ANDY HARRIS HAS ANNOUNCED
HE WILL OPEN A DANCE STUDIO IN
DC OR BOSTON
MAYBE
(Dissociated Press) Speaking to a throng of supporter at the Let's Dance, Hon studio in Ocean City, Andy Harris announced he is looking for a federal grant to fund a brand new dance studio he plans to open in Washington DC.
"We will focus on the two-step and also the waltz," Harris declared.
"I have learned so much in my first few weeks in Washington and I want to share what I know. And of course pocket some cash, too. Why not?"
' . . . two-step your way . . .'
"I found out you can two-step your way around here."
"Take the Ryan budget bill, which we passed in the House. That bill never had the slightest chance of passing the Senate, so I can two-step my own vote! The tea party types appreciate that vote as a hostile gesture that trips up poor people."
"Meanwhile, I can tell the reasonable people in the First District that my vote for Ryan was a throw-away vote 'cause the Senate would never buy it. Sweet!"
' . . . waltz around Obamacare . . .'
"You can waltz around the facts," Harris added.
"Remember when the GOP was all hot to dump Obamacare? Well, them days is gone!"
"What did our leader, Speaker John Boehner say on ABC News last Sunday?"
"The Ryan budget 'transforms Medicare into a plan that's very similar to the President's own healthcare bill.' That is right from Boehner." (See Source, below.)
"What Boehner meant is that in the Ryan budget, we replace Medicare with private insurance."
"Seniors don't get health care coverage under the Ryan budget. Instead, seniors get to buy a private insurance plan that is partly subsidized by state block grants - which we Republicans also used to hate but no more."
"When the state block grants run out, seniors will have to pay for their medical procedures and their prescriptions out of their retirement income."
"The plan the GOP sets up with the Ryan budget is way more expensive than Obama's plan - according to the Congressional Budget Office."
"And that's the waltz we do with Obama. The Affordable Care Act - Obamacare - applies exchanges, with no block grant mess, to the uninsured, so they get covered." Harris explained.
"The GOP does not believe in covering the uninsured, so the Ryan budget plan does not cover them."
"That's our two-step with Ryan. Do exchanges for the elderly, so they get less coverage and don't do exchanges for the uninsured so they get no coverage - at all."
"Thank goodness I and the rest of the GOPers in Congress get limousine medical coverage for ourselves."
"We would never vote to give ourselves the insurance crap we give the public. Never."
"Since I do the dance, I may as well do a dance studio. I have learned to waltz and two-step health care, so I expect to qualify for a federal health care grant for my business model."
"If not in DC, I will go for a grant under the Romney plan in Massachusetts."
"Sweet!"
Source:
How the GOP stopped worrying and learned to love ObamaCare
Source: Washington Post, April 27 2011
Ezra Klein's wonkbookhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/
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