Republicans to the rescue!

[w1z4rd]

... of another insurance company.

GOP Rushes To Defend Insurance Companies From Dem Attack

Republicans took to the floor of Congress, the Internet and the Wall Street Journal op-ed page Tuesday in a rush to defend a health insurance company that used taxpayer-subsidized communication to terrify seniors with the prospect that health care reform will cut their Medicare benefits.

Republican leaders in both houses of Congress ripped Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) for urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to put a stop to the insurer's efforts, decrying what they called a "gag order" and reading the First Amendment on the floor of the Senate.

Baucus, meanwhile, seemed mostly oblivious to the Republican attacks. "I never gag. I believe in the First Amendment," he told HuffPost, but added that he didn't know what the Republicans were referring to. "I have to go back and look to see what it is we did."

As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Baucus spent most of the day marking up a reform bill that so far has no GOP support - although Maine Republican Olympia Snowe has offered some indications of being on board. Snowe has been speaking warmly of the package and most of her reservations seem to be that it isn't generous enough -- objections the Democratic caucus will be happy to overcome. And in Massachusetts, a state senate vote moved Democrats one step closer to regaining 60 seats in the U.S. Senate.

Meanwhile, the GOP rode to the rescue of health insurance companies.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/22/gop-rushes-to-defend-insu_n_295469.html

Its pretty obvious whos paying for the majority of the healthcare lies and protests against the Obama administration.

 

[Amerikanse]

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/22/gop-rushes-to-defend-insu_n_295469.html

Its pretty obvious whos paying for the majority of the healthcare lies and protests against the Obama administration.

Business as usual, its not like the Dems don't do the same thing.

As a side note, don't cite the HuffPo and expect that post to be taken seriously. The HuffPo is pretty much the media wing of the DNC.

 

[Fudzy]

Business as usual, its not like the Dems don't do the same thing.

As a side note, don't cite the HuffPo and expect that post to be taken seriously. The HuffPo is pretty much the media wing of the DNC.

It's their equivalent of FoxNews I guess.

 

[Amerikanse]

It's their equivalent of FoxNews I guess.

Except the HuffPo doesn't pretend to be a legitimate news org. It's an opinion blog.

 

[Alan]

+1
As a side note, don't cite the HuffPo and expect that post to be taken seriously. The HuffPo is pretty much the media wing of the DNC.

This is fine. The dems and wiz(when he's suffering "they're racists" Malema syndrome) are focusing on the wrong crowd. The main stumbling block to health care reform is not republicans, racists, libertarians, fringe lunatics etc but moderate Democrats and independents. Those causing the problem in congress and senate are blue democrats.

The hemorrhaging poll approval ratings for Obama is not the result of these people protesting. Those people never supported him in the first. Those 20 odd percentage points that's evaporated in the last few months are independents and moderate Dems who either fell for the rhetoric pre election but have now changed their minds having seen the blundering and piling on of debt or supported Obama out of frustration at the Republican stuff up. Both never signed up for these extreme leftwing policies. They wanted bipartisan moderation they were promised. Unfortunatley that was the other candidate.

Having said that Obama might to coming around to this fact when he did a tour of friendly [-]media[/-] propaganda outlets to preach his gospel while snubbing FOX where they might *gasp* not toe the line and ask some tough questions about his plans.

It's their equivalent of FoxNews I guess.

No that would be CNN or MSNBC.