"the Republicans Want You To Die Quickly If You Get Sick."

[eagle_eye222001]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hKv7iDNW3S3mVN7dD8ZVm9rCy0dQD9B1N65G0
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Dem congressman refuses to apologize for comment[/b]

WASHINGTON — A Democratic congressman from Florida is refusing to apologize for saying that Republicans want Americans to "die quickly" if they get sick.

Rep. Alan Grayson made his comments on the House floor Tuesday night while criticizing Republican health care proposals as a "blank piece of paper."

"If you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: die quickly," he said. "That's right. The Republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick."

His remarks weren't spontaneous: He reinforced the point with signs saying the same thing.

Republicans are likening Grayson's remark to South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson's widely criticized shout of "You lie!" during President Barack Obama's address to Congress earlier this month. They say Democrats should insist that Grayson apologize just as they insisted Wilson should.

Grayson, a first-term Democrat known for being provocative, represents a Republican-leaning district around Orlando and was already among the GOP's top targets for the 2010 elections.

Ken Spain, spokesman for the House Republican campaign arm, said Democrats should be "lining up to call on him to apologize."

"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi now has an opportunity to condemn the very behavior and tone of this health care debate that she claims will 'incite violence,'" he said, referring to Democratic concerns that the bitter tone of the health care debate could lead to attacks.

[Varg]

Sometimes it seems that they do

Edited September 30, 2009 by Varg

[Servus_Mariae]

[quote]Joe Wilson's widely criticized shout of "You lie!" during President Barack Obama's address to Congress earlier this month[/quote]

Sometimes it seems that he does...

[Winchester]

And the democrats want us to pay for people who refuse to work and take care of themselves.

Except we're already doing that, so it looks like they win.

[eagle_eye222001]

[quote name='Varg' date='30 September 2009 - 12:21 PM' timestamp='1254327695' post='1974867']
Osmetimes it seems that they do
[/quote]

So how many humans have died because of abortions which democrats want to keep legal?

[Sojourner]

None of this is conducive to actually addressing the problems with the healthcare system.

[Varg]

[quote name='Winchester' date='30 September 2009 - 12:27 PM' timestamp='1254328058' post='1974869']
And the democrats want us to pay for people who refuse to work and take care of themselves.

Except we're already doing that, so it looks like they win.
[/quote]That's slightly unfair...

[ardillacid]

[quote name='Varg' date='30 September 2009 - 01:03 PM' timestamp='1254330236' post='1974884']
That's slightly unfair...
[/quote]
...and your comment was as fair and balanced as a Fox News broadcast

[Laudate_Dominum]

They should just start a new healthcare system alongside that which currently exists. May the best system win! Obama's system would probably have the grooviest adverts and would therefore win.
But at least it would give each individual the opportunity to chose the system they want to support (freedom! freedom! freedom! *salivation*). Either way the health of our bodies is a commodity that ought to be exploited capitalistically for the good of the economy and thus for the benefit of all! Personally I'm in favor of being property of the state. Let the state change my diapers when I am old, let the state examine my stool sample when I am ill; let the state implant a chip in my skull so they can detect when I am frightened and dispatch an android officer to check on me...

[Winchester]

[quote name='Varg' date='30 September 2009 - 01:03 PM' timestamp='1254330236' post='1974884']
That's slightly unfair...
[/quote]
What's unfair is my neighborhood falling prey to HUD's section 8 handouts.

[Varg]

[quote name='notardillacid' date='30 September 2009 - 01:08 PM' timestamp='1254330489' post='1974889']
...and your comment was as fair and balanced as a Fox News broadcast
[/quote]
Yep.

Is that a good thing?

[dominicansoul]

[quote name='Laudate_Dominum' date='30 September 2009 - 01:19 PM' timestamp='1254331155' post='1974893']
...Personally I'm in favor of being property of the state. Let the state change my diapers when I am old, let the state examine my stool sample when I am ill; let the state implant a chip in my skull so they can detect when I am frightened and dispatch an android officer to check on me...
[/quote]

can I use this in a Facebook response to my friends who are adamently in support of state-run health care???

[Laudate_Dominum]

[quote name='dominicansoul' date='30 September 2009 - 04:18 PM' timestamp='1254341908' post='1975014']
can I use this in a Facebook response to my friends who are adamently in support of state-run health care???
[/quote]
Lol! I'm flattered.

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='Varg' date='30 September 2009 - 12:24 PM' timestamp='1254331444' post='1974899']
Yep.

Is that a good thing?
[/quote]

[Guest Servant of Divine]

If the Republicans were really "pro-life" as opposed to simply anti-abortion, the Health Care Reform should have been accomplished in the first year of the George W. Bush Administration.