Here we have yet another reminder that people in Congress are not exactly smart. This guy knows less about something than even me. There are different things that everyone is at least familiar with, even if they don’t know exactly how it works. But this rep is a full-bore idiot. Ran across this jewel about 3 this morning and still can’t understand how he could be such a moron. Respect to Raw Story:
A Republican lawmaker attacked the idea of Medicaid with comments that had online critics questioning if he knew how it works. Rep. Rich McCormick criticized Medicaid while speaking at a town hall and argued that it amounted to giving away “free money” in his full-throated speech. “To the point of Medicaid, the worst thing I can possibly do is give you free money to stay home and do nothing,” McCormick said. “That’s not happiness. I’m not gonna allow you to sit home and get something for nothing.”
Wut? There is almost nothing in this country where you get something for nothing. There are things you earn, like Social Security. But Medicaid? Something for nothing? What is he on about? And where did he come up with the idea about Medicaid anyhow? Holy cow, this is embarrassing. And rude. At least we know how to do our research. He obviously doesn’t.
On X, critics argued against his description of Medicaid and went after the Republican congressman, adding that he didn’t seem to know how the program works. //// South Dakota Democratic state Rep. Linda Duba similarly wondered, “Is he that dumb? No one gets money from Medicaid. You must use services and payments go directly to the providers.” //// Journalist John Harwood agreed, writing, “Health care is not ‘free money.'” //// Author Joyce Carol Oates slammed Congress more broadly with her post by writing, “‘Staying home & doing nothing‘ is the point of becoming a congressman. Seems a wee bit hypocritical to scold a sick & disabled person for wishing to do likewise.”
Scorched! Now, going by this fool’s ego, he will probably disregard what everyone is discussing because they (we) are all delusional when it’s quite the opposite. It’s incomprehensible. It would be nice if we could say it’s because he’s a Republican, but there are all types of people, including Democrats, who don’t seem to be as good as the paper that their diplomas are printed on.
Disability rights activist James Tate gave a scathing reaction to McCormick’s comment by posting, “Veterans say F— YOU B—.” //// Legal writer and criminal defense lawyer Scott Greenfield asked in his post, “How is it possible that a congressman has no idea what Medicaid is used for? //// Meanwhile, Russell Foster, a former Democratic congressional candidate from Texas, wrote, “Republican theme seems to be ‘How much can I hurt the poor, sick, and in need to give to my millionaire donors?'”
That sounds about right. Some people in Congress actually care about their constituents. Then there are the ones like this jerk. He would have been better off keeping his mouth shut and shaking hands. Since he believes he is better, then by all means, give him more rope to hang himself. Metaphorically speaking, of course. He’ll find out the hard way.
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My daughter died of cancer in March of this year. I prayed that her Medicaid would hold out until she left us. She suffered a traumatic brain injury at the hands of her biological father when she was nine years old. We adopted her when she was 13. She had a hearing loss and a different way of looking at things for sure. But she never met a person she didn’t like and she was so generous and giving that no one could compare to the way she treated people she met. Everyone was a friend, and she wouldn’t turn anyone away from her door. I miss her every day and if it wasn’t for Medicaid, my daughter would’ve died in the most horrible possible conditions with no coverage and no care. This asshat obviously doesn’t know what Medicare is all about and he can take his opinion and stuff as far as I’m concerned.
Sorry to hear about that Meg, all our sympathies and loving thoughts from all of us on PZ.
Time to elect D to fix up the expensive, inefficient, lethally incompetent, medical healthcare rort.
Meg, thank you so much for sharing something so deeply personal. Although she has passed now, she was obviously a wonderful person and we are better for knowing her story.
I feel like there is something more to say, but I don’t know what it is. So, again, thank you.
Tone deaf.
= Republican.
This is their ‘winning’ strategy for the midterms.
Heh. So they think. Let’s hope we will be able to clobber them.
Sadly, you seem to be right Concinnity, “Tone Deaf” genuinely DOES seem to be their strategy and it doesn’t look like it’ll work this time. But why does the Dem’s strategy have to be “Hate Jews and Shit on ALL of them all because Israel refuses to just let arabs kill them already!” We already see that the Dems’ strategy is vile and as racist as one could possibly get. and yet its working! Sadly, that strategy doesn’t seem to bother anyone whose not Jewish, and REALLY sadly, a whole lot of Jews as well. Good luck to humanity.
Nuts, had a whole long response typed out and lost it.
This particular moron happened to be a Republican. It is embarrassing to be in the same state. Unfortunately, anyone can be tone deaf. The question is can we learn from it.
Also, what was that you mentioned the other day about perspective? Ah, here it is. “Without context, Israel looks like a global monster. In context – it is just Jews defending Jews from the ACTUAL monsters KILLING US!” in reference to Iran is the puppet master for Hamas, the Houthis and Hezb’allah. Is this correct?