GOP Really Needs to Kill Health Care Reform!

[LongTomH]

Yeah, I know! Health care reform is being watered down day by day. What we're going to get (now) is a fraction of the reform we really need; but, it's still a make or break issue for both parties!

From Nancy Pelosi:

House Speaker Nancy (D-Calif.) told a small group of reporters Wednesday that the GOP, whatever its policy concerns, was intent on blocking health care reform out of fear that it will give a generational boost to the Democratic Party.

Pelosi, in painting the debate in starkly political terms, was careful to say clearly that it was the Republican Party that did so first. But underlying her remarks is a belief held by many in both parties that if Democrats can pass health care legislation that expands coverage and brings down cost they can lock up the majority for years to come, much as the party did after implementing the New Deal reforms.

Republican scumbags like Newt Gingrich and Sen.James, 'Crazy Jim' Inhofe (R-Seventh Circle of Hell) are telling their cohorts that killing any form of health care reform is their ticket back to power.

Last week, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) set off a political storm when he said that if Republicans can defeat health care reform it would be President Obama’s “Waterloo” because it would “break him.” Since then, some Republicans have sought to distance themselves from DeMint’s view that defeating health care would yield political advantages for the GOP.

But Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) isn’t shying away from revealing his honest feelings. Appearing on Janet Parshall’s radio show yesterday, Inhofe argued that the defeat of President Clinton’s health care reform “started the demise of Bill Clinton that led to the 1994 Republican takeover of the House and the Senate.” He then added that he is now “tracking the demise” of Obama’s health care plans and it is making him “optimistic”:

That's Republican 'optimism' for you! Their return to power will only cost about 22,000 lives a year (conservative estimate)!

Sen. George Voinovich (R-Fecal Matter) also let the cat out of the bag when an interviewer on CNBC's 'Squawk Box' program when an interview asked:

Host: Senator, one question, before we go, on health care. How much of this disagreement with the administration is about the policy of health care and how to fix it, and how much of it is Republicans' obviously understandable desire to declaw the president politically. How much does that fit into the equation?

Voinovich: I think it's probably 50-50.

God! Damn! Evil! GOP! Bastards!!!!!!!!!

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[annabanana]

1. Absolutely.. If they pull it off they will be despised for generations. . n/t

[jocapo]

2. I think you're right.

At this point the bills and plans that are being discussed offer no possibility of real reform. If the Republicans prevent anything from passing there could be a backlash that will refocus the debate on what would really work - HR 676! Single Payer! Maybe it would allow an opportunity to rally the public to Single Payer and give the Democrats the courage to do it. How about a Million People-Without-Healthcare March? 50 Million?

[opihimoimoi]

3. Amazing Rejection of a GOOD THING.Don't the GOP realize many of their own will be adversily affected

????

WTF?

[rhett o rick]

6. Is that a serious question. The republican party is made up of the greedy-wealthy and the gullibles

The leaders do not give a shit about their followers and the followers are to stupid to understand when they are being screwed.

[opihimoimoi]

7. I was refering to the "Gullibles"...don't they know they hurting their own interests?

[rhett o rick]

8. Or don't they know that Bill O'Reilly is and idiot or that GWB is a liar?

Of course they don't know and/or don't care. They will support an illegal war that kills hundreds of thousands of innocent children.

They gullibly follow their ideologue leaders.

[opihimoimoi]

11. Sheeple Factor way up in their crowd

[rhett o rick]

12. It's the easy way out. Don't have to think for yourself. nm

[opihimoimoi]

13. If ya can get away being stupid and lazy...Why Not???

[Tutankhamun]

4. In a sense, it could be considered a Republican victory if one of the watered down bills passes.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. I doubt that's how THEY will look at it

Nothing Obama is doing or has proposed is ANYWHERE close to "socialism" (European-style or otherwise) yet that hasn't stopped the wingnuts from accusing of Obama of promoting "socialist" policies at every turn. They're still calling his watered-down (with unnecessary TAX CUTS) stimulus plan "socialist" and whatever passes as health insurance reform will inevitably be campaigned against as being "socialist" no matter how many compromises President Obama makes with the Repukes and Blue Dogs. I don't think many people are really buying into the whole "socialist" meme but that sure hasn't stopped them from continuing to accuse Obama of promoting "socialist" policies. Limbaugh, in particular, has been acting as though Obama has brought down our entire system of capitalism despite all evidence to the contrary. :eyes:

[lame54]

9. "Doing something bad for the country will put us back on top - it's always worked before."

[Enthusiast]

10. Voinovich is probably too

generous in his appraisal of fellow GOPers. 50%? There are far fewer than 50% principled Republicans.