Bad Deeds for 4/2/2010

 

Doctor Refuses To Treat Obama Supporters – Florida urologist Jack Cassell posted a sign on his office door reading, “If you voted for Obama … seek urologic care elsewhere. Changes to your health care begin right now, not in four years.” [Isn’t that the kind of sign you would expect in the late 1930’s in Germany – just replace “voted for Obama” with “are a Jew?” How about signs like “Whites Only” in the Southern United States in the 1950’s?]

Cassell, a registered Republican, quickly backpedaled in an interview with the Orlando Sentinel, but said he’s perfectly happy to lose business over the sign. “I’m not turning anybody away, that would be unethical,” he said. “But if they read the sign and turn the other way, so be it.”

Patients who continue past the sign on Cassell’s door find a waiting room stacked with Republican pamphlets opposing health care reform, underneath a sign reading, “This is what the morons in Washington have done to your health care. Take one, read it and vote out anyone who voted for it.”

 

Federal Flood Insurance Expires Due To Republican Obstruction as Northeast is Hit With Devastating Floods – Last week, Senate Republicans, led by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), blocked an extension of unemployment benefits, claiming that they objected to granting the extension without offsetting it with a spending cut elsewhere. Last month, Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) and a handful of his Republican allies did the same thing, with Bunning telling Democrats who wanted to pass an extension by unanimous consent “tough sh*t.”

But it wasn’t only unemployment benefits that expired: the same package that the Republicans blocked also included extenders for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). And the critical nature of NFIP was brought into the spotlight this week, as many northeastern states have been battered with record amounts of rainfall, which has led to widespread flooding.

According to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, there are 5.5 million flood insurance policy holders in flood plains, and as of this week, homeowners were rendered unable to renew their policies. If any of those homeowners were victims of the current flooding, they will “face complications” filing claims. As Blain Rethmeier, spokesman for the American Insurance Association, put it, “it’s unfortunate that the NFIP has fallen victim to the political process …”

 

Conservative Pat Toomey Thinks That the Economic Meltdown Should Have Continued to the Bitter End – Pat Toomey is Club for Growth’s conservative candidate running for Arlen Specter’s Senate seat in PA along with Joe Sestak.

On Morning Joe, the topic was the economic problems we are facing and luckily a new USA/Gallop poll says that 42% of America believes George Bush is responsible for this mess whil eonly 24% put it on Obama. The numbers still aren’t great for Obama, but that’s no shock.

Toomey said that when the financial crisis hit us during the end of Bush’s term, it should have been left alone to cleanse society. Oviously no stimulus either. Sure, he said, it would have been much worse all around—the stock market tanking more than it had, but out of the ashes of a destroyed global economy, in his mind the tremendous amount of suffering that would have been caused and all the millions of people that would have been devastated really mean nothing to him. That’s the breaks. It’s free markets baby.

See, only the rich would have survived. Isn’t that a lovely scenario?

 

Conservative Erick Erickson: I’ll “[p]ull out my wife’s shotgun” if they try to arrest me for not filling out the American Community Survey – CNN just recently hired this guy. From the April 1 edition of WMAC’s In the Morning with Erick Erickson:

“This is crazy. What gives the Commerce Department the right to ask me how often I flush my toilet? Or about going to work? I’m not filling out this form. I dare them to try and come throw me in jail. I dare them to. Pull out my wife’s shotgun and see how that little ACS twerp likes being scared at the door.”

 

Video From the Right-Wing Tea Parties – Video highlights of the Tea Party Express rallies in Nevada and Florida. Looks like another night on the Fox propaganda channel… live. Viewer Caution: Nasty people.

Regards,

Jim