To be fair, their lips ARE moving... As part of the traditional ritual of defending the indefensible, House Speaker Paul Ryan and Secretary of Dismantling Health and Human Services Tom Price took to The Shows Sunday to lie about the "American Health Care Act," one of those Republican bills as accurately named as the "Healthy Forests Initiative" or the "Clean Skies Act." For starters, here's Paul Ryan on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanpoulos," insisting that only a lying leftist would say
don't pretend that a block grant program will put the decisions closer to us. I live in TX which partially privatized Medicaid in 2001. I mean, sure, our state legislature made the decision, but that decision was to let someone else do it. and by "someone else" I mean huge unaccountable corporations which aren't based here and don't care when they (Superior in particular) cut a bunch of medically dependent children off their therapies that they need to BREATHE.
that's not local decision making or the market working.
go fuck yourself with a bag of insurance policies.
My husband and I shut off the TV yesterday after watching Tom Price LIE his way through Meet the Press. Disgusting. I am glad that the media is covering this tax cut described as a health care plan in mostly honest terms.
Republican base voters have proved so receptive to so many shameless lies for so many years, why would the dark money Republicans change a winning strategy when they're already at the endgame?
How hard was it to persuade Republican voters that the reason their jobs had dried up, their pensions been dissolved, and their towns left to crumble, wasn't because a handful of billionaires own the Republican Party, which gleefully does their bidding, but because a black kid somewhere got a hot breakfast at school, or a black woman bought a coconut cream pie with "food stamps."
The dark money donor class has sucked trillions of public dollars into private pockets over the last thirty or forty years, behind a smokescreen of pretty appalling propaganda delivered by the likes of Rush, Fox, and Breitbart. Their wholly-owned mostly Republican legislators have machinated for two generations to transfer wealth from pension funds into tax shelters for billionaires, to offshore jobs, destabilize and drain the middle class, outlaw dissent, limit access to justice in our legal system, and shred the safety net.
It's all been pretty obvious. But Republican voters are so addicted to that whole Heil Donald neo-fascist Heritage Foundation The White Man Is The Real Victim Why Can't Christians Ever Catch A Break bullshit pumped out by the right's propaganda machine, that they would literally vote to cut their grandchildren's throats before they would open their eyes and start fighting back against the billionaire boys' club.
Once again, I am glad that I live in the socialist hell-hole California, rather than some bootstrappy freedom state like Idaho or Alabama. Now if only California would start dealing with its "health care deserts" like Humboldt county . . .
dear Sect. The Price is WRONG,
don't pretend that a block grant program will put the decisions closer to us. I live in TX which partially privatized Medicaid in 2001. I mean, sure, our state legislature made the decision, but that decision was to let someone else do it. and by "someone else" I mean huge unaccountable corporations which aren't based here and don't care when they (Superior in particular) cut a bunch of medically dependent children off their therapies that they need to BREATHE.
that's not local decision making or the market working.
go fuck yourself with a bag of insurance policies.
The CBO will not score junk insurance plans as actually covering anyone, for what that's worth
He didn't know what the "&" meant.
PaulRyaning?
But that's unfair! Junk insurance starts with the letters "ins."
And emergency rooms cover all your healthcare needs.
It's just common sense.
The inbred bastard child of Voodoo Economics: The Republican Voodoo Health Care.
It looks like Paul Ryan's eyes are quite puffy and red
Crier, crier, pants on fire?
Have a beautiful day
My husband and I shut off the TV yesterday after watching Tom Price LIE his way through Meet the Press. Disgusting. I am glad that the media is covering this tax cut described as a health care plan in mostly honest terms.
"What have they ever done for mono-horned quadrupeds?"
Republican base voters have proved so receptive to so many shameless lies for so many years, why would the dark money Republicans change a winning strategy when they're already at the endgame?
How hard was it to persuade Republican voters that the reason their jobs had dried up, their pensions been dissolved, and their towns left to crumble, wasn't because a handful of billionaires own the Republican Party, which gleefully does their bidding, but because a black kid somewhere got a hot breakfast at school, or a black woman bought a coconut cream pie with "food stamps."
The dark money donor class has sucked trillions of public dollars into private pockets over the last thirty or forty years, behind a smokescreen of pretty appalling propaganda delivered by the likes of Rush, Fox, and Breitbart. Their wholly-owned mostly Republican legislators have machinated for two generations to transfer wealth from pension funds into tax shelters for billionaires, to offshore jobs, destabilize and drain the middle class, outlaw dissent, limit access to justice in our legal system, and shred the safety net.
It's all been pretty obvious. But Republican voters are so addicted to that whole Heil Donald neo-fascist Heritage Foundation The White Man Is The Real Victim Why Can't Christians Ever Catch A Break bullshit pumped out by the right's propaganda machine, that they would literally vote to cut their grandchildren's throats before they would open their eyes and start fighting back against the billionaire boys' club.
Once again, I am glad that I live in the socialist hell-hole California, rather than some bootstrappy freedom state like Idaho or Alabama. Now if only California would start dealing with its "health care deserts" like Humboldt county . . .
*applause*
I don't often agree with AV Club anymkre, but when they get it right, they crush it
"Just in" on CBS News: Obama warned Il Douche not to hire Mike Flynn.(In case you were wondering why he hired Mike Flynn.)
Yes.