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FourScore

(9,704 posts)
Tue Oct 15, 2013, 04:30 PM Oct 2013

GOP Congresswoman Stunned: 'Do You Hate Obamacare More Than You Love Your Country?'

Tue Oct 15, 2013 at 11:29 AM PDT
GOP Congresswoman Stunned: 'Do You Hate Obamacare More Than You Love Your Country?' (VIDEO)
by Egberto Willies

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It has taken a brush with economic disaster for the traditional media to pushback at the GOP. The false equivalencies that Americans have endured have led to misinformed citizens and an emboldened Republican Party that continue to push the limits of sanity. They hate Obamacare so much that they are willing to bring the country down lest it is repealed.

MSNBC Thomas Roberts refused to allow Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) to spin him. In the past, these politicians have been given full latitude to not answer questions as they use the interview as a platform to mislead. Roberts did not allow this.

This caught the GOP representative completely by surprised. She was stunned and left with silly statements of righteous indignation.

Thomas Roberts: Joining me now is Republican Congresswoman from Tennessee Marsha Blackburn. … Do you agree that no matter what something needs to come from the House that still has attachments for ACA?

Marsha Blackburn (R-TN): … We are going to take the steps to bring together components of a bill that we will send over to the Senate and be hopeful that they are going to take it up today.

Thomas Roberts: When it comes to Obamacare, do you hate Obamacare more than you love your country?

Marsha Blackburn (R-TN): I got to tell you something. I think that comments like that that you are making are just incredibly inappropriate. What we have to realize.

Thomas Roberts: You don’t think it is incredibly inappropriate to shutdown our government and to take all the hostages of Americans, that you have taken? No. No. No. It is not inappropriate because you have taken the government hostage to a shutdown and all the American people you are now walking them to a cliff, the economy. And you are going to push them over one by one based on the fact that you don’t like the ACA. That’s all it is. You don’t like the affordable care act.

Marsha Blackburn (R-TN): Listen to yourself. We didn’t want a government shutdown. Just listen to the way you are sounding; my goodness.

Thomas Roberts: On August the 6th at the Economic Club of Nashville you said, “Everything we can do. Whether it is the funding, delaying, repealing, replacing, all of our energy needs to be in every one of these efforts. I applaud Ted Cruz for getting out there and bringing this to the forefront. Did you not say that?

Marsha Blackburn (R-TN): Those are comments that I did make.


Do You Hate Obamacare More Than You Love Your Country?



It is a known fact that the renegades, the Right Wing Tea Party Conservatives were giddy for a shutdown. They hate Obamacare and they believed that holding the entire nation hostage was the only way they could repeal it. They lost at the polls. They lost in the Supreme Court. They lost in Congress.

