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Boehner Rips Health Care Plan In Statement Sent Mid-Summit
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH)
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Surprise! Health care bipartisan ain't going to happen. House Minority Leader John Boehner is a key participant in today's bipartisan health care summit, where a degree of decorum is required. But that isn't stopping him from ripping health care reform in other ways.
"No GOP Reforms Included in Democrats' Job-Killing Health Care Proposals" reads the headline of a GOP Leader Alert issued moments ago, as members of his own caucus sparred with President Obama over whether and how to allow health insurance to be sold across state lines.
"Despite the President's rhetoric, Democrats' job-killing health care proposals do not implement a single major GOP reform that would lower costs for families and small businesses," Boehner's statement reads.
Yes, Washington Democrats have recently begun incorporating into their rhetoric a few of the same words Republicans have long used. But when you dig beneath the newly-minted rhetoric and actually look at the text of their bills, it quickly becomes evident that they haven't actually incorporated any of the major health care reforms Republicans support.Of course, even if these GOP reforms were incorporated, they would still be attached to legislation that includes job-killing tax hikes, deep cuts to Medicare, massive unfunded mandates on states, unconstitutional mandates on individuals, an "abortion premium" levied on American taxpayers, vast new powers for the federal bureaucracy, and other unacceptable provisions the American people reject.
I'm gonna go way out on a limb and guess that he won't change his mind in the next hour and a half. You can read the entire statement here.
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counter coulter
February 25, 2010 2:53 PM
$20 this statement was saved in the "drafts" folder on his BlackBerry before he entered the room.
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mans_best_friend
February 25, 2010 3:00 PM
"...do not implement a single major GOP reform that would lower costs for families and small businesses..."
And why would that be??? I wonder...could it be because THERE AREN'T ANY GOP REFORMS THAT WOULD LOWER COSTS FOR FAMILIES AND SMALL BUSINESSES????
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AB
February 25, 2010 3:01 PM
Is no Democrat in the room subscribed to these things? I'd love to see someone throw this in his face on camera.
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mans_best_friend
February 25, 2010 3:16 PM in reply to AB
"What's the matter, Boner??? Afraid to say this stuff to my face on camera???? You sniveling POS."
I can dream, can't I?
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Dadzo
February 25, 2010 4:14 PM in reply to mans_best_friend
Did you hear Boehner say, on camera before lunch, I think, that he has kept his promise to Obama to "not say anything in behind your back that I wouldn't say to your face"? That was apparently just shortly before issuing this statement. These guys are just soul-less aholes.
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mcc
February 25, 2010 3:07 PM
If they did include GOP reforms, would you vote for it? Would one of you vote for it?
Republicans want bipartisanship to be a one-way street. Democrats give something up, Republicans contribute nothing.
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blader
February 25, 2010 3:08 PM
"job-killing" hcr? "job-killing" is new, is it not?
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mcc
February 25, 2010 3:09 PM in reply to blader
Remember, everything the Democrats do is job-killing. So even if they didn't mention it before it was probably implicit.
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mans_best_friend
February 25, 2010 3:13 PM in reply to mcc
Read it. It's the same list of talking points they drag out to describe anything they don't like. They just copy and paste the same list into everything they say. Want to rename a post office? Job-killing...federal bureaucracy...blah, blah, blah.
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Steaming Pile
February 25, 2010 3:53 PM in reply to mcc
Well, Grandma-killing was a little too over the top to have the desired effect. So they try to use your job to scare you instead.
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Schmed
February 25, 2010 4:13 PM in reply to Steaming Pile
And after that fails, they'll start talking about "working grannys-killing HCR".
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Rick Jones
February 25, 2010 3:11 PM
Democrat proposals do not include GOP reforms. Wel, duh. They are Democrat proposals. Let the GOP make their own specific proposals and justify them with facts. That's the whole point.
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itsallaboutthemoney
February 25, 2010 3:13 PM
Please, in the name of all things good, someone call them out for this kind of sabotage, obstructionist, treason, whatever you want to call it.
This is a deliberate slap. Some one tell the Dems to pack and leave their abuser.
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itsallaboutthemoney
February 25, 2010 3:22 PM in reply to itsallaboutthemoney
As soon as they come back, get up, say “John, I’m leaving you. We’ll pass it without you, you obstructionist subsidiary of the insurance companies. Oh, and here’s the restraining order.”
