Conservatives get scared easily. RNC is just following what has worked so far. Scare them and they will have a tea party.

It has been suggested that this is precisely what republicans would do should they gain control of a democratically imposed "health care rationing system."

I feel confident that any 'Democrat-imposed health care rationing system' would provide a full range of mental health treatment for all batshit crazy Republicans, regardless of the immense strain it would obviously impose on the national economy.

Truthometer Alert: "It has been suggested" is second only to "Everybody knows" as the first words of a bald faced LIE.

"It has been suggested" --

The passive voice can be used to raise any piece of crap and still not look like an idiot. A commonly used trick.

It has been suggested that Republicans are absolutely stupid enough to believe such transparent nonsense.

Hell, yeah!
Every Republican gets lined up in front of the death panels, first thing!

...and all us crazy left of lefties have lists, too!

#1 Dick Cheney

"Mistakes were made."

dcsusie I don't care who else posts - you win this one. LMAO. This is especially poignant after Steel's rambling diatribe this morning on NPR . The question is - What is the cure for stupid.

"It has been suggested (by us)...."

So THAT explains why Republicans senior citizens don't currently get monthly Social Security checks and medical care under Medicare. I knew there had to be a reason, but I could never figure it out. Thank you RNC!

why is it that the republicans always project their own boogey men onto democratic ideas? sane people would never think to exclude based on political identification but wingnuttia residents would. so far, rove has blamed all of the bush white house actions on obama and dems, as if no one remembers the truth.

I am never surprised at just how tribal America has become. I have been told point blank by frightened Fox News/Rush Limbaugh loving Republicans that Barack Obama personally wants them to face "death panels." The Republican base is so far out on the fringe that even long time libertarians cringe. You would think we were talking about some batshit insane Serbian ethnic groups with centuries of barely concealed fear and loathing of their neighbors.

I feel confident that any 'Democrat-imposed health care rationing system' would provide a full range of mental health treatment for all batshit crazy Republicans, regardless of the immense strain it would obviously impose on the national economy. Posted by: dcsusie on August 27, 2009 at 12:40 PM |

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Touche. In fact, I would go further and say that most Democrats would probably willingly pay higher tax rates to enable that mental health care. It's the patriotic thing to do.

This is so stupid. Every Republican will receive full healthcare benefits in our internment camps. Also movies on Tuesday nights and ice cream on Sundays. We're the humane party, remember?

"I was foolish enough to believe the RNC was incapable of surprising me."

Steve Benen should acknowledge that he is continuously surprised by the RNC, Republican Congressmen, Republican Senators, and radio talk show hosts. The truth will always surprise such dullards.

What is there not to believe that republican supporters will be singled out by ObamaCare's death panels?

We will not be surprised if Obama uses zip codes to identify residents of republican voting areas for mass deportations to the FEMA re-education camps run by Acorn.

I am still awaiting a credible response to the definitive proof offered by the honorable Congressman Dan Burton that Vince Foster was murdered by Hillary Clinton with a lesbian bullet!

Sadly, Republicans are projecting again. Many of them are capable of anything, so they assume that others are as despicable as they are.

May I suggest this is some reverse projection? That they'd love for insurance companies to use even MORE muscle - say threatening to cut off benefits to politically active people or changing benefits to coerce people?

Seems to me they'd love this idea if the insurance companies tried it.

You mean the death books and death squads and all that are for Republicans?

"Happy days are here again - the skies above are blue again...."

Seriously. This one made me just LOL. I mean, come on...just how frackin' stupid/paranoid/crazy do you have to be to even begin to entertain this thought?

The Republican's ability to project their behavior onto others is almost impressive...if it wasn't so terrifyingly stupid.

It has been suggested that the only party to get in trouble for discriminating based on party affiliation lately is the one that Monica Goodling and Alberto Gonzalez belong to.

Actually, it could come in handy. "Patient appears to be suffering from delusions and paranoia. Oh, I see he's republican, that explains it. Prescription: watch less Foxnews."

Wait a minute there 'shortstop'. I think we should keep all the ice cream for our party faithful! I do think its ok to give them Ronnie Ray Gun movies as long as we mix in "It's a Wonderful Life", "The Grapes of Wrath" and "Barbarella".

Wow. The GOP finally came up with a GOOD idea. Who'd have thunk it?

Still being registered Republican, I get a "survey" about every other week. Nearly all of the questions are worded like the one referenced above. They are quite entertaining. I write comments in the margins and send them back but if there is no check enclosed I doubt they even read these things.

This is so stupid. Every Republican will receive full healthcare benefits in our internment camps. Also movies on Tuesday nights and ice cream on Sundays. We're the humane party, remember?

What? No tea parties?

Wait a minute there 'shortstop'. I think we should keep all the ice cream for our party faithful!

You raise a good point. They get crap "ice milk," then.

What? No tea parties?

No, but you've given me an idea. Would serving them doctored brownies calm them down a little and maybe even get them to smile? Or would they just whine all day about their cottonmouth?

Looks like they removed the question.

http://web.campaignsolutions.com/rnc/2009SurveyHealthCare/Default.aspx?InitiativeKey=DMQIGHPNR82E

Wait... The Republics are worried that a Democratic administration might use people's political affiliation against them? The Republics are worried that Democrats might behave like... Republics?

