As the Senate Finance Committee prepared to vote on its health reform bill this afternoon, Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., got in touch with his Dodge City roots oratorically: “I am terribly concerned that we are riding hell for leather into a health care box canyon, full of spending quicksand, cactus tax hikes, policy briar patches, complete with CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) regulatory scorpions, rattlesnakes and bad news bears — something like riding your pickup over a whole tangle of barbed wire. And getting out of this, Mr. Chairman, and back on solid ground to make Medicare solvent is going to be a mighty rough and long ride.”
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There are only three ways in which government can raise money. One is by taxation, two is by borrowing, three is by printing. Each have their own advantages and disadvantages. If you tax more, you will raise funds from directly from Americans, but you will face the consequences of taxing Americans as well. If you borrow the money, you avoid taxing Americans, but you then become indebted to someone else who know has a voice in how things are done. If you print the money, you do not have to tax Americans or become indebted to another nation, but you devalue the currency in existence and hurt savers and retired folks.
He is correct, it is going to be a mighty rough and long ride. It should be exciting to see how it all plays out over the next decade.
Instead of handing out folksy comments, perhaps Roberts and other Republicans should have REALLY worked with Democrats on health care reform.
Smile when ya say that, partner.. then vote FOR the bill!
Senator No.
Austrian_Economist
Posted October 13, 2009 at 1:25 pm | Permalink
There are only three ways in which government can raise money. One is by taxation, two is by borrowing, three is by printing.
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O’BAMA does all three.
Newly confirmed left-wing extremist Regulatory Czar Cass Sunstein argues in his recent book that “the state owns the rights to body parts of people who are dead or in certain hopeless conditions, and it can remove their organs without asking anyone’s permission.”
Sunstein has also sought to legalize human cloning and the killing of newborn babies, and to ban hunting. Sunstein also advocates taxpayer-funded abortions, contrary to Obamanation’s speeches and over 70% of Americans.
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Pro-life Democrat Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan has repeatedly said as many as 40 pro-life and moderate Democrats would kill any health care bill that does not specifically exclude taxpayer funding of abortions, as teleprompter-in-chief Obamanation “promised” in his speech to Congress and the American people.
Well, I see Roberts has climbed on his health insurance industry provided donkey, backwards, by the way, heading north, with his head up the donkeys southern exposure. My suggestion to him is to keep his mouth shut. It’s libel to fill up with some bad tasting droppings. But, then again, that’s what comes out of his mouth, so he should be used to it.
All politics aside, who is writing remarks for this man?
“health care box canyon…spending quicksand…cactus tax hikes…regulatory scorpions?”
That may have been the most artificially folksy sentence ever uttered. The only way this could have been worse would be if he had been wearing a coonskin cap, and immediately shouted, “There’s gold in them there hills!”
Seriously Sen. Roberts, fire the 13-year old girl and hire a speech writer who has actually graduated high school.
Oh gee, is Marion Morrison Roberts trying to sound like John Wayne again? Hasn’t the Kansas image suffered enough without this joker trying to play cowboy? This is embarassing!
Jed
Posted October 13, 2009 at 3:46 pm | Permalink
Oh gee, is Marion Morrison Roberts trying to sound like John Wayne again? Hasn’t the Kansas image suffered enough without this joker trying to play cowboy? This is embarassing!
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Senator Roberts was a Marine – John Wayne never was, except in movies. :)
reggie,
Pat served one hitch during peacetime. Hardly makes him a war hero. Can’t see that he did even as much as Wayne. His fame was inherited from his daddy’s newspaper business, not from any talents of his own.
And he has the gall to air commercials about his undying support for healthcare reform? Give us a break! He was bought and paid for by the insurance lobby a long time ago!
Roberts saddles up for his ‘no’ vote
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And who thought he would vote ‘yes’?
d
Posted October 13, 2009 at 4:08 pm | Permalink
reggie,
Pat served one hitch during peacetime.
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How long have you served in the military?
Oh wait… never mind – just another case of sidewalk Generals like Jed passing on their judgment.
reggie,
I didn’t, for which both the military and I are eternally grateful. I don’t and never have taken crap from people with jewelry.
Ant,
“And who thought he would vote ‘yes’?”
The people who believed his commercials.
