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To Those Republicans Who plan to Repeal HCR…

by Jsmog
Friday, March 19, 2010 at 11:27am

Have fun trying to repeal HCR next time you are in power, as if the Republicans will have a majority any time soon. But say they do, what are the Republicans going to do? Remove all those awful taxes? Put the wasteful medicare advantage subsidies back in? Well, like all Congresses, at the end of the year you got to balance the budget, so now how are you going to pay for it? If you guys have a better way of paying for it all by all means, but at the end of the day, it needs to be paid for somehow. Or will you fiscal responsible conservatives go back to deficit spending? My guess is that is exactly what will happen, and there goes the country again into a spiral of deficit spending whenever the Republicans are in charge.

Oh, but then I suppose you could “reform” health care again? You guys want to give it a go next time you are in power? It’s so easy afterall. And clearly after everything you wanted in the health care reform bill is actually included in the bill I can see why you’d want to completely reform it. Maybe you guys can call it the “Health Care Deform bill”? Just give the insurance companies anti-trust exemptions again and let them drop whoever and jack up premiums to whatever? That’s been working out so great so far, afterall. Would you spend a whole year debating it like the Democrats? Or would you “ram it through”? Would you use reconciliation? How about a “self-executing action”? Which form of hypocrisy would you use to get it accomplished? Because after all, the Democrats wouldn’t think of using every single tactic the Republicans used against them when the shoe is on the other foot. For some strange reason Republicans think that if they take back over Congress Democrats aren’t going to filibuster every goddam thing they offer. I guess you guys are prepared for the barrage of hypocrisy attacks that will follow, right? In fact, Republicans should campaign on repealing Health Care. That would be very fun to watch.

But the fact of the matter is, when Health Care reform passes on Sunday, and signed by Obama, it becomes law. If the Republicans want to “gut” it and take away its funding, a program that is paid for and is not contributing to the national deficit, then they will basically have to deficit spend to pay for it. Yeah, nobody will notice that. After all the horse shit the Republicans and conservatives are bitching about Obama spending money to keep our country’s economy from collapsing, trust me, if the Republicans even hint they are about to go on a Reagan/Bush spending spree there will be rioting in the streets.

So yeah, good luck with that.

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CPAC: Complete lack of conservative common sense

by Calickizzle
Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 01:21am

Once a year at CPAC, a bunch of angry white people get together to yell and complain about things they know nothing about. Granted, I’m not on the ground so I can’t provide first-person eyewitness, but according to Thom Hartmann, who worked radio row at the conference, he spent his time “looking at a sea of white people.”

CPAC has been described by the Washington Post as the “preeminent gathering of conservative activists,” and so I was eager to hear some of this mythical “conservative common sense” I keep hearing so much about, but yet see succeed in any manner. Unfortunately, with the conference now wrapped up, it appears that the amount of substance contributed at this conference could fit into a 140-character post on Twitter.

Nah, scratch that. Probably more like half a Tweet, 70 characters followed by a string of hashtags, such as: #obamasucks #nobama #wheresthebirthcertificate, etc. etc. You know, the extent of wit as provided by conservatives…

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Obama administration prevents $60 million in Medicare fraud

by Calickizzle
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 10:46am

What’s funny is that conservative critics actually claim that the Obama administration is “incompetent.”

With Department of Justice officials busting over 30 people in three states charging the federal government over $60 million in fraudulent Medicare costs, the Obama administration is certainly taking an efficient and competent stand against Medicare abuse.

These efforts by the Justice Department indicate how abuse of the Medicare system is rampant, as it is targeted by unscrupulous individuals looking at this federal government-run program as a cash cow. When Republican Senators rail against the planned decreases in Medicare spending as proposed by the current health care reforms, it needs to be asked: Are they arguing in favor of the fraudulent practices performed by those busted by the DOJ, which causes overspending by Medicare and puts it on insolvent ground?

Oh, that’s right, Republicans have always been against Medicare for ideological purposes. Why would they support efforts to ensure the programs solvency? Little wonder they oppose the efforts taken by an obviously competent Obama administration. Can’t have a solvent Medicare program now, can we?

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