Wonkette
Here’s some schmuck from Kansas, Republican Rep. Todd Tiahrt to be exact, telling a bunch of Olds at a small town hall about one of the terrible things he pretends is in the House health care bill: federal salary caps for doctors! “[T]hey’re gonna set up a committee to determine what every doctor in America will make,” he says. “They will set that fee, every doctor will make the same.” And then comes the barter system, you see! All doctors should commence breeding the choicest of hogs, post haste! (Anyway, the crowd just laughs at him.) [Washington Monthly]
If it weren’t for the fact that some moran will actually believe this, it would be very funny.
Great that they’re laughing, but this would have been far more entertaining if the town-hallies had rushed the podium and EATEN him.
I can’t figure out if this is better or worse than Lynn “Great White Hope” Jenkins. This was patronizingly stupid, while she was just plain stupid. I guess the question is if stupid is better if it has a purpose….
$90,000 salary with $250,000 student debt. We are on the slippery slope of having a nation of doctors moonlighting as servers at Applebees. What a sad state of affairs we would have then.
They’ll also be cutting the legs off of any doctor over six feet tall. On Wednesdays everyone will have to have chicken salad for lunch, and any doctor not wearing a white lab coat and a stethescope while at a hospital can be severely fined.
Boomers: “Healthcare for free, but only for me!”
I’m not sure why he thinks John Q. Olds would be outraged at that. I would expect them to react more by saying, “So? I’m on a fixed income, too.”
THERE GUNNA SET UP A CUMITEA 2 FIGIR OWT HEALTHE CARE!!11 WAKE UP !11!
This they laugh at? The whole “death panel”, kill-the-olds meme was totally believable but this is just too far fetched? I will never understand wingnuts.
That dude in front of the camera with his hand up was like “oh HELL no” when the guy in front of him raises his hand.
You have to hand it to Republicans. There’s nothing that alarms people more than the thought that their physicians may have to cut back the country club time to three days a week.
On a positive note, doctors who get to be on death panels will be heavily bribed.
It’s all true, folks.
It is a well-known fact that all Democrats never get sick and will never age. Obviously that’s why they’ve hidden these things into ObamaCare. Use your brains, people.
Even most Kansans agree that Tiahrt is quite likely the dumbest member of Congress. Yes, it’s a very crowded field, but for day to day and moment to moment RW-idiocy, Todd is godd. It’s even been said that people in his district voted him into office just to get his stupid ass out of Wichita a few months of the year.
Those olds are going to need physical therapy for their wavering old arms, because that mean wingnut wouldn’t call on them.
T-hart is a C-Streeter variety of wingnut. He also manages to get the pronunciation “tee-hart” out of that bizarre spelling. Somebody put the vowel in the wrong place, Mr. Favre.
I keep asking any wingnuts I can still bear to speak to, (those I work with,
former friends and relatives are far too shouty), why the hell they’re all so vehemently opposed to decent health care for ALL Americans? I appeal to the WWJD side of the arguement even. All they can mumble is; “No, it’s wrong” and when I ask them “Why?”, it’s just “no”.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, dumbfuck.
oh! oh! teacher! i know! i know! teacher! call on me! i know!
slappypaddy: Vending Machine: Given the plodding somnolence of Tiarht’s speechifying, I’d wager those hands up were for potty breaks.
Well, the guy holding the camera, from the Kansas State Democratic Party (ksdp), and a few people around him are laughing for sure, but it’s quite a stretch to say that the “crowd” was laughing. And, since the story originated at HuffPost and was written by a staff member of the Kansas State Democratic Party, probably the guy holding the camera, who could have easily set the whole thing up to look like regular Kansas folks were laughing at a stupid Republican, then…
But hell, at this point we’ll use any kind of nasty propaganda we can get our hands on against those nasty propaganda-using republicans, so HAHAHAHAHAHAH, that video is sooooooo funny, stupid fucking republicans.
