Three buttons, one image, same GOP lie on healthcare throughout the century!

[kpete]

David M. Perry @Lollardfish

Three buttons, one image, same GOP lie on healthcare throughout the century! By John Sherrfius.

4:38 AM - 7 Oct 2013

https://twitter.com/Lollardfish/status/387180181376364544/photo/1

[Laelth]

1. Not just buttons. Ronald Reagan got into the act too.

Reagan on socialized medicine.

People need to hear this. It's as paranoid and anachronistic as you can possibly imagine. Makes Reagan look like the kook he actually was.

-Laelth

[Hayabusa]

10. Funny thing is,

the diapers he took his final shit in, the bed where he finally left this world 30 years too late were likely paid for by government insurance.

[2naSalit]

12. Likely? n/t

[Hayabusa]

17. Didn't know 100%

Though I was 95% certain they were.

[2naSalit]

19. In THAT case

I agree!

[Laelth]

21. Absolutely.

He, like many conservatives, was completely hypocritical.

-Laelth

[Hayabusa]

25. Hell, look at Ayn Rand, patron saint of the Tea Party.

Took public health assistance near the end of her life and tried to justify it by saying "Well, they are there so..."

[Laelth]

27. Spot on. Just another example among many. n/t

-Laelth

[Whisp]

15. I reserved my hatrage for the Chimperor

but this guy is vying for a piece of that lately. I didn't fully realize what a fucking monster this piece of shit was.

[Laelth]

18. He was a MAJOR monster, and he did great damage to this country.

His shadow is very, very long.

-Laelth

[2naSalit]

20. I lived in Calif. when he was governator part 1

And it was a literal police state, not resident friendly unless you were in the 1% league. That's one reason they have all those oil rigs on the coast... among other issues that made the state more of a slave camp with palaces for the few.

[DhhD]

23. The Sun under the blanket of the Elephant.

Lobbism at its finest: destroy yourself (social programs) for the preservation of the wealthy individuals and big business (capitalism).

[suffragette]

26. Great point about Operation Coffecup, especially given continuation of fake grassroots Tea Party

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And even the planned and scripted shut down.

The Coffee Cup action was designed to seem like a citizen's movement, though it was not:


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/operation-coffeecup-reaga_b_45444.html


Reagan recorded an LP (or "long playing" record), "Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine." The AMA sent it to the "ladies' auxiliary" of the Medical Association in each county (unthinkable as it is now, medicine was so male and gender roles so different that each county had a "ladies' auxiliary" for doctors' wives.)

The "ladies" were instructed to "put on the coffeepot," play the record for their friends and fellow physicians' wives, and then get out the stationery (scented, no doubt) so that each of them could write personalized letters to their Senators and Congressmen. (Yes, they were called "Congressmen" then, even if there had already been some heroic women among them.)

There was no public announcement of the recording, or of "Operation Coffeecup." The idea was to make it seem as if the letters were spontaneously written by distressed citizens. Portions of the recording were also reportedly broadcast as radio commentary.

(Much more at that link about this)

And now we have a planned and scripted shut down, with right wing think tanks and corporate groups like the Kochs funding, planning the actions and writing the scripts for what they should say or even tweet:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/us/a-federal-budget-crisis-months-in-the-planning.html?_r=0

The current budget brinkmanship is just the latest development in a well-financed, broad-based assault on the health law, Mr. Obama’s signature legislative initiative. Groups like Tea Party Patriots, Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks are all immersed in the fight, as is Club for Growth, a business-backed nonprofit organization. Some, like Generation Opportunity and Young Americans for Liberty, both aimed at young adults, are upstarts. Heritage Action is new, too, founded in 2010 to advance the policy prescriptions of its sister group, the Heritage Foundation.

The billionaire Koch brothers, Charles and David, have been deeply involved with financing the overall effort. A group linked to the Kochs, Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, disbursed more than $200 million last year to nonprofit organizations involved in the fight. Included was $5 million to Generation Opportunity, which created a buzz last month with an Internet advertisement showing a menacing Uncle Sam figure popping up between a woman’s legs during a gynecological exam.

