HARRIS TO OPEN DANCE STUDIO IN DC or BOSTON

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 wonkbook
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/

END

Andy Harris: looking for a few good men and women. Young ones, too.

(Dissociated Press) Back in his congressional district for the week, Andy Harris has put out an appeal to his constituents for help.


"I voted to defund Obamacare," Harris said in in interview, "and I expect my constituents to give me some cover. That is not asking too much."


"Is it?" 


Here is the prob.


March 23, is the anniversary of the date the Affordable Care Act was signed into law by President Obama. To commemorate the event, President Obama made a phone call to a young man who, thanks to the law, now is able to stay on his mother's health insurance after college. Eric is grateful, he told the President, for having health care coverage, which otherwise he could not afford.


Andy Harris asked his staff to find a few young adults in Maryland's First Congressional District who are willing to state publicly that they are happy to be losing health care coverage, thanks to Harris' vote.


Trouble is, the staffers have not been able to find a single young adult, who thinks getting tossed off their parents' health care insurance is a good idea for them, personally.


"I don't get it," Harris moaned. "I gave them that tea-party-type vote, even though it embarrassed me to ask for health care insurance from the federal government for my own family."


"Now, when it's time to stand up and be counted, everyone is missing in action. Makes you wonder."


"What's gonna happen when I vote to reduce Social Security benefits and Medicare, and against highway money for I-95 and against farm subsidies for First District farmers?" 












". . . What's gonna happen? . . . "