Dem Congresswoman spreading myths, too?
posted at 4:10 pm on August 27, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Does Linda Douglass know that Rep. Betsy Markey (D-CO) is spreading malicious myths about ObamaCare? Has anyone flagged Markey to the White House yet? The House Democratic caucus may need to be flagged after Markey’s local paper caught her admitting that Medicare benefits would have to be cut — for the greater good:
Some people, including Medicare recipients, will have to give up some current benefits to truly reform the nation’s health-care system, Rep. Betsy Markey told a gathering of constituents in Fort Collins on Wednesday.
Markey has repeatedly said during the August congressional recess that Medicare spending needs to be reined in to help pay for reforming the broader health-care system.
“There’s going to be some people who are going to have to give up some things, honestly, for all of this to work,” Markey said at a Congress on Your Corner event at CSU. “But we have to do this because we’re Americans.”
B-b-b-but President Obama said that was just a myth …..
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Maddow will tear her apart.
echosyst on August 27, 2009 at 4:13 PM
It’s only a myth if a Republican says it. Facts change depending on who is speaking and who is listening.
jwolf on August 27, 2009 at 4:13 PM
You mean verbally, right?
Doughboy on August 27, 2009 at 4:14 PM
She is in need of some end-of-DNC-dollars counseling.
ICBM on August 27, 2009 at 4:14 PM
The head Bolshevik needs to get all these little Trotskyites in line.
Wreckers.
NoDonkey on August 27, 2009 at 4:15 PM
Death Panels!
Brian1972 on August 27, 2009 at 4:15 PM
Rep. Betsy Markey (D-CO)…..look right here.
portlandon on August 27, 2009 at 4:16 PM
Hmmmmm, so the old folks have to give up some care because the one’s writing the bill do not want to take on the trial lawyers’?
I say the old folks hire those same trial lawyers and sue the government!!
Ha Ha…
izoneguy on August 27, 2009 at 4:17 PM
Yeah, he did say that, after he said that he would trim 100 billion from Medicare.
These people make the Keystone Cops look downright competent.
UltimateBob on August 27, 2009 at 4:17 PM
And under the bus she goes!
TheQuestion on August 27, 2009 at 4:17 PM
What he actually said was that people were spreading myths about the plans to cut SS. He didn’t exactly say WHICH stories bewing told were the myths. So you see he really is correct. The stories his team is telling really are myths.
MikeA on August 27, 2009 at 4:17 PM
I wonder if Rep. Betsy Markey (D-CO) has ever heard of “The Chicago Way”……………..
Seven Percent Solution on August 27, 2009 at 4:18 PM
I just threw-up a little…
izoneguy on August 27, 2009 at 4:18 PM
They make the devil look like a poster boy for honesty.
Daggett on August 27, 2009 at 4:18 PM
“I’m free… free fallin’” ~Tom Petty
Green Muse on August 27, 2009 at 4:19 PM
Good. Cut medicare. It’s bankrupting us and it’s a good lesson for people to never rely on government for anything.
lorien1973 on August 27, 2009 at 4:19 PM
Cash for Geezers.
Please follow the empathetic phone-bots instructions.
A representative will be available after we have received a certificate of death filled out by the deathee. All others please hold until the next available generation can be trained to answer your questions. While you are waiting, if you would like to contribute $1 to the ACORN for Democracy fund please press 6.
Limerick on August 27, 2009 at 4:19 PM
That picture scares me.
Mommypundit on August 27, 2009 at 4:20 PM
I believe this is called “rationing.”
Patrick Ishmael on August 27, 2009 at 4:20 PM
“Honey, you received a package in the mail from Rahm Emanuel…what’s that smell?”
Joe Caps on August 27, 2009 at 4:21 PM
racist.
beat you to it.
Mommypundit on August 27, 2009 at 4:21 PM
That’s why we’ll never have truly socialized medicine, you can’t sue the feds.
The Democrats want to leave enough money in the coffers, so that the shysters will get their pound of flesh.
NoDonkey on August 27, 2009 at 4:22 PM
How would she know?
She hasn’t read a bill.
bridgetown on August 27, 2009 at 4:22 PM
Rep. Markey is likely to wake up one morning with a horse’s head on her bed. She’ll likely fall back into line afterwards.
tpitman on August 27, 2009 at 4:22 PM
Hmmm. “Some People…”
“…will have to give up some current benefits…”
Oh Really? Who chooses what goes to whom?
could there really be…DEATH PANELS???
