Michael Steele's Medicare Rhetoric Incompatible With GOP's Visions Of Sweeping Change: National Journal

National Journal:

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele's pledge this week to "protect Medicare" might have been more convincing had it not come five months after nearly four-fifths of House Republicans voted to literally end the program as we know it for all Americans younger than 55.

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Comments

[sandboxreport]

11:34 AM on 09/04/2009

Read all about Michael Steele's Violent Past - http://sandboxreport.com/?p=457

[SirReal1]

04:21 AM on 08/29/2009

More and more it becomes clear to me that Republican Voters only want to hear two words; "Lower Taxes"!

They don't care who the taxes get lowered on (the 1% at the very top), they don't care what has to get cut to lower the taxes (take my Medicare, take my Social Security, take the Fire Departments, Police, Postal Service, Army, Navy, Air Force, FBI, CIA, and definitely take the IRS); Let the bridges crumble, the levies break, the roads deteriorate to pothole filled trails) as long as you "lower taxes".

Given the Health Care debate, can it be long before we hear them arguing that "breathable air" IS NOT a RIGHT? How long before the argument is made that "drinkable water" is not guaranteed by the Constitution?

It is truly mind-boggling! They don't seem to care if they will never see a dime of the tax-cuts that their representatives are proposing, as long as SOMEONE in the party is getting fat, they seem to believe they have won.

On an aside; I took my car in for service today and they had Glenn Beck on the TV in the waiting area. I was stunned (though in retrospect it really shouldn't have surprised me at all) to see an ad for his new book in which the "sale's pitch" was "buy Glenn's new book unless you're too stupid to understand it".

Kinda' say's it all in regard to GB fans.

[Zen0469]

01:20 AM on 08/29/2009

Taking the most charitable interpretation possible one is left with a striking, indelible image of Michael Steele as the perfect representative of the the Republikan party. Incompetent, irrelevant, no vision, no ideals, and a constant spur-of-the-moment revisionism designed to patch another leak in a porous republikan dam. With one foot perpetually stuck in his mouth Steele lurches from one disastrous embarassment to the next.

With all the republikan lies, the birthers, the deathers, the teabaggers, and the Fcks Gnus machine, we are very fortunate indeed that they have so few representatives in Congress.

Folks, it's time to organize in order to drive this misbegotten "Party of No" so far into the wilderness that they have no hope of ever finding their way back to civilization.

[William1950]

11:29 PM on 08/28/2009

yeah, the republicans are in it for the money... vouchers for private insurance.. whose idea could that have been do you suppose? surely not insurance companies.. surely not the same insurance companies who are now fighting so hard against any reform... surely not the same insurance companies funding democrats campaigns... why are the democrats not standing up firm for single payer??? follow the money... and we americans are so damn gullible as to believe the bs handed down in the industry "talking points" that are pounded into our heads daily on talk radio and fox news..

[SSGVABEACH]

08:23 PM on 08/28/2009

Steele is like a box of nails in the gop's coffin. Thanks keep up the self destruction.

[jonmonbuckeye]

08:21 PM on 08/28/2009

Republicans will not want you to see this. This is how the RNC makes policy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y&NR=1

[Chironomid]

08:08 PM on 08/28/2009

Man, the hypocrisy knows no bounds...

[dfranz]

08:01 PM on 08/28/2009

Republicans are frigging insane.

Half of the nuts screaming at Town Hall meetings are scared that Obama is going to take their Medicare away.

But they don't want Government run health care. Gee Go Figure!

[ObamAtomic]

07:54 PM on 08/28/2009

What Vision!?

[Icantbelieveher]

07:53 PM on 08/28/2009

The sad thing is that seniors believe and trust the republicans, but the minute they were to get back into power, they would do everything they could to gut Medicare and Social Security!

WAKE UP PEOPLE, THEY ARE USING YOU! They could care less about you and they are only interested in regaining power, not in helping anyone in this country that doesn't have millions to give them!

[camaretta]

07:35 PM on 08/28/2009

RE Headline:
Steele's rhetoric is incompatible with ANYTHING.

[lochnessmonster]

06:08 PM on 08/28/2009

I hear an interview with him talking about how he and his sister had to help their parents figure out the insurance and new prescription stuff a few years ago. Why don't we make it simple..single payer for all. Then our elderly wouldn't need a battery of people to help them with all the red tape. Where does this guy really sit on this subject? He was all over the place and wanting to simplify things for HIS family but the rest of America be damned???

[Brightlight]

05:16 PM on 08/28/2009

Why do you think they are searching for their "great white hope" for? Their token black man will be "sold" during their next slave-based town hall meeting!

[nwfurn]

06:29 PM on 08/28/2009

That's funny, but sadly true. How this guy keeps his job is a true reflection on how messed up this party is. His phone must be ringing off the hook from those rich, white, hate filled men, every time he opens his mouth.

[JRGris]

05:15 PM on 08/28/2009

I just can't believe that we are going to let the Republicans get away scott free on this. President Obama needs to lay this thing out for the American public. Stop trying to bring these fools along. Dump the Republicans overboard and go for single payer. Medicare for all.

[nini516]

05:09 PM on 08/28/2009

Steele-plated, do you know what the heck you are doing? LOL
All in your party are laughing at you.