GOP senator (Lamar Alexander) warns of 'minor revolution' over health care

[sabra]

Source: CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) — A top Republican senator warned Tuesday that if Democrats try to overhaul health care without Republican support, "it will wreck our health care system and wreck the Democratic Party."

"The intensity on this issue across the country is like nothing I"ve seen in a long, long time," said Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, the third-ranking Republican in the Senate.

After a month of town halls back home, Alexander said it's clear to him and other Republicans that Americans are "scared to death" about the sweeping policy changes coming from Washington this year and the massive debt they are creating.

Alexander warned there would be "a minor revolution in this country" if Democrats try to "ram" a health care overhaul using a legislative tool called reconciliation, which would allow a bill to pass with 50 votes instead of 60.

Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/09/02/gop-senator-warns-of-minor-revolution-over-health-care-2/

[NOW tense]

1. How did they become so scared? n/t

[saigon68]

2. This POS is oblivious to the Deficit our Never Ending Wars are causing

But then its OK to kill thousands of ****(insert racial epithet here) heads

[Autumn]

3. If we don't get health care reform lamar you

can expect a 'major revolution' , So fuck you.

[peace13]

4. News flash for ya Lamar...

Americans are drowning in the debt and dysfunction of the health 'care' system. If you insist..one way or another there will have to be a revolution. I suggest you start by dropping your government health insurance coverage and join us here in the real world.

[still_one]

5. Just like the Democrats did with Medicare and Social Security

In fact the Democrats should throw that right back into their faces

[Deep13]

6. We had better end the tyrranical, socialist system of...

...public health care for Senators, then.

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. Hey, Lamarr, if you guys want to help, then HELP.

Or get the fuck out of the way.

But don't throw up roadblocks and then accuse us of not wanting your 'help'.

[Uncle Bobby B Baby]

8. "A top Republican senator warned "

Please.....

[NRaleighLiberal]

9. The minors are going to revolt?

[Demeter]

10. Bushwa!

It's going to be a MAJOR revolution, and the GOP is not invited.

[Wizard777]

11. Says the party of war crimes and torture.

:banghead: I know it's great not having the village idiot in the village anymore. But God couldn't they think of another place to send them instead of Washington DC?

[Wizard777]

12. The republicans are already revolting. Now they're working on being just plain slimy.

[lady lib]

13. What does that even mean? nt

[tomm2thumbs]

14. Take your medicine!!!!

sorry, had to go there

[lovepg]

16. Do ya think he will be surprised to find out how many lefties own guns???? nt

[Spazito]

15. LOL!

I am sure Alexander was equally 'apoplectic' when the repubs used reconciliation multiple times during the bush administration, right?

It seems not. Nary a negative word was spoken by Mr. Alexander then. What a surprise!

[asjr]

17. Lamar (my senator) can go suck unripe

persimmons

[AlBrattOnline]

18. Alexander threatens revolution

I WOULD SAY REPUBS HAVE BEEN WANTING A REVOLUTION FROM THE DAY OBAMA WAS SWORN IN.THEIR TOTAL LACK OF RESPECT FOR OBAMA IS ANOTHER EFFORT TO PROVOKE DEMOCRATS INTO A REAL ALTERCATION.

YOU CAN BET THAT ALEXANDER WOULD BE THE FIRST TO RUN HIDE BEHIND SOME WOMAN'S DRESS IF A REVOLUTION STARTS.

WHO THE HELL IS SCARED OF A REPUBLICAN REVOLUTION, BE IT MILD OR INTENSE? BRING 'EM ON, SENATOR!

[No Elephants]

19. The population of the US is currently estimated at 307,293,000; and Democrats in D.C. are

cowering bc how many showed up yelling and screaming at town meetings?

Come on, people, get a little perspective.

[Overseas]

20. Warning his fellow Republicans -- let Dems win this and we'll be toast !!

If they let the Dems pass Medicare for All who choose it as the public option, Repubs will be out in the cold with their lunatic fringe.

[LeftHander]

21. FUD Alert.....!!!! FUD FUD FUD FUD....nt

[Doctor_J]

22. Bring it. The sooner the better.

You're going to be surprised how the next revolution turns out, Lamar.

[liberal N proud]

23. Trying to steal a quote from the attacks on social security the GOP has made

over the years.

"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are few other Texas oil millionaires, and occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their numbers are negligible and they are stupid."

President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 11/8/1954


Well those stupid politicians and business men have grown in size and now attack anything the Democrats propose that would any way provide a better life for Americans. I think it is high time that President Eisenhower's statement come true and the GOP goes by way of history. They would destroy this country for the profit of a few.

[Iowa]

24. That was probably correct in 1954...

Unfortunately, we have a lot more stupid running loose in this country today (and a large part of the farm programs have become corporate give-aways, so they could actually use some reform).

[Zorra]

25. How fitting. The last time conservatives revolted, it was because slavery was abolished.

Like Charlie Daniels says, "The South's gonna do it again."

[DebbieCDC]

26. So 10 votes is all it takes for a revolution these days?

[KansDem]

27. Tennessee gets back $1.27 in fed spending for every dollar it pays the feds

Up from $1.21 in 1981.
http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/22685.html

It really irks me when the GOPers complain about "government spending" and "government programs" when they collect more from the Feds than they pay in...

[gratuitous]

28. Thank you for your concern, Lame-ar

If you're really worried about this "wrecking" the Democratic Party . . . wait. What? Shit, you don't even know how to concern troll properly, do you, Mr. Alexander? And the only reason anyone is "scared to death" about this is because you and your party are whipping up the fear, and the gullible still listen to you for some unknown reason. Take a long walk off a short pier, Lame-ar.

[PM Martin]

29. SHUT UP DIXIE BOY!

All I am hearing from a sizable portion of the US population is how horrible Canada's healthcare system is.
The same goes for Europe. Yet, it is these same conservatives who demanded that we join their military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Strange how that works. :puke:

[santamargarita]

30. Try it asshole! Like everything else you people do, you'll fail

:puke:

[Cha]

31. Oh Fuck your threats, republicon senator..you had 8

years in charge but you fucked it up beyond all recall..so we had to elect Obama to straighten out our country.

Fucking stupid pricks.

[dogfacedboy]

32. And what a Republican't from TN has to say matters because?.. n/t

[samsingh]

33. more treacherous talk from republicans

these repugs really hate America it seems

[kestrel91316]

34. No, Senator, if WE THE PEOPLE don't get better access to affordable

health CARE (not insurance), there will be a revolution, and I for one will be happy to join in the fray.

SINGLE PAYER NOW!!!!!!