Roy Blunt: GOP Should ‘Drill Baby, Drill’ The Health Care Debate
Roy Blunt: GOP Should ‘Drill Baby, Drill’ The Health Care Debate
It’s another indication that the GOP is really serious about playing a substantive role in the health care debate. A week after promising to bring “common-sense solutions that promote competition and innovation,” in health care, Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO) — who leads the Republican study group on health reform — told Congressional Quarterly that the GOP should apply frat boy pep rally cheers from the ‘08 campaign to the health care debate:
If we could get the same kind of engagement on health care from our conference that we got on energy last year, that in and of itself would be a great success.
So what does this mean exactly? The goals here is to dumb down the debate to a few catchy buzz words (we’re accepting suggestions in the comments sections) that can then be regurgitated by Republican Congressmen on cable news and put to music. It’s not about slogans, it’s about solutions.
5 Responses to “Roy Blunt: GOP Should ‘Drill Baby, Drill’ The Health Care Debate”
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Well “go ahead and die” has already been taken, but I’m sure it could be resurrected
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNuCfD5bICQ
March 19th, 2009 at 1:47 pmIf Repugs used the same supply side logic it would be:
Build (hospital beds) here, train (doctors & nurses) now.
Watch their solutions. They won’t have anything to do with supply, it will foster “competition between private health care companies”, insurers, providers and suppliers. This is the same group that sat idly by as the uninsured went from 40 million to 49 million (taking out Bush’s formula redefinitions).
March 19th, 2009 at 2:33 pmAs long as they only use the refrain from “EAGLES”:
(No health care?) refrain: GET OVER IT!
March 19th, 2009 at 3:15 pm“Cough it up, baby, cough it up.”
March 19th, 2009 at 7:55 pm“Pill Baby Pill” has a nice ring but doesn’t mean anything…oh wait, why would that stop them?
March 20th, 2009 at 5:04 am