DanOwillbookem on August 27, 2009 at 4:22 PM
She would not be saying that if the Lion still roared, among the pernicious things he did was expand Medicare, Medicaid and SS and now in the Lions place we have his gift to mankind, Obama.
fourdeucer on August 27, 2009 at 4:23 PM
“Everthing that woman say is malarkey” — Barack Insane Obama
ICBM on August 27, 2009 at 4:23 PM
Hhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmm……..
Seven Percent Solution on August 27, 2009 at 4:24 PM
The Michelle Obama Center for Damage Control will open this fall.
Limerick on August 27, 2009 at 4:24 PM
That’s a good way to sell it. Old folks, you are going to have to give it up and die for this to work. There are a bunch of people sitting on their a@#es and illegals that need your spot in line.
TXMomof3 on August 27, 2009 at 4:25 PM
I’m learning every day that any idiot can be a politician.
If I’m still unemployed in a few months, I may have to make a go at it.
bridgetown on August 27, 2009 at 4:25 PM
She is part of that new Mythbuster crowd…
PatriotRider on August 27, 2009 at 4:27 PM
Hillary, 2004 (I think): We are going to have to take things from people, on behalf of the common good.
lorien1973 on August 27, 2009 at 4:27 PM
uh oh. see, when bambi goes on vacation, the deficit jumps by $2 trillion, ted kennedy dies & congressman lie.
better get bambi back to the WhiteHOuse & back on TV.
kelley in virginia on August 27, 2009 at 4:28 PM
yes, hillary did make the comment about the “common good”. that’s when i doubled down working for mccain.
kelley in virginia on August 27, 2009 at 4:29 PM
You got it backwards moron.
Because we’re Americans we don’t have to do this.
DamnCat on August 27, 2009 at 4:29 PM
When Obama’s private army is ready, these bumps in the road will be eliminated.
Hening on August 27, 2009 at 4:29 PM
Fixed it.
BuckeyeSam on August 27, 2009 at 4:29 PM
Markey probably just didn’t realize that she wasn’t supposed to say things like that.
myrenovations on August 27, 2009 at 4:30 PM
June 2004. Here’s the actual quote. I got it a little wrong.
We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.
lorien1973 on August 27, 2009 at 4:30 PM
Hugh Hewitt has a great idea…he is linking to Markey’s (and others) opponents (in next election) so you can donate to these candidates to defeat these lying monkeys. I don’t live in Nevada, but I donated to Tarkanian who is running against Harry Reid. Boy, that was money well spent!
Catherine Wilkinson on August 27, 2009 at 4:30 PM
The COLUMNS don’t work anymore, a-hole. Look at Gallop.
Marcus on August 27, 2009 at 4:31 PM
An Army of (the) One?
The way these incompetents manage things, they’ll all end up shooting one another in the foot, no worries.
NoDonkey on August 27, 2009 at 4:31 PM
I feel a revolution coming…time to hang ‘em all on the mall.
jbh45 on August 27, 2009 at 4:32 PM
Hussein in the membrane. Hussein in the brain……
HornetSting on August 27, 2009 at 4:32 PM
i read a few Dem Virginia blogs. those people still think that anti-obamacare people are rednecks & racists.
and Virginia does have its quotient of rednecks & racists.
kelley in virginia on August 27, 2009 at 4:32 PM
that picture in the article makes her look like the witch from Army Of Darkness.
Doctor Zhivago on August 27, 2009 at 4:33 PM
and don’t forget this other lie told by a democrat congressman concerning helath care….
Russ Carnihan at a townhall meeting (where he was roundly booed):
These people think we are REALLY stupid, and then they wonder….”why all the anger?”
Goodeye_Closed on August 27, 2009 at 4:34 PM
yes, look at gallup.
those supporting bambi are those paid to do so (unions & ACORN & on subsidies), minorities & the truly uninformed (or mentally block-headed).
actually, those people could be quite dangerous.
kelley in virginia on August 27, 2009 at 4:34 PM
Hey, she’s telling the truth. I say give her a medal. As to Medicare, cut it out entirely. Being old shouldn’t entitle you to a damn thing more than being young.
doufree on August 27, 2009 at 4:35 PM
Somebody alert Charlie Krauthhammer that Death Panels Do exist, and the proof is leaking out.
portlandon on August 27, 2009 at 4:38 PM
Does that mean…..gasp!……RATIONING?!
