GOP defends tactics in opposing Obama agenda

Source: The Hill

Leading conservative Republicans defended their opposition to President Barack Obama’s plan for economic recovery and healthcare reform amid Democratic accusations that the GOP lacks constructive ideas.
Senate Republican Steering Committee Chairman Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and House GOP Conference Chairman Mike Pence (R-Ind.), two outspoken critics of the Obama administration, defended their tactics Sunday.

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House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) accused DeMint of being “negative” on the subject of healthcare reform and charged that Republicans didn’t have a plan to fix the healthcare system. ..... “The congressman knows Republicans have a plan. Paul Ryan on his committee has filed a great plan,” said DeMint.

“I've introduced the Health Care Freedom Act that would force interstate competition, that would give every family who doesn't get their insurance at work $5,000 a year to buy health insurance, which is above the national average for the cost,” he added.
DeMint shot back that a Democratic proposal to create a government-run health insurance program, which Rangel favors, would result in a “government takeover” of the healthcare industry.

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Pence said a better solution to the nation’s economic woes would be to restore fiscal discipline in Washington and cut cutting taxes for working families, small businesses and family farms.

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Losers like DeMint and Pence, who enjoy their gold-plated health plans via their positions in government, are responsible for denying single payer health care for the Americans who sent them to Washington.


We know what we have to do, people.

It's August. We have a vote coming up in the House for Single Payer, authorized by Speaker Pelosi and just announced by Henry Waxman. Our congresspeople have left the building. It's time we paid them some local office visits.

be it healthcare, job simulation, energy, justice, etc., etc., etc. All one needs to do is checkout the voting record of each GOP member.

So many who call themselves republicans vote against their own best interests. When the GOP is in power they do nothing for a vast majority of the right wing base. Yet these fools keep right on supporting the criminals.

“I've introduced the Health Care Freedom Act that would force interstate competition, that would give every family who doesn't get their insurance at work $5,000 a year to buy health insurance, which is above the national average for the cost,”

Why not just cut a treasury check made payable to the private insurance CEO's offshore tax-haven bank account and avoid the laundering charade? Half of it goes to non-health purposes anyway after the private insurance companies skim off the "profit" for "investors," lavish pay (sometimes over $1 billion) for the CEO and, of course, the part set aside for "political contributions."

for people with pre-existing conditions.

what the Democrats were proposing - euthanasia counseling for the sick and elderly. :eyes:

I get so confused sometimes...

...was going to let the already cash-strapped states assume the liability for people with pre-existing conditions.

to deal with high gas costs.

This "new" GOP plan is the McCain plan. The voters rejected it.

America.. bought and paid for by corporate pieces of shite.

If you wave a paltry $5,000 at an insurance company they'll laugh at you.

either. Or Obama.