Zander
Platinum Member
When your house in on fire, you don't start a kitchen remodel......More on Congressman Ryan's attempt to woo seniors (Medicare recipients are much more likely to vote Republican than the uninsured, who would benefit most from the Democrat's bill(s). Think what he's doing isn't political? Think again. Ryan couldn't give a shit about your health care.
Perhaps Ryan is unaware that his counterparts on Capital Hill who shamelessly voted for the Prescription Drug Bill (a multi-billion dollar mandated, UNFUNDED piece of major legislation intended to attract seniors) are the same ones who continue to decry the cost factor of any new health care legislation. Isn't he aware that only five years ago, John Kyl (one of the biggest naysayers of the current legislation) said about the Part D bill "I am committed to ensuring its successful implementation and will fight attempts to erode it"??? That, my friends, is political hypocrisy at its worst.
Ryan whined that Republicans didn't get enough media attention on health care as it moved through Congress. WHOT?! Why then does he think all polling shows it (and the Democrats, actually) as losing ground? Doesn't he realize that the evil "liberal" media focused more on the negativity and less on the positive? Or perhaps he thinks that the reason most Americans are no longer in favor of health care reform is that some mystical transcendation took place that brainwashed people in their sleep.
Why are Republicans continuing to pound away on this near-dead issue if not solely to score political points? If the economy weren't otherwise teetering on the brink, health care SHOULD be and WOULD be a top priority. Why can't they just say that? It's a truth everyone understands.
PS- The prescription drug program was a colossal fuck up- but it had bi-partisan support so blame goes to both parties...