RNC chairman Michael Steele — the “Republican Barack Obama,” because he is black — took to the pages of local war & murder digest The Washington Post yesterday to argue for “Seniors’ Bill of Rights” that included ten provisions reading, “Get Your Government Hands Off My Medicare And Guns.” It promised NO CUTS EVER in Medicare, especially none of these so-called “efficiency” cuts, where money is so-called “wasted” “under the current” “system.” It was the best political column since Robert Novak’s death. But today Michael Steele has, ho ho ho, directly contradicted himself, because he is not a good human being.
Apologies for the long blockquote, but you must watch this develop graf-by-graf, into sadness:
RNC Chairman Michael Steele appeared on Fox News this morning, putting forward an interesting case on Medicare: That it must be preserved against the threats from the Democrats — and that it’s a bad system that shouldn’t be expanded like the Democrats want.
“They’re proposing up to $550 billion in cuts or shifting of funds out of Medicare, and I don’t know what that means, and our seniors don’t know what that means,” said Steele. “And as we get into the debate this fall, I’d like some clarity on it.”
Steele was shown video of Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY), who challenged Steele and other critics with the question of if they oppose a single-payer system, then why don’t they oppose Medicare? At this point, Steele got into his critique of Medicare, calling it a bankrupt system.
“The reality of it is, this single-payer program known as Medicare is a very good example of what we should not have happen with all of our health care,” said Steele. “The reality of it is, how many times have we been at the trough of bankruptcy and no money for the Medicare program, where Congress is running around like chickens with their head cut off, trying to figure out how to fix a program that they’ve already mismanaged? So now you want to do that, Congressman, on a larger scale? You want to include all of us. You’re talking about taking our senior population, and expanding it to all of the population? Government cannot run a health care system. they’ve already shown that. Trust the private markets to do it the right way.”
Michael Steele, to recap:
(1) Yesterday: Barack Obama must spend every dollar in the United States economy on the great and perfect thing called Medicare, or he will have trashed the Old Fucks’ Bill of Rights.
(2) Today: Medicare has proven to be a broken system, and we should just have private health insurance everywhere.
(3) Tomorrow: I sniff butts.
Steele: Protect Medicare — And Medicare Doesn’t Work [TPM via Washington Monthly]
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Not my butt, thank you very much!
The reality of it is, Steele, is that all these old white, rightwingnuts are racists, so they hate you as well. Suck on that. And this.
He’s like a baby chick. Every time he blinks his eyes, it’s a whole new world.
Is butt sniffing some sort of endorsement of aromatherapy? I can only assume he’ll advocate for leeches and bloodletting to balance the four humours next.
WTF is a trough of bankruptcy?
That fucking guy will just agree with everything, until he contradicts it later. I guess I am not hip-hop enough to get it.
5) Profit (from selling the organs of old people)
[re=394405]Min[/re]: Then there’s no problem then. We’ll just hide Medicare under a blanket. He’ll have no idea where it’s gone.
Michael Steele was for Medicare before he was against it.
Even better, check over at TPM, where Steele is saying the VA advises vets to kill themselves.
The main reason for Medicare’s current financial troubles is that the Republicans passed an enormous expansion of it in 2003, with the Medicare Part D prescription drug program, without making any tax increases or other spending cuts to pay for it.
This is the lesson Americans should have learned from Reagan, Bush and Dubya — when someone campaigns on the argument that government can’t do anything for the people, the people should damn well believe him and not elect him.
Steele is one of those “we have to destroy the village in order to save it” guys.
[re=394405]Min[/re]: The best description of this tool ever.
Porn Name + Porn Stache = Porn Politics
[re=394418]V572625694[/re]: The VA should not advise vets to kill themselves until they are old and of scant value to society. Determining the precise point at which this occurs is often problematic. We need some sort of mechanism for making these decisions..
Pull the Peezee on Grandmezee.
[re=394428]x111e7thst[/re]: I suppose you’re imagining a board of government officials…sort of like the old draft boards, in that they’ll decide who should die and who should live. I wonder how that would work?
