Newt Gingrich Claims the Republican Health Care Plan Just Needed More Publicity
Newt Gingrich seems to think that the Republicans terrible alternative for a health care plan just needed some more publicity but the media didn't want to let the public know it existed. How I wish that were the case. Gingrich is repeating the new meme for the month which is that Democrats need to start over and try to work with Republicans now and they'll actually get some cooperation on the health care bill. Sorry Newt, but anyone who's been following what's going on knows the Republicans have no intention of working with the Democrats to pass anything.
Steve Benen reminds us of just how laughable Gingrich's assertions here are.
Throughout the lengthy debate on health care reform, Republicans refused to negotiate in good faith. Compromises were considered out of the question. Blatantly, demonstrably false claims were the norm. Perhaps worst of all, GOP leaders would embrace specific reform ideas, and when Democrats would agree, those same GOP leaders would reject the same measures they'd already endorsed.
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The Republican plan was nothing short of laughable -- it did nothing for the uninsured, nothing for those with pre-existing conditions, and nothing for those worried about losing coverage when it's needed most. It was an entirely partisan plan, written in secret. The Republican proposal sought to create a system that "works better for people who don't need health care services, and much worse for people who actually are sick or who become sick in the future. It's basically a health un-insurance policy." And as we learned in November, the plan included provisions that "mirror the suggestions put forth by the lobbying entity of the private insurance industry way back in December 2008."
Indeed, the official Republican plan didn't even offer modest provisions that the party used to support. Roll Call reported at the time, "Under the GOP plan, insurance companies would still be allowed to exclude anyone with a pre-existing medical condition from coverage, there would be no national insurance exchange and businesses would not face any mandate to provide insurance nor individuals to buy it. Boehner also left out tax credits to help the poor and middle class buy insurance -- a central pillar of most GOP reform proposals and a key feature of a four-page outline Republican leaders released in June."
The plan was quickly labeled "a major embarrassment."
Transcript below the fold.
Van Susteren: The President says the Republicans are being obstructionists, that they’ve basically been the party of no on every effort to improve things whether it’s the economy or it’s on health care. I assume you disagree with that.
Gingrich: Well John Boehner, the Republican leader of the House offered the all of the above energy plan that would have created more American energy, increased income to the government, created more jobs. The Republicans in the House created an alternative on health care that was actually scored by the Congressional Budget Office as being dramatically better financially and would have covered about one third of the people without insurance without raising taxes, without increasing government.
Mitch McConnell mentioned the other day, the Senate Republican leader, that something like 150 times on the Senate floor during the debates the Republicans talked about an alternative. It is fair to say that the news media doesn’t want to cover it very much and it’s fair to say that if you’re the President you don’t want to admit it exists. But the fact is if the President wanted to have a genuine bi-partisan meeting on health care, on the economy, on energy, Republicans have a number of positive ideas they could bring in, some of which we helped create at the Center for Health Transformation and American Solutions, some of which have come from a bunch of really smart guys like Paul Ryan or you know, Senators who have been working really hard on these issues like Barrasso and Corker.
And I think; I wouldn’t underestimate that, but it’s very hard for the Republicans to get the kind of publicity they need to get. And frankly they need to get much more persistent in taking three or four or five big ideas and talking about them for six solid months so they are eventually driven into the public awareness.
Some stuff you can't make up!
Simple, direct and straight to the point. I like it.
Republicans have not offered one suggestion in over 20 years for one...
Newt Gingrich is a two face liar, he even was screwing around sexually when he attack Clinton..
If not for Bush , Cheney , Gingrich and the republicans we would not be in the disaster our country is in today..
Bush and his Administration has created , funded and destroy our country , democracy , constitution , bill of rights , laws , jobs and economy and now all the creeps are coming out of the wood work after sleeping for 8 plus years to attack the democrats with their lies , deceit and BS...
The only problem is that Emanuel, Obama and the centrists democrats have become the left hand of the right wing republican party have become the left hand of the right wing republican party,..
To farther their BS they are blaming the liberals for their corporate republican policies they are legislating..
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They had something other than 3 pages with not cost estimates or controls?... WHEN BY WHOM?? Wow, the World must have missed it..It is not even on the RNC site now with a CBO report..Liar Liar --
Borderline Personality Disorder
Theodore Millon identified four subtypes of borderline [29][30]. Any individual borderline may exhibit none or one of the following:
* discouraged borderline - including avoidant, depressive or dependent features
* impulsive borderline - including histrionic or antisocial features
* petulant borderline - including negativistic (passive-aggressive) features
* self-destructive borderline - including depressive or masochistic features
Newt is the petulant one.
exhibits wheezing in between each and every sentence.
