Dick Armey Is Fighting To Keep His Government Health Care Coverage. Hypocrisy Much?
This week's Bill Moyers' Journal takes a look at former Texas congressman Dick Armey's FreedomWorks, its role in formenting the Tea Party movement, and Armey's role in opposing just about anything that threatens big business. (He led the opposition against the Clinton health care plan.)
He points out that FreedomWorks is the results of a man who proudly says, "Politics is 97% fiction and 3% imagination."
Isn't this interesting? Armey (who's had government health care all along) is suing to keep his Cadillac federal employees health care plan instead of Medicare.
"Dick Armey is the epitome of those people with power and privilege who are insured against the vicissitudes of life and want no government assistance for any suffering except their own," Moyers says.
"Government out of health care" for thee, but not for me! Republicans are consistent that way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP5BYrfgYRY&fe...
"Courtesy is owed. Respect is earned. Love is given." --Unknown author, found in Guide to Texas Etiquette by Kinky Friedman
I have been a teabagger since april 15th and I dont recall Dick Armey showing up for the party until a couple of weeks ago!
...another johnny come lately, huh Dick? ....Dear Dick, ...(you are a neo-con)
Being a teabagger is like winning the lottery...everyone is suddenly your "friend" ...all of a sudden. (they crawl out of the woodwork!)
Let me guess....Chimpy and Darth Voldemort will be showing up any minute now?
Dick Armey was the primary sponsor of the legislation that created the Department of Homeland Security. ...and Teabaggers hate that shit!!! (because the DHS is one of the most wasteful entities ever created.)
never mind the fact that he has a (govt pension and healthcare for life) and is now "against Obama's healthcare plan"...(just the fact that) he is "the father" of the DHS?!#$%*& (WTF Dick?)...is enough to disqualify him as a "poser" to any "real teabagger"!!!
Dick will never rise to prominence in teabagger circles...Although the media will try!!!
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
Dick Army's Freedom Works has been AstroTurfing the tea parties since April 15th but denying it. He just came out of the closet September 12th for the bazarro-Woodstock event.
of course the Dick is never involved in Teabagging
He's just another Republican.
health care reform should be FORCED to give up their own "public option."
Dick Armey is a hypocritical bastard.
Now f---k you.
It's the GOP way.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
I'm so tired of calling them gop. They should be called the SOP, the Selfish old party.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
...debating health care reform with a Repub is like debating Mac versus Windows with a Luddite.
Beware of anyone promising a future full of yesterdays.
Just cancel the health insurance they all get. End the program so they're forced to buy insurance like everyone else. Yank the rug out from under them - you'll see how loud they scream for universal health care THEN.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
They'll just tack on a pay raise to the insurance lobby payout.
dick is responsible for the funding and organization for the teabags. his lobby is also behind the shoutfests called town halls.... dick is getting his medicare publicly run health care though, since he is a congress legacy. interesting how all the GOP slugs are on the public plan......
the gop are crooks and liars.....
Tea Baggers...
aka...
The Dick Army
Always
Hasa Diga Eebowai
entrepreneurship and competition but are doing everything possible to crush it and maintain the Status quo?
Recent research by primatologists and physical anthropologists indicate that chimpanzees do not possess the ability to share. They will even refuse to share food among their own troupe and even among their own nuclear families. They also demonstrate a total lack of empathy for other chimpanzees in stress or in pain. When angry or threatened, they bluff, and they will vocalize and make threatening postures and will often throw feces. They have an innate sense of "I've got mine, keep your hands off....you go get yours":. Chimpanzees were the first Republicans!
It explains a lot, that's for sure.
There is no doubt that Republicans are more selfish, which explains nearly every position they take.
We share more of our DNA with chimps than any other animal. Interesting, yes?
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
DNA with bananas.
Go figure.
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/...
Alan Grayson for President, Elizabeth Warren for Vice President, and Paul Krugman for Secretary of the Treasury!
