Greta to Steele: If GOP cares about health care reform, "why ... didn't" they "do health care reform when" in majority?

Because they were too busy cutting taxes for rich people and passing corporate welfare legislation.

They were too busy looking for the boogie man -- er, for weapons of mass destruction.

They were too busy sucking up to the Evangelicals.

I'm sort of thinking when Steele said, "I don't have an idea", he wrapped up the republicans position in three words.

Great question Greta.

Michael Steele---taking stupidity to a whole new level.

Go get 'em Greta. Another conservative I don't mind. She always used to been one I enjoyed watching. She's been a bit to far to the right since going to Fox (big surprise) but she can still keep 'em honest every now and then.

Steele had an op-ed in the Washington Post on Monday that was full of debunked talking points on health care reform. I asked MMFA to cite the column as misinformation but It did not get included. Is print not a souece of misinformation I wonder?

Steele: "But that's the past!" Yep. Republicans never (Ayers!) like to talk (Carter!) about the past (Monica!).

Rupert can't be happy.

They didn't try to pass healthcare reform because the people it would have helped don't normally vote Republican or don't contribute to campaigns.

The Republican position on everything is if it doesn't help Republicans then they are against it no matter how good it is for the country.

They also don't want minorities to get healthy and live long enough to collect Social Security.

They wouldn't do anything that could possibly help anyone but themselves.

Republicans have been too busy working their "base" on more important issues:

Getting prayer in school
Stopping gay marriage
Flag burning
Teaching creationism in schools
And the list goes on..

Oooh. Greta's going off script.

I don't Greta is being fair here.

I recall the Congress passing a bill that poor Terri Schiavo was still alive. Bll Frist diagnosed her via video.

That was the GOP effort to "reform" health care and health insurance in America.

The real reason? There wasn't any money in it. The K Street Project required that people who wanted legislation to pay to play.

The consumers - the gulls sucked in by the right wing nutz - weren't going to be a source of campaign contributions. Ergo: No health care reform.

Steele is very strong and a good match as an adversary for Obama. THis is the thing: THe Question is as good as plutonium. "Why didn't the GOP try to do anything about this monster before now?" That is all you need to prove Obama's argument.

FOLLOW THE BREAD CRUMBS AND BUILD OFF OF THE DECEIT, DON'T DEFEND OR ARGUE IT.

The repubs don't care about health care reform. They only care about power and profits.

I was happy to see that this same question was asked at John McCain's town hall. His response was that they simply did not do it, but that he wasn't going to dwell on the past.

Another questioner asked why this matter is only raised during elections, in which McCain touted his reaching across the aisle (minus the term "maverick"), but if he reached across the aisle, then why did this not get done?

The GOP had been for reducing spending for Medicare, but now they are fighting tooth and nail to defend it. To simply say "I don't know why we did not do it" is unacceptable, and whoever says that obviously does not want to take blame or point fingers. There is zero accountability for their actions.

What people should be asking is what reform the Republicans want, and specific examples or legislation that they plan to offer to make this reform work, and if they don't do it, then we know that they are just dragging their feet and pandering for votes, which is what they are doing, trying to scare the elderly (who are represented by one of the strongest lobbies).

People 60 and older make up 23% of the voters, with 51% of that age group voting Republican in the previous election. The younger the demographic, the greater the shift is for the Democratic vote, which leads me to believe that the Republicans are consistently being marginalized, and if they are not careful, can increasingly become a minority party in future elections.

No, no, no. The GOP did reform the health care (industry) when they had Congressional majorities and the White House. Haven't you seen the dramatic rise in profits for the largest health insurers that took place between 2001 and 2007? That is their idea of reform. That is change they can believe in.

I guess if you accept the premise of the question that the Federal government needs to fix the healthcare system, then yes, the Republicans dropped the ball. But there are many people who feel that the "fix" will in fact break the system. I am quite confident that if the HR3200 passes as written, we will see a massive shift toward a socialized state where the Federal government provides more and more of every aspect of our lives. From education, lunches, housing, employment, and with HR3200, 20% of the economy will now be controlled directly by the Fed. What Chairman Steele should have told Gretta was the reason the GOP didn't "fix" healthcare was it's not the Federal government's business. My guess is that you will not be happy with the "fix" that's coming.