They planned this government shutdown. Now they are being held accountable even as many try to distance themselves when in the public eye. Some in the traditional media are stepping up to the plate and not allowing them to get away with it. Hate Obamacare more than country Rep. Blackburn?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/15/1247519/-GOP-Congresswoman-Stunned-Do-You-Hate-Obamacare-More-Than-You-Love-Your-Country-VIDEO
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GOP Congresswoman Stunned: 'Do You Hate Obamacare More Than You Love Your Country?' (Original Post) FourScore Oct 2013 OP
Poor Marsha blogslut Oct 2013 #1
Hope more MSM will call out these malignant cancers on the body politic. freshwest Oct 2013 #2
Thoms Roberts is great!... This isn't the first time he's called out the Right Wing. n/t whathehell Oct 2013 #3
funny stuff watching them be called on their bullshit Pretzel_Warrior Oct 2013 #4
thank you, FourScore Cha Oct 2013 #5
Where was that question before the shutdown? SomethingFishy Oct 2013 #6
well where have you been thomas roberts leftyohiolib Oct 2013 #7
Post removed Post removed Oct 2013 #8
K & R malaise Oct 2013 #9
Save some of these dipshit "R" quotes for election time, though. nightscanner59 Oct 2013 #13
Good point malaise Oct 2013 #17
k & r thanks for posting..... nt Stuart G Oct 2013 #10
someone give this woman a fire extinguisher dlwickham Oct 2013 #11
Yes. Simple Answers to Simple Questions. nt Jerry442 Oct 2013 #12
Wish it were on some other news stations, MSNBC is just preaching to the choir. Rebellious Republican Oct 2013 #14
No they don't hate Obamacare more than they love their country...they hate Obama more. nt kelliekat44 Oct 2013 #15
All premeditated liars sulphurdunn Oct 2013 #16
So basically she's saying cvoogt Oct 2013 #18
Great line. jsr Oct 2013 #19
Learn form the mistakes of the past? OK, Supply side doesn't work, Republican policies are disasters Thor_MN Oct 2013 #20
Republican Economic Terrorism. blkmusclmachine Oct 2013 #21
Kick ass!!!! TxDemChem Oct 2013 #22
Thank you, Thomas Roberts -- this was long overdue Samantha Oct 2013 #23
Nice. Now let's see that on CBS and ABC DonRedwood Oct 2013 #24
Yes, Yes, and Yes. mstinamotorcity2 Oct 2013 #25
Doesn't matter. Their base in incapable of seeing hypocricy and lies in the RW and are hallucinating Dark n Stormy Knight Oct 2013 #26
'Bout time someone asked that on national teevee.... truebluegreen Oct 2013 #27

SomethingFishy

(4,876 posts)
6. Where was that question before the shutdown?
Tue Oct 15, 2013, 05:59 PM
Oct 2013

It's nice to see the media act responsibly for a change but it would have been way nicer to see them call the GOP on their shit before they have a tantrum and meltdown..

Response to FourScore (Original post)

malaise

(269,013 posts)
9. K & R
Tue Oct 15, 2013, 06:10 PM
Oct 2013

Send this to all friends and family - expose these fucking ReTHUG scumbags and they are fucking thugs.

nightscanner59

(802 posts)
13. Save some of these dipshit "R" quotes for election time, though.
Tue Oct 15, 2013, 06:34 PM
Oct 2013

That's when we need the ammunition. Keep in mind the average U.S. attention span...

 

sulphurdunn

(6,891 posts)
16. All premeditated liars
Tue Oct 15, 2013, 06:43 PM
Oct 2013

go into full motor mouth mode when called out. We should teach school children to recognize it as indicative of shameless prevarication.

cvoogt

(949 posts)
18. So basically she's saying
Tue Oct 15, 2013, 06:46 PM
Oct 2013

"bbbbb..bb.b...but I really don't like ACA even though it's the law, and I just can't help but take hostages!"

 

Thor_MN

(11,843 posts)
20. Learn form the mistakes of the past? OK, Supply side doesn't work, Republican policies are disasters
Tue Oct 15, 2013, 07:14 PM
Oct 2013

Let's start with just those two, shall we, Marsha?

Samantha

(9,314 posts)
23. Thank you, Thomas Roberts -- this was long overdue
Tue Oct 15, 2013, 07:31 PM
Oct 2013

I am so tired of her looking into the camera and making misleading statements and commentators letting them slide.

Tennessee is one of the poorest states in the Country. She constantly sides with the business perspective on issues and throws her constituents under the bus. It is about time that the press start calling her on her disingenuous remarks.

Sam

mstinamotorcity2

(1,451 posts)
25. Yes, Yes, and Yes.
Tue Oct 15, 2013, 07:37 PM
Oct 2013

that Rep. Blackburn makes me think of fingernails on a chalk board. Why can't her, Michelle Bachmann, Virginia Foxx, and Candice Miller all hold hands and skip to little girls hell together. Its a shame political money and influence can make you look like the stupidest people on earth and you be proud of it.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,760 posts)
26. Doesn't matter. Their base in incapable of seeing hypocricy and lies in the RW and are hallucinating
Tue Oct 15, 2013, 09:34 PM
Oct 2013

it in others, even if they did watch MSNBC. But at least someone is confronting these lying liars.

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