Dick Armey sickly says: Medicare "trashes the Constitution"
Meet the Press was its usual strange collection of overly-flogged stories and opportunities for marginal political viewpoints to be propounded as if they're mainstream. But there was one small snippet from Dick Armey where he slid in his pet peeve: Medicare.
Since this is the second time in a week that he's returned to this theme, a reality check is in order.
FMR. REP. DICK ARMEY (R-TX): I believe the folks that want to build the mosque there are making an unwise decision. But I think, when, when I look at the 18 percent of the American people that are enthusiastic about this grassroots movement, we see this as while it's an important issue. It's an issue that ought not to be distracting the president from the critical issues of unemployment, fiscal responsibility, a nation headed for bankruptcy. And the larger issues that affect the future of our children make this issue pale. On the question of should the president be sticking up for the Constitution, our folks say, "Well, great, I love him sticking up for the--we should have done that on medical--Medicare," where, in fact, he trashed the Constitution in the view of most of our folks. And in terms of him being here and then there, it reflects again our fear that this president is whimsical and doesn't really quite know where he is on any subject, even the larger subjects that are driving our folks in, in the street trying to make change in America.
Flash back with me to the August 16, 2009 edition of Meet the Press, where Dick Armey appears on Meet the Press with Rachel Maddow, Tom Daschle, Sen. Tom Coburn and...Dick Armey!
Death panels, anyone? While teabaggers are in an absolute froth over "death panels" and seniors are trembling over the potential loss of "their" Medicare, a position that Dick Armey used frequently to stir up town hall uprisings and the like, Rachel Maddow quietly calls him out on his personal radical views then.
MS. MADDOW: This is a really important point. The anti-healthcare reform lobby thinks that Medicare is tyranny, OK?
REP. ARMEY: I did—I said...
MS. MADDOW: This is an—I mean, you said in 1995 that “Medicare is a program I would have no part of in a free world.”
REP. ARMEY: Right. Absolutely right.
MS. MADDOW: You said in 2002, “We’re going to have to bite the bullet on Social Security and phase it out over a period of time.”
REP. ARMEY: And I’m going to enumerate exactly what I’m talking about. Medicare...
MS. MADDOW: Americans need to know this is your position and this is the position of the anti-healthcare reform lobby.
Dick Armey and Paul Ryan march to the same tune. That's not altogether surprising, and Armey has remained consistent in his objection to "mandatory Medicare." But that's where his honesty begins and ends, because while he believes it should be abolished, he's also aware that Medicare and Social Security are: a) wildly popular programs; and b) not going to be made "voluntary". Knowing that, he used their popularity and the security they give seniors to whip up anger against health care reform, and in particular, the public option, which is where the whole "government-run healthcare" is terrible (for all but seniors) except where it isn't (for seniors only).
Meanwhile, Dick Armey remains healthy and fit, thanks to his Medicare which he cannot opt out of without also opting out of Social Security benefits, which he evidently has no problem receiving.
The only whimsy I see is Dick Armey's.
Please please let this man's views shape the GOPs next couple of election platforms.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
Let Dick try and take away Florida's HMO. SS and Medicare. Quickest way to lose an election.
is intended to be a factual statement
what about torture and wiretapping?
Can we have some specifics instead of sound bites, you rabble rousing, propagandist, motherfu.... If you ever had to explain yourself, you could not do it. Why does any TV show that wants to be taken seriously let this thing on to spread his misinformation, bigotry, and just plain nonsense on the air. Another reason not to watch MTP.
Every time I've seen him, since he crawled back out from whatever rock he had been under, he has appeared to me to have been drunk.If he was not drunk, then he should run to the nearest doctor cause he's got serious problems.He slurs his words, is incredibly rude, passive aggressive, and able to change his line of reasoning 3 or 4 times before finishing one sentence. Serious problems that man has.I can't imagine how much money he is spending,(or his bosses)for the access he continues to receive from the lame stream media.
What has the republicans done for the middle class in over 30 years...
Destroy it. and blame the democrats for it.
They propagandize us with cute words or saying , saying them over and over to brain wash people which are not follow what really has caused this destruction to our country and it's citizens.
Reagan - Bush & Bush.. and their republican party
Their cute deceit & propaganda of giving tax breaks to the top 10 percent Americans would trickle down and create jobs.
Looks like all which can from Bush/Cheney tax cut for the rich was the opening the doors of the flood gates and now we see the disaster it has caused and the only trickle there has been a tickle UP TO THE TOP.
With the illegal war Bush/Cheney started with their lies , treason and corruption and letting over 9 million jobs be outsourced.
Just how can one have these jobs return from overseas when these corporations have no intentions of bringing them back.
Do you believe China , India , Germany and other foreign nations are stupid enough to outsource then as Bush/Cheney let American jobs be.
The Corporations not only gain cheap labor from overseas and pay no taxes on their products or profit they make , but they are destroying the union and workers in this country which is a win - win for these Global Monopolies.
Make no mistake about it they are no longer American corporations but Global Empires. Their own concern for this country is the tax free base and our military power.
Now with their control over our government officials they are building a private mercenary army with our tax dollars and the experience of our military training , power and war equipment.
They no longer wish to share their prosperity with American workers which help create their wealth. They want it all and they have even taken back the health care , retirement and other benefits which they have paid to their workers in the past. This money was suppose to have been put aside for them and now it is gone.
Yea they want it all. They will pay billion of dollars in lies , deceit and using their propaganda to keep it and of course take more.
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REP. ARMEY: And I’m going to enumerate exactly what I’m talking about.
I've got mine, now f---k you.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
privileged leader of the swineherd.
I've never seen change without a fire
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=M...
