Putting Lipstick On A Pig
August 16th 2009 16:41
Lately, President Obama’s desire to have some form of national health care system that includes everyone has come under attack at town hall meetings conducted by representatives and senators on summer recess. You know the drill by now; some red faced, elderly idiot stands up holding a sign screaming in the face of some senator or representative trying to explain the President’s current health plan, with other red faced, screaming idiots in the background, and the TV cameras catching it all: democracy in action. What you probably didn’t know, until Rachel Maddow revealed it in her report “TRMS Investigates Freedomworks” (Wikipedia, Dick Armey, Alleged role in organized disruptions of Congressional town hall meetings on health care reform), that Dick Armey, and his ultra right wing organization, Freedomworks, was behind the mass hysteria at these town hall meetings.
Dick Armey, Ph.D., nine time congressman from Texas, former House Majority Leader when Newt Gingrich was Speaker who tried unsuccessfully to lead a revolt against Gingrich, resigned from the House of Representatives to work as a lobbyist for the law firm DLA Piper, which represented, among other clients, pharmaceutical companies. During his tenure as a representative and House Majority Leader, Armey was a proponent of the flat income tax, where everyone would pay the same percentage of tax and there would be no deductions. This is the typical Republican/Conservative, Steve Forbes mantra that would have the middle class paying the taxes for the wealthy. Why not just have a graduated income tax without any deductions?
While he was a severe critic of Bill Clinton’s transgressions with such comments as “"If I were in the President's place I would not have gotten a chance to resign. I would be lying in a pool of my own blood, hearing Mrs. Armey standing over me saying, 'How do I reload this damn thing?’”(Wikipedia, Dick Armey, From academia to Congress), his own sexual transgressions were exposed when he was an economics professor at North Texas State University (he later divorced his wife and married one of his students).
When he left Congress and joined DLA Piper as a lobbyist, Armey also founded the ultra right wing organization Freedomworks, which supposedly has as its agenda lower taxes, smaller government, and more freedom, something to appeal to every American (the same red faced screaming elderly at the town hall meetings who want lower taxes won’t give up their Social Security payments or Medicare, will they?). At the beginning of the summer, DLA Piper asked Armey to resign because, while he was representing the pharmaceutical industry as a lobbyist for DLA Piper, and the pharmaceutical industry was trying to present itself as wanting some kind of universal health care package (Rachel Maddow exposed this as just propaganda to take the heat off of them), Armey and Freedomworks was sending out minions to town hall meetings to disrupt those meetings. Essentially, as Rachel Maddow pointed out, Armey was sabatoging his client and his firm.
Armey couldn’t pull off his spread of lies and half truths about the Presidents health care initiative without some help. He doesn’t appeal to middle class, lower middle class and poor voters. Neither does Newt Gingrich, although Newt is a bigger, more recognizable name. No, he needed a bigger name, one that would appeal to parents, grandparents, unemployed, and those who are handicaped or with handicaped children, and he had to focus on the one issue that he knew would suck in voters that would normally have no business supporting Republican/Conservative issues (why would low to medium income people support fat cats?), the right to life issue. So he purposely had Sarah Palin deliver misleading information about one aspect of the health intitiative, the end of life counseling sessions, which would be voluntary, and which would be used to discuss a number of things including living wills. Sarah wrote, “"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.” (AP, Mark Thiessen, 8/8/2009) How do you go from having the option to make a living will to death panel? Ask Dick Armey.
Poor Arlen Specter, who recently converted from Republicanism to Democratism (he was always a Democrat in Republican clothes), had to endure all of the Dick Armey idiots at his town hall meeting who spouted Sarah Palin’s refrain. This was no doubt a formal Republican/Conservative Party excommunication and punishment for his religious conversion.
Dick really put lipstick on the power hungry Republican/Conservative Party pig, something nobody else has been able to do yet.
Dick Armey, Ph.D., nine time congressman from Texas, former House Majority Leader when Newt Gingrich was Speaker who tried unsuccessfully to lead a revolt against Gingrich, resigned from the House of Representatives to work as a lobbyist for the law firm DLA Piper, which represented, among other clients, pharmaceutical companies. During his tenure as a representative and House Majority Leader, Armey was a proponent of the flat income tax, where everyone would pay the same percentage of tax and there would be no deductions. This is the typical Republican/Conservative, Steve Forbes mantra that would have the middle class paying the taxes for the wealthy. Why not just have a graduated income tax without any deductions?
While he was a severe critic of Bill Clinton’s transgressions with such comments as “"If I were in the President's place I would not have gotten a chance to resign. I would be lying in a pool of my own blood, hearing Mrs. Armey standing over me saying, 'How do I reload this damn thing?’”(Wikipedia, Dick Armey, From academia to Congress), his own sexual transgressions were exposed when he was an economics professor at North Texas State University (he later divorced his wife and married one of his students).
When he left Congress and joined DLA Piper as a lobbyist, Armey also founded the ultra right wing organization Freedomworks, which supposedly has as its agenda lower taxes, smaller government, and more freedom, something to appeal to every American (the same red faced screaming elderly at the town hall meetings who want lower taxes won’t give up their Social Security payments or Medicare, will they?). At the beginning of the summer, DLA Piper asked Armey to resign because, while he was representing the pharmaceutical industry as a lobbyist for DLA Piper, and the pharmaceutical industry was trying to present itself as wanting some kind of universal health care package (Rachel Maddow exposed this as just propaganda to take the heat off of them), Armey and Freedomworks was sending out minions to town hall meetings to disrupt those meetings. Essentially, as Rachel Maddow pointed out, Armey was sabatoging his client and his firm.
Armey couldn’t pull off his spread of lies and half truths about the Presidents health care initiative without some help. He doesn’t appeal to middle class, lower middle class and poor voters. Neither does Newt Gingrich, although Newt is a bigger, more recognizable name. No, he needed a bigger name, one that would appeal to parents, grandparents, unemployed, and those who are handicaped or with handicaped children, and he had to focus on the one issue that he knew would suck in voters that would normally have no business supporting Republican/Conservative issues (why would low to medium income people support fat cats?), the right to life issue. So he purposely had Sarah Palin deliver misleading information about one aspect of the health intitiative, the end of life counseling sessions, which would be voluntary, and which would be used to discuss a number of things including living wills. Sarah wrote, “"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.” (AP, Mark Thiessen, 8/8/2009) How do you go from having the option to make a living will to death panel? Ask Dick Armey.
Poor Arlen Specter, who recently converted from Republicanism to Democratism (he was always a Democrat in Republican clothes), had to endure all of the Dick Armey idiots at his town hall meeting who spouted Sarah Palin’s refrain. This was no doubt a formal Republican/Conservative Party excommunication and punishment for his religious conversion.
Dick really put lipstick on the power hungry Republican/Conservative Party pig, something nobody else has been able to do yet.
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