can they not know? That’s the first thing they ask when you go to a doctor. It’s also on the card.
Well, there are about 40 BCBS-related entities, and if I hadn’t worked in the healthcare field I might be a bit leery about throwing out a name which might or might not actually exist.
Right, but I bet if you had to deal with your provider directly you would know.
And not knowing is ok, if you’re an average guy, not the head of a party that’s doing all it can to criticize the administration’s plan.
He doesn’t know because he doesn’t need to know, other people take care of it. He doesn’t have to worry about deductables or being denied treatment or using the ER has his primary “insurance”.
That’s the thing that bugged me; this country is having a huge discussion concerning health care. You would think that any politcian who is making hay out of either supporting or rejecting it, would have enough intellectual interest to look at his own plan and become informed about it; if just to be able to speak to people in terms they can relate to.
He just didn’t care, because as one the hosts noted, he was one of the “haves”, the details don’t matter as it was just on tap for him and that makes him out of touch in my opinion.
Shouldn’t that be Pro-Lifetime? or Right-to-Lifetime? or Culture-of-Lifetime?
GOP’ers all over the country are reaching for their wallets tonight so they don’t get stumped on this question next… LOL
But with Democrats running things will they assume the wallet is empty, or will they look and be shocked to discover that there is still money in it?
-Joe
Whoo! All the 'Let ‘em drown and rot in the sun*’ supporters have themselves a champion. Meet Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
*Gotta come up with a catchy name for these folks.
The Nullempathy Caucus?
The Balanced Bastards?
Then there is Eric Cantor, who wants to defeat Obama’s Health Care simply because he wants to render the President in effective.
Now, of course, we could make a major dent in the Federal debt if we simply asked the people who elected the Honorable Ms. Blackburn to repay every penny put into T.V.A. since its inception – with compound interest.
That was for flood control, along with rural electrification, right? Just like Katrina and tsunami relief.
Tennesseeans? What do you think about the idea?
If there’s one thing the Federal government should unquestionably be doing along the lines of public relief, it would be responding to widespread disaster relief – the kind of thing that wipes out 2/3 of a state, you know?
Eric Cantor, Jim DeMint and about 3/4 of the Republican Caucus in Congress. This isn’t about serving their constituents for them. This is about somehow stopping the precipitous slide of their party. Unfortunately for them, it’s only Item 4, 352 on the list of reasons that their party is falling out from under them.
Sorry jayjay and Really Not All That Bright, those are nice, but you’ll have to do better than that.
Yes, but wasn’t the TVA mainly to benefit white people? In that case it’s ok. Katrina mainly affected blacks, and the tsunami mainly affected browns, though I’m not quite sure why she mentioned something that concerned places like Thailand and Sri Lanka. A tsunami on either of our coasts would affect a lot of white people. Well, California doesn’t matter, and neither does New York or New England, but lots of southern states (the REAL America) abut the Atlantic ocean.
I’ve been working on a project and haven’t been paying too much attention to the stupid Republicans, but it looks like something will happen today that might make this guy win the week.
House to consider resolution demanding Obama apologize to Crowley
Here’s the full resolution by McCotter (R-Dumbass):
President Obama goofed and said something he shouldn’t have said (but that a lot of us were thinking). He’s human too. However, he immediately made it right by calling Crowley and Gates and inviting them to the White House, and then breaking in on a Gibbs press conference to chide himself for his poor choice of words and expressing the hope that this incident would become a “teachable moment.” How many presidents do that sort of thing?
Well, yeah, it’s become a teachable moment alright. It’s already taught me that Thaddeus McCotter is an idiot.
Oh, and here’s another hypocrite for the Hypocrite Files:
Pro-Life State Sen. Paul Stanley, Mr. Abstinence cheats on wife with 22 year old intern and gets blackmailed
My brother works for a Seventh Day Adventist hospital in Honolulu, and his boss, while not a Seventh Day Adventist, is a fundamentalist Christian of what sounds like a Palin-esque type stamp: you know, believe and you shall be rich. I can’t remember what they’re called right now - Prosperity Christians or something like that? Anyway, when one of the many Republican sex scandals broke last year, she explained that Satan specifically targets the really good Christians so as to destroy them politically. She felt terribly sorry for the man. Mind you, this is a sophisticated woman who came from New York City to Honolulu after a high-profile job as a corporate executive, now slumming in paradise because it’s a very Christian hospital.
My brother, whose politics are considerably to the left of mine (which are about in line with elucidator’s), just tries to keep his head low.
It’s called the Prosperity Movement. I don’t know what you call its adherents, exactly.
ETA: Other than “stupid”, of course.