Downsize Grover Norquist just before the holidays
“House votes to scale back healthcare law eligibility, 262-157
By Pete Kasperowicz - 10/27/11 10:58 AM ET
The House approved legislation Thursday that would tighten the eligibility requirements for participation in health insurance exchanges, Medicaid and other programs under last year's healthcare law, making it harder for middle-income Americans to qualify for these programs.
The House approved the bill, H.R. 2576, on a 262-157 vote in which 26 Democrats voted for the measure.”
Cassi Creek:
There is so much hatred for Obama among the teavangelists, and so much fear among them that another person might actually be provided with medical care that they might not be able to afford, that the teavangelists are going to pick at every aspect of the 2010 affordable health care law. Their propaganda organs play the advertising scenarios so that whites are played against blacks, blacks against, Latinos, and Asians against everyone else in an effort to convince the teavangelist base that their household incomes are diminishing because of minorities stealing medical services.
In reality, the standard ER in most city and nearly all rural hospitals is still serving a population of white citizens who are just as likely to be without health insurance as are minority citizens.
The bill cited above is another attempt to destroy access to health care for a large portion of the American citizenry. By raising the threshold for eligibility for publicly funded services, the teavangelists will eliminate access to expensive nursing homes for patients recovering from illnesses and injuries. That a good portion of those patients will have no place to go for rehabilitation and post-hospitalization care is just fine with the congressional teavangelists. If the patients remain ill and need follow up care in hospital, the insurance companies that control who lives and who dies can refuse to pay for the admission and care, thus decreasing their payout and increasing the funds available to pay CEO bonuses and to bribe congressmen.
This is particularly despicable when the congressional representative voting to pass this bill is a former physician who mistook his Hippocratic Oath for the hypocritical oath. Obviously, former Doctor Roe is a proponent of the teavanagelist health care plan for the non-wealthy – “Get sick, die quick!”
This skewed loyalty and failure to actually represent his electorate makes me wonder what hold Grover Norquist has on Roe and his teavangelist colleagues. Norquist has essentially suborned the House, so that the members now listen only to someone who is not entitled by law or by Constitution to have any say how the various members vote. For a population that purports to want strict interpretation of the Constitution, they are entirely too quick to allow the rise of an un-official leadership chain.
This is a call to unseat any legislator who has allowed Norquist and his illegal pledges to subvert the manner in which we govern our nation. Grover Norquist is not an elected official, but is someone who negates the ability of millions of registered voters to have their opinion duly heard by their “elected representative.” We fought England to end government without representation. We can do the same with K Street.
“Washington (CNN) -- A new CNN poll finds that about half of Republicans sympathize with the tea party movement. The other half either remain aloof or (5%) even express hostility.
That second group of Republicans has received remarkably little media attention this cycle. Yet their man -- Mitt Romney -- has held steady in first or second place for the past three years. Meanwhile tea party Republicans have bounced from Sarah Palin to Donald Trump to Michele Bachmann to Rick Perry to (now) Herman Cain, transfixing the media every time they lose faith in one messiah and search for another…”
“Washington (CNN) -- A new CNN poll finds that about half of Republicans sympathize with the tea party movement. The other half either remain aloof or (5%) even express hostility.
That second group of Republicans has received remarkably little media attention this cycle. Yet their man -- Mitt Romney -- has held steady in first or second place for the past three years. Meanwhile tea party Republicans have bounced from Sarah Palin to Donald Trump to Michele Bachmann to Rick Perry to (now) Herman Cain, transfixing the media every time they lose faith in one messiah and search for another…’
“…Possibility 3: A tea party Republican is nominated and loses.
From the point of view of a non-tea party Republican, the third possibility is the most tragic waste. A winnable election will be thrown away on an ideological adventure. Yet within the disaster might lurk a silver lining. At least the GOP will get the ideological adventure out of its system. For three years, Republican activists have lived in a fantasy world in which fringe characters like Sarah Palin and Herman Cain somehow "speak for the common sense of the common people." It seems incredible that anybody could believe such a thing. It seems crazy that anyone would actually need a presidential election to disabuse them of such notions. But as Benjamin Franklin said: "Experience is a hard teacher, but fools will have no other."
“…The tea party stands for a series of propositions that don't meet the reality test: that deficits matter more than jobs, that cutting deficits and tightening credit will accelerate economic growth, that high taxes and over-regulation are the most important reasons that growth has not revived, and that America still offers the world's best opportunity for the poor to rise. Tea party plans call for a radical shift in the burden of taxation from the rich to the poor -- and promise big reductions in government spending without touching any of the benefits of current retirees.
If put into practice, the tea party platform is a formula for political and economic crisis.
Cassi Creek:
What this amounts to is a glimpse of non-teavangelist reality in a former GOP/theocon functionary. Frum has recognized that the potential for the teavangelists to drive the bus over the side of the bluff is simply too great to allow them any further access to power.
If the teavangelists try to “starve the government, I will resist them in every manner available to me. There is no benefit to any but the very rich in rolling the calendar back to the 1880s. However, if the various teavangelist leaders would care to put their political futures where their bellies are, I’ll be only too willing to help them spend the next 12 months hungry, cold, homeless and without access to any form of health care. Before they vote to condemn other citizens to those conditions, they should first be made to experience them.
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