LOL McCain's town hall loonies are still concerned about ACORN

[wndycty]

This is just too damned funny. ACORN is the boogie man.

[nc4bo]

1. Whoops sorry - didn't know you'd posted about this farce. Apologies.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

2. "i didn't hear anything about it on fox news"

she says about the weiner amendment.

edit: i meant to post under OP.

[nc4bo]

3. It's on right now and the only way I know is our cable system changed the channel lineup

seems all the news networks are all in numerical order and I accidently ran into it trying to find MSNBC.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

5. i was quoting the lady who brought up ACORN

[nc4bo]

9. *blush* I'm sorry. Yea I nearly barfed when I heard that too. nt

[dem629]

21. Good disclaimer. ;)

[nc4bo]

22. LOL. One thing I'm happy about is that I can hear MSNBC much better now that they moved it.

Usually I'm pretty po'd at Charter and their broadband service never the cable stations.

[dem629]

25. It's just funny when people try to explain why they're watching a certain channel. :)

I watch little parts of all of them.

When someone starts paying my cable bill, they can tell me what to watch.

You don't need a disclaimer. :)

[nc4bo]

26. You sound like my hubby lol. He watches Faux with a cold heart

then tells me what outrageous things they say and then he laughs when he sees my face get small and my lips curl up.

I know I don't need a disclaimer, I just wouldn't be caught dead watching that channel.

[n2doc]

4. ACORN is the cause of all the world's problems, dammit!

That and the Clenis and Jimmy Carter. They are superhuman!

[Skidmore]

6. That WWII vet wants to keep his Medicare and his Soc. Security

and ole McCain just treated them like private insurers in his reply. The man appeared to be unaware that he was using public insurers.

The woman that followed him is just plain ignorant.

[tridim]

7. Bwhahaha the idiot R's are booing McCain because he thinks Obama believes in the Constitution

:rofl:

Apparently spending money is unconstitutional now. :shrug: ?

[eleny]

8. Some of these people are dumber than stumps

They're against government programs. But they stand up and say that they love their Medicare.

McCaine then says on the one hand he'll work to keep the existing programs while on the other hand he says gov programs will kill American health care.

It boils down to the same old shit. They've got there's - fuck everyone else. When these old farts express that sentiment, I say - Greatest Generation my ass.

[nc4bo]

10. OMFG - the illegal aliens are ruining this country. Standing ovation.....

We really need to call this bastard out on this nonsense.

[Vinca]

11. Oh, jeez, now it's the illegal aliens. Standing O for the nasty lady.

[Warren DeMontague]

12. To be fair, I would be uncomfortable, too, if I had a giant ACORN in my ass.

Painful!

[Subdivisions]

13. Those people are down-right, 100% batshit wing-nut crazy. n/t

[CrownPrinceBandar]

14. What I cant understand is why........

MSNBC is giving this townhall so much attention. Listening to these ACORN-fearing nuts is solid news?

[nc4bo]

15. I'm asking the same damn question. I'm outraged. nt

[CakeGrrl]

19. You mean MSNBC, who invited TOM f*ckin DELAY to Hardball

to spew against Obama's Healthcare push just because he got his name back in the news for going on a celebrity dance show?

When ANY Republican wants airtime, the MSM gives it to them.

[Vinca]

16. Another Medicare recipient carping -

claims to be a Democrat. Right.

[nc4bo]

18. Riiiiight. She better hope her righteous God doesn't strike her down for telling that whooper. nt

[Skidmore]

17. OMG, that "lifelong Democrat" who voted for McCain

wants Medicare and Soc. Security put down too.

[flpoljunkie]

20. McCain's first remedy: 'Tort Reform' which has not lowered health care costs in a single state

From 'Seducing the States with Health Reform'

Among the army of zombie talking points deployed to battle health care reform are canards about "tort reform." For years the Right and its corporate sponsors forestalled health care reform by blaming rising health care costs on out-of-control malpractice suits. In fact, medical malpractice damage awards are less than one percent of the total cost of U.S. healthcare.

Limiting citizens' Seventh Amendment rights to file personal injury lawsuits has been a winning issue for the Republican Party since the 1980s. "Tort reform" not only protects big corporations from responsibility and screws the little guy -- a win/win right there -- but it also turns trial lawyers (who tend to vote for Democrats) into the scapegoats for many of the nation's ills.

Oh, and about those lowered health care costs, stimulated economies and new jobs? More than half of the states have passed tort reform laws, some more than 20 years ago, so we have a number of "laboratories" in which to see what tort reform really does. Let's take a look.

Fact: Tort reform has not lowered health care costs in a single state.

Limiting malpractice suits usually does lower the cost of medical malpractice insurance, which pleases doctors, but these savings are not passed on to the health care consumer. Tort reform doesn't appear even slow down the rate at which health care costs are increasing.

In April Newt Gingrich penned an op-ed for the Philadelphia Inquirer in which he claimed tort "States that have enacted tort-reform measures have significantly improved access to health care, reduced costs, and strengthened economies." As Exhibit A he trotted out a comprehensive tort reform law enacted by Texas in 2003.

The problem with that picture is that health care costs in Texas not only continued to rise after 2003; they rose more than in most of the rest of the country. In 2008, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that Texans enjoyed the third fastest increase in health insurance premiums in the nation. And for many years Texas has led the nation in the percentage of its citizens without health insurance. The 2003 tort reform didn't change that.

more here...

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/mahabarbara/2009/06/seducing-the-states-with-tort.php

[eleny]

23. Bravo! To the elderly woman who asked how many at the Town Hall would give up their Medicare

[dem629]

24. They never hit on the real argument. We shouldn't fund groups of any sort like that.

But even these town hall people don't make that argument with consistency.