But Obama wants to kill Betsy and Old People!
I know it! ‘Cause this crazy lady at the rally on Saturday told me so!
Where’s she getting her ideas? From right wing radio, and also from crazy right wing congress critters and senators.
Media Matters takes the whole stupid argument apart for us, but you may also want to check out these blogs, none of which have been on my must-read list, but one or two may get there.
We’re from the government, and we’re here to kill you
from City Life Blogs
We’ve pretty much immune to Republican hyperbole by now. (”Obama is a socialist!” “No, Obama is a communist!” “The stimulus plan will lead us to socialism!”) But even cynics like us had to sit up and take notice when North Carolina U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx implied today that President Barack Obama’s health-care plan would result in senior citizens being put to death by the government!
The Republican health-care plan is better than Obama’s, Foxx said in part, because it “…is pro-life because it will not put seniors in a position of being put to death by their government.” (More on the Huffington Post and Politico.)
Now, we’ve heard Republican arguments about how the Obama health-care plan will result in rationing of care in order to save money, since plenty of dough is spent keeping people alive in their twilight years. (That’s supposedly better than the current system, in which for-profit companies ration health care for people regardless of age by denying coverage or refusing to cover certain procedures?)
But until now, we’d not even considered the government would be sending hit squads to old people’s homes to rub them out, all in the name of saving dollars for a public option! Who’s going to be in charge of that, Dick Cheney? (Hey, he’s got experience.)
Now, we’re against killing off old people, despite the obvious benefits to society of getting them and their big, slow-moving cars off the roads. But if this is the future of health care, well, we suppose we’ll just have to deal with it.
Hey, how old is Virginia Foxx, again?
Washington Pols too:
GOP Rep. Gohmert: If Gov. Can “Put Condoms on Wild Horses” Gov. Health Care Will do “it to Us”
ChattahBox
(ChattahBox)—Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) recently appeared on the radical right-wing radio show of Alex Jones and the two happily traded conspiracy theories, which touched on the more wackier pearls of Conservative fringe wisdom, including claims that the White house is spiking our water with drugs to sterilize the whole country and comparing Obama’s policies to Hitler and Chairman Mao.
Rep. Gohmert spoke for thirty minutes and engaged in the Republican fear-mongering about the inclusion of a public option in health care reform, claiming it “is going to absolutely kill senior citizens. They’ll put them on lists and force them to die early because they won’t get the treatment as early as they need,” said the Congressman.
Gohmert also claimed that a public health option would empower the government with “…every right to tell you what you eat, what you drink, how you exercise, where you live.” Gohmert didn’t stop there; he was on a roll.
The excited Congressman then tried his hardest to make an analogy between a recent bill to humanely manage the wild mustang population, entitled “Restore Our American Mustangs Act,” and government run health care that would somehow force people to use contraception against their will.
“But if we’re going to pay 700 million dollars like we voted last Friday to put condoms on wild horses, and I know it just says an un-permanent enhanced contraception whatever the heck that is. I guess it follows that they’re eventually get around to doing it to us,” said Gohmert.
And from Politico:
Will proposal promote euthanasia?
Sean Hannity believes it. So does House Minority Leader John Boehner. Talk show host Fred Thompson calls it “the dirty little secret” of the health care reform debate.
The focus of their ire is a provision tucked deep inside the House bill that would provide Medicare coverage for an end-of-life consultation once every five years. If a person falls ill with a life-threatening disease, more frequent sessions would be allowed.
Republicans are now using this language as a wedge between senior citizens and Democrats. Boehner and Republican Policy Committee Chairman Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.) issued a statement last week saying it “may start us down a treacherous path toward government-encouraged euthanasia” — even though the concept behind the provision has been embodied in federal law since 1990 and has been promoted by Republicans and Democrats for years.
The House Republican leadership statement capped days of chatter on talk radio and in the blogosphere — serving notice to AARP, Democratic lawmakers and other supporters of the health care reform bill that an under-the-radar distortion, in their view, was building steam.
“Can you imagine the response of the American people when they find this out?” Thompson said of the provision during an interview July 16 with Betsy McCaughey, a former New York lieutenant governor and conservative health expert who first wrote about it. She is also behind some of the most scathing — and irresponsible, critics say — assessments of the health reform efforts of President Barack Obama and President Bill Clinton and then-first lady Hillary Clinton in 1993-94.
On Thompson’s radio show, as well as in a New York Post op-ed and other interviews during the past week, McCaughey has said the provision requires senior citizens to submit to end-of-life consultations. Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity touted the New York Post article on their shows. “Congress would make it mandatory, absolutely require, that every five years, people in Medicare have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner,” McCaughey said to Thompson.
“The bill expressly says if you get sick somewhere in that five-year period, you have to go through that session again — all to do what is in society’s best interest or your family’s best interest and cut your life short. These are such sacred issues of life and death. Government should have nothing to do with it.”
But proponents of the end-of-life care measure say it does nothing close to what McCaughey, Thompson, Boehner and others assert.
If Rep. Fox goes first, well, um, let’s just say I won’t get worked up until the guvmint offs the first one.
I don’t believe for one nanosecond that Boehner or Thompson or Hannity believe this shit. They push fear and this is the soup du jour.
Foxx is nucking futs!
Can we start the End of Life Consultation early for these Shit for Brains Fascists?
Well, I guess I know the subject of my next post.
Why can’t I ever bump into Sean Hannity in the streets?
“Oh, my bad, did I just accidentally stab you? How careless of me. Here, let me help. Oops…”
“getting them and their big, slow-moving cars off the roads”? I’m 68, and my Nissan GT-R hardly fits that description. 0-60 under 3.5; cornering over 1G? My problem is you young pukes on your cell phones. Kiss me where the sun don’t shine and get outa the left lane when you see me coming from behind you. I’m driving a Supercar; one hot racing machine.
Or should I say something like “Yo; mofo, get out my ro’” or however you of Tengrain’s generation talk. I AM too old to keep up with your teenspeak.
So Virginia…according to you, there is a ‘Monkey House’. hi ho…
Whoever elected you & your ‘cohorts in inhumanity’ should be forever shamed.
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Welcome Reverand! Nice to have you aboard.
The sad thing is that I think these morons DO believe the shit they’re spewing. And if anyone’s spiking the nation’s water, it’s the repugs spiking it with something to make the weak-minded open to their brand of fascist insanity.
Hey Reverand – Come play with us:
http://www.sfrscca.org/
At least with Soylent Care you won’t sweat the co-pay.
Wait. I’m confused. Hannity, Limbaugh, Thompson and Foxx are going to be required to put condoms on wild horses with their teeth? Man, I’d pay higher premiums to see that!
Hey Rev., welcome to MPS, it is good to have you with us.
I think the kids today would say something like, “Outta my grill.”
My generation would just honk and give the finger, but I’m only guessing. Heh.
Regards,
Tengrain
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