Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Politics / Woods What's the Matter with McWherter? He Sounds Like a Real Democrat
Posted by Jeff Woods on Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:23 PM
In a startling development today in the governor's race, Mike McWherter finally stopped cowering in the corner, stood up on his hind legs and called out Republicans for all their ridiculous grandstanding against national health care reform. He even mocked Zach Wamp's signature line in which the Wampster vows to meet President Obama at the state line if he comes here to confiscate our weaponry or make us buy health insurance or whatever.
Gov. Phil Bredesen may think this lawsuit by some states to block health care reform is legit and reasonable, but at a candidate forum, McWherter disagreed. He called the health care overhaul "the law of the land" and criticized Republicans for demanding that Tennessee join the lawsuit against it:
"Access to affordable, adequate health care is something that every Tennessean ought to have. And this should not be an issue that we politically grandstand about. Wamp is about to tell you something about you can meet them at the state line and how he's going to fight this issue all the way through. But that is not how you solve problems."
Call us crazy but we think we hear a real Democrat talking in Tennessee. What's McWherter thinking?
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Does anyone really think this bill will make healthcare "more affordable?" How does cutting Medicare and insuring illegal aliens reduce the price of insurance? Obamacare is going to do for America what Tenncare did for Tennessee - bankrupt us! How, who would be against that?????
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Hey Jim, you don't know your Republican from a hole in the ground.
The only "cuts to Medicare" are to the skim by middlemen insurance brokers. Actual health care and direct services have not been touched. And the Medicare donut hole has been closed after Bush & the GOP tried to sabotage the program.
And hey - there is no "insurance for illegal aliens". There are subsidies to hospitals who are required by the law (and their oath) to deliver aid to everyone from poor white trash to all them "illegals" who end up sick or dying in their emergency rooms.
And I guess all those pointy-headed intellectuals at the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office don't know what they're talking about either. They said that "Obamacare" actually CUTS THE DEFICIT in 10 years.
I know you're a conservative, but that really shouldn't excuse this much stupidity. If only you had read what the legislation actually says instead of what those a$$holes on Fox News tell you.
"Access to affordable, adequate health care is something that every Tennessean ought to have. And this should not be an issue that we politically grandstand about."
Yep that sounds like a real Democrat all right.
He opens with a statement that is pure policitical grandstanding and then warns against political grandstanding.
No one is "entitled" to anything that they can't pay for themselves, McWhiney, be it healthcare of anything else.
