GOP Rep says:'Healthcare IS NOT a Right, They Chose NOT TO be covered'

[Wetzelbill]

Run time: 04:45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBXX2K8jqMM   Posted on YouTube: March 05, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: March 05, 2009 By DU Member: Wetzelbill Views on DU: 1653

 
Socialism! Socialism! Socialism! Is that all you got? Yes, it is. I'd like to hear these guys give their definition of what that term is. -WB

[alstephenson]

1. Link not working for me.

But I saw this buffoon this morning. He also said health care is a privilege, but a right FOR SOME. Like him, I guess. Disgusting POS.

[Wetzelbill]

2. I just tried it, seems to work for me

[RedCloud]

3. He needs mental health care ASAP

What a knucklehead.

[KansDem]

4. WTF???

Health care is a right for some but a privilege for others? :wtf: I'd would've liked for him to explain that further...

Socialism? Because capitalism has worked so well...

[Wetzelbill]

7. I was impressed at the number of RW talking points he fit in

that discussion. He had socialism. Dems will make even bigger mistakes than the GOP. Illegal immigrants are breaking us. I believe Hillary was thrown in there somewhere. All we needed was an ACORN reference and some reminder of Bill Clinton's penis.

[hobbit709]

5. Then he should give up HIS taxpayer subsidized healthcare.

[Chisox08]

27. He won't because it's his "right"

but for the rest of us it's a privilege and for those of us that can afford health insurance they try to pay for as little as possible.

[Rebel Scum]

6. The reason they/we didn't choose health coverage....

is because a lot of us out here in the real world CAN'T FREEKIN AFFORD TO!!!!!!!!

Stick him in a retail job at minimum wage for awhile and maybe he'll get the point...then again, maybe not.

[pepperbear]

8. he's a republican, so this should come as no surprise. what did surprise me?...

the anchor was NOT LETTING HIM GET AWAY WITH THE "health care is a right for some." meme. Do you think that would have happened 3 years ago?

Come on folks, it's new day....but with baby steps.

[Wetzelbill]

13. she was good

She kept after him.

[greenman3610]

9. Bobby Jindal award for "New face of the GOP"

[Wetzelbill]

11. lol

Good one.

[Althaia]

10. one way to cut costs is to stop paying for congress' health care.

Let them see what it's like to look for health insurance on the open market, especially since many of them are over 45 years old. They can afford to buy their own, considering we pay them very well. Perhaps then they will understand the need for Single Payer health care.

[Wetzelbill]

12. yeah and how about they deal in the market

when they have a preexisting condition? See how far that one goes.

[Hulk]

14. Are all politicians from the Deep South idiots?

I KNOW there are some great people that live in the Southeast and those other rural red states, but holy shit. This turd just needs his sheet and hood, and he'd be able to REALLY scare some people.

All this bull shit he is tossing out in one breath is JUST BULL SHIT! Really? ...he's 'gonna' take away our mortgage deduction and our charitable deductions?....Did you just pull that out of your ass Gomer?

Honest to God, people that buy in to this crap the right wing nut cakes are tossing out there have to be dumb ass idiots just like him. "Half the people who don't have health insurance turned it down."...Really? Where did you pull that figure from?....your dirty little ass again?

Just too much to comment on from this butt licker. Tennessee, find somebody with some f*cking brains to represent you down there. The majority of people in TN can't be that f*cking dumb!

One last comment...the "grand obstructionist party" clan are the biggest group of lying sons-of-bitches I've ever witnessed. What ever happened to truth? Do they shrivel up and blow away if they should speak it?

[AndyA]

15. Video is no longer available. n/m

[Wetzelbill]

17. try again it still comes up for me

[AndyA]

19. Thanks - it finally loaded for me. I think You Tube was just busy.

That guy is a real @sshole, isn't he?

I say we give health care to everyone except for Republicans. They can go f*ck themselves.

