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[mainiac]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45181.html

This guy's supporters, btw, did everything short of lynch the previous guy over a healthcare bill that he didn't even vote for.

God I hate congressional districts.  Would it be that crazy to have proportional representation?

[RedKing]

Harris, a Maryland state senator who works at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore and several hospitals on the Eastern Shore, also told the audience, “This is the only employer I’ve ever worked for where you don’t get coverage the first day you are employed,” his spokeswoman Anna Nix told POLITICO.

Welcome to the real world, motherf**ker. I didn't even HAVE employer-provided insurance when I was a contractor, and even when I got on full-time, I had to wait a month. If this guy is serious about being a Teabagger, he should refuse government-provided insurance on principle.

[Akura]

“He stood up and asked the two ladies who were answering questions why it had to take so long, what he would do without 28 days of health care,” said a congressional staffer who saw the exchange.

Dude, you're rich as f(_)ck. You can pay for it yourself for a month.


Also, when I pasted that, it added stuff that wasn't part of the line I copied. I dislike web sites that jack my clipboard .

[RedKing]

I really wish someone had just told him, "Do what everyone else does: don't get sick."

EDIT: Even better, since he's a doctor and a conservative, someone should have quoted Luke 4:23, "Physician, heal thyself."

[Leafsnail]

Heh.

[Spreggo]

This is why people stop voting.

[The Transcendent Tyrant]

America's right-wing politics never fails to amaze me. Neither does the sheer amount of working class people voting for them, either.

[RedKing]

Remember, these guys were elected because the existing politicians were "out of touch with real Americans".

If we could bottle and sell bitter irony, the economy would be well on the road to recovery.

[Aqizzar]

I feel you brother.  My Congressman?  Peter Sessions, head of the National Republican Congressional Committee, i.e. the guy in charge of getting other Republicans elected, and by extension quite a bit of the crazy bullshit you got to hear on the news over the year, along with shit like this-

On redistricting, Sessions wrote that the NRCC’s program “for understanding each state’s redistricting process and working with state legislators to prepare for them” will continue so the Republicans can “maximize our advantage.”

Gee, you gotta respect a legislator who out and out endorses the structural disenfranchising of minority-majority populations through creative map-drawing.  And he's putting that platform to good use-

Well, I call an assault on the free enterprise system when you cause heavy taxation -- when you do things like health care, cap and trade, car check. I think you do it when you have a fight against rich versus poor. I think you have an assault on the free enterprise system when you rely upon them for higher taxation to where they are not competitive, not only around the world but not here at home

Yeah, well the poor have a president in Barack Obama that they overwhelmingly elected, and the president has unemployment numbers that have never been seen by this country. The African American unemployment in this country is as high as it's ever been. ... I did not refer to him as the president of the poor. I referred to him as an African American president. And African Americans have very high unemployment.

So yeah, that's the guy I have to write to if I want to talk to my government.  Nice guy, huh?  Could be worse; the Congressman representing my college's district is like like talking to a brick wall on anything not related to knobbing petroleum's bone.

[Spreggo]

I have a solution to this whole health care thing:

I think the government should just outlaw being sick.

We could fine or punish those who contract diseases. Much less people will get sick for fear of being locked up. This method, focusing on effect rather than cause, has been wildly successful in our war on drugs and poverty.

The government really needs to step up and start protecting us from ourselves.

[Eugenitor]

Lock up anyone with the flu, huge fines for anyone with a broken leg, and the penalty for leukemia is death.

That'll teach those sick bastards.

[alway]

He could always barter chickens for his healthcare like everyone else should have to.

[Urist Imiknorris]

SOCIETY WOULD CRUMBBBLLLLLLLLEEEEE

But in a good way.

[Realmfighter]

I feel so nice and warm inside when people do that.