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Thisby
February 25, 2010 3:19 PM
"...a degree of decor is required." I think you mean decorum. Unless, of course, you mean that a bright orange accent piece is important in an otherwise drab room.
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itsallaboutthemoney
February 25, 2010 3:27 PM in reply to Thisby
Like Boehner's fake bake?
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cwnidog
February 25, 2010 4:21 PM in reply to itsallaboutthemoney
Damn, beat me to it.
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expat46
February 25, 2010 3:23 PM
Off topic but does anybody no wtf grassley is talking a out? I can see how things went off the rails with him and baucus.
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Overreach THIS!
February 25, 2010 3:32 PM in reply to expat46
Grassley is one weird fuck IMHO.
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Overreach THIS!
February 25, 2010 3:27 PM
He's unloading big time now. Scrap the bill. It will bankrupt the country.
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condew
February 25, 2010 3:39 PM
He should be treated exactly like the misbehaving child that he is. The adults should just ignore the tantrum, but never stop explaining why what they are doing is important, necessary, in the best interrests of everyone including the child, etc., so that the other children in the room know why he's eing given a time-out.
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Mary Alice
February 25, 2010 6:31 PM in reply to condew
Grassley and the rest of the Republicans in that room are saying what they have to say. They're where they are because of the floods of money from pharmaceutical companies and the health insurance companies that got them elected or, as may be the case, reelected. Being honorable men, they have to stay with the one that brung 'em. And of course, they want to be reelected.
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Mary Alice
February 25, 2010 6:34 PM in reply to condew
Grassley and the rest of the Republicans in that room are saying what they have to say. They're where they are because of the floods of money from pharmaceutical companies and the health insurance companies that got them elected or, as may be the case, reelected. Being honorable men, they have to stay with the one that brung 'em. And of course, they want to be reelected.
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joeinmaryland
February 25, 2010 3:52 PM
Republican Healthcare reform:
* Tort reform.
* Allow insurance companies to sell unregulated policies across state lines without state mandates and regulatory protections and insurer financial protections.
* To hell with the 30 million uninsured and 20 million underinsured.
* Dump all people with prexisiting conditions into under funded high risk pools with ultra high premiums and stripped down benefits.
From their perpective it is either this way or forget about a conversation. How do you even have a civil conversation with people that walk in with this position?
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itsallaboutthemoney
February 25, 2010 4:11 PM in reply to joeinmaryland
Oh, and we'll take the mandate please, tyvm $$$
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Schmed
February 25, 2010 4:17 PM in reply to joeinmaryland
It's like staging an intervention with a drunk who still has a fifth of Johnnie Walker in his belly.
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condew
February 25, 2010 4:01 PM
Just let them talk until they hang themselves; but keep on top of the refs ("journalists") to make sure every wrong or outrageous statement is dissected and reported with the related facts. It is this "but" that Obama and Democratic leadership are finally getting right.
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Dadzo
February 25, 2010 4:22 PM
I loved "Dr." Barasso's (not sure I have his name right) take on folks with catastrophic insurance and those who have to ask how much an MRI costs before agreeing to it. Those are the best kinds of patients and the best kind of insurance because they reduce health care costs. Yes, by refusing treatment and suffering through deteriorating health that probably takes years off their lives. He truly thinks that it would be good if the care you received was determined by your ability to pay for it. He equates not repairing a torn rotator cuff to foregoing the "supersized" value meal. Unbelievable.
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Mary Alice
February 25, 2010 6:25 PM in reply to Dadzo
It was Limbaugh who equated health care with a house at the beach. He said, and this is a direct quote, "Health care is like a house at the beach. If you can't afford it, you shouldn't have it." Birds of a feather and all that...
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Matt Jones
February 25, 2010 6:56 PM in reply to Dadzo
As was earlier pointed out - the Republican health care plan:
- don't get sick
- if you're sick, die quickly
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Agateman
February 25, 2010 5:44 PM
"Johnny Sunshine" will never change his mind because he is too damn stupid.
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ed lehner
February 25, 2010 5:48 PM
Boner has spent too much time in the tanning beds lately.
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ed lehner
February 25, 2010 5:49 PM
Boner has spent too much time in the tanning beds lately.
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Mary Alice
February 25, 2010 6:21 PM
John Boehner's nothing but a mouse.
Afraid to go to the White House.
"This is a trap!", he cried with fear,
"I'll send a note and guard my rear".
Then with trembling hand and face so red,
Jumped back into his tanning bed.
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