[Wetzelbill]

22. yes it sometimes acts up like that

Oh yeah this guy hit every phony RW talking point he could. He just kept on talking too. A weird mindset.

[vaberella]

16. Buffoonary at it's best. They're idiots the lot of them.

How is this a fast march towards socialism? So many people are in need and they don't care. No one chooses to be without health insurance...they're forced to be without it and just learn to deal.

[George II]

18. The guy deserves a real "Wamping".....he's dead wrong!

"Mrs Clinton" didn't try this a "few" years ago and the public didn't reject it. First, she tried a healtcare plan FIFTEEN years ago and the REPUBLICANS blocked it.

He goes on about "a trillion dollars" here, a trillion dollars" there, talking about Democratic bailout plans. The first multibillion dollar plan was bush's! And none of the bailouts are $1Trillion!

And why didn't he bring up "a trillion dollar war" here, "2 trillion dollar tax cuts to the rich" there?

He and his republican cohorts should some day take the time to study the definition of "socialism" - they like using the word often enough.

Aside from not knowing what socialism is, none of them ever tell us just what is so bad with "socialism" anyway!!!

[baldguy]

20. Shelter IS NOT a right. Homeless people CHOOSE to be homeless.

But Wall St DESERVES to a bailout.

He certainly hits all the the fear-inducing RW buzzwords.

[BobTheSubgenius]

36. Well, ya think Wall Street chose to crash?

Well...did they? Huh? :evilgrin:

[juno jones]

21. The language of the abuser.

"They were asking for it. They brought it on themselves."

[avaistheone1]

23. Republicans believe that health care is a privilege to be enjoyed by

the rich.

The rest of us can just get sick and rot away. That's compassionate conservatism for you.

[edc]

24. So long as

:bounce: the favorite pastimes are Bible thumping and inbreeding in the Confederacy, there will be representatives like Brother Wamp.

[pattmarty]

25. Hey, choose this, you hillbilly dumbfuck motherfucker!!!!!

[Pharaoh]

26. Viper!

And a Liar..............oy:puke:

[LynnTheDem]

28. Sure a lot of "privileged" people in Cuba. All of them, actually.

And Canada.

And Britain.

And Europe.

And...gee, pretty much everywhere but America.

Not many "privileged" people in the USA.

[RBInMaine]

29. Right wing fascist propaganda horseshit. Nothing more.

[bridgit]

30. He's Right!! It's a shared obligation amongst civilized peoples of the world

republicans clearly feel apart from any such shared obligations they feeling further they are not among the civilized peoples of the world. Choosing not to be covered *is* an option in a state of transition but there are other options...another option is to dismantle the republican canard that in health-care-for-profit in America and and to re-tool it to deliver timely health care http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TqxdsIb_6M

[Paul_Edwards]

31. I am flabbergasted

Hahaha! This why the GOP is irrelevant. No ideas just rhetoric. I would love to hear another point of view with some new ideas.

Who voted for this bird brain?

[Paul_Edwards]

32. One more thought....

It seems that the "liberal" word does not spark fear like they used to hope it would. Now it's Socialism! So when Obama's ideas actually bear fruit than they will start using the word "Communist". How pathetic.

[provis99]

33. I could only take 45 seconds of this

typical degenerate Southern Republican. Not quite sure they're the same species as the rest of us, as their brains don't seem to have evolved since the primordial ooze.

[quidam56]

34. IN EAST TENNESSEE, PROFIT CARE COMES AHEAD OF PATIENT CARE !

http://www.wisecountyissues.com

[BobTheSubgenius]

35. I think Al Franken said it best....

...it was pithy, for sure. In spite of that, I must paraphrase, though. :D

"No one is rushing to copy the US health care system."

[BobTheSubgenius]

37. OK........replied to the wrong post.

Oops.

[PDJane]

38. He's a repulbican.

He's still whomping that old socialist and choice meme. He's lying, yet again. How do these idiots get elected and stay elected?