The resemblance is to humans, not just Republicans. We all share those traits. The difference is the Repubs aren't interested in evolving beyond them.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
Remember Charlie Rangel trying to "bring back the draft." The Republicans are all for underprivileged Americans fighting their wars for them, so long as their own kids don't have to sacrifice.
And they're all for private insurance, until they're forced to buy it.
amongst other perks and privileges it makes them even more despicable.
Otherwise, if poor people join the military because they need the money, the rich get to escape the danger and hardship of military service during war time, at the expense of the unemployed / underemployed. At least a draft, with no rich persons' deferment such as a college deferment, spreads the hardship and danger equally. One of the reasons many despise 'Chicken Hawks' such as Bush / Cheny is because they dogged military service and its risks and hardships, but advocate wars - with the hardship and danger costs paid by the poor and the poorly paid. This is especially true when recessions and high unemployment force poor but honest folks to become cannon fodder for Chicken Hawk Neo-Cons.
All that said, I don't like the draft, either, but I do see the social justice issue here. This is why we love liberals like the wealthy Kennedys. They care about the disadvantaged, despite their wealth and privilege. With all my heart, I believe in the vision of Camelot, and I believe that President Obama is a worthy successor to JFK, and a true champion of our cause.
Alan Grayson for President, Elizabeth Warren for Vice President, and Paul Krugman for Secretary of the Treasury!
Also, a draft gives people the impetus to REJECT war. If we have a specialized warrior class, self-selected for war, then it's easy for people to see it as a "not my problem" thing. "Nobody's forcing them to go" and all that. But if ANYONE'S kid is at stake, even those that most definitely do not want to risk their lives that way, then the public will be less inclined to just roll over whenever the government snaps its fingers.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
All you have is a faster way of geting the poor to die. Case and point Spineless, Gutless American TRAITOR cheney five deferments. Then there are the other LOW LIFEZ scum and TRASH rumsfeld, American TRAITOR rove, addington, libby, the MENTALLY ILL bolton so as long as a out is offered like the scum bags mentioned above the new ones will do the same the names may be different. Don't forget the Talking Monkey bumbling Fumling talks out his ass bush.
Do you still want the draft.
Psst before you blow a gasket I was a draftee and now a retired Military combat vet., so I know a little about what I am talking about.
He's a sack of shit.
What, oh what are we going to do when Bill Moyers is no longer around?
The last true journalist.
...as well as all of the 'not true' journalists in the blogosphere that bring us the 'true' news.
matt lauer?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
reset-rethink and reorganize and come back even stronger then before. Science split the atom and created the atomic bomb but we can't get affordable health care in this country? The Powers That Be are so caught up in their own hubris and privilege it's beyond pathetic.
I happen to be retired from the US Navy and in 4 years when I turn 65 I will have Tricare for Life, which is Medicare with the Military Prescription plan. I would think if it is good enough for a 20 year Navy veteran, combat corpsman in Viet Nam it should be good enough for someone who has been sucking on the government teat all of his life.
Get over it mr. Armey.
is not fit to shine your shoes. He would wet himself just thinking about trying to do what you've done.
I appreciate your kind words.
The irony of his name is rather diabolical, isn't it?
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
An absolute scum.
I've seen some selfish pricks in my day, but never anyone as low and despicable as Armey.
negativity and mistrust in this country as if it's supposed to be "normal" apparently it's screwed into every sinew with these guys.
Two categories of republicans: the rich & the ignorant.
This is not my father's America
...are more equal than others.
You Spawn of Satan you slithering blob of coagulated Goat spunk.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
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Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Why have not seen this information on the CORPORATE CONTROLED MEDIA, one reason is that we have not seen or heard this on the RADIO, seen it in the PRINT MEDIA, or seen it on TV,is that we nave NINE CEO that will not let this happen they prevet the FREE flow of INFORMATION because it would HURT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. All of these CEO are REPUBLICAN. Just gheck it out.
