WHY DO NEW DEMOCRATS LIKE ELLEN TAUSCHER LET PEOPLE DIE OF CANCER WHILE FELATING BANKS?
Firedoglak points out an inconvenient truth:
[Denise Prosser] is dying because she lost her job and she can’t pay her medical bills. She didn’t steal anything so she could get taxpayer money so she can pay lobbyists to get her more taxpayer money–that’s AIG.
Nobody will tell us who the AIG counterparties were, all we know is that they were a bunch of degenerate gamblers who got rich on taxpayer money. Meanwhile Ellen Tauscher is bragging that she and her New Democrat Coalition come from Wall Street, and work as henchmen for bank lobbyists. Of course they are — the New Democrat’s Executive Director, Adam Pase, was a lobbyist for predatory lenders. And bank lobbyists love them back, cooing about how the New Dems will keep Congress from “punishing” banks with new regulation of the financial system.
But don’t think Tauscher and the New Dems are completely cold to people who can’t pay for healthcare. Tauscher voted for the bankruptcy bill that made it more difficult for people with bills from catastrophic illness to file for bankruptcy, saying it “encouraged personal responsibility.” I’m sure Denise is touched by Tauscher’s concern for her moral fiber. And the power of the New Democrats is only growing — yesterday, Obama proudly identified with them, saying “I’m a New Democrat.”
If that’s what being a Democrat is about, sucking off banks that lost all our money while allowing cancer patients to die, then count me out of the Democratic Party, and count me IN on accountability now.
Because hamsher’s right: the bankruptcy Bill, which Tauscher supported and which has led directly to the mortgage meltdown specifically contains provisions that make it difficult for people with horrible, life threatening medical problems (the number one reason for personal bankruptcies in the US) to obtain bankruptcy protection.
Perhaps some day one of Ellen Tauscher’s loved ones will get a horrible debilitating illness like cancer or MS or AIDS, and then she’ll learn what it’s like. because like so many conservative douchebags, Ellen Tauscher is fundamentally incapable of compassion for anyone else until it happens to her. Just like Arlen Specter and medical marijuana, just like George Will and retarded kids, and just like Walter Jones and the War in Iraq.
you can help send Ellen a message: ACCOUNTABILITY NOW!!
March 12th, 2009 at 11:58 pm
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