The Cock. The Bull. The Story.
Please do not attempt to confuse Texas Governor Rick Perry with facts. It makes him babble.
In explaining his nope-vote on expanding Medicaid to his drooling base of voters, Perry said …
“The bottom line here is that Medicaid is a failed program,” Perry said in an appearance on Fox News. “To expand this program is not unlike adding a thousand people to the Titanic.”
Well, it may not be unlike it, but it’s also not like it either. Hell, at least women and children escaped the Titanic. Under Perry’s no-plan health care program, everybody dies. He does understand that expanding Medicaid is putting more lifeboats on the Texas Titanic, right?
I guess not.
Get this painful attempt at neuron synapse.
When asked how he’d improve health care in a state where one in four people are uninsured, Perry bristled. “People come from all over the globe to the state of Texas for their health care,” he said.
Dammit. Dammit. Dammit. Don’t you just want to get up in his face and holler, “People with endless supplies of MONEY, you damn fool!”
One in four Texans is walking on a health care tightrope over Niagara Falls, but some dude in New Hampshire with great insurance can come here and buy a whole damn truckload of health. And, some potentate in Saudi Arabia can bring a tanker of oil with him and get treated. But, if you’re one in four Texans, you are totally screwed.
Rick Perry is probably not brain dead, but I am certain he can’t get insurance on his brain because it has a pre-exisiting condition called Barely Operational.
Thanks to Steve and Star for the heads-up.
I am sick to death of rich white republicans telling us LIES.
1They can afford whatever they are withholding from the rest of us. And telling us, tough luck.
I’m sorry Momma reads this blog.
I want to say some choice words that are not “momma approved”!!!!!!
My question is, why do so many poor people, just above Medicaid eligibility, vote against their own interests OVER AND OVER AND OVER??? They keep giving Republithugs mandates to NOT tax the rich and NOT give them (poor and middle income folks) affordable healthcare. How do you address that? It’s just stupefying.
2Just what exactly is supposed to happen to all those once-Middle Class people in nursing homes? After they spend down their assets, their nursing home bills are picked up by Medicaid, not Medicare. Get rid of Medicaid and then do what with those folks???
I believe Gov. Good Hair hasn’t quite thought this one through. Wait til his supporters find they either have to take care of Mom and Pop themselves or pay enormous amounts of $$$ for their care. Or, am I completely wrong about this?
3Perry lacks competent mental health care.
4You’re right, barb, they’re going to get a rude awakening.And Perry is too far gone for even the best mental health care to help him.
5The only time Governor Goober should use “Titanic” in a sentence is when he’s describing his (failed) attempt to become President…”Ship of Fools” is appropriate, too.
6Actually, I see a bit of an analogy, most of the folks in steerage were locked out from being able to put even their women or children on the lifeboats. So if you’re poor you are S.O.L. Same as what the governor intends today.
7VeeGee;
8Thing is, in Texas, just as in Mississippi, poor people don’t vote at all.
I know because I’ve been turned away from too many houses in the past four months by poor people.
They think I’m BSn when I tell them what is going on in Austin and DC.
Rick Perry was first elected to the Texas State Legislature in 1984. He’s never had a “real” job. He’s always been in politics. He was Ag Commissioner, Lt. Governor, and then Governor.
He’s had government sponsored, and tax-payer paid “socialized” medicine (health care), for almost 30 years.
He and Gregg Abbott are the Poster Boys for the “I Got Mine Sucker…. You Get Yours The Best Way You Know How.” Generation. And…. let us never forget what good “Christians” they are.
And, Jesus……. truly weeps.
9Rick Perry is our Sovereign. It is unseemly for you folks to keep pointing out that he has no clothes.
10The hospitals of Texas are going to start asking sharp questions of Ricky because the supplement to hospitals for unfunded care is to be replaced by expanded medicaid. The must serve emergency room care will still be in effect.
11Some time ago DaChipster proposed a three-step measure of the bad guys: how crazy? how dangerous? how evil? Perry may not rank low on the sanity scale; he seems more shallow than crazy. And Perry probably becomes less dangerous everytime he shoots off his mouth. But on the scale of evilness Perry must rank along side Chaney and Rove as he must be one of the most unprincipled governors, ever.
Perry, and the Republican party in general, have doubled down on this election, selling their very souls, and some day the piper will demand his due. If Romney wins judgment day for the Republicans may be as early as election day, 2014. By that date the tea-party partisans who nominate them and the plutocrats who own them may have forced the hands of elected Republicans. On the other hand, if President Obama is re-elected history dictates a presumption that Republicans will prevail in 2014, and the prince of political darkness will gather his own as some later election, possibly 2016. In the mean time, God save our country, and the world; we will continue suffering the oriental curse: May you live in interesting times.
12And here I was kinda looking forward to getting me & the husband some healthcare insurance after going without for nigh on 3 years now. Thanks a lot, Rick!
13I never fail to be amazed when I hear people who are insured, whether it be private, Medicare, VA, etc., talking about the evils of “Obamacare”. It’s the old mantra of “I’ve got mine, screw everyone else”.
14Perry’s original brain was eaten by those deer things. The one he has now is a transplant. The donor was one Abby Normal…
15@Rick loved Young Frankenschtein. Movie greatness.
16I think once people in those 6 states see what everyone else is getting that they aren’t, the poop will hit the fan. It’s a bluff. To do it would be political suicide. The Gov. of Maine thought that one through first.
17Yep… major crow-eating is going to happen, and I want to be the one selling tickets.
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