I think you got Cheetos crumbs clogging your shift lock key.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
The mainstream media also failed to report that Armey hit on female students when he was still a prof at UNT. The Dallas Observer had to break the story. Both the Dallas Morning News and Ft Worth Star-Telegram ignored the story. The Univ dean had to intercede and promise the students that he would never be their advisor or instructor again. Then Armey came out strongly against President Clinton during the Lewinsky affair. Meanwhile, he had dumped his wife for a grad student and married her. I was at the university at the time and saw it all.
that he was always a prick
Dick Army's Freedom Works has been AstroTurfing the tea parties since April 15th but denying it. He just came out of the closet September 12th for the bazarro-Woodstock event.
hyhjo
Low life scum bag wants me to pay for his Medical but wants to stop me from getting Medical. Can we start a movement for the Revocation of all Government employees except those in the military retired Military and receiving aid and assistance for injuries. Just stop ALL MEDICAL payment make CONGRESS buy there own WITHOUT any subsidy or assistance and they MUST cover their staff andd the Staffs family.
You see it every day in every place you look. People that will vote against their own best interest because fox or someone on fox told them it was the republican thing to do. Or that liberals love it so you have to hate it! These people are so gullable that they can be manipulated with just a few words crafted by frank luntz for the corporate gop and spread along on the msm noise machine.
They have been working on this shit a long time but really put it inti action in 2000 and it has been running full steam ahead since.It got so bad that in 2003 I stopped all MSM news. I never watch any of the so called news programs. I have even been trying to get my local cable company to take fox off the cable. I will not watch it!
republicanism is a mental illness!
I'm not a teabagger, and I strongly favor not just the "public option" but a single-payer system. And I certainly can't stand Dick Armey. But I would point out that calling the health insurance plan that Congresspersons are eligible for a "Cadillac" plan is a tactic the teabaggers use -- and it is very very far from the truth. I'm a retired federal employee and am in the same Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan, and believe me, it's NOT a "Cadillac" plan... and it does cost us plenty in premiums. Yes, the government contributes PART of the premium, which is part of my retirement package. But it's a typical insurance plan with co-payments, deductibles, limits, and plenty of things which aren't covered. Sure, I would not at all mind seeing it (or something just like it) expanded to give all citizens eligibility, but using the teabaggers's tactic of calling Congresspersons' health insurance a "Cadillac" plan is incorrect. There are plenty of things for which to criticize the likes of Dick Armey, including his wanting to keep his insurance but not expand it to the general population, but it's not a "Cadillac" plan. Besides, the notion that Cadillacs are anything special is an antiquated notion, and wrong.
start calling it the Buick plan then ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmrb7EVjWKM&fe...
Also, it baffles me why Armey would sue to keep his plan rather than go into Medicare. I guess it just shows what a whack-job he is. Medicare is a better program. I'm my dad's caretaker; he's 91, and when we leave doctors' offices after appointments, we breeze right past the front desk - no co-pay ever, no deductible. (He has BC/BS for his Part B coverage.) And where we live, more docs take Medicare than my federal employee Blue Cross/Blue Shield. I look forward to being covered by Medicare. There has to be more to this Dick Armey story than meets the eye. That or he's just a real dick -- which we already know.
Methinks he's just raising this issue to make some kind of point. But let's not get all tea-baggy and assume it means the fed employee plan is something special. It's just a group plan, with less generous coverage than a LOT of group plans.
All these ignorant criminals are thankfully killing the dying Reslug party of racism and hate for America's good.
Government run health care – the so-called “public option” - presents serious challenges for us. The private sector and competitive market forces are the best means to meeting health care needs. Watch this video from the U.S. Chamber http://www.friendsoftheuschamber.com/media/
You mean the Chamber of Congress that denies global warming?
Like they would care about an ignorant sot like you anyway.
Check out the spam posts from "mld6788".
All his posts say the same thing. Block this Repug crud.
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