BREAKING: Rep. Charles Boustany of LA to Deliver GOP Response on Health Care

I hope it is followed by the Republicans submitting their vision as a bill for CBO analysis.

If not, take his words as worth what you paid for them. You may want to consider the source too (the party of the birthers, Saddam's slam-dunk weapons of mass destruction, Mission Accomplished, death panels, and most recently Chicken Little cries over Obama's indoctrination speech to school kids).

Wow ....will the networks actually air another point of view ?? Most of them are still slobbering over Obama with MSNBC and ABC now being the sister Obama networks. Also if you actually read any of the bills you would see that there would be rationing, there would be panels of Community Organizers that would review your health care requests for surgery etc ...and the bills do insure ALL ILLEGALS. You wont get to keep your own insurance because your employer will most likely dump you on to a government plan. It will incrrease the deficit tremendously. But many of you would rather shoot the messenger and blindly follow Obama over the cliff. The rest of us left the Democratic party when these radicals hijacked it this past year. You will too - in time ..

"Wow ....will the networks actually air another point of view ?"
jimbo | Sep 8, 2009 11:21:35 AM

You mean just like they aired the Republican response to Obama's last speech to a joint session of Congress? Or the way they keep repeating absurd lies about the actual bills in the interest of being balanced, rather than worrying about repeating lies?

Similarly, let's consider the sources who brought us those wonderful messages like "General Betray Us," 9/11 Truthers, unemployment won't go over 8% if we pass the stimulus package, the $9 trillion federal deficit projections, the $1 trillion extra costs on healthcare, we want other people to pay more taxes while our cabinet officials get caught not paying their own, etc.

Thanks "Jimbo" for your professional analysis. Now let's do the opposite of what the GOP idelogues suggest (if they suggest "solutions" at all).

Any GOP saying they want to work with the President -- Days late, millions of special interest dollars short.

This is the GOP's attempt to delay this further in order that it falls into 2010 at which time they have no interest whatsoever to further healthcare issue along. It doesn't take much to see through them for the fakes they are.

The only thing the GOP is supportive of -- IS WAR. Spending the billions to battle in foreign countries the way which too in Iraq was fake. For them to say now they believe in the Afghan war -- hello -- they dropped that ball years ago and followed their Liar Leaders into Iraq for non-existent WMD's and left NATO to deal with Afghan. Now the GOP want to return like they are the do-gooders. Fake, lying, two-faced, racist GOPer's who will remain the 'Party of NO' and never vote in support of Obama.

I can understand people disagreeing with each other, by why inject race into this issue as one blogger just did? It serves no purpose and has no relevance to the discussion at hand. It's just a "fall back" position that some people take when they have nothing left to say.

Charles Boustany??????Are you kidding me? There was no one else to select by the GOP?!

So the GOP couldnt give us a healthcare version earlier and talk about and explain it in a decent manner so they are going to air their side to try to debunk our current president's plan. They are just plain ole "sorry" and some of them are racist!!!!! Yes BKM....some of the presidents oppositions are RACIST

Why don't they just make Charley Rangel, Geithner and Daschle and other Dem's who are tax cheats pay their taxes and get rid of all of the czars? This will pay for health care for quite a few.

I hope he's as effective as that super orator, Bobby Jindle!

He needs to illustrate to the people of this country what the Baucus bill includes, and make people aware of its contents, right now!

Let the people rise up and put a stop to this un-American proposal!

if you want to leave racism out of this then PLEASE leave out the socialism, marxism, communism, birther conspiracies and indoctrination attacks.....fair is fair!

Gov Jindal's speech landed with a thud? Who knew! I guess however George and the media interpret things is how they go. Gov Jindal=thud. Obama=Soaring and inspirational. Who couldn't foresee that? Especially from George "Democrat Toy Poodle" Stephanopoulos

Honestly I can only imagine what the GOP response is gonna be... I can almost probably recite the whole entire thing right in my head. What they say will be SO predictable, because at this point everything that's come out of their mouths has been the same old thing... lies, lies, lies yeah!!!!

delay delay stall delay
delay delay stall delay
delay delay stall delay
delay delay stall delay

Thats whats admirable about the gop. They all take a turn when it comes to lying.

