Grassley Tells Constituent if He Wants Affordable Insurance, "Go Work for the Government"

Repubs have been their won worst enemy over the last 8 years.

Grassley hs long been considered unbeatable in Iowa, and usually does not get a very strong opponent. Often good ones, but not ones who are well known. The same looks possible in 2010. OPeople here need to see this more high-handed side of him, and less of the "aw shucks Iowa guy just like you" persona. Huckabee did well with that persona too - won the Iowa GOP caucuses in 2008. Mr. amiable and Mr. likeable - just don't listen closely to what they say about what they are for and agaisnt!

Those who work for the government don't have "publicly run health insurance". They have a choice of many different private health insurance providers and pay varying premiums depending on which provider they choose each year.

progressive wrote:

Grassley hs long been considered unbeatable in Iowa, and usually does not get a very strong opponent. Often good ones, but not ones who are well known. The same looks possible in 2010. OPeople here need to see this more high-handed side of him, and less of the "aw shucks Iowa guy just like you" persona. Huckabee did well with that persona too - won the Iowa GOP caucuses in 2008. Mr. amiable and Mr. likeable - just don't listen closely to what they say about what they are for and agaisnt!

Grassley just might get an opponent who can kick his hindquarters next election, if he keeps opening his mouth like that. He may as well have said "let him eat grass". I'm certain that old man will vote straight Democrat the next chance he gets. And seeing the republicans' attitude towards government-Sanford abandoning S. Carolina while he goes whoring around with some foreigner, Palin abandoning Alaska for a 'higher calling'-yeah, right, I heard that one before, from W. Bush, and look what we got, and a drug addict broadcasting on am radio telling everyone how we should live, because the truth is what he says it is!! Oh, did I forget those idiots in Wichita, Kansas, who call themselves Baptists and protest at military funerals??

Algernon Sidney wrote:

Those who work for the government don't have "publicly run health insurance". They have a choice of many different private health insurance providers and pay varying premiums depending on which provider they choose each year.

Who provides them the choice of providers, Chucky Cheese?

They are part of the pool of employees that are employed by, amazingly, us. Why in the world should our employees receive much better health insurance coverage than the employers?

That's not the capitalist way is it.

Anybody that wants government run healthcare is an idiot. They just want something for nothing. This country is just full of people that want everybody else to pay for their existance.

I want a kid, I want health care, I want a house, I want an education. Work your butt off like I did and many others did and quit expecting the government to just give you everything.

OneRyder wrote:

Repubs have been their won worst enemy over the last 8 years.

As is Democrats haven't been their own worst enemies over the last 8 months. Get real, we're heading for disaster with these idiots in charge and you're still whining about George Bush.

Why don't you join reality and quit living in the past?

Like most of Grassleys kind,its OK for them to have government healthcare,but for anyone else he calls it "Socialism" These two faced crooks never fail to infuriate me.

We just want for every American to have the same access to affordable health care as Senator Charles Grassley.

Is that asking too much?

The government being involved in health care and regulations as it is, has helped cause the massive cost of it, thereby strapping individuals and families with high rates, higher taxes and fees, and God knows how much more is hidden to even garner more revenue. So it seems natural today to ask for national health care if the government keeps its involvement in what is has already.

do the democrats in congress NOT have the same health care grassley has?
i see the "stop petty partisan bickering" only applies when it benefits you.

do you idiots think the democrats will give that up and hop on the universal care coverage they're trying to shove down the peoples throats?

apparently, some of you idiots do ... whadda surprise!

carey529 wrote:

do the democrats in congress NOT have the same health care grassley has?

They do, they're just smart enough not to rail against it as an option for others.

The GOP is suffering from "foot in mouth" disease. Bad timing considering how much the party has eroded over the past year.

Mike wrote:

Anybody that wants government run healthcare is an idiot.

Nobody wants "government run healthcare", that's just a rightwing strawman. People just want a public option that competes against private insurers. Competition lowers prices.

Mike wrote:

They just want something for nothing. This country is just full of people that want everybody else to pay for their existance.
I want a kid, I want health care, I want a house, I want an education. Work your butt off like I did and many others did and quit expecting the government to just give you everything.

Another strawman.

Mike wrote:

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As is Democrats haven't been their own worst enemies over the last 8 months. Get real, we're heading for disaster with these idiots in charge and you're still whining about George Bush.
Why don't you join reality and quit living in the past?

Darling, the past has influenced what is happening in the present.

Gawd, even a republican could figure that out!

Democrats in majority? Right? So, they can change Grassley's insurance coverage? Right?

More boring tripe from Iria.

Mike wrote:

Anybody that wants government run healthcare is an idiot. They just want something for nothing. This country is just full of people that want everybody else to pay for their existance.
I want a kid, I want health care, I want a house, I want an education. Work your butt off like I did and many others did and quit expecting the government to just give you everything.

it won't be for nothing the public trough is paid for by taxes, taxes and more taxes... and the health industry will be the fall guy... ask anyone in socialist run countries...

A tongue in cheek comment from Grassley manipulated by the media. What's new?

Congress...democrats and republicans alike... have EXEMPTED themselves from the Nationalized healthcare that Obama want the rest of us to have.

Congress has exceptional healthcare package...which WE pay for...

Someone from the slanted media needs to ask Obama why he and the rest of Congress have EXEMPTED themselves from the Nationalized Healthcare Package.

And can YOU afford the "incremental taxing...starting at 1.5% then "INCREASES" to 10% on EVERYTHING YOU PURCHASE to pay for this healthcare?

and that's ontop of the Cap and Trade Energy Tax,

the Stimulus #1 TAX (you know the one where your great, great GRANDchildren will be paying off),

the soda, beer and alcohol tax,

the mileage tax

and the Stimulus #2 (did you catch Obama mentioning that second TAX?)

We can't afford the Cap and Trade Energy Tax and the Nationalized Healthcare Tax. It's the wrong time. wrong programs.

People who forget their past are doomed to repeat it.

Look at what the government has done to us in the past and screwed UP

Social Security
Medicare
Medicaid
Postal Service
VA

Wake up and stop believing the propaganda put out by the slanted media. Speak up! voice your concerns and vote out the taxers...democrats in 2010 and 2012

Don't forget... your local democrats tax you, too!
Vote them out.

Balance America.

What would the Congressional Healthcare plan cost in an open market.
I am paying for it and don't know.
And, have they given themselves the tax exemption, as they gave the labor unions.

This "blog article" is just propaganda.

1) It is distorting what it assumes to be the scenario.

2) If the supporters of Obam-edicine think they are going to get the same coverage Congress and the White House gets, they are dumber than a box of rocks.

3) If those same supporters think the Czar and his Imperial Congress are going to "sacrifice" any thing, other than the legal citizens of this nation, they should cease their breathing to slow global warming.

Responsibility wrote:

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Darling, the past has influenced what is happening in the present.
Gawd, even a republican could figure that out!

Then you should be able to trace the screwing up of our nation back to it's beginning with Democrat Woodrow Wilson...then forward to FDR...to LBJ and the modern welfare state...to Obama.

For almost 100 years Democrats have been making the same promises - and spent trillions of dollars to make America "better" - but it has only gotten worse.