THE GOP'S MEDICARE SURRENDER - The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal ^ | June 11, 2003 | Staff

[Uncle Bill]

Ted Kennedy has spent his career attempting to nationalize the American health care system. So maybe Republicans should take a hint when the Democrat from Massachusetts says he is delighted with the emerging GOP plans to "reform" Medicare.

As for taxpayers, they should be petrified. What began as a worthy attempt by President Bush to reform the broken retiree health system is fast becoming in Congress little more than a giant new entitlement. Republicans are compromising with themselves so fast that we're beginning to wonder what the point of having a GOP majority really is.

[Uncle Bill]

Buy Your Own Drugs, Grandma

[Uncle Bill]

Bump back.

[Uncle Bill]

JUNE 26, 2003:

PRESCRIPTION-DRUG TRAIN WRECK COMING - "These were some of the major arguments used against socialized medicine /Hillary Care. Have we completely forgotten those lessons? What has happened to us over the last few years? With Republicans – not Democrats – now in absolute control of this train, are we content to sleep in the back while they drive us off this cliff?

Vote Bush, vote socialism. Pulling the train towards the cliff faster than any president in U.S. history.

[ForOurFuture]

The following Republican Representatives voted against this socialist expansion of government:

Burr
Burton (IN)
Buyer
DeMint
Flake
Gutknecht
Hostettler
Jones (NC)
Miller (FL)
Moran (KS)
Musgrave
Norwood
Paul
Pence
Ryun
Sensenbrenner
Shadegg
Smith (MI)
Tancredo

They should be congratulated for their stands. If one represents you, send them a letter.

[Uncle Bill]

President praises House and Senate passing Medicare measures

• Conservative Turncoats on Drug Freebie - Human Events

• White House, Conservatives Split On Drugs - "A deepening political split over prescription drug benefits divides the White House and conservative activists, who say the issue provoked the most serious rift of George W. Bush's presidency. Nearly a dozen conservative think tanks and policy groups inside and outside the Beltway have lined up against the $400 billion Medicare-reform package that Mr. Bush appears ready to sign as soon as a bill reaches his desk." - The Washington Times

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I'm a uniter, not a divider

[Uncle Bill]

Medicare Bottom Line May Signal Conservatives Hitting Bottom

Conservative Activists Rebel Against Drug Plan (Bush is a big government Republican)
"It’s upsetting to find a Republican President calling for the biggest increase in entitlements since the days of Lyndon Johnson," said Don Devine, the former Reagan Administration official who now serves as second vice-chairman of the American Conservative Union. "It would appear that Republicans mouth platitudes, but aren’t serious about the issue of limited government anymore."

The Politics of the Drug Bill (Socialized drug bill should outrage every Republican) John Bender
"The Bush/Kennedy socialized drug bill speeding through Congress should outrage every Republican. I'm not talking about this being a way for sleazy politicians to buy votes from selfish people who want to shift their personal responsibility to others. That fact is obvious. I'm talking about the future politics of this. This has the potential to ruin the Republican Party for decades."

..Republicans who are going along with Bush, and voting for this socialistic abomination, will be getting what they deserve."

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Bush is in big trouble. Show Bush the door in 2004. Send Bush an e-mail, and make him remove the following from the White House website. It's a lie and doesn't apply.

President George W. Bush - Biography

SOURCE: http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.html

"George W. Bush is the 43rd President of the United States. Formerly the 46th Governor of the State of Texas, President Bush has earned a reputation as a compassionate conservative who shapes policy based on the principles of limited government,..."

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The George W. Bush/GOP Idea of LIMITED GOVERNMENT

George W. Bush's Limited Government

A Government Limited To What?

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DON'T BE FOOLED AGAIN

[TLBSHOW]

Send Bush an e-mail, and make him remove the following from the White House website. It's a lie and doesn't apply.

BUMP

[Uncle Bill]

The only thing that Bush is good at limiting is the dollars in our wallets.

