Mike Castle Goes Out of Town to Get His Inner Wingnut On
On Monday, Castle went to Philly to be part of a panel of legislators to discuss Health Insurance reform for some radio show.
What is interesting about this is that Castle abandoned his so-called “moderation” for some pandering to the wingnut base:
Castle challenged the idea that the government must take significant action to reduce the ranks of everyone who lacks health insurance after hearing the oft-bandied-about figure that 46 million people in the United States are uninsured.
“Maybe 14 million [of those uninsured] qualified for Medicaid or S-CHIP and another 8 million are not citizens of the USA and we don’t have a responsibility to provide health insurance to them,” he said.
Another argument from made up numbers — you never see any sourced breakdown of this talking point, but all it is supposed to do is to make the gullible think that the problem is smaller than it is and to make it look like undocumented people are meant to be eligible. In other words — the usual lying from the usual suspects. And the audience in attendance dutifully went through their the manufactured rage provided to them via Dick Armey and the teabaggers.
The Philly Inquirer has an article with more detail of what all of the panelists discussed. Interesting that the Dems appealing to reality were shouted down.
So other than the despicable talking points that Castle apparently needs to go out of town to deliver — what do you think about this performance? Out of town tryouts to see how much wingnuttery he can really deliver?
The “Castle to Run for Senate” futures contract prices just ticked up on that news.
Castle is moderately conservative, not a moderate. He voted against Bush once a year to keep his “moderate” cred. If he wants anything he wants to be in the Senate with Tom “Blue Dog” Carper. As for accessing his inner Wingnut he doth not reach far nor long.
He is a well paid barron for corporate america, assuring the corporates continue stealing life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
Was it $1.8M or $l.6M he got from the insurance companies to makesure “wealthcare for the billionaires” remained in tact? Its survival of the richest, Mike Castle supports. Its not moderate, conversative its the absolute wealthiest. How can any real republican or democrat think this man is a “good human being”? He is nothing but a corporate whore slopping at the robber barron corporate trough. He should be impeached because he has violated his oath of office to protect and serve we the people. This man thumbs his nose at he people while laughing all the way to the bank.
Why doesnt Carper and Castle look at the last Census Report 200,000 Delawareans are uninsured, underinsured. 80% are working peple, 23% are white, 32% blacks, 60% are legal hispanics. 20% are disabled, or are caregivers providing care to loved ones at home. Those are the facts! Why doesnt someone point these FACTS out to the two corporate whores, and demand they tell us do you or do you NOT represent ALL citizens? Can we not begin finding real citizens who will work for the citizens and these two pigs out of office.
Uh-oh. Unhinged moonbat alert.
“Why doesnt someone point these FACTS out to the two corporate whores, and demand they tell us do you or do you NOT represent ALL citizens?”
Because that sort of weak shit doesn’t begin to do what you seem to think it will. For one thing, it’s impossible to represent ALL citizens on any issue you name, because some will be on one side and others won’t.
Here’s the video
lol
Thanks for the video link, VC.
I notice Carper and Kaufman weren’t invited.
Castle said the same sort of stuff in the townhall I attended last week. At one point he said something about some of the uninsured making >$80K. He didn’t source his data but perhaps some of them are uninsurable because of pre-existing conditions. I think insurance premiums are out of range for some people who make that much money if you’re paying the whole thing and not getting it through work.
UI: That’s an argument for, not against, government involvement. The only way to make sure people pay their share into the system is to charge them in the form of a tax. If voluntary compliance worked, everyone would have auto insurance — just as the law demands. Except they don’t.
http://www.nchc.org/documents/Fact%20Sheets/Kellogg%20General%20Coverage%20Fact%20Sheet%2008-11-2009.pdf
A few facts on the uninsured.
So, how do you justify using tax dollars to fund non citizen’s health care? Do we pay their car insurance? Do we pay for their groceries?
Mike Protack