One Yield Regular: Did you see the weird zombie on the far left, holding its arms straight out the whole time, all Night of the Living Death Panel style?
“BWAINS! ME WANT BWAINS! MOH BWAINS! TIAHRTRRRLGGGHH!!!”
AnnieGetYourFun: We’re about to tee off now, so call the hospital and move my appointment with Mrs. Bellows back five minutes. (listens) Oh. Well, just snake a tube down her nose and I’ll be there in four or five hours.
Gosh, how stupid are my fellow Americans? Dumber than the guy they elected?
Well, it’s like Jim Bob Sartre done said that one time, hell is other pigfuckers.
slappypaddy: Up yer nose with a rubber hose!
converse: I disagree. I watched the video, fully expecting a Huffpo stretch, but there was genuine laughter, from more than one mouth.
converse: It’s quite a stretch to say that the “crowd” was laughing.
And who are you going to believe, me or your own lying ears?
hobospacejunkie: So now we know how to pronounce the answer to the question, What’s the Matter with Kansas?
This must be audio-visual jiggery-pokery. Since when did Kansans begin thinking for themselves?
converse: I disagree with your post up to this point; “stupid fucking republicans.”
user-of-owls: Nothing since they legalized evolution. Now shush… Republicans are about as numerous as that non-denom church in the shopping center these days, so don’t keep jabberin’ as if Kansas is bad. It just got improved recently, and the paint’s still tacky.
freakishlystrong: I agree with your post up to this point: “I”.
Scarab: Your brains will be held in escrow, until you pay the death panel tax.
rmontcal:
Funniest thing all day, ever. Also.
RoscoePColtraine: Talk to a doctor (internist/family practice) about their pay these days. They lose money on consultations (most of their day) and make a little bit on procedures (2-3 a day if they get lucky). They are barely hanging on. 90k guaranteed, only one variation on the paperwork, no pushing your patients into the x-ray machine. Some docs might not think that sounds that bad. Two more years of decay in the system from now, they’d probably jump on it, hard.
SayItWithWookies: You just described my fondest memories of living under Communism.
So how exactly are doctors fees going to be set under ObamaCare?
Doris Ziffel: Dont try facts on wingnuts, including audio evidence. Their still trying to count how many millions/billions attended the 9/12 hateapalooza.
Hogs won’t cut it, most doctors are Jewish.
aleks: And you can only eat treif outside the house- or if you use paper plates for the Chinese carry-out.
Todd “The Todd” Tiahrt is neither a sponsor nor a cosponsor of any of health care overhaul bill now pending.
BUT Todd is cosponsor on the following:
H.R.2421 : To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the centennial of the establishment of Mother’s Day.
*********
(with M. Bachperson)
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.2274
H.R. 2274 “Priorities in Education Spending Act”, which repeals (among 12 other education programs):
The Reading is Fundamental–Inexpensive Book Distribution program
`Women’s Educational Equity Act of 2001′
LITERACY PROGRAM FOR PRISONERS.
HEAD START ACT
TEACH Grants
Thurgood Marshall Legal Educational Opportunity Program
The Emergency Immigrant Education program
The National Writing Project
SPECIAL OLYMPICS SPORT AND EMPOWERMENT ACT OF 2004
**********
All that death-panel bullshit is catching up with them. Now, everyone is ready to laugh whenever they start a sentence with, “They’re going to set up a committee to…”
Oldskool:
They grow old, they grow old.
They shall make their Hover Rounds roll.
Can’t blame the Medicare olds for being confused and anxious. The Rethugs, to protect their health insurer patrons, have done a spectacular mind-fuck upon them through lies and other malfeasances.
What Tiahrt said about physicians under Obamacare is a paraphrase of Reagan’s 1965, AMA-paid speech agsinst passage of MediCare.
And so it goes.
Laughing is a good start; voting his lame ass out of office is better.