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Michele Bachmann and the GOP’s Anti-Medicare BluffPosted on Apr 30, 2011
On Friday, ultraconservative free-market booster Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) suddenly came out as a supporter of government-run Medicare. But this potential presidential candidate’s break with the official Republican Party line was not surprising. The GOP has been under attack by its own base for the past few weeks, ever since House Republicans voted to pass the radical Paul Ryan budget “reform” bill, which would double the cost of health care for seniors, among a lot of other nasty things. As they are being berated by their own constituents at town hall meetings all across America, right-wingers are simply trying to minimize the damage and figure out a way to backtrack on their plan to privatize Medicare and Medicaid without looking like the political frauds that they are. You can rest assured that, right now, some of the best political minds in America are working to solve this problem. —YL
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By labman57, May 1, 2011 at 10:58 am Link to this comment
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Ryan and his fellow health insurance lobby lackeys in the Republican Party have
Report thistaken a “General MacArthur” approach to destroying our nation’s Medicare system.
They won’t make it immediately die—they simply want it to slowly fade away.
… and with it the ability of future senior citizens to obtain affordable chronic
condition treatment and preventative health care.
By ribbie149, May 1, 2011 at 7:35 am Link to this comment
This lunatic, who barely squeaked out a victory in a
Report thissupposedly “safe” district in the last election, sees
the handwriting on the wall and knows she will LOSE to
Tarryl Clark next time around if she doesn’t back off
her anti-Medicare rhetoric. You’re going to see a lot
of Republican’ts back-peddling in the next few months.
By TDoff, April 30, 2011 at 4:51 pm Link to this comment
Wolfgang Schpritzer, the Harvard-educated psychiatrist who was hired to ‘consult’ with all the GOPer presidential candidates, beamed with satisfaction as he read Bachmann’s ‘expression of caution about how we approach Medicare’. Wolfgang, also a ‘Tea Party darling’, said Bachmann’s statement was ‘a first tiny step, a sign that she might be responding to my treatment for the intensive psychotic struggles her inner demons force upon her 24/7’. ‘However’, Wolfgang cautioned, ‘This is not a sign that she is approaching a mental state any sound person would think of as acceptable, or ‘normal’. It is merely an indication that, though she has a long, hard road to follow to approach a rational approach to life, she has taken the first ‘baby steps’ away from her obsessive destructive rage against herself and the human race’.
Report thisAsked if his other GOP candidate/patients were making any progress, Wolfgang stated, ‘Professional ethics prohibit my commenting on specific patients. I did commence treatment with the two worst-cases. But I no longer work with or speak with Paul Ryan, he is irrecoverable, a lost, frantic, destructive, ill-formed child, in my opinion. And while Bachmann may be past the self-immolation phase of her psychoses, though we still have her under 24/7 surveillance as a precaution, she is facing mandatory life-long counseling if she expects to approach a productive life.
As far as the others, I am looking forward to examining the weird complexities of the twisted neuroses of the one called ‘Santorum’, which, I understand, is the Latin for ‘a**hole’. And if the one known as ‘Simple Sarah’ were to announce, and thus qualify as one of my patients, I look forward to the lifetime’s worth of in-depth analytical papers on ‘Feminine Mental Aberrations’ I’ll be able to publish in the psychiatric journals.
By berniem, April 30, 2011 at 3:23 pm Link to this comment
What’s with this “conservative” BS? People like Bachmann are reactionary, neo-fascist demigogues whose only desire is to return power and societal control to those of wealth and ideological purity meaning that those not anointed by the fundamentalist, right wing, evangelical christian taliban have no right to engage in any meaningful way with the governance of this nation! I defy anyone to show me what these people would “conserve” other than a benighted and regressive society!FREE BRADLEY MANNING!!!!!
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