It never ceases to amaze me how absolutely ignorant some of our elected officials are. The good times rolled at a town hall event in Athens, Georgia, where anti-health care protesters had no need to get rowdy because they had an ally in their corner. Rep. Paul Broun seemed to basically agree with their concerns and then some. Gee, I wonder why Rep. Broun didn't push his proposal for health care reform during the last administration, since he cares so much about his constituents? He also said that he will vote against any health care reform bill that comes before him. So, even it is the result of bipartisanship, he will deliberately abstain from voting on the basis of his ridiculous conviction. Sounds very selfish to me.Broun described a "socialistic elite," led by Obama and senior congressional Democrats, which might use the occasion of a pandemic or a natural disaster to seize dictatorial powers. "They're trying to develop an environment where they can take over," he said. "We've seen that historically."
U.S. Rep. Paul Broun, R-Athens, walked into a North Georgia Technical College auditorium Tuesday evening to a standing ovation, holding three thick white binders. "Folks, this is Obamacare," he said, holding the binders over his head. "Let me start this by telling you what I think of this bill and (President) Obama," he said, and slammed the binders on the ground.Gee, I wonder why Rep. Broun didn't push his plan when President Bush was on office? I guess that would be more work than he cares to engage in. This is the same idiot who said that President Obama was a good buddy of Venezuelan leftist nutjob Hugo Chavez. The Rethuglican Party continues to push nothing but lies and continue to foment the extremist fringe of the party. I have some real concerns about this proposed health care reform, but I would not embellish my position with a lot of mistruths and dirty smears.
With that, Broun set the tone for a town hall meeting on health care reform. The Democrats' proposal is too expensive and will threaten millions of Georgians' jobs and lives, he said. "This is a stinking, rotten fish, and they don't want you to smell it, and they want to shove it down your throat and make you eat it before you smell how rotten and stinky it is," he said.
At another point, Broun, who last year made national news by comparing Obama to Hitler, called Cuba's former dictator Fidel Castro and leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Obama's "good buddy."
Many speakers in the senior-heavy audience honed in on a clause in the health care proposal that would require insurers to cover end-of-life counseling sessions to help healthy patients decide beforehand what types of treatments they want to keep them alive if they are about to die. "(Obama) is going to let the old folks die, and I don't like that at all," Oconee County resident Gene Aycock said. Source: Athens Banner Herald