Boustany is supposed to let us know how much the Republicans want to work with the President on this issue.

Where was he when DeMint was talking about Republican resistance making this the President's Waterloo?

The not so "loyal opposition" needs to decide---do we work with and gain consensus or do we simply oppose everything even when we get concessions and let the Democrats go it alone?

bkm- ...."I can understand people disagreeing with each other, by why inject race into this issue as one blogger just did?..."
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I agreed with you 100% until I went to a town hall meeting on health care and finally realized what is going on. The irrational hate spewed by some of these people could not come just from disagreeing on health care reform. When I heard the N word used several times in people's private conversations as I stood in line and walked in the building - I knew that IS the underlying issue. I live in the South - and, after that experience, I believe firmly that racism is there, right under the surface in much of what is happening. Not by everyone but by a lot of those who are spreading the hate under the guise of "conservative" and Christian. It is very, very sad.

All four current versions of this bill make Washington smell even worse. Can't we sit down and do something for the American people WITHOUT interjecting MORE Government control and without spending ANOTHER 900 billion of China's money?

The not so "loyal opposition" needs to decide---do we work with and gain consensus or do we simply oppose everything even when we get concessions and let the Democrats go it alone?

I say they let the Democrats go it alone. It WILL be 1994 all over again. All of the liberals up for re-election will be replaced with centrists or conservatives.

How do you add a tremendous strain on the already gorged health care system without increasing (most likely decrease) the supply AND cut the cost? By Government intervention? How has that been working in the past? Geez!

This is the dumbest idea ever to come out of D.C. Well, second dumbest, right behind tarp!

The Republicans continue to look more insane every day. The "birther" is the best they could come up with to represent them. They are a party of no ideas and could care less about making anything better. They always prefer spending money on WAR. Tired old party full of tired old white men, one would think they would be running out of testerone. They only spout FEAR and cry Chicken Little.

Wow....so Dems have absolutely nothing positive to say about Obama and "their" health care plan. The only thing I read on here is a bunch of name calling ("birthers") by a bunch of whiny Liberals accusing Republicans of being underhanded, lying and un-supportive...are you serious?

I find it very funny that Democrats are Liberals are claiming these things, because this is EXACTLY what DEMS and LIBS have been doing for decades. Funny...it sucks when it's being done right back at ya.

I actually hate both parties, but find the hypocrisy of Liberals and Democrats to be laughable. At the very least, GOP-ers are up front about their intentions and platforms. Dems use terms like "Hope" and "Change" to disguise any actual policy stances.

And to "nanbar"...."They only spout FEAR and cry Chicken Little"....wow, one would think you were talking about Al Gore and his environmental campaign, or maybe it's Obama and his "the economy is ending" speaches, or maybe it's Clinton's "it takes a village" mantra. Kinda funny how things turn on ya.....too funny.

No Common Sense, In response to your posts - One thing I have learned is that health care if left the way it is, will bankrupt this country in not too long a time. All administrations have known that is an absolute fact for years. Obama has the courage to take on what no other administration has. He is not only fighting the far right nut cases but also the insurance company lobby, the drug company lobby and the far left in his own party. I am confident that there will be a compromise and many, many people will still be unhappy in all those factions. But, like it or not - reforming health care is the right thing to do. The question, of course, is how. It would be so helpful if people would start from the premise (because it is fact) that left the way it is, will bankrupt us. We have to lower the costs and from everything I have heard and read from reliable media, my own senator, and our representatvies here is that the whole purpose is to lower costs. There are a lot of ways that can be done. But to do nothing is simple irresponsible. I would hope you can put your hate aside long enough to watch and evaluate the facts not the rumors and untruths that have been circulated for months.