The groups have also sought to pressure vulnerable Republican members of Congress with scorecards keeping track of their health care votes; have burned faux “Obamacare cards” on college campuses; and have distributed scripts for phone calls to Congressional offices, sample letters to editors and Twitter and Facebook offerings for followers to present as their own.

One sample Twitter offering — “Obamacare is a train wreck” — is a common refrain for Speaker John A. Boehner.

[Laelth]

28. Nice post. Thanks. n/t

-Laelth

[ruffburr]

2. That Shows the Real GOP agenda all along

[COLGATE4]

3. The GOP - proudly marching backwards

against the tide of history. The only one missing is the "Say NO to Socialism. Tell the Kennedys No School Integration"

[sinkingfeeling]

4. I do think the GOP may be right to fear 'Obamacare'!

[peoli]

5. pretty amazing n/t

[marble falls]

6. And I thought Medicare was a horrible Idea. I was wrong. Very wrong. The fear....

I have about the ACA is that it is a Republican-like approach to health care. Every bit of it will be handled by private companies - insurance companies. I think a single payer program would be best, financed by taxes.

[tridim]

8. Insurance companies, who are now Federally regulated for the first time in American history.

[mountain grammy]

11. Yes, exactly, and let's see how that works! I think it will, but single payer will eventually win.

[marble falls]

37. And we saw what a determined "Conservative" administration could do to regulations.

[Art_from_Ark]

38. All it would take would be a Republican President,

and a Republican/Blue Dog coalition in Congress-- just like in the early Reagan years

[TBF]

41. Most of us would rather have single payer -

but we are up against very strong lobbyists paid for by the insurance companies (with the $$$ they make off us).

Most of us would dearly LOVE to cut the middle man out and just expand Medicare (gradually cover all).

Hoping that as folks enjoy ACA more people will demand that the government continue to act so we can get there.

[Curmudgeoness]

7. No one can say that they are not consistent

ly wrong.

And the "socialism" meme is nothing new. They get an A for not wandering from the point, an F for the point.

[kpete]

36. Consistently

wrong




peace, kp

[zentrum]

9. Brilliant historial graphic n/t

[santamargarita]

13. They hate this country and are this nations biggest enemy!

[yuiyoshida]

29. Agreed...

[tabasco]

14. A quick, effective history lesson.

Well done, Mr. Perry.

[mountain grammy]

16. I remember those Reagan ads... My mom was livid..

But he sucked those seniors in and won by a landslide a few years later.

[annabanana]

22. Oh that's good! stealing image . . .n/t

[kpete]

34. steal away!

peace, kp

[Bucky]

24. Say no to Socialism: Tell Teddy Roosevelt no Meat Inspection Act!

Say no to Socialism: Tell Lincoln no Homestead Act!

[Scurrilous]

30. K & R

[toby jo]

31. 'No' to socialism: can the cops, the fireman, and the teachers.

Tell the military to take a hike, too. I got me a gun, I'm good.

[Leopolds Ghost]

32. It's an Especially Big Lie because Gingrich Invented Individual Mandates.

This -- and the ACA -- is just about dragging the country further to the right.

[KauaiK]

33. BIG K & R

I'm printing this for my Dad.

[indepat]

35. Repukes: we ain't gonna' stand for no stinkin' socialization, but rather will solely pursue a

corporatist laizze-faire governance wherein large corporations are free to operate without any interference from/oversight by government, where corporations will have all rights of person-hood without any of the responsibilities, especially corporations will not be taxed on their income as people are. Moreover, members of the corporate hierarchy will not be held accountable for their crimes committed in pursuit of corporate policies, goals, or profits. Further, most of the nation's wealth will accumulate to only a precious few and neither their income nor wealth will be subject to any reasonable or equitable Federal taxation.

[grantcart]

39. This is how you get the independents.

[Tigress DEM]

40. OMG and the budget for their buttons increased every time. nt