Republican senators are either on crack, insane, uncaring or just insane Do-Nothings with HCR

[zulchzulu]

It's pretty obvious that the Republicans think that health care reform is a joke, but here are some samples of your tax money at work. Talking Points Memo comes up with a Top Ten list of amendments that are sheer madness:



Clockwise: Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Sen. Bob Bennett (R-UT); inset: viagra pills

GOP has filed 32 amendments. But these 10 are our picks for the most ridiculous:

1. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK): To reduce the cost of providing federally funded prescription drugs by eliminating fraudulent payments and prohibiting coverage of Viagra for child molesters and rapists for drugs intended to induce abortion.

2. Vitter: Prohibiting use of funds to fund the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). (Adding to the ridculousness, ACORN folded just this week.)

3. Coburn: To require that each new bureaucrat added to any department or agency of the Federal Government for the purpose of implementing the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act be offset by a reduction of 1 existing bureaucrat at such department or agency.

4. Sen. David Vitter (D-LA): To repeal the government takeover of health care.

5. Coburn: To revoke the powers given the Secretary of Health and Human Services under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

6. Coburn: To help the President keep his promise that Americans who like the health care coverage they have now can keep it.

7. Coburn: To repeal the new $375 million program directing the very same Federal Government that has amassed a $12 trillion debt to lecture Americans about financial responsibility.

8. Sen. Bob Bennett (R-UT): To protect the democratic process and the right of the people of the District of Columbia to define marriage.

9. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) To make sure the President, Cabinet Members, all White House senior staff and Congressional Committee and Leadership staff are purchasing health insurance through the health insurance exchanges established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

10. Coburn: To require all Members of Congress to read a bill prior to casting on a vote on the bill.


http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/the-10-most-ridiculous-gop-proposed-health-care-amendments.php?ref=mp

[SPedigrees]

1. I'd say psychopathic, ie devoid of empathy and dedicated only to their own

interests (power, money, and winning.) Their constituents, along with all other American citizens, are just pawns to be used in their quest to win.

[GoCubsGo]

2. I concur.

Maybe their mothers didn't hug them when they were babies...

[kestrel91316]

3. In all fairness, I did like the proposal to eliminate the medical devices tax for veterans.

But heck, veterans who need medical devices such as prosthetics as a result of their service shouldn't have to pay a penny for them, so taxes on them should be moot.

[Bitwit1234]

4. And I will bet anything

the MSM will twist it around to be the Democrats fault also.

[Jennicut]

5. Uh, Coburn...the bill should have been read months ago. And the reconciliation changes

could be read in a few hours. Der....

[zulchzulu]

7. It's no wonder Dr. Coburn wants tort reform for doctors...

He is probably a hack doctor. So yeah, so the kid died while under my knife. Can't sue me!

[Jennicut]

8. If Coburn was my Dr. I would have nightmares the rest of my life.

:scared:

[depakid]

15. You might also have been sterilized without your consent

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Coburn#Allegations_of_non-consensual_sterilization_and_Medicaid_fraud

[Jennicut]

16. Okay, that is disturbing. Coburn fully gives me the creeps...now even more so.

[Cha]

6. I vote for all of the above..crack, etc..

nice graphic, zulch.

[Orsino]

9. You forgot corrupt.

The other possibilities you mentioned are indeed...possible, but corrupt explains everything.

[old mark]

10. Sorry - I thought this was multiple choice - in order of importance. nt

[justgamma]

11. Grassley, you are the one that replied

to a woman when asked "Why can't we get into an exchange like you have in the Senate." Snarkily Grassley said " get a job in the government."

[agentS]

12. They just don't care about the lives of people

They're all a buncha racist sexist homophobic elitist snobs who are stuck on stupid and insult the dignity of the Republic (or "empire", if u like that term).

Half these amendments on this list are stupid and the other half weaken the bill.

they just don't care and I think they never will.

[HughMoran]

13. They're all on crack

ass crack

[butterfly77]

14. My first vote is for INSANE.

but I would say all of the above.