El Pollo Loco Ricardo Gephardt (my title, courtesy of Rush) and Prescription Drugs

The Rush Limbaugh Show | June 11, 2002 | Self

[DennisR]

Did anyone happen to record Rush's show this morning when he played the Gephardt quote from a press conference about Gephardt's mother always asking him when he was going to pass the prescription drug bill? It was classic Lib-Dem-Soc-Commie. His mother needs prescription drugs, but apparently El Dicko cannot afford it. Instead, he wants you and me to pay for it! There's nothing this guy and his cronies won't do as long as it is someone else's money!

Anyway, if anyone taped this or knows where the transcript can be found, it would be great if it could be posted here.

[DennisR]

El Pollo Loco Dicko Gephardt is beyond hope--he cannot even buy his own mother's prescription, even though he makes scads of money.

[cmsgop]

El Pollo Loco

Gosh I Miss That Restaurant !!!!!

[DennisR]

Yeah--had lunch at one last summer when I was in So Cal. No, I did not see Gephardt there. Which was good, because I think I would have lost my lunch if he had been!

[bat-boy]

It's not just the democans. My "conservative" representative Roy Blunt (R) is pushing this bill also.

I attended a town meeting held at our local senior center about 6 months ago. You should have heard him. He sounded like a freaking liberal. We got ito a debate over the merits of the bill.

My take on it is that senior citizens should be relying on their children/family/friends/church to help them with their medicine, not the government. Their children should sacrifice for them just as senior citizens sacrificed for their children. If the government is going to get involved at all (which they shouldn't), then at least it should be after their families contribute and all local means have been exhausted.

Now I think this is a rational, conservative view. What can be more conservative than relying on friends, family and church as opposed to government? This is the way it has been throughout history!!

I also told him that he was opening the door for another medicade/medicare boondoggle which the children and grandchildren of senior citizens will be saddled with.

He would hear none of it. We "OWE" it to the seniors citizens of the United States to ensure they receive the medicine they need.

After I informed him that the only seniors I owed anything to was those in my family, he attempted to belittle me! The man was actually grandstanding! When I stood up for myself, he had me removed from the town meeting. It didn't help that at 36 years of age, I was by far the youngest person in the room.

Blunt is supposedly a "staunch" conservative. Jeez, the guy is even said to be a stand in for some type of leadership position! Roy Blunt is the face of the republicratic party folks. He is what passes as conservative these days.

And people wonder why I vote third party. I refuse to vote for this guy or any party that promotes people like him within the ranks.

Oh yeah, he voted for CFR also. What a scumbag.

[DennisR]

The only problem is that a third party will probably never have a candidate elected in a Presidential election. Yes, it will happen and has happened in certain local races, but on a national level, not likely. Anyway, about the only thing left for true conservatives--of which I am one--is to elect the most conservative candidates we can and then hold their feet to the fire. But sometimes I think there really is something in the water in D.C. How else can you explain such irrational behavior? :)

[bat-boy]

I understand that a third party will probably never win national office, but I don't vote for a candidate so I can say I won. I vote my conscience. IMO, voting for someone like Roy Blunt would be no different than voting for a democan. Actually worse, because at least you know where a democan stands. You just KNOW they want to take all of your money and enslave you and your family.

Blunt is a corrupt career politican who would vote to put his family to death if it would keep him in office/power. The same goes for my so-called conservative Republican Kit Bond. He also voted for CFR and is in support of prescription drugs for seniors, among other liberal causes. Bond is another example of what the Republican party of Missouri considers "conservative". RINO's to the hilt.

Semper Suo

[DennisR]

From the Washington Post online today:

"We don't want to have a $42 billion annual tax increase that goes into effect Jan. 1, 2011, because people are married," Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., said as Republicans advanced the latest in a string of bills designed to keep last year's tax cuts from expiring. "The way to do that is to make the marriage penalty relief permanent."

Too bad Rep. Blunt doesn't always think like this!

[Zack Nguyen]

Blunt and others like him have been told ad nauseum that they MUST be in favor of prescription drugs for seniors, or it will be hung over their neck in the fall and Republicans will lose the House. That is no excuse, but let's be frank - how many Republicans in Washington were even economic conservatives to begin with?

I always worry that the pro-life plank will get thrown out someday, if/when it is considered by enough movers and shakers to be more of a hindrance than it is a help.

