These guys just don't get it
We asked Lowden spokesperson Crystal Feldman how this could ever be a workable policy, in an era of costly procedures, tests, pharmaceuticals and provider networks? "Americans are struggling to pay for their health care, and in order to afford coverage we must explore all options available to drive costs down," Feldman told TPMDC in an e-mail.Yes there are still doctors that are kind enough to take odd sorts of payments, but we live in a country of over 320 million people. The baby boomer generation is now middle-aged to seniors age. And the best nationwide solution, the best health policy solution Republican candidate Lowden can come up with is to turn back the clock to the days of bleeding patients and attaching leeches to remove "toxins" from the patients body.
Feldman continued: "Bartering with your doctor is not a new concept. There have been numerous reports as to how negotiating with your doctor is an option and doctors have gone on the record verifying this. Unfortunately, Harry Reid's failed leadership forces us to take drastic measures. The fact remains that instead of producing a health care solution Americans support, Harry Reid spends his time focusing on attacking his biggest threat to another six years in Washington, Sue Lowden."
You'd think they'd be running for the hills, walking her silly arguments back. Instead now they are attacking Harry Reid because he doesn't support Lowden's 'Chickens for Checkups' health care barter scheme.
RNC Chairman Steele: African-Americans ‘don’t have a reason’ to vote Republican
Maybe Steele deserves some credit for speaking the truth. Tea baggers - who are just a branch of right-wing conservatives who like to pretend they had nothing to do with enabling the financial collapse of 2008 - are under the complete delusion that President Obama is doing more for African-Americans than anyone else. Since that is completely untrue it can only be blamed on the prejudice and wacky perceptions of the people that believe it.
In candid remarks made before a group of students at DePaul University, RNC Chairman Michael Steele said African-Americans “don’t have a reason” to vote for Republicans because “we haven’t done a very good job of giving you one.” The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
Why should an African-American vote Republican?
“You really don’t have a reason to, to be honest — we haven’t done a very good job of really giving you one. True? True,” Republican National Chairman Michael Steele told 200 DePaul University students Tuesday night. […]
“For the last 40-plus years we had a ‘Southern Strategy’ that alienated many minority voters by focusing on the white male vote in the South. Well, guess what happened in 1992, folks, ‘Bubba’ went back home to the Democratic Party and voted for Bill Clinton.”
Of course, anytime Democrats make similar arguments, Steele is quick to accuse them of issuing “blind charges of racism, where none exist.” Steele himself claims not to “play the race card,” but in addition to his comments last night, he has said that he has a “slimmer margin for error” because of his race and that white Republicans are “scared” of him.