Alan Grayson gave them a little publicity and they hated it.
Alan even gave them a catchy tag line.
I can't imgine what Newt is on about?
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-usmvYOPfco
Change his tone about the health care... First stated it have to have a public option of some type , than claim this bill was better than nothing..
If Obama have keep his promise of a public option and paying for it by repelling Bush's tax cuts to the wealthy everything would be going just fine.. I am starting to blieve Obama is a phony democrat..
He now states he didn't make promises which he did..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUNCpnRBf9o
Wednesday, September 24, 2008.....Obama's speech from Dunedin, Florida
http://speeches.demconwatchblog.com/2008/09/o...
I will cut taxes – cut taxes – for 95% of all working families. My opponent doesn’t want you to know this, but under my plan, tax rates will actually be less than they were under Ronald Reagan.
Change means a tax code that doesn’t reward the lobbyists who wrote it, but the American workers and small businesses who deserve it. I will stop giving tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, and I will start giving them to companies that create good jobs right here in America.
If American taxpayers are financing this solution, you should be treated like investors. Wall Street and Washington should give you every penny of your money back once this economy recovers.
We cannot and will not simply bailout Wall Street without helping the millions of innocent homeowners who are struggling to stay in their homes.
American people should not be spending one dime to reward the same Wall Street CEOs whose greed and irresponsibility got us into this mess.
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Mandate for Americans to buy health insurance
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/04/us/politics...
Mr. Obama raised the Clinton campaign’s ire late last week by charging in a voter mailing that “Hillary’s health care plan forces everyone to buy insurance, even if you can’t afford it... and you pay a penalty if you don’t.”
Mrs. Clinton argues that she can make premiums affordable for low-income workers by spending $110 billion on subsidies and cost-saving devices. Like Mr. Obama, she would pay for her plan primarily by allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire for the wealthiest Americans. She would not allow exemptions from the insurance mandate, as Massachusetts does for those who cannot
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he should explain why the Republicans have broken HIS "Contract With America" and why should he and his party get more chances to screw up. I haven't forgotten
I like it better when he describes giraffe hunting and womens parts - but I am a sick mind,
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
It wouldn't matter I bet a lot of Repubs have forgotten the 90's entirely with all the great Republican leadership that followed.
Happen to the democrats??? They have not only become arrogant while breaking their campaign promises ,,, but they have either lost the spine or are paid very well by their employers <<<<>>>
Democrats called the republican voters sheep when the kiss Bush's a.. while he destroy our country , constitution , bill of rights , wealth and jobs...Yet we are doing the same d... thing for the democrats..
Face it; they have kicked us under the bus... They believe their base will vote and support them no matter what corporate-republican legislation they pass..
Any elected democrat from my state which votes for this health bill which is a piece of crap ,, on top of take cuts our budget which means our social programs will be slashed ,, Increase the spending for the military which means billions or trillion of tax money will be given to these war contractors ,,, while 12 percent plus Americans are out of a jobs , will never see my vote... Hope the independences can sponsor and provide a decent candidate for the coming elections..
Democrats have become arrogant corporate paid conservatives ,,, while trying to say they have been progressive or govern from the left.. The a.. hole Matthews states that Obama is govern from the left or progressive or liberal and is full of it..
Show me the liberal or progressive policies they have passed of even try to...
Emanuel is a destroyer of the democratic party and his actions to fund , support republicans or corporate policy minded candidates while kicking Dean in the a.. has destroy our democratic party.
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"Republicans to get the kind of publicity they need to get."
Because even the best Madison Avenue minds find it hard to sell insanity wrapped in a lie dipped in confusion.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
"...but it’s very hard for the Republicans to get the kind of publicity they need..."
Yeah, they only own one of the major cable news networks. They have to go through their friends at GE, Viacomm, and Disney to reach the other networks.
Obama , Emanuel and the centrists corporate democrats are making it very easy for the repoblicans to look good,,,, even when repubilcans are acting stupid and are at their very worst...
Republicans were voted out of office for the very destructive policies that obama campaign against..... Yet Obama , Emanuel and the centrists are pushing the same d... destructive policies which are turning Independences and others against them Now..
Obama and the democrats not only did not have the balls to prosecute the crimes from the previous administration but has censored their criminal activities and stop any prosecution.
Obama and other democrats have to be republican or stupid as he...
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Gingrich: "The Republicans in the House created an alternative on health care that was actually scored by the Congressional Budget Office as being dramatically better financially and would have covered about one third of the people without insurance without raising taxes, without increasing government."