Fast forward: 8/28/09
Rep. Betsy Markey said today, that she did not say what she said yesterday. Markey stated that “I was mis-quoted” when I was quoted.
GarandFan on August 27, 2009 at 4:38 PM
It’s so funny.
The dems want to cut spending on medicare when they’ve kept increasing what and who it pays for.
So when are they going to cut spending on SCHIP?
therightscoop on August 27, 2009 at 4:40 PM
Two pieces of truth from Dems in one day?
I hope my insurance covers this when I rush to the hospital in shock.
Liam on August 27, 2009 at 4:40 PM
Now it all makese sense! That’s why it’sun-American to oppose OboobaCare!
That’s also why people flock to these shores: To give stuff up!
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free, so I can tax them eight ways from Sunday and ration their healthcare.”
Akzed on August 27, 2009 at 4:41 PM
The thing is rather than just try to cut fraud and abuse and allow for more privatization of the program, they will leave these old people out there with no alternatives. They can get supplemental insurance and they do. I know people who are spending hundreds a month on these plans to go along with the medicare, but it is almost impossible for them to just get regular health insurance anymore. Not at their age.
Terrye on August 27, 2009 at 4:42 PM
chickasaw42 on August 27, 2009 at 4:43 PM
Mustn’t do that it would cut off their supply of new recruits.
chemman on August 27, 2009 at 4:43 PM
I’ve recently been forced onto Medicare, and I agree with you. Just give me back the money plus interest I was forced to put into this travesty and let me shop for my own healthcare.
Christian Conservative on August 27, 2009 at 4:43 PM
If the Democrats are talking cuts in Medicare, which we all know is necessary since the program is, or will be in the next few years, bankrupt, now is the time to offer Medicare reforms. Personally, I would like to go to a fixed subsidy for seasoned citizens to buy health care on the free market. If the GOP offers a plan when we are back in power, the Dems will revert to the mode that we are hurting teh citizens. Now is the time to position medicare on a sustainable path.
I will click my heels together until this happens.
WashJeff on August 27, 2009 at 4:44 PM
Flag Who?
How about let’s Flag Linda Douglass and Hussein the Clown!
Than what do the recipients get? Nothing!
BigMike252 on August 27, 2009 at 4:45 PM
She is still not as bad as my (and I cringe at ‘my’) Colorado Congresstatist Diana DeGette. She is like al mini-freaking-pelosi in training. I have yet to see her publicly saying something stupid regarding Cap/Tax and Health Reform – she is probably just hiding…
Needless to say, I have a mission in 2010 to make sure she is in the funemployment line.
PS: I just moved into her district so its not my fault
Jussi on August 27, 2009 at 4:46 PM
(em mine)
Some people?!? Listen lady, my parents didn’t raise fools. Among other things, they taught me that whenever someone starts jabbering about “some” people giving “something” up, better reach for your wallet, just to make sure it’s still there.
Blacksmith on August 27, 2009 at 4:46 PM
We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.
lorien1973 on August 27, 2009 at 4:30 PM
sounds like socialism to me…
SHARPTOOTH on August 27, 2009 at 4:46 PM
Like Breathing, Medicine, Doctors office visits…..
Come on! They are old! They do not want to be a burden on their families and society….Geez
sargentj on August 27, 2009 at 4:46 PM
They could get rid of the S-CHIP programs for higher income people. They could make people wait longer to go on the program as well.
People forget that one of the reasons social security was created was to get people out of the work force so that the younger people could get jobs. If people could continue to work longer and if they could get health insurance as they get older, some of these costs could be contained.
Terrye on August 27, 2009 at 4:49 PM
I pay over $1500 a month for various insurance coverages already…and I’m not rich…not even close.
so NOW, in order to keep my private health insurance I will have to pay higher premiums (less people contributing to the plan) and pay higher taxes to cover other people on the public option??
Add the unsustainable national deficit, cap and trade, and the coming tax tsunami to cover these outrages….how exactly am I supposed to do all of this?
How in the hell is any of this going to work? There’s only so much blood in a turnip.
Does anyone else see a national collapse coming?
