That’s about where Congressional Republicans are on the escalating health care debate. Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) just sent out a letter that tells voters, among other things, that “When mama falls and breaks her hip, she’ll just lie in her bed in pain until she dies with pneumonia because her needed surgery is not cost efficient.”
Health Care tweet war breaks out between two 70-something senators.
Conrad: I’ll vote against a bill if it includes a public option.
Dick Armey resigns from lobbying firm over his role in orchestrating teabag protests, town hall shut downs.
Slideshow: Behind the Scenes at the Obama White House, Summer of 2009.
Has it really come to this?
Watching the current “debate” over healthcare reform, I find myself in the strange position of giving thanks for John McCain. His behavior during the election was anything but classy, but he did refuse to take that final step of endorsing the fully crazy wingut memes (Obama is a Kenyan Muslim terrorist, etc.) even though certain folks were urging him to go there. When I see how easily the “death panel” and other completly-divorced-from-reality memes have taken hold of the public and the media, I can’t help but wonder if such crap would have propelled McCain to victory, if he had chosen to embrace it. Oh, the irony: McCain’s last shred of integrity saved us from a McCain presidency.
Even if this isn’t true, you can bet this is the lesson the GOP will take into 2012. What we’re seeing right now is a preview of the election (God help us).
Senate Democrats have given a seat at the bargaining table to a senator who first endorsed the “death panel” canard and is now going around hawking copies of Glenn Beck books.
President Obama puts out the message that rationed care and bureaucrats denying health coverage are indeed serious concerns — that is, they happen right now under the present system. That and other political news in today’s TPMDC Saturday Roundup.