Well, if there was any remaining doubt that the Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, is not a partner for health care reform, this ought to settle it.
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So when is any Dem going to go on camera and call out Grassley for this? Why do these Repubs get to say and do what they want with no response?
using whatever platform you have to tell Obama to get up off his knees and tell Grassley to go fuck himself.
Thanks for posting this BooMan.
Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, major league asshole.
I thought that was Adam Clymer of the New York Times.
I think Richard B. Cheney said that about Clymer to Dubya (on a stage with an open mike) on the campaign trail in 2000. I borrowed the phrase from Cheney to apply it to Grassley.
Here’s a blunt question/observation. The only reason to be against Health care Reform is the Republican’s want do not care whether poor people live or die.
And for some reason Hurricane Katrina and the NOL Superdome where people died because they did not get their medication.
Not exactly. Poor people don’t even enter into it for the Republicans. The Republicans only care about one thing right now, they need the Democrats and Obama in particular to fail and they’d be quite happy to destroy the entire country to do it. Letting a couple more poor people die is of no relevance at all to them.
There’s probably also more than a little consideration of where their money is coming from. Without backing from the insurance industry, the GOP doesn’t have a whole lot of funding sources left. At the end of the day, GOP politicians care about being reelected, and if screwing the poor and middle class doesn’t do it, they’ll happily screw rich people, too.
If the Republicans lose this battle, one of their last major backers effectively ceases to exist. It’s not like the NRA and the Aryan Nations can fund national campaigns all by themselves.