Goodeye_Closed on August 27, 2009 at 4:49 PM
They do it every time they jack up the cigarette taxes
Doctor Zhivago on August 27, 2009 at 4:50 PM
Blacksmith on August 27, 2009 at 4:46 PM
To be fair, Hillary and Bill will give up something too.
Namely, a percentage of the bribes, kickbacks they “earned” while in office, as well as some of the money Bill makes for getting drunk and making $100,000 speeches before foreigners.
NoDonkey on August 27, 2009 at 4:50 PM
Another little vindication for Sarah Palin.
jimmy2shoes on August 27, 2009 at 4:50 PM
wheres my flippin decoder ring……
Ladywolfnl on August 27, 2009 at 4:51 PM
There’s going to be some people who are going to have to give up some things, honestly, for all of this to work,” Markey said at a Congress on Your Corner event at CSU. “But we have to do this because we’re Americans.”
These folks were not born old. They worked hard for years and paid their way and many of them did not ask anyone for anything. Now they are in the place we all get to, if we survive that long. It is not as if they have not contributed over the years.
Terrye on August 27, 2009 at 4:51 PM
RadClown on August 27, 2009 at 4:52 PM
Glad there’s a few “DINOs” out there, or we’d be even more screwed than we already are…and much faster, too!
Dr. ZhivBlago on August 27, 2009 at 4:52 PM
WTF? Yes, give the government control over our lives because we’re Americans! That’s the ticket!
Scum democrat/communist
darwin on August 27, 2009 at 4:57 PM
Maddow will tear her apart.
echosyst on August 27, 2009 at 4:13 PM
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around, does anyone hear it?
pjean on August 27, 2009 at 5:01 PM
I didn’t “invest” in Social Security, Medicaid or Medicare. If given the opportunity, I would have made sound investments. However, seeing as how my money was force-ably removed from my pay checks for all those many years, I simply want it back, with interest. Don’t give me anything because I’m old; just give me back what you stole! I’ll buy medical insurance or not. MY CHOICE. I won’t allow the government to TAKE my money and GIVE it to illegals. I’ll work for cash “under the table” and pay NO taxes. How you like dem apples, Barack???
GoldenEagle4444 on August 27, 2009 at 5:03 PM
I believe we can still call a spade a spade, so why aren’t we just calling these ‘myths’ what they really are – lies?
pcpower1 on August 27, 2009 at 5:04 PM
…some people are going to have to give up some things for this to work.” And as long as it’s not me, I don’t give a rats patootie. So there, enjoy your cupcakes while you have them. Oh, was the mike on again?
Kissmygrits on August 27, 2009 at 5:04 PM
Obama must be ready to drop more bad news next week. He’s extending his vacation.
lorien1973 on August 27, 2009 at 5:05 PM
FlagFlog that woman!fixed…
Kaptain Amerika on August 27, 2009 at 5:07 PM
I wonder what libs truly think of this–those outside of government. They want everything for everyone, and here the ones they elected to provide that are talking cuts.
And, no, I won’t accept an argument from a lib that cutting is okay to provide more for the common good. That’s not the ways have ever worked and to now try changing the story is just crap.
Remember the old argument, “For the price of one B1 bomber we could…” As if there’s a special place where we can make an even trade of national defense for social justice. Any new argument about cuts for the greater good won’t wash; libs made their story and need to stick to it.
I want to hear libs defend this crap about cuts to Medicare. Any of you trolls care to take me up on it?
Liam on August 27, 2009 at 5:10 PM
The word ‘myth’ is not synonymous with the word ‘lie’, or the word ‘falsehood;, or ‘untruth’.
It is synonymous with the word ‘story’.
FYI
percysunshine on August 27, 2009 at 5:13 PM
maybe someone wants her job to be added to the list of “saved” next year….
d’ya think?
ted c on August 27, 2009 at 5:13 PM
I would be curious to know if, for the greater good, she plans on surrendering her Congressional Health benefits.
Blaise on August 27, 2009 at 5:15 PM
Yes, percysunshine, that is correct. However, the way they are spinning things words become shapeshifters, ergo, myth=lie.
pcpower1 on August 27, 2009 at 5:16 PM
Maybe someone should have flagged Michelle Obama:
Seniors, give up your pie!
Buy Danish on August 27, 2009 at 5:20 PM
Looks that way. Permanent vacation would be better, though, with Nancy and Harry…
Nichevo on August 27, 