Actually, according to the referenced Wapo article by Ezra Klein, the Boner plan would have cost twice as much as the Democrats' plan and covered nobody. But, Fox wouldn't let a Republican operative just lie on one of their teevee shows, would they?
Another correction: The Republican plan would embarrass Republicans only if Republicans were capable of shame.
Screw Nuke Gingrich..
The republicans are winning the elections because Emanuel , Obama and the centrists have arrogantly thrown their base and the Independent votes under the bus while letting the corporations and republicans write their legislation..
If the republicans and their policies were so d... great American voters would not have voted them out by a very large majority in the 2006 and 2008 elections.
I believe we have republicans elected on the democratic ticket and are voting republican-corporate policies to screw the democratic party and Obama , Emanuel and the centrists have to be partners in their crimes..
There is no way in h... they do not know what they are doing to the democrats , our country and our citizens..
They d... sure knew what was to say and what was needed when Obama and others were campaigning for our votes to get elected,,,,,, Now they act like they have Alzheimer's disease.... <>...
Democrats have been electing republicans on our democratic ticket for years... This is why they supported Bush's illegal war , protected him from being impeachment , did not prosecute Bush/Cheney for the treason/Torture and other crimes while in office...
No democrat of the past would be pushing down our throats these corporate written policies and the BS about the war on terrorist..
Counting the war contractors / Mercenary army there are over 200,000 military in Afghanistan and over 250,000 in Iraq..
Just look at the price this is costing American tax payers a month much less in a years...
We spend trillions of dollars to destroy Iraq to conquer it for their resources and military bases than we spend trillions of dollars re-building and supplying jobs for them and trillions of tax dollars to the war contractors which have moved overseas to pay not taxes..
When in the h... are we going to say enough is enough....
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The Republican Health Care Plan just needed to exist.
Wait they have an actual plan? when did this happen?
the entire gop is nothing less than
a bunch of f#cking LIARS..there never was or is
a repig health care plan..
the American public is not as stupid
as they want us to be.......
except the birthers and teabaggers
lead by palin and coultergist
Demint said they have been working on a healthcare reform bill for 10 years.
What
Don't Get Sick?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Tax cuts for paying for medical insurance
Or medical bill
Or food
Or rent
But only for one or the other.
(Blame the Mexicans).
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I wonder if the Wyden-Bennet bill would have a chance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=714-Ioa4XQw
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Who keeps turning over the rock so this shithead can crawl out from under it?
if the media is so liberal....
are all these right wing fucktards spewing all over it.... all the time.....
I can understand it on Fox...but anywhere else....not.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHD8eVuFf2M
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Newt the Deceiver. There's a whole heap of karma waiting to bite this lying GOP jerk in his pasty fat ass.
media... if they had a plan (besides NO, that is), why didn't they roll it out on the Tee Vee?
Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.
The republicans have such problems getting booked on the network, cable, and radio markets.
Those poor poor saps.
... is really very simple:
"1. If you get sick, something is obviously wrong with you.
2. If you believe in personal responsibility, then you will agree that if something is wrong with you, it's your fault.
3. The government should not have to pay to fix something that is your fault.
4. The way to put things right in life is to get right with God, and prayer is free.
5. Therefore, we demand a tax cut."
This man gringrich has proven to his family and the country that he is a fellow that cannot be trusted.
He is dishonest, no honor, no sense of obligation to anyone other then himself. Think not ask his wife that he served divorce papers on while she was in a hospital bed. You have to understand that all good republicans are just like newt. Untrustworthy, liars, greedy bastards that spend all their time trying to figuar out how to make things better for themselves.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness. How much more proof do you need? Just look at the insanity on the tv news shows. Now that is a crazy bunch of lying fools!
sociopath, likely psychopath (under the old definitions). The Republican Party has become so extreme, that the only people it attracks are twisted and deviant personalities. Sad thing is, the same thing is happening to the Democratic party, what with the party's open-hearted embrace of "centrist" corporatism...the ranks of sociopathic opportunists is steadily on the rise there,too. They've already hijacked the party so that it no longer represents the will of the people.
The sickness spreads. We begin to look like the roman empire in its downfall.
The "Democrat's" plan is the Republican plan. Nothing for the People, everything for the insurance gangsters, Big Pharma and for-profit health delivery, massive theft and transfer into private coffers of middle-class and below hard-won wealth by the "Free" market, compels us to pay taxes and tribute directly to private enterprises instead of the government( what the hell...they are the government)all this packaged up in the illusion of reform. It screws everybody but the rich on prime-time national TV. What is there about this travesty that the Repulicans could possibly dislike?
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