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[bat-boy]

The whole problem, at least in my opinion, was summed up by Rush once, although he seemed to think it was a good thing.

He stated something to the effect that there is a difference between the conservative movement and the Republican party. The conservative movement believes in principles and will sacrifice an election for their principles. The Republicratic party believes in winning elections - period.

Of course that is paraphrased, but it went along those lines. What was not stated was that the Republicratic party will willing sacrifice its principles to win elections (i.e., stay in power).

To me, this is just plain unacceptable. What's the use of being in power if you sacrifice everything you supposedly believe in to get there? Unless of course the goal is to be in power for power's sake. If this is the case, then they are not there to serve their country, as they so often claim. They are there for themselves. If they are there for themselves, then they will only take us further and further away from the Consitutional Republic I so wholeheartedly believe in and wish to return to. It can be no other way because the democans will always be willing to up the ante, which the Republicrat will have to meet to keep their power. It's a vicious circle with "We the People" being the loser.

This is the situation we have with the Republicratic party. This is a party that consistently supports RINO's such as Arlan Spector, Peter King, Roy Blunt, etc., etc., instead of backing others whom actually believe in the party platform and the values of its core consistency. They back their own, no matter what or against who.

I may not live to see a third party win national election, but I darned sure will not be a party to what I believe is the destruction of this country by both mainstream political parties.

This is my take on it anyway.

Semper Suo

[bat-boy]

If he did then he would have my vote.

Semper Suo

[jackbill]

It was classic Lib-Dem-Soc-Commie. His mother needs prescription drugs, but apparently El Dicko cannot afford it. Instead, he wants you and me to pay for it!

First, I believe that it is "Poco" (little) Loco Dicko, not Pollo.

Second, Rush dropped the ball on this one by not mentioning and repeating, time after time, that Poco Loco Dicko is tired of paying for his mother's prescriptions, he want all of the taxpayers to pay for them. He should drum this in, day after day after day.

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[DennisR]

"First, I believe that it is "Poco" (little) Loco Dicko, not Pollo."

You are mostly right. According to his website, it is "El Loco Poco Ricardo Dick Gephardt."

[DennisR]

How can you look into those eyes and not give? I already did, but thanks for the reminder! Anyone else?

[Bella_Bru]

Pollo Bowls rock!

[Zack Nguyen]

I think you're analysis is spot-on. I can think of some Republicans that are there for principled reasons. I can think of more than a few that would do whatever it took to hold onto power. Their goal is to continue to get paid, to have someone hold a door open for them and call them "sir", to have lobbyists jump when they speak, and to have adoring crwods cheer for them back home.

Like you, I have little interest in a third party, but the ideological gap between the Republican officeholders and those who put them in office is growing larger by the day. The tension between them grows as well.

[rapsux]

Did anyone happen to record Rush's show this morning when he played the Gephardt quote from a press conference about Gephardt's mother always asking him when he was going to pass the prescription drug bill?

Every time Gephardt mentions his mother, regardless of the context, one of the Republicans should steal a page out of the Dick Gephardt play book and talk about how every time he visits his mom she asks him, "When are you going to repeal the death tax so we can pass our hard earned money to our children instead of giving half of it to the goverment? If you have some additional money, maybe you'll be able to afford perscription drugs."

[DennisR]

rapsux,

Yes, it does.

You mean the Rs have to resort to the unethical, emotional tactics the Ds do? Oh, man, now I'm wincing. But maybe that's the only way to win the war with the Lib-Com-Soc-Dems. I never cease to be amazed how American fall for their diatribe. Too many think it is the government's money and they are just letting us use it while we are alive. I hope I'm not dreaming, but it would sure be nice if Americans would wake up some day and figure out what the Lib-Com-Soc-Dem's stand for--taking our money and spending it for their own purposes and legacy.

[Risky Schemer]

The factor undiscussed (and minimized and scoffed at by Rush and others) is that exploitation of third-party-pay has resulted in medical/prescription costs that are jaw-dropping. The "free market" is NOT bringing these costs down, for whatever reasons.

Senior citizens are a powerful voting block. Prescription drug costs eat a huge chunk of their fixed incomes.

I'm of the opinion that fully socialized medicine is coming, period. And the next step will be government pay on prescription drugs.