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Temporal Consistency Can Bite You in the Ass

April 28th, 2011 Leave a comment Go to comments

John Boehner, April 25, 2011, in an interview with ABC’s Jonathan Karl:

JONATHAN KARL: Now Paul Ryan’s budget, which you voted for, which all but a handful of your members voted for, it ends Medicare as we know it.

SPEAKER JOHN BOEHNER: Now that’s Democrat talk.

JONATHAN KARL: Okay, what does it do then?

SPEAKER JOHN BOEHNER: I wanted to call it somethin’ else, because that’s what it is. It transforms Medicare into a plan that’s very similar to the President’s own healthcare bill.

Hmm, OK. Let’s see, what did Boehner say about “the president’s own healthcare bill”? Allow me to introduce John Boehner, on November 3, 2010, talking about Obama’s Affordable Care Act, which he called a “monstrosity”:

Listen, I believe that the health care bill that was enacted by the current Congress will kill jobs in America, ruin the best health care system in the world, and bankrupt our country.

So, taking Boehner at his word, he wants to “transform Medicare into a plan that’s very similar” to a “monstrosity” that “will kill jobs in America, ruin the best health care system in the world, and bankrupt our country.”

Keep talkin’, John. Those Democratic campaign ads won’t write themselves, y’know.

  1. Troy
    April 28th, 2011 at 16:49 | #1

    PPACA actually subsidizes health care such that everyone can afford it — people making under $90,000 will have their premiums capped at 10.2% of income.

    Ryan’s plan just cuts a voucher and wishes you luck as a senior.

    It’s really amazing how full of it these Republicans are.

    Looks like the public might actually be remembering this.

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