You've probably heard or read by now, Republicans would like to "compromise" by going back to session and scheduling votes on individual department funding, one of which is the NIH, which had to put on hold a drug trial for terminally-ill cancer patients. Naturally, Republican lawmakers dressed up in hospital gowns to make their press announcement and called Democrats callous. But it's all false equivalence mixed with hypocrisy.
Do the most good
You know, they have a lot of balls to hypocritically deny millions of Americans the right to affordable health insurance, asserting lies about the program, then going so far to tell young adults to not sign up for health insurance! So Republicans are concerned about 200 terminally ill cancer patients? Then the FIRST funding bill they should pass, is for the ACA, in full, without restrictions.
With affordable health insurance that has free pre-screenings for several diseases and the removal of lifetime caps, the ACA will do more to save lives than any single drug trial of 200 people.
Maybe these politicians need to be reminded that in a drug trial, the group is divided between a control group and the one receiving an experimental drug or protocol, where the control group receives a placebo, and is expected to all die. Or maybe these politicians need to be reminded that thousands of uninsured Americans visit the emergency room every day.
Not political grandstanding
Don't stand around in hospital gowns for the media, pretending as if you actually care. These are the same people who wanted to slash federal spending under their Cut, Cap and Balance bill. Don't forget either, that under their half of sequestration cuts, Republicans pushed to cut non-defense discretionary items, to balance out defense spending cuts.
I mean really, how low can you get, to demand that government stop the handouts, then insist on handing out money for drug trials for terminally ill cancer patients in front of cameras in medical gowns? It's worse than when President Bush stood on the deck of a carrier declaring the war in Iraq over; at least he genuinely believed in his fantasy; you Tea Party Republicans don't even believe in the government helping the sick and poor.
Stop the disgusting show.
Update:
John Boehner is at it again, this time venting anger that Democrats won't agree to a simple request by Republicans "to sit down and have a discussion" over the ACA. Half a year to "sit down and have a discussion" over budgets and the ACA -- nay, make that 2 1/2 years since Republicans gained control of the House -- and with government shut down, now they're saying that they have been denied the opportunity to "sit down and have a discussion"!
The audacity to shift goal posts then feign anger that no one knew about the new location of their goal posts is just blatantly ridiculous, but then to make up stories that are veritably false, is a rather disgusting show of desperation.
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