Dang Senator, who writes that crap for you? Surely you don;t pay someone to put out schitt like that, do you?
The people who believed his commercials.
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Let me guess Jed, you are one of those idiots that believes everything they see on TV.
Roberts has been in the game long enough.
Clearly he needs to be retired.
Roberts botched even sounding like a Kansan.
He sounds more like a Hollywood ret@rd who’s never been out of the city.
Ant,
I’m the kid who didn’t believe the encyclopedia at age 8 and went out and proved it wrong. Been a skeptic ever since.
Regular
Posted October 13, 2009 at 3:03 pm | Permalink
Austrian_Economist
Posted October 13, 2009 at 1:25 pm | Permalink
There are only three ways in which government can raise money. One is by taxation, two is by borrowing, three is by printing.
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O’BAMA does all three.
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George W. Bush believed in taxation – but only on the right people – you know, the working Americans. The wealthy people could count on Georgie to see to it that they would not be paying taxes – you betcha!
George W. Bush believed in borrowing from China – he did this to finance his war-for-profit to make sure Halliburton and Blackwater got their obscene profits while the real soldiers went without the basic body armor to protect themselves. But that must have been okay with you Bush supporters because you all lockstepped behind Bush and kicked those boots just as high as Bush said to kick them – didn’t you?
George W. Bush was not smart enough to know where the money printing machine was – Bush was lucky if he knew how to get his own bed every night.
Jed
Posted October 13, 2009 at 4:08 pm | Permalink
He was bought and paid for by the insurance lobby a long time ago
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Wasn’t it Roberts that asked for 72 hours in order to give time for the people who monitor these things to do their work before they were to vote in committee?
Those ‘monitoring people’ Roberts was referring to were lobbyists.
Regular
Posted October 13, 2009 at 3:50 pm | Permalink
Senator Roberts was a Marine
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If Pattie Roberts was a Marine then why did he tolerate Bush and Cheney Administration treating our soldiers so badly during the Iraq War? How many times did the public hear of the poor medical care our soldiers were receiving when they returned home? What about the filthy conditions at Walter Reed Hospital?
How many soldiers were having to rummage through the dumpsters looking for pieces of metal because our good Marine Senator from Kansas was too busy licking the boots of Bush/Cheney to notice?
A good Marine from Kansas who made it to being a Senator should have been more concerned for our troops and should have fought to get the soldiers what they needed.
totoinks
Posted October 13, 2009 at 5:18 pm | Permalink
Regular
Posted October 13, 2009 at 3:50 pm | Permalink
Senator Roberts was a Marine
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If Pattie Roberts was a Marine then why did he tolerate Bush and Cheney Administration treating our soldiers so badly during the Iraq War?
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Put your big boy pants on and figure it out.
There are reasons why generals were fired at Walter Reed, positions moved around at the VA and etc.
People weren’t getting the job done. Now I know you think Bush and Cheney are omniscient and omnipresent, but to the contrary they can’t be everywhere at once and know everything.
A typical liberal, useless gotcha question easily defeated.
Do prattle on…
jed.it would be best for all if ya’all just road off into the sunset………………….or at least exceed your feat (at 8) of proving the encyclopedia wrong………that is surely in Ripley’s believe or not or at least the book of world records/………
reggie,
“There are reasons why generals were fired at Walter Reed, positions moved around at the VA and etc.”
Yeah, they got caught by the media, a capitol crime!
hick,
one doesn’t have to be all that old to identify the smell of bullsh*t.
Of course, Roberts did such a fine job oversee the intelligence apparatus. How long did he manage to stall the investigations of abuse?
Roberts has to go.
The Three Amigos, Roberts, Brownback and Tiahrt, and none of them can shoot straight, one of them looks like the North end of a South bound mule to boot! Howdy Pardner.
Think while reading that lead in I got a whiff of the stockyards! Pilgrim, better put your waders on.
Awwww, I just saw the “Mr. Chaiman”, I’d hoped this was just said for local consumption and not televised across the country, going to have to find a rock to crawl under now!
Sounds to me like the Roberts Repub Rough Riders have been ridden hard and put away wet! They’ll probably have to go find themselves a young filly after this is all over, if not before.
another dumb statement completely loved by the neo-Cons who blindly follow the wacky statements as some kind of unusual intellegence