Weiner Calls On Republicans to Defund Their Own Health Care Plans

[stlsaxman]

Run time: 05:20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-3XwIeBPkg   Posted on YouTube: February 18, 2011 By YouTube Member: AskAnthonyWeiner Views on YouTube: 200   Posted on DU: February 18, 2011 By DU Member: stlsaxman Views on DU: 4848

 
another wonderful moment on the House floor from Congressman Weiner calling bullshit on the other side of the aisle...

Enjoy!

[gateley]

1. The Dems should sign a pledge to do it of the Reps do it, too. nt

[FBaggins]

4. The reps would want a different pledge.

"We give up the things that we think others shouldn't have... you pay the taxes that you think others should be paying"

I doubt that either side would like the deal though.

[genna]

8. Shared suffering?

If Democrats are willing to vote and have voted to extend health care to EVERYONE, why should they suffer without health care?

If we are moving toward a system where everyone matters, why should their children live without health care benefits?

[gateley]

27. It would never happen. The Republicans would never go for it. nt

[ellenfl]

2. i would ask 2 bear his children but i'm 2 old and i don't have enough insurance. eom

[stlsaxman]

3. i would, too and i don't have the proper biological mechanisms...

guess we all learn to deal, somehow.

:rofl:

[sinkingfeeling]

5. I think we should start a movement to cut the retirement benefits of ex-Reps and ex-Senators by 50%,

pay out nothing for those who serve only 1 term, make them pay 40% of the cost of their health insurance, and reduce their salaries by 30%.

[jtrockville]

6. ^ that's a good start

[defendandprotect]

18. At the least -- !!!

[kath]

22. +1000 - you should start a thread with this proposal!

[jillan]

23. Yes - Hell YES - the thought that the taxpayers pay Newt money for being a jerk makes me sick.

[gtar100]

24. Hey, if we lost our jobs, healthcare goes out the window with it.

If they're not working for the government full time, then they shouldn't get health care from it. Period. If they want the rules to be different, they should consider everyone and not just their sorry asses.

[avebury]

7. I love this guy

Since Greyson got voted out of office I am glad that there is another Democrat who will call the Republicans out for their BS

[roxiejules]

9. Defund your pension while you are at it....

How about a 401K with little or no matching contribution, like the rest of us have?

[defendandprotect]

19. Another great idea -- !! Everyone else's pension is stolen or AWOL -- !!

Social Security under attack -- !!

[FourScore]

10. All Democrats should be saying this all the time. On TV. In Opeds. Always. n/t

[applegrove]

25. Yup. Let us hope this idea goes virval.

[Plucketeer]

11. Imagine - just imagine...

if we had that kind of clarity and candid honesty in the White House! Man of MAN!

[Dokkie]

12. I say

they cancel the healthcare coverage of all the congress critters until they pass and implement a meaningful healthcare bill.

K & R

[livingonearth]

13. I love this kind of stuff.

Show 'em their hypocrisy.

[ProgressOnTheMove]

14. OH YEAH, that's what we like to see a congressman playing it like it should be done.

GO WEINER! :)

[humanityisfree]

15. Weiner 2012!!!

nuff said!

[midnight]

16. Rightly he should.....

[defendandprotect]

17. THAT is an idea which all Americans s/be embracing -- !!! ...

We deserve nothing less than MEDICARE FOR ALL --

Despite Obama back room dealings with Big Pharma and the private health care

industry -- and Rahm's "crowing" about 'PRESERVING' the private health care industry!!


:puke:

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

20. He is wonderful, I want to move to Brooklyn

[pinto]

21. Ha! Great 5 minutes on the floor.

:kick:

[rep the dems]

26. Calling on Republicans to be honest and consistent is like

calling on the tides to stop coming in and going out. It won't happen! Never a mis-communication.

[DFW]

28. I was gonna say

It would be like calling on Great White Sharks to become vegetarians, but you got the point across just fine.

[WillyT]

29. Most Excellent !!! - K & R !!!

:kick:

[KansDem]

30. "Andy Harris" -- the hypocrite Repub referred to at 2'40"

GOP Freshman Demands: Where's My Health Care?

Freshman Rep. Andy Harris won his seat by vowing to repeal the new health care law, but he's a little less cavalier about his own insurance plan. Harris may hate Obamacare, but Harris really hates that his own taxpayer-subsidized policy won't kick in for a whole month after he's sworn in to serve his first term as a Republican congressman.

The incoming Maryland representative surprised his fellow noobs at an orientation session Monday, Politico's Glenn Thrush reports, with his indignant response to learning that his health policy won't take effect till February 1, even though he'll take office January 3. Why should he go 28 days without health care? he asked. “Harris then asked if he could purchase insurance from the government to cover the gap,” a witness told Thrush, noting that Harris’s request was rather similar to "the public option he denounced as a gateway to socialized medicine."

Harris can perhaps be forgiven, given his inexperience in the wild west of the American health care system. “This is the only employer I’ve ever worked for where you don’t get coverage the first day you are employed,” he said.

The Atlantic Wire

"Hypocrite Repub?" Isn't that a redundancy? :shrug:

[and-justice-for-all]

31. I am rather sick of paying for their healthcare...

while I have to go without. They do not seem to mind their socialist healthcare...fuckers!

[midnight]

32. My insurance deductible increased five times what it was in 2010.

Now I have a Cadillac deductible, but not a Cadillac Insurance plan.... Congress gets a Cadillac insurance plan without a Cadillac insurance deductible....

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