"A Quick One-Sentence Reminder of What This Is All About..."

[Hissyspit]

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/09/republicans-health-care-fight-rich

By Kevin Drum on Fri. September 27, 2013 10:51 AM PDT

The Republican Party is bending its entire will, staking its very soul, fighting to its last breath, in service of a crusade to....

Make sure that the working poor don't have access to affordable health care.

I just thought I'd mention that in plain language, since it seems to get lost in the fog fairly often. But that's it. That's what's happening. They have been driven mad by the thought that rich people will see their taxes go up slightly in order to help non-rich people get decent access to medical care.

That's a pretty stirring animating principle, no?

[young_at_heart]

1. "People who work hard have health care...those who don't , don't deserve it"

Just read this on Facebook! Sounds like a sound bite from Fox News!

[Qutzupalotl]

4. Ask them why they hate Americans.

That should shut them up.

[young_at_heart]

6. Their argument...."REAL" Americans have health care

The others are not "REAL"!!

[Qutzupalotl]

9. So if a person is fired and loses their health insurance,

they would say he no longer exists. Talk about denial!

[nxylas]

28. No, they'll say he or she deserved it

There's a new talking point doing the rounds that goes something like this:

"If an employer has 10 employees and has to fire one of them due to the recession, who's it going to be, the most productive, or the least productive? See, this recession is just a way of weeding out the unfit, as predicted by Darwin, who I hate for showing that the earth is more than 6000 years old. But he was right about poor people". Or something.

[sulphurdunn]

10. Working class conservatives

love to lick their master's boots. They love to use the lash and cry "crucify them" the loudest at the less fortunate.

[Ikonoklast]

12. Truer words were never spoken...

"There is no love like that of a slave for his master."

[MythosMaster]

11. People that parrot talking points sound bites

and fear words they don't understand are fools.

No point in arguing with fools.

[Bigmack]

14. I'd modify that just slightly....

"People who work hard.... and who have bargained thru their union for health insurance from a reluctant employer... perhaps even went on strike to get that health care... have health care."

Tea Creatures live in a different world.. one in which employers shower their workers with benefits out of the goodness of their hearts and some kind of noblesse oblige.

Health care was fought for... by unions, primarily.

It goes without saying that a modern developed country should provide health care for those who can't afford it.

Medicare for all.

[Tigress DEM]

24. Really? My son drives forklifts and front end loaders, sometime in the rain - dangerous.

He's a temp. No benefits.

WalMart just told my BIL after years at the same store working 40 hours steadily except for a few times when they cut everyone back that he's "actually" a part time worker... so they can push him off onto the ACA roles.

WalMart family has something like 40% of the actual wage income for the whole US from 2012 and they can't pay their workers enough to live without needing food stamps and ACA to survive. My sister, his wife is diabetic and just hoping she can get her prescriptions covered under ACA.

[PearliePoo2]

2. They want him to FAIL. FAIL...more than ANYTHING else.

They HATE him.

[ehrnst]

3. ..especially while a Democrat is in the White House

Newt said as much during the Health Care debate was raging during the Clinton administration.

[The Wizard]

5. Election nullification

The tyranny of the zealous minority.

[Coyotl]

16. Meanwhile, Obama has been heard to say, "Please proceed."

[malaise]

29. No the plutocrats money that finances them and the

Supreme Court judges who allowed this madness with Citizens' United.
Epic fugging fail!

[MisterP]

7. health CARE?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Say it again, can't say it often enough:

The Republican Party is bending its entire will, staking its very soul, fighting to its last breath, in service of a crusade to make sure that the working poor don't have access to affordable health care.

[nashville_brook]

13. k and r

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

15. ...and that the black man in the White House is resoundly blamed as a result.

[Warren DeMontague]

17. ...pretty much. Oh, there's maybe one other principle involved.

Namely, making sure a popularly elected Democratic President doesn't do something the people like.

[killbotfactory]

18. It takes a portion of power away from employers, in favor of working people.

Republican shitbags want working people to have the threat of being without healthcare held over their heads. Basically they want to put people in a position where they are extremely desperate for work because if they don't find it they will die.

It weakens our bargaining power as individuals. They want to weaken an already weakened class of people so they can push wages down even further and make even more money on the backs of working people.

That's what it boils down to.

[hansberrym]

19. Here it is...

From PPACA:
"The requirement regulates activity that is commercial and economic in nature: economic and financial decisions about how and when health care is paid for, and when health insurance is purchased." H.R. 3590 Subtitle F, sec. 1501 B

[blkmusclmachine]

20. Fealty to the 1%

who own DC

[Lonr]

23. Pretty much

Divide and conquer, oldest trick in the book. If they can keep us at each other's throats, the true powers behind the puppet show that Washington has become can do whatever they like.

[bobclark86]

21. I disagree...

I think it has to do with them wanting to show they have guts. Guts against a socialist Kenyan commie Muslim from a party known for wussies like Al Gore.

Obamacare came from the Heritage Foundation. It's the GOP's own plan. They like the idea of making people buy things from private, for-profit companies. Moar profits and all that.

What they don't like is a Democrat showing guts. Oh, and the whole black man being in charge of them thing. Many (not all, but many) don't like that, either.

[dickensknitter]

22. I know I shouldn't, but

I wish them some sort of disfiguring syphilitic pox that robs them of their breath, falters their steps and sinks them into the low and lonesome sea.

[Tigress DEM]

26. How about just the fleas of 1000 camels to rest in their nether regions and armpits? nt

[Beartracks]

25. Even *IF* the GOP had an alternative plan in mind for healthcare...

... which they DON'T, by the way.... well, they STILL would prefer that sick and poor people not have access to healthcare in the meantime until such time as they (the GOP) can get their own plan in place.

Which they won't of course, because there isn't one. But you know what I mean.

For them, the whole thing is like, "If America can't have a BoehnerCare health care law, then America can't have ANY health care law!"

Shameless losers.

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[Freddie]

27. They have no intention of ever having their "own plan in place"

It was never "repeal and replace", it was "repeal and do nothing."
We've had 20 years of Repugs in the White House since 1980. How many times have they tried to reform our health care "system"? Crickets. The "old way", where your employer has you by the balls and can capriciously decide to end your coverage for any reason, is exactly what they want. Can't afford insurance on your own? Pre-existing condition? oh well, so sad. Feel free to die in the street. That's what they want and nothing else.

[Beartracks]

31. They honestly (?) seem to have some kind elitist rich-man blinders on.

It seems they really do believe that that if you're vulnerable during tough economic times, well.... you should have worked harder, planned better, been born with a trust fund, etc.

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[RainDog]

30. k&r n/t

[Shireling]

32. When you are sick

and can't get health care, you are easy to kick around.

Some with wealth and power love being bullies.