DEMONcrats - NOT only do we want to pull the plug on grandma, kill children, and force our vets to commit suicide, but we also want to deny care to, and therefore possibly kill the entire GOP! (Well, that last point might be right! ;)

Total fucking morons. The GOP is a freak fest for the easily brainwashed, and their corporate puppet masters who stay rich as long as they can keep the masses scared.

Question #5: BOOGA BOOGA!!!

Are you scared?

Giant Kid: WOW on that Republic questionnaire! Who writes these things? I took statistics in 1964 and I could write a more insightful survey than this one in my sleep!
Bless the Beasts and Children.
peace,
st john

Well, it's just considered good medical practice to pull the plug once brain death has been established.

I find it funny how the GOP in general and the RNC in particular, conjure up the wild govt abuses that they would implement were they in control and then project them onto the Dems.

Every Republican will receive full healthcare benefits in our internment camps. Also movies on Tuesday nights

Movie-viewing comes with complimentary toothpicks...a la A Clockwork Orange.

This is just completely off-the-rails crazy. Anyone who believes this is a partisan simpleton who lacks proper reasoning skills.

It has been suggested that all the oxygen molecules in your bedroom could congregate in one corner up near the ceiling, prompting fears that you might suffocate in your sleep. Does this possibility concern you?"

This isn't funny! Obama won't stop until all 300 million of us are dead or in concentration camps or both.

I'm pretty sure at least one of the voices in Glenn Beck's head has suggested this.

Tracking people according to their political donations and party affiliations, and denying them benefits if they vote for the wrong party? Harassing and firing federal employees because of their party affiliation? Screwing individuals and companies that donated money to the wrong party (or the wrong GOP candidate), or that didn't donate enough? Violating the Hatch Act on a massive scale?

These are the things that the REPUBLICANS did when they controlled the federal government. They deliberately re-introduced Tammany Hall style spoils-system politics during the years that they controlled Congress ... and it got truly toxic when they controlled the Executive Branch as well.

Not only were ordinary government functions like contracting and regulation run on a spoils system, but it even extended to basic consitutent services. The staff of GOP senators and representatives would regularly sneer at constituents who called in with the "wrong" views - or simply hang up the phone. If you weren't loyal to the party, you got nothing. You were under occupation. Your views didn't matter. Elections have consequences, right?

So ... claiming that health care will be dolled out on a spoils system basis? Gosh ... project much, guys?

I think it this fantasy is very telling about how the modern GOP sees government action - as a way to punish enemies, and reward friends, rather than actually accomplish a nonpartisan social goal.

shortstop - the only thing that we should doctor the R's brownies with is Ex-Lax.

Hell, they are too paranoid while they're straight, I don't believe you've adequately thought this one through.

I posted this in a another thread but want to link it agains. Seriously this has given me the clearest insight into wingnuttery. They're not clinically insane (not all of them) they are kind of like cats who see things you don't and dogs who hear sounds you can't.

Trust me spend two minutes reading the following will explain why not only are death panels and rationing by party possible but actually inevitable once you take that first step down:
The Road to Serfdom, In Cartoons. (18 b&w panels)

http://mises.org/books/TRTS/

This tactic is straight out of the Fox News playbook, and featured in the documentary "Outfoxed". In it they show how Fox News personalities repeatedly say "People say..." when in fact the only "people" saying such a thing are *Fox News personalities*. It's crap. Similar to me saying "It has been suggested that Rush Limbaugh is a bipolar pedophile who eats kittens and uses his own waste as a conditioning shampoo."

I receive these "survey" mailings all the time from my fearful Republican National Committee. As of late I've been reading them to my grandchildren as scary bedtime stories! -Kevo

I mean, come on...just how frackin' stupid/paranoid/crazy do you have to be to even begin to entertain this thought? - Trinity

Now come on, give the guys who composed this some credit. It's not about how frackin' stupid/paranoid/crazy they are, but knowing how frackin' stupid/paranoid/crazy they have to make it sound to get the people this is addressed to to open their purse.

I guess they know their target audience.

It's as if all of the members of the GOP have big empty heads and all their leaders have to do is suggest crazy things for them to believe them. The most interesting part is that the GOP doesn't seem to think that they can take this all too far, that at some point they'll push something so nuts that they'll become a joke to the vast majority of the public.

Granted I would have thought it would have happened with the government-wants-to-kill-your-granny meme, but it's possible that they'll say something so stupid and silly that it'll become unintentionally funny. Where is Tina Fey these days??!?

This is the break the Dems have been looking for. What an easy and elegant way to make sure the health care bill is revenue neutral. Since conservatives don't want government run health care, excluding them from coverage under the final bill is a win win. They can stick to their principles and the government doesn't have to be responsible to cover costs for some of the physically and mentally sickest in the nation.

democrats are just trying to help republicans meet jesus...

what's wrong with that?

Hell, they are too paranoid while they're straight, I don't believe you've adequately thought this one through.

Dear lord, you're right! Thanks for pulling me back from that ledge. It's been a long time and I'd forgotten some of the...details.

Reposting; I put this on the wrong thread:

As my wife just pointed out, they've now laid the groundwork for millions of undereducated Republicans to wake up the day after a reconciliation bill is signed and run out to re-register.

Which may *sound* like a windfall for Democrats, but will wrench the results of Democratic primaries so far to the right that all our heads will spin for the next decade.