GOP is Clueless

Posted on September 3, 2009 by Matt Osborne
A woman tells Michael Steele that her mother died of cancer because she couldn’t get insurance. Steele accuses her of wanting to get on TV, and then ignores her.

Lynn Jenkins tells a woman with a toddler to “grow up” and buy a $12,000 health insurance policy, then admits she doesn’t know what she’s talking about.

And here’s Senator Coburn telling a weeping woman that “government is not the answer” for her husband’s health insurer’s refusal to cover his treatment for a traumatic brain injury. He does offer to help her, which is nice…but it’s government being a solution.

The message Republicans have sent is that they don’t know what’s in the bill, and don’t care; that sick and injured people should just depend on their neighbors to act as qualified physical therapists.

Clueless. And heartless. The GOP brand at its best!




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  • ZIRGAR

    (A)pathetic endeavors each and every one of them. It's sad how petty and ignorant these people are and what's even worse is how large a portion of this country supports them–that's a real tragedy and a genuine travesty of constituency.

  • Elizabeth

    It's a nice display of compassionate conservatism, Matt.

    Or, wait… Is it conservative compassion?

    Either way, it amounts to the same thing: screw you, the huddled masses.

    BTW, Steele is such a joke. The GOPers needed a black mouthpiece to show that they too are about diversity and other things human, but, poor saps, had no choice, so they had to stick with the only black Repug they could find. Too bad he's also turned out to be, well, not too bright.