Dick Cheney’s Heartless Hypocrisy

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from Consortium News:


Dick Cheney’s Heartless Hypocrisy
October 22, 2013

Exclusive: Dick Cheney’s new book about his life-saving heart transplant has drawn much fawning coverage. But little attention has gone to the hypocrisy of the ex-vice president accepting expensive government-funded surgeries while endorsing the Tea Party’s campaign to deny health coverage to millions of Americans, writes Robert Parry.

By Robert Parry


Former Vice President Dick Cheney, out promoting his new book Heart about how his life was saved by very expensive heart-transplant surgery, is simultaneously praising the Tea Party, which is hard at work trying to prevent less fortunate Americans from getting anything close to the government-financed care that spared Cheney.

In an appearance on NBC’s “Today” show, Cheney called the Tea Party and its fierce opposition to government spending a “good thing.” He also noted how the Tea Party made possible the insurgent Wyoming Senate campaign of his daughter Liz because she was “partly motivated” by the same concerns about high taxes, high national debt and the cost of the Affordable Care Act.

Out of that zeal to repeal Obamacare, the Tea Party and its congressional adherents provoked this month’s government shutdown and near credit default. Yet, Cheney declared, “I’ve got a lot of respect for what the people are doing.”

But what the Tea Party has been doing is trying to prevent the federal government from implementing reforms in the health-insurance system that would enable some 30 million Americans, including many with pre-existing conditions, to obtain insurance often at reduced or subsidized prices. The Tea Party is also fighting expansion of Medicaid for poor families in states controlled by Republicans. ...................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://consortiumnews.com/2013/10/22/dick-cheneys-heartless-hypocrisy/

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1. A view of Cheney's heart

[Vinnie From Indy]

2. Sanjay Gupta's interview on 60 minutes was a disgrace.

Gupta failed to ask Cheney why a man with a terrible health history was able to get a heart at age 71. The fact that Cheney was put at the top of the transplant list is all you need to know about the GOP's views on health care. If you're rich, you live. If you are poor, you die.

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3. Yep. That was pathetic.