What’s going to happen to these botards when someone tells them that the Medicare Fairy doesn’t exists and how it’s all paid thru taxes? It’ll be even worse than telling them the truth about Santa Claus.
[re=394409]Death Panel Wagon[/re]: The trough of bankruptcy lies just beyond the slough of despond.
Didn’t you hear? The scholars at RedState have decreed that a man who demonizes the left for dismantling Medicare one day and then calls it a bankrupt citizen that should never have been created the next is NOT a hypocrite. If he is Christian.
Do your research Wonkette!
consistency is the jabberwocky of tiny vaginas.
[re=394428]x111e7thst[/re]: The Black Witches in the White House will cast bones to determine that precise point in time.
THIS THIS THIS is what democrats should be pointing out, dagnabbit. That medicare IS a ‘public option.’
[re=394434]itgetter[/re]: Um… system not citizen. Dumbass.
I’m sure if Mr. Steele is on any medications for high blood pressure, diabetes, or anything else, he will immediately stop taking them as they were in part developed with socialist government funding.
Steele would be a great analytical thinker and devastating debater, save for a single misfortune.
Steele’s brain is leaden, unleavened, and malign.
He’s so fresh. I cannot handle his freshness.
[re=394431]V572625694[/re]: In the 60s the draft boards used complex mathematical formulae that worked out to, what was best described by Trey Parker and Matt Stone as, “Black guys up front.”
That’s just how he rolls.
[re=394437]mightysea[/re]: The health insurance I have now, and probably every policy written since Bush pushed the Part D through Congress, say that when I become eligible for Medicare the health insurance cuts the payment they make to the doctors, hospitals, etc. by the amount Medicare would pay. This is whether I apply for Medicare or not. In other words, most health insurance policies now make Medicare the primary provider whether you apply for Medicare or not. Some ‘public option’.
Jim: Don’t you mean “It was the best political column since Robert Novak’s obit“?
[re=394409]Death Panel Wagon[/re]: I think you end up at the trough of bankruptcy when the toilet of tax dollars has already been flushed.
[re=394456]Katydid[/re]: Operation Get Behind the Darkies
Did I miss the hippity hoppitying of the RNC? I’ve been sick.
I liked him better when he was telling everyone to do the Humpty Dance.
I’ve come to the conclusion that what makes a Republican a Republican is that a small (or large) part of the brain that translates electrical impulses into the abstract concept known as hypocrisy is missing, damaged or has been removed.
Seniors don’t even get a Death Panel under Steele’s plan. They just get to die alone at home, and rot until the neighbors report a foul smell.
[re=394456]Katydid[/re]: Isn’t that the mantra of sci-fi and horror movies- if there is a black guy- he gets killed, eaten, melted first?
Fun with Bachmann!
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/bachmann-fight-against-health-care-bill-will-be-won-on-our-knees-in-prayer-and-fasting.php
I have had enough of this Mike Stalin.
[re=394437]mightysea[/re]: Exactly. We have Medicare (a public option) because the insurance companies refused to cover old people. The reason we need a broader public option now is that the insurance companies refuse to cover another large group, the sick.
jive talkin turkey.
[re=394490]Dean Booth[/re]: stop making fucking sense, that not what this is about.
There are Abs of Steel and Buns of Steel, but alas, there are no Brains of Steele.
A private plan lets your health care decisions be approved by Rajnish in that phone bank in Mumbai, who’ll get a promotion soon because he found so many ways to deny claims; rather than by some government bureaucrat named Laura in St. Louis who looks for ways to help you get the money. You rule, Rajnish! You help keep America Great and our CEO’s well compensated!
[re=394428]x111e7thst[/re]: When I worked at a VA hospital, that mechanism was usually the moment a patient would try to push not only his IV drip but also his portable oxygen tank into the enclosed area reserved for smokers.
But seriously, Steele’s comment about trusting “the private markets to do it the right way” needs to be pounced on, ferociously and repeatedly.
Doesn’t he have that ugly dog to sniff butts for him?
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