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I've never seen change without a fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSwoRMriGV8&fe...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM8pL_yMHps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqDavOnPp6M&fe...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I have to admit though, I had to stop and think to remember the distinction between Gadarene and Ganymede
For one is about pork and the other about porking...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
endless oral diarrhea
from dickey a-hole
At any time any of us can get very sick = bankrupt.
Buddha was right. And I really really hope that Dick comes back as a person or an animal that is widely mistreated by the society he's born into.
I've never seen change without a fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw_zUUE4BE0
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Dick came back as a cockroach. :P
I've never seen change without a fire
Dick came back as a dick.
I've always thought of 'Dick' Armey (he and Darth are aptly named) as an anti-intellectual, sexist pig. And, I formed that opinion many years before some of his staffers accused him of sexual harassment.
He's a has-been loser, with nothing left to lose politically - so, the Repukes send him out to spew racist, sexist, ageist, class-baiting crap. DICK - go back to Texas and stay in your hole!!
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
that Boehner uses. Sheesh, couldja glow any more orangey, Dicky?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BvXBwtrs_k
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Here is just one more piece out of many to cull from that would loop beautifully into a 45 second commercial of ridiculous sound-bytes to start playing around mid October. ...The lunatic fodder is there for the taking,Democrats.Seize the shit and use it!!!
...Alas,what am I talking about here? I'm pleading to wimpy,brain dead Democrats who seemingly live to play footsies with their adversaries. :(
WHY aren't they? It drives me crazy to see this nonsense and not have it clipped into commercials. Shoot, I'd do it for them if they'd actually run the dang things.
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Me too!
I could think of some doozies that would take out ANY republican.
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
For the Demos to insult their fellow Villager cult brethren would be very bad form. Why, they would disinvite them from their cocktail parties where all the other arrogant lords of the manor hang out! They would be cast out of the society of "elites." Imagine having to hang out with the dirty serfs and commoners---the horror!
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
You know Democrats are smart enough - it's gotta make you wonder why they don't break out the stuff that would easily obliterate the Republicans - I hate to say it but I do wonder if there are people even higher than the president and Congress that FORCE them to go back and forth - "now let the Republicans win" "now let the Democrats win" You know - secret society shit.
Because Democrats could DESTROY the Republicans in debates with reason but they NEVER do - they always allow them to hang in there and linger - cutting it way closer than it needs to be.
It really makes you wonder.
Pepsi needs Coke.
I think you may have hit it outta the park.
While I admire that at least he has some backbone (*cough*cough*Democrats*cough*), he is a lying sack of poo and should be completely ignored.
But I get what you mean.
Because "Meet The Press" is television entertainment, not a legitimate forum.
he's a very serious person.
The Congress shall have Power *** To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by the Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
Article I, Sec 8, cl 18 (The Necessary and Proper clause, and/or the Elastsic Clause).
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment IX
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Amendment X
So this means if the people vote a particular way on a constitutional issue than that satisfies the Constitution.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America
Preamble of the US Constitution
And this shows that the people are the ultimate source of power in the United States of America, and it's various states (or should be).
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
courtesy of a conservative activist bench, you can replace the work "people" with the word "corporations".
we are? Honestly, the ass hole is a sad joke. It would be funny if there weren't so many idiots that actually eat his crap for breakfast.
"Dick" got his fucking ass kicked up and down the street by a lesbian!
(A very cool lesbian as far as I'm concerned!)
I wonder if he feels the same way about his Cadillac health insurance and pension that we pay for? The one he gets because he spent years screwing us to make himself rich.
This old bast**d has millions, and is in his seventies. Doesn't this unconscionable SOB have grand kids or something. What makes a soul less psychopath do the things he does? Does he want to see how many lives he can destroy before he checks out in a few years?
MTP = Media Television propaganda.
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
who's name is dick!
Oh yeah, and he has airtime because he has money. That is the ONLY reason this clown is mentionable.
...named "Dick."
if their last name is "Armey".
... as long as we can let the Bush tax cuts expire, and the revenue gained will wipe out the deficits and eventually even reduce the national debt.
We just got to keep the repugs at bay.
If you need funds to pay for essentials, you have a revenue problem
If you need funds to pay for frivolity, you have a spending problem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCmUhYSr-e4
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
And does the US Constitution sanction any of the following?
- standing armies
- a federal police force (the FBI)
- a vast intelligence apparatus, employing millions of people, made up of dozens of different government security agencies, inadequately supervised by Congress, with a collective budget of at least a half-Trillion dollars (probably much more), whose true size, mission and cost is kept secret from the public
- domestic spying and surveillance in direct violation of the law
- corporate control of the media
- unrestricted corporate campaign contributions
- systemic corruption of the political system by moneyed interests
Can anyone tell me why people should listen to what this man says? He is not the kind of man one of the lower classes "would like to have a beer with". So why is what anything he says is important?
The Constitution says "to promote the general welfare" but I guess only for rich old white republicans like him.
How about his tax payer funded health care gets removed? And everything else this jerk has gotten from the tax payer? What a tool.
No mention of Dick's current job as head of FreedomWorks? And their links to the Tea Baggers? I understand that that was not why he was on Meet The Press, but doesn't it have any relevance on what he's going to say about things like Social Security, or Medicare, for that matter?
Who is that OUT-OF-TOUCH person that gives a microphone to those NUTJOBS??!
What happened to "I'm not touching this with a 10 foot pole" - why is the MSM ALWAYS doing the OPPOSITE of that phrase ??!
Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang.
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking.
Republicans for Voldemort.
Another fool who should not be on television.
Republicans are liars and simply cannot be trusted.
He has always been one of the meanest, most spiteful, most corrupt politicians I've ever seen.
But he's consistent. I give him credit for that.
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