The Chair Would Like To Recognize Captain Sassy • Representative Alan Grayson (D-FL) took to the House floor to outline the Republican health care proposal. Mmrwooowwwrrrr, or whatever.
Posted at 10:45 AM in Politics
Tags: Alan Grayson | Congress | Democrats | Health | Health Care Reform | Republicans
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is this c-span's open mic night?
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Oh sniggity snap!
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Congressmen Make the Darnedest Logical Fallacies Disguised as Snaps
Not that I don't appreciate the effort he went through to make his signs. They're no Senator Grassley Sir Tax-a-Lot SIgns, though.
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I believe that's Senator Chuck "Pull the Plug on Grandma" Grassley, if you please.
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This is what I'm talking about. Senators have bigger budgets for posterboard art, I guess.
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Yes, but does the new health plan cover big vaginas?
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Maybe, but it'd have to be a pretty big healthcare plan, amIrightherepeople!
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Meh. Straw man much?
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I know what straw man is, I thought you were going to link to what the Republican's Healthcare plan actually was. That would be helpful.
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They posted it here.
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Here is the House Republican plan released in June:
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/GOPHealthPlan_061709.pdf
There are other unofficial Republican and libertarian plans, like those proposed by Gingrich's organization and the Cato Institute:
http://www.healthtransformation.net/
http://healthcare.cato.org/
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I overheard this and thought it was John McEnroe
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Are you kidding me? That comment is WAY over the line! Check your ears!
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It's funny because it's true!!!
Oh, wait, it's not funny. Wait to go, Senator Flopsweat.
(It is true though.)
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nice to know both sides have now adopted this strategy.
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"Sassy" only reminds me that I miss Phil Hartman.
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we all do..
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The fact that congress still uses giant poster boards functions as a microcosm of how outdated the United States government actually is.
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I enjoy a Republican-targeted zing as much as the next Liberal/Moderate, but what's with elected officials and surrogates from each party accusing the other party of wanting their constituents to die? That's the number 1 argument in this healthcare debate, it seems:
Don't listen to the other guy because if his/her plan goes through, it's main goal will be to kill you. It's a bit histrionic and not at all an accurate description of the cons of either plan.
There's no honesty in politics. It's a game of who-zinged-whom-most-recently.
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Dude had his delivery down. I hope he got a couple fist bumps on the way back to his seat.
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Uh oh. Someone's going to bat last in this weekend's big Repubs v. Dems softball game.
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the congress apparently has never heard of powerpoint
they prefer to use taxpayer dollars at kinkos
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