Here is insane (retiring!) GOP Rep. John Shadegg for some reason arguing that Republicans like him have wanted a non-profit or single-payer insurance system ALLLLLLL ALONG, but the media keeps lying. Will Republicans ever get their day in court? [YouTube]
HAHAHAHAHAHA
March 17, 2010
Wingnut John Shadegg Apparently Wants Single-Payer
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It’s the nuns that did it. He heard “single prayer” and went for it.
It’s a trap!
Jane Hamsher is going to be insufferable about this. Firebaggers unite!
That “statement” was pretty-well armored with conditionals. It might not be necessary for Boehner to send an off-message hit man over to maintain party discipline. Then again he’s a pol from Arizona, and therefore probably sun-addled and half insane.
correction, he actually said “I wanted single payer like all Republicans, but me is lying.”
He knows he will never have to vote on this to prove his sincerity, or will he? I think Greyson has a bill in the works
Did I miss something? Shadegg only said that he wants the insurance companies to compete, not that he favors single-payer. Either way, I’ll have completely forgotten about this by the time he votes no on the current bill.
What will Baby Maddie say about this?
Mebbe he’s retiring ’cause he has Parkinson’s. Now that would be a hoot and a half. The Teabaggers will turn on one of their own, and for a good reason, because he’s ill, and not for a bad reason, like he supports single payer.
You know what disease is really funny? Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. I hear Sarah Palin’s new book, “Mining ALS For Fun and Profit, and For the Troops” is coming out this fall, with a special foreword by Rush Limbaugh. Look out for the darling duo on Oprah in September.
They’d have to take the from Health Insurance company donations from his cold fat dead white hands before single payer ever got off the ground.
[re=532682]doxastic[/re]:
Oh my god, they are insufferable. Worse than Kos even, which is hard.
And as for Shaedigg, you know this was the result of some creepy house gym naked steamroom “truth-or-dare” session with Boehner, right? After about 3/4 of a bottle of scotch those boys get randy…
[re=532703]ManchuCandidate[/re]: are our congressmen just in it for the money? then let’s abolish them and just let the lobbyists write the laws. save money, eliminate the middleman.
Shadegg is just trying to confuse poor Dennis Kuchinich. Tomorrow, some GOPer will find a provision that taxes smokin’ hot redheaded wives.
Who is this Rep Shaggy Dog?
He seems to be speaking of the anti-trust exemption the new third rail of politics,because without it congress would lose significant free speech paper.
Did Hamsher attach the FDL face sucker to him last night and the eggs are hatching?
Silly media. Keeps saying stuff ’bout the repubs that just isn’t true. Repubs wanted insurance to have to compete all along. Competition good. Mandate bad.
Selling insurance to a cooked-goose pol like Shadegg (who has his gub’mint insurance)? Old White Establishment males? What are you getting at, J-Egg?
It would be hysterical if Republicans suddenly revealed their new strategy to be the left-wing alternative to the centrist Democrats, leaving the teabaggers no one to support but the Dems, but since they’d just spent 50 years turning the Demoncraps into monsters, they’d be completely lost as to whom to support, leading to a vacuum forming within the tea party conclave, sucking the entire retarded lot of them into a wormhole and vomiting them out on the other side of the universe.
…And I’m hard.
[re=532747]wendykat123[/re]: i agree…who does care??
[re=532755]Potater[/re]: Is there a downside to this strategy that I’m not seeing?
How can he talk out of both sides of his ass at the same time like that and not shit all over the floor?
Wow, someone needs to get a dumbed down copy of the talking points.
Didn’t Jimmy Durante have a song like that once: I wanna go but I’m ready to stay….
Having gotten sucked into a flame war over at Salon last night with an angry leftist over Jane Hamsher and HCR, I’m very appreciative of the FDL bashing on this thread.
Next: And Republicans are all really cool about it when their daughters bring black guys home, too. It’s true! You just don’t know about it because the LIE-beral media won’t talk about it.
[re=532783]imissopus[/re]: I applaud you, brave sir, for having the chutzpah to play around on Salon like that — most people who comment there are idiots and that means both the ones on the right AND the ones on the left. It’s strange how most of the more intelligent liberal blogs also have the dumbest commentators
[re=532682]doxastic[/re]: Jane seems to always be insufferable.
[re=532795]Hooray For Anything[/re]: It’s strange how most of the more intelligent liberal blogs also have the dumbest commentators
Conversely, Wonkette has some pretty freakin’ great commentors.
[re=532795]Hooray For Anything[/re]: But seriously, I have noticed that the only daily newspaper I read regularly online, The Seattle Times, has a huge majority of conservatard, Beckian, cut-n’-paste talking points commentors, which you wouldn’t really expect for liberal socialist town like Seattle, and the Seattle Times, which is a pretty modern, liberal paper, except for a few guys on the Editorial page, whom occasionally try to be WSJ Jr.
[re=532825]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: Isn’t Beck from Seattle or somewhere nearby?
[re=532795]Hooray For Anything[/re]: Salon has really gone downhill in the last year or two. Now most of the people with any sense have fled and the lefties still there are all trying to emulate Glenn Greenwald. I tend to avoid reading the letters for that reason, but last night I made one comment about something dumb Jane Hamsher said and next thing you know I’m being called a stupid tool for wanting HCR to pass even though it’s not single payer and does not include a public option. It was insane. I really need to remember to only leave comments at Wonkette, where the people are all funny and self-aware. Except for wendykat123, the little tramp.
The Lord loves the sinner. Still, under the precepts of Vatican II, there are certain narrow exceptions.
Roast in the eternal flames of hell among the pagan babies, John Shadegg. And your little dog, too.
[re=532777]plowman[/re]: Technology.
[re=532825]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: That’s because all the liberals are too busy posting on The Stranger’s Slog about all-ages clubs or some other really important shit.
[re=532682]doxastic[/re]: “is going to be”?
I’ll bet that secretly, Shay Dogg also would prefer that Christianity be eclipsed by Islamo Fascism, too. “Because the weemen folks are so much more docile when they are forced to wear Hijabs.”
[re=532715]inedalo[/re]: Actually, that’s how it worked from 2001 until 2009. Congress didn’t have to draft any legislation. It was all done for them. Much smoother, too.
So, we can totally have single payer, and all we have to do is completely scrap the current bill at the 1 yard line, and start over from scratch, getting zero cooperation from Shitheadgg and is buddies the whole time, and spend another year and a half in a protracted battle over a plan that will inevitably end up even more watered down than the last time this was attempted. How can we afford not to take that offer?
On a completely unrelated not, I recently got an email that there several million dollars waiting for me abroad, and all I need to do is let this guy know my social security and PIN numbers, and mother’s maiden name. How can I go wrong!
Oh, if only the vile Democrats hadn’t worked tirelessly to obstruct and filibuster single-payer healthcare for the past 12 years! Every time George W. Bush, Denny Hastert, and, of course, the honorable Dr. Bill Frist tried–with *all their might*–to create a single-payer system, the corporatist Democrat monsters just screamed about cutting taxes and the deficit and privatizing Social Security. For shame!
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