From my email box (H/T – Helga);
| Thune kicks off August health battle in GOP address |
| Posted: 08/01/09 09:09 AM [ET] | |
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The August recess battle over healthcare started early Saturday, with Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) arguing that Democratic proposals to reform healthcare “fall short” of what’s needed.
“Republicans want health care reform that works. Reform that brings down costs for families and small businesses, and reform that provides better care to more people,” Thune said in the weekly Republican radio address. “On all these points, the current proposals by the president and the Democrat leadership in Congress fall short.” |
Thune, who is a potential 2012 presidential candidate, argued that the bills under consideration would only worsen healthcare costs for consumers in the long term, while adding to the national debt and reducing quality — rhetoric which has dominated GOP opposition to the legislation in recent weeks.
Thune touted Republican proposals, such as limiting medical malpractice lawsuits, encouraging preventative medicine, and allowing small businesses to pool toegther to provide insurance, as examples of a “better way” to reform healthcare.
“These and other commonsense solutions would provide real reform for our health care system rather than the dangerous and costly experiment that Democrats are proposing,” Thune said. “It’s time for real reform that works, not the same old answers of more money and more government.”
While I do agree with some things John is saying, I know he doesn’t want those changes to help us, but to help the status quo. While I agree that some rewards in medical malpractice are high, I do believe people deserve the right to sue. If a doctor maimed you due to malpractice, how would you feel. I think we know. I also agree with preventative care, but that will only come if people have good insurance, like John Thune does. Which is the irony of this whole debate. It seems socialized medicine is good enough for our vets and armed services, seniors and members of Congress, but not good enough for the rest of us. I have often said that Republicans who oppose reform should release their free medical care and get private insurance like the rest of us. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. In fact a congressman that is promoting healthcare reform introduced a bill last week that would eliminate medicare, he basically was being cynical about the debate, and asking Republicans, “If you are so against socialized medicine, then vote to get rid of it.” Of course, not too many Republicans supported the bill, go figure. As for Thune’s suggestion that we co-op insurance, we have been doing that, with group plans, I am a part of one on my own. Trust me, my premiums keep going up and up, monopolies don’t work, competition does.
Here is the video that I was talking about, good stuff;
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/weiner-challenges-republicans-put-or-shut
And this video reminds me, even on my funniest day, I can not be this funny (I literally fell out of my office chair)
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/real-time-new-rules-july-31-2009
The Morman comment did it.
Did you catch the author of “The Family” on Bill Mahar this week? It was so significant — and we’re not talking the little “scandals” – but the actually mindset of “The Family”????? I made sure my parents sat and watched that segment – and do wonder if Sen. Thune – who is listed as a participant in C Street considers himself “The New Chosen”? This isn’t Bible or Christianity the way that we read it — it is interpreted and a whole different light which enables one to do unspeakable things — and not feel guilty if you are a “New Chosen” and member of the family. There isn’t a concern for the meek – or doing the right thing in this — it is all about power.
Yours is the only local blog I know of that has even mentioned this — and you know if Sen. Daschle would have been involved in a society such as the C Street Family – the media would have been all over it.
These aren’t “nice Christian guys” following Christian principles – these are guys that are rewriting and interpreting things in a very wrong and damaging way.
You can thank ‘Helga’ for sending me this stuff, but I have also been paying attention. Last week Maddow did a whole series of stories about it. That group is weird, trust me, I have contacted everyone in the local media about it with no response, even had a conversation about it with an Argus journalist and said it was newsworthy. I am going to try to track down Thune over the recess and confront him ‘publicly’ about it. If our lazy ass media doesn’t want to cover it, I will force the issue. And I agree, I am shocked that no other blogs in SD are saying anything. If you read into the details about the group, it should concern South Dakotans that Thune belongs to a group that is promoting theocracy in our country, it goes against everything our founding fathers stood for.
Here is the interview on Bill Maher
http://www.sdhumanists.com/2009/08/john-thune-and-the-c-street-christian-mafia/
This is from an interview with Jeff Sharlet where he mentions that the C Street House is not the only house, there are more house. I didn’t know that. So if a congressman were to say he did not live in the C Street House, he might be telling the truth about that but he could have been living in one of the other houses. Helga
http://www.everydaycitizen.com/2009/07/the_fellowship_cult_owns_rep_t.htmlDoes a Fellowship ‘Cult’ Own Rep. Todd Tiahrt?
By Colin Curtis
July 27, 2009
Yesterday evening I had the chance to interview Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family about Kansas politicians: Congressman Todd Tiahrt, Senator Sam Brownback, and Rep. Jerry Moran and their connections to C Street. He had some tough words for Rep. Tiahrt whom he outed as a member of the religious cult on The Rachel Maddow show earlier this week.
Jeff Sharlet is a journalist who has been writing about religion for about 15 years and is a contributing editor for Harper’s and Rolling Stone. He spent the last 5 years as a research scholar at the New York Research Center for Religion and Media.
In our interview, I asked Jeff about how he was able to uncover this secret conservative cult. Jeff was invited into the cult as everyone else is. Though he did not personally live in the C Street house, he did stay at one very similar and visited the C Street house. He was able to share information with me about the organization that goes much farther than one house in Washington…
The C Street house is one of many, not even the main one. The main one is gorgeous mansion over looking the Potomac river with a waterfall carved into the lawn called “The Cedar” in Arlington, Virginia. Around “The Cedar” there are about twenty properties associated with “The Family” one of which is this house called “Ivanwald” where at any given time maybe a dozen to eighteen men will live.
These upstanding members of congress are our only hope for making this country a Christian Nation again. An island of Real Americans in a sea of liberal debauchery.
Thune, and all the Republicans, on health care reform:
All they have to do is put their money where their mouths are and give up their taxpayer-subsidized health care, buy private insurance, and say “See? Private is better!”
Randall-
I hope Thune does another Healthcare forum over the recess, I am going to go and ask him to give up his government care and get private insurance. I would love to hear his reaction.
There’s no place for religion in this countries government. The founding fathers happen to be Christians and that’s fine but they did say freedom of RELIGION. I was having a discussion with a coworker once who gave me the old “it’s freedom of religion, not freedom FROM religion”. And I said ‘ya freedom of religion, not freedom of Christianity’. So keep your Jusus fish out of my face and keep your Muslim prayer rooms out of the work place (don’t try to fool me by calling them “meditation rooms” either). This country allows you to have churches, synigogs, mosks etc. so use them. And don’t call me a heithen either. I was raised Babtist, if you can believe it.
Oops, sorry. Misspelled heathen. You all misspell things too.
Eric, you mispelled a lot of shit, made me laff.
Ya, I never got invited to any of the spelling bee’s.
Or punctuation bees either…
I gots kicked out of a grammar bee