How Much Will the Senate Drug Bill Cost a Family of Four?

It will even be much worse than the article states. It's for the children. Their slavery that is.

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Show Bush the door in 2004

[NittanyLion]

What I imagine is that there will be revision of this in conference, so that an acceptable bill will be signed.

Even if the best provisions of the House bill were combined with the best provisions of the Senate bill, the outcome will still be unacceptable.

[Uncle Bill]

HillaryCare, Republican Style (Ron Paul)

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Bush is going to sign HillaryCare. Bushbots are smiling everywhere

[TLBSHOW]

Bush is going to sign HillaryCare. Bushbots are smiling everywhere.

...
You have to wonder what they (Bushbots) are?

Are they
A.Blind
B.Liberals
C.Socialist

[NittanyLion]

My mother is on medicare, and she has to pay for her medicines on a very limited income. Some meds she needs are so expensive that she just dropped them, much to her detriment I am sure. Seniors on a limited fixed income are hard pressed to afford the expensive meds they need.

I've got a mortgage payment and a new wife. What makes you think I can afford to pay for your mother's scripts any easier than she can?

Why don't you go to your church and pass around the plate to pay her bills?

[TLBSHOW]

Rush says Bush will sign anything and so much for principals.

[Uncle Bill]

"You have to wonder what they (Bushbots) are?"

Not me. I just read what they post.

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"HEALTH CARE - The federal entitlement to Medicare should be abolished"

"Return to a strictly Constitutional form of federal government will automatically repeal and abolish all unconstitutional federal involvement in states issues such as: crime, health, education, welfare and the environment. The Tenth Amendment will again be in effect, which will bar all federal attempts at legislating social issues. This will also require that social programs such as Social Security, welfare and Medicare be repealed. So too, will most federal subsidies."

- OR -

"But I, for one, believe that the one thing this country can and should do is provide GOOD health care for us -- all of us."
16 Posted on 09/23/2000 09:09:07 PDT by Howlin

"Are you just too dense to realize that there ARE some things that the government should do?"
24 Posted on 10/06/2000 11:47:14 PDT by Howlin
Source

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Show Bush the Door in 2004. Or, George W. Bush and the GOP. Repealing Medicare by spending $400 Billion at a time. Think big. Think strategy. Don't be a malcontent. Vote Bush. The collapse depends on it.

[Fred Mertz]

Bttt

[Uncle Bill]

"Rush says Bush will sign anything and so much for principals."

True, so true.

[TLBSHOW]

Is that true Howlin, that you support socialism as it explains why Bush can do no wrong in your eyes?

[TLBSHOW]

Spending growth upsets conservatives

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030630-121947-6635r.htm

[Uncle Bill]

Define conservatives now. They actually think they're being "courted." They actually think they received tax cuts. LOL! Conservatives? Hahahahaha! Look for the fall of the Republic, it's coming. Salt is a preservative only if it exists and is applied.

Courting of conservatives in GOP pays off for Bush

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Vote Bush, courting conservatives to socialist utopia and they're likin' it.

[SUSSA]

There is no reason to take money away from the people who earn it to pay for something other people want. According to the WSJ 76% of seniors have drug coverage without this socialist program. They took care of their responsibility to take care of themselves. Others should do that too.

If some people are too poor to provide for themselves they should go, hat in hand, to charities, and ask for help. I have my own family to take care of why should I have to take care of someone else’s family too? Why should my grandchildren have to take care of someone else’s grandparents?

This is a case of a bunch of selfish people wanting to dump their responsibilities on others. There is a bunch of seniors who didn’t plan on getting old, and now want other people to bail them out. There are also some selfish boomers who don’t want to take care of their own parents. They want others to do it for them.

Hopefully, the 76% of seniors who acted responsibly and planned ahead will wake up and force Bush/Kennedy to repeal this.

They did that in 1989. I hope they can do it again.