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seafan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-14-09 12:24 PM
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Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite (R-FL) insults AARP: "A mouthpiece for this President at seniors' expense"
Yeah, REAL SMART MOVE, Ms. Brown-Waite, in a state that is home to tens of millions of seniors. Just trumpet your unvarnished ignorance, and wear it like a crown.


For Pete's sake, these right-wing lunatics multiply like roaches down here.







Posted by John Frank at Tampa Bay's The Buzz

September 14, 2009


The tiff between U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite and AARP continues. The Brooksville Republican responded today to an AARP letter that blasted her for spreading misinformation in the health care debate.

In her response (see letter here), she stands by her damning analysis of House Bill 3200, calling the 40-million-member advocacy group "a mouthpiece for this President at the expense of what is best for America's seniors."




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DURHAM D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-14-09 12:27 PM
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1. You got to be kidding. You want to defend the AARP?
Are you employed by them?
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tularetom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-14-09 12:28 PM
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2. Its actually a mouthpiece for insurance companies at the public's expense
But let's not quibble.

BTW thanks a lot for posting that picture. :puke:
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seafan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-14-09 01:02 PM
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7. Her entire agenda is to sow confusion and drive a wedge between seniors and Obama.
....and she's doing that by claiming that AARP is Obama's puppet. (Even though, in reality, the real master of AARP is Big Health Care, Inc.) She is trying to pin irrational fears of rationed health care on Obama, and not on the insurance companies, where care is already being rationed as we speak.

This is the type of fudged argument that the right wing infamously schools itself in.



You are on the money that AARP is an insurance company mouthpiece.

AARP is really caught between a rock and a hard place... on the one hand, they need seniors to join and purchase all that *nice insurance*, but on the other hand, some of their stances drive seniors away.



(None of the other pictures were any less disturbing... sorry.)







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Raineyb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-14-09 12:29 PM
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3. The representative is wrong. AARP is a mouthpiece for the INSURANCE
COMPANIES. They sold seniors out years ago when they signed on to that boondoggle Medicare bill that doesn't allow Medicare to negotiate for lower drug prices and allows that God awful doughnut hole.
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-14-09 12:36 PM
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4. AARP used to be considered the Republican aging organization.
I quit when they supported the atrocity called Medicare Part D.

But they since apologized.

Just goes to show that a former rightwing politics is now considered moderate to left.
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Soylent Brice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-14-09 12:36 PM
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5. that face looks familiar...






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emilyg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-14-09 12:38 PM
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6. I dropped my AARP membership.
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