GOP Rep Pence: Dems Who Block Reform Will Be Akin To World War II Vets Who Risked Lives For Freedom
Fun times! At a GOP health care presser today, GOP Rep. Mike Pence appeared to veer sharply off topic, publicizing a pending visit with World War II veterans — and suggested House Dems who vote No on health care will be akin to World War II vets who “risked their lives for freedom.”
Pence, the House GOP conference chairman, made the comparison in the course of informing reporters of an apparent non sequitur: After the presser, he said, he was set to pay a visit to the World War II memorial with veterans from his home state of Indiana…
Pence:
“There’s a group of Hoosiers that are making their way to that memorial as we speak, some of whom are making their first and probably only visit to a memorial that was built in their honor. I will take all the time they need to shake every hand and thank every hero for what they did for freedom. They risked their lives for freedom. We will find out today if enough conservative democrats are willing to vote No for freedom.”
Note Pence’s profoundly solemn expression as he exited upon making this pronouncement.
By the way, Pence’s claim is interesting not just for its apparently lopisided historical comparison between health care reform and the Nazis/Japanese as equivalent threats to freedom and Democracy. Via the Department of Veterans Affairs, World War II and other vets, of course, enjoy government-run health care.
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Hrmm….
If the Harvard Journal study is anywhere near accurate, 440,000 Americans die every decade due to insufficient health insurance coverage.
How many Americans died in WWII?
Is Pence OK with the blood of 440,000 Americans on his hands?
Cheap shot by Pence.
Here’s a little counter balance to Pence, an evaluation of the President’s remarks this morning with Dems. I just love how all us liberals hate freedom according to Repubs. And if I hear “government takeover of healthcare” one more time I think I’ll explode. They’re really pulling out all the stops aren’t they.
“The president, according multiple attendees, played the role of political prognosticator during his roughly 30 minute address before Democratic caucus members on Capitol Hill. Addressing, implicitly, those conservative Democrats who are worried about voting for a nearly trillion dollar health care overhaul, he insisted that they would not be safe from partisan attack even if they opposed the bill.
“He certainly talked about the politics and he said that the Republicans want us to fail and no one should feel if they as a Democrat helped us to fail that they would be [free of their attacks],” said Rep. Henry Waxman, chair of the powerful Ways and Means Committee.”
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/07/obama-to-dems-gop-will-at_n_349546.html&cp
Hrmm..some excerpts from the CBO estimate someone just linked.
“The estimate includes a projected net cost of $891 billion over 10 years for the proposed
expansions in insurance coverage.”
“According to CBO and JCT’s assessment, enacting H.R. 3962 would result in a net reduction in federal budget deficits of $109 billion over the 2010–2019 period”
Neat.
They’re really targeting Blue Dogs. From Joe “you lie” Wilson.
“Just on Fox News, as we approach vote we find out if Blue Dogs are independent or Lap Dogs of Speaker Pelosi, citizens can still call!”
mike from A
That “someone” likes to pick and choose from various reports to “prove” we’re all a bunch of crackpots. Another one that’s best to ignore. For everyone of their posts we can find a counter post.
Pence aint worth one! They just can’t help themselves equating WWII/deafeating Hitler, etc with HCR. Keep it up, y’all.
Here’s a list of all the false claims Repubs. are making about the HCR bill with the facts to refute them. Here’s an example of one such claim with the corresponding fact.
“2. GOP CLAIM: The Affordable Health Care for America Act will destroy the private health insurance industry.
WHAT OUR BILL ACTUALLY DOES
The Affordable Health Care for America Act will not destroy the private insurance industry – in fact, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office reports that the legislation builds on the current private, employer-provided health care system we have now and will expand enrollment in private insurance.”
http://www.speaker.gov/blog/?p=2068
It’s also ironic because the conservatives were for a long time AGAINST getting involved in WW2……
Pence’s bigoted hypocrisy is nauseating. He has the gall to stand in front of an overtly anti-Semitic sign at the latest teabagger rally which compared attempts at healthcare reform to Dauchau. This sign effectively spits on the graves and the memories of those who suffered and died at Dauchau. Pence offered not a single syllable of rebuke for that outrage. He was more than willing to offer his tacit endorsement of silence.
Now he has the gaul to liken opposition of Dems to healthcare reform to those who fought the architects of Dauchau. Pence has no shame or decency and will pander to the lowest, basest elements that is humanly possible.
Pence is a loathsome shill for insurance and pharma lobbies. He is nothing more than a corporate ***** who will gladly despoil the hallowed memories of those who served and died in WW II and those who suffered and died in the Holocaust.
Lol. Fox news alert on now that Senate Bill makes people wait six months for health care.
Republican plan – Wait eternity.
Right-wing vermin with a pie-hole. Nothing more.
Pence was not equating the bravery of WWII vets to opposition against government-run healthcare. He was just saying that the veterans wanted freedom to endure, and so do we.
The freedom to not be able to pay for medical costs, through no fault of your own, is an inhumane, perverse understanding of freedom.
You do not desire freedom, you desire status quo, which unavoidably means you desire oppression.
Pence has become like Palin and the rest of the right-wing’s right-wing – NOT RELEVANT.
Republicans don’t know the Constitution, don’t know the Pledge of Allegiance, and now Republicans are fighting against saving 44 THOUSAND American lives.
Republicans choose Corporate-Profits over American Lives.
The Republican Party is the CORPORATE-THEOCRAT Party.
Yes, it’s a tragedy that those in all of our peer nations suffer from a lack of freedom imposed by their health care systems, which the House bill wouldn’t even approach. We should send in the troops to liberate Canada, Europe, and New Zealand immediately.