Monday, May 30, 2011

The bobble head that is the DNC chair

  The new DNC head has proven to be a real boobette so far. First there were the comments that Republicans are, darn it!, just anti-women because of _______ policies.
  Then there was the comment that Republicans keep accusing illegal immigrants of being, um, illegal.
  Now she's declaring that the whole Mediscare thing will let senior citizens choose, when it comes to health care,  between being dead and being, um, dead, or something.
  Here at NRO, here's what she said:
Like I said, the Republicans have a plan to end Medicare as we know it. What they would do is they would take the people who are younger than 55 years old today and tell them You know what? You’re on your own. Go and find private health insurance in the healthcare insurance market, we’re going to throw you to the wolves and allow insurance companies to deny you coverage and drop you for pre-existing conditions. We’re going to give you X amount of dollars and you figure it out.
  Here's the truth: 
So rather than having a board of 15 experts decide what treatments would be covered and what price controls would be imposed and leaving seniors with no options while still failing to prevent Medicare’s looming insolvency—which is roughly the Democratic plan—the Republican approach would let seniors decide on their insurance plan from a range of guaranteed options and provide them with a subsidy to help fund that plan, with those most in need getting the most help.
  The demagoguery has gotten really intense lately. It'd be really nice if people would start telling the truth and trying to save the systems we've got rather than scoring political points to keep their little empire going. 
  She has proven to be a real embarrassment to the Democrat party.
  Is anyone over there noticing?
Update: I forgot about this over at American Thinker:  To wit: She attacked GOP presidential candidates for favoring foreign car companiesbut owns a Japanese car herself.
  T'wit.

3 comments:

  1. Is anyone on our side noticing? It's a simple arguement to make. Medicare cannot go on as it is. We must choose between rationaing and the Ryan plan. The Republicans have a plan but refuse to sell it. The Democrats have no plan and refuse to admit it.

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  2. You're absolutely right. The Republicans are the party of stupid and let's do nothing first and wait. On the bright side, I'm not sure how they can easily ask a WOMAN to step down, particularly immediately, so we will have some barbecue fun for a while, at least.

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  3. Just this morning on CNBC the managing director of Credit Suisse made the point that most seniors would prefer private insurance as oppossed to a government plan run by 15 hacks. What is wrong with the Gop? This guy is speaking in his role as an expert on health care stocks not as a partisan hack and even in his assestment the Ryan plan wins.

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