Scarborough calls out Pawlenty on death panels, comparison to UK health system: "What in this bill" creates death panels?
September 11, 2009 8:57 am ET
From the September 11 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe:
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This bill adds over 75 new departments and about 100,000 new employees to the bloated government payroll, why?? if this is reform why do we need over 1000 pages sound like overhaul not reform.
The government should tighten up the medicare and medicaid waste, fraud and abuse which i hear is 100,000 million dollars or more. Tighten that up and that would pay for your health care plan.
Better yet why not let congress, the house and the white house open their doors and put every one on their plan. The plan is working for them they have no complaints so why not??
He could have also said, "But Joe, what if aliens come down from outer space and decide to make us all slaves. What then?"
Not entirely unlike what the GOP has done to us for the last 30 years or so.
Oh. He's not saying death panels are in the bill, he's just asking, "What if they were?"
Now I get it.
There are a lot of people here who aren't terribly thrilled with him. Our state is having a massive budget crisis, and he's off playing The-Man-Who-Would-Be-President.
Their application: Don't pay any attention to what I said before, only what I am saying now.
I think I know how these boobs got into office, and why they are so bad at even being a savvy politician now.
During Bush's reign, many "red staters" got bamboozled into thinking non-issues like, banning gay marriage, banning flag burning, banning abortion, prayer in school, etc. were the real issues. So, these butt-heads got elected on those platforms.
Now when REAL issues emerge, they're clueless on how to respond. Being used to lying about the non-issues, they resort to their old tricks of lying about the real issues.
But, now they're getting called on their lies.
Response? Don't pay attention to what I said before.....
In a nutshell, that's why the Republican party is in a shambles.
Vote these idiots out of office!
They certainly are NOT representing their constituents.
To quote BlunderRush: "Just because it isn't in the bill doesn't mean it isn't there."
With "logic" such as that, one can claim anything is in there. And they do...
PS: For a decade the Republicans ran Congress and ran the American public's opinion of it down to the lowest levels in many, many years. Now the Democrats are in charge and must deal with this problem. And the conservative right wing nutz are screaming about America's low opinion of Congress as if they had nothing to do with it.
Just like President Obama must deal with the Bush deficits.
And yes, let's not mess up the 37th best healthcare system in the world. When a health insurance company turns down a patient for coverage and they die, that's not rationing. It's capitalism and it's righteous! I sure hope we don't screw that up!
Incidentally, "Liar Liar" was by the Castaways, who were from Minnesota.
More fearmongering. Why am I not surpirsed?
My how things change with administrations! Joe's a bit hypocritical at best...