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Republicans Don't Want To Answer Questions
During a heated confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill last week, Georgia Congressman Tom Price - Donald Trump's pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services - refused to say whether or not he would support cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. Sen. Elizabeth Warren: "Can you assure this committee you will not cut one dollar from either Medicare or Medicaid should you be confirmed to this position?"
Tom Price "Senator, I believe that the metric ought to be the care that the patients are receiving."
Sen. Elizabeth Warren: "I'll take that as a no."
Tom Price It's the wrong metric... we ought to be putting forth the resources."
Sen. Elizabeth Warren: "I'm not asking you whether or not you think you have a better metric. I'm asking you a question about dollars, yes or no?"
Tom Price "What we ought to do is put forward the resources in order to take care of the patient."
Sen. Elizabeth Warren: "... simple question."
Price's refusal to answer that very simple question from Elizabeth Warren comes as Republicans are discovering that their quest to dismantle the social safety net is wildly unpopular with the American people.
Colorado Congressman Mike Coffman learned this the hard way Saturday during a town hall meeting outside Denver.
The event was billed as a "one-on-one" meet-and-greet - but soon turned into a protest as hundreds of people angry at Coffman's Friday vote to repeal Obamacare filled a lobby and began singing protest songs like This is Your Land.
This display of democracy was apparently too much for Coffman - who fled the event early out a back door.
A similar scene occurred on Monday in Washington State - where Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers - one of the GOP's rising stars - was met with chants of "save our healthcare" during a MLK day speech in Spokane.
So - is this going to happen to every Republican?
Are we about to see a repeat of those 2010 Town Halls in reverse?
-Thom
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Quote: "The problem is not religion or God. The actual problem is authoritarianism, mixed with the desire to angrily impose one’s personal apparently idealistic beliefs on others." -- Abhijit Naskar.
Quote: " We've got Social Security that's going to be destroyed if somebody like me doesn't bring money into the country. All these other people want to cut the hell out of it. I'm not going to cut it at all; I'm going to bring money in, and we're going to save it." - Donald Trump.
Quote: " Every Republican wants to do a big number on Social Security, they want to do it on Medicare, they want to do it on Medicaid. And we can’t do that." - Donald Trump.
Quote: " But we’re not going to cut your Social Security and we’re not cutting your Medicare." - Donald Trump.
Quote: " No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's" - Thomas L. Friedman.
King Trump Moves in…..Obamacare is unraveling, Trump’s being sued, They have “Alternative Facts” on their side……
Hour Two: TPP thrown out
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Letter: " Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane", 6 Sept. 1819 " The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist, and shape into any form they please."
Article: " Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make..."
Article: " Federalist 78: The Judiciary Department" by Alexander Hamilton. " the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them."
Quote: " If a nation expects to be ignorant & free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was & never will be. the functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty & property of their constituents. there is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves; nor can they be safe with them without information. where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe." - Thomas Jefferson.
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