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September 9, 2009
'The Senior's Bill of Rights'
They just aired an RNC commercial on MSNBC featuring Michael Steele ballyhooing something called "The Senior's Bill of Rights." Of course the campaign is intended to scare old people. One of the items is "Prevent any Government Role in End-of-Life Care." No one is calling for that, other than to make it less expensive. But the idea, naturally, is to imply that there are death panels.
At the end, a voice urges seniors to check it out at GOP.com. I checked. It's not there. So the seniors who are familiar with the internet will spend the next several hours clicking around the Republican Party website desperately searching for it. Good job, Republicans.
By the way, Michael Steele and the Republicans want to privatize Social Security and Medicare, leaving it up to private for-profit corporations and the whim of the stock market. Sarah Palin's ghost writer, specifically, wrote today that he or she wants to do this:
Instead of poll-driven "solutions," let's talk about real health-care reform: market-oriented, patient-centered, and result-driven. As the Cato Institute's Michael Cannon and others have argued, such policies include... providing Medicare recipients with vouchers that allow them to purchase their own coverage...
The whole Republican strategy is only a couple notches above those door-to-door scammers who rob old people of their life savings.
Filed under: Healthcare || Medicare || Michael Steele || Social Security
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Posted By Bob Cesca | September 9, 2009 8:50 AM
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Dan Tubagoo wrote that? Or does he just write the speeches?
Posted by: ablamj ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.bobcesca.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at September 9, 2009 9:17 AM
By the way, Michael Steele and the Republicans want to privatize Social Security and Medicare
Bush's abject failure on that front (how I long for those days when Democrats actually had a spine) really ought to have put the kibosh on that incredibly stupid idea. But then, our dumbass former president thought that failing to privatize Social Security was a success. So it's not that surprising that MC Steele and friends t think another equally-destined-for-failure shot is in order.
Posted by: Skippy at September 9, 2009 10:04 AM
And they probably left the healthcare stuff off their website on purpose. That ad is being used to trick seniors into reading their so-called policies. And on MSNBC too - look at that liberal media go!
Sorry, who's trying to brainwash and mindwipe people again...?
Posted by: Skippy at September 9, 2009 10:09 AM
Really, why hasn't the media even broached this? Everyone knows that Sarah Palin didn't write either of the 2 op-ed's that have been released as her own. It's been my experience that people tend to write the way they speak and nothing I've seen that she's supposed to have written sounds anything like the jumbled, ignorant, hillbilly speak that comes out of her mouth. It's important that we all continue to point this out. When this harpy goes on her book tour, she'll have to spend lots of time trying to explain why she's unable to defend some of this crap she's supposed to have written. It should be hilarious. Here's a tip for her ghost writer. Try to use words like also as often as you can. Just remember that you're writing for a mornon who went to 5 colleges in 6 years!
Posted by: roxsteady at September 9, 2009 10:10 AM
It's not there. So the seniors who are familiar with the internet will spend the next several hours clicking around the Republican Party website desperately searching for it. Good job, Republicans.
What a hoot that would be, watching those old, decrepit Red State morons clicking around looking for it, only to give up and take a nap.
"Martha! The paper! Where's the damned paper?! My Depends! Who'll cange my Depends?! Damn the Democrats, this is zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....."
Posted by: Hippy Dippy Weatherman at September 9, 2009 3:25 PM
As bad as things are now, can anybody imagine what a catastrophe it would have been if Bush had succeeded in privatizing social security? Think back to October '08 and imagine that our seniors' last line of defense against abject poverty was INVESTED IN THE STOCK MARKET. Holy hell...
The Palin quote is cracking me up. She can't name a Supreme Court case with which she disagrees, but she is supposedly familiar with the ins and outs of Michael Canon's work at the Cato Institute. Yyyyyyeah.
Posted by: Rogect8 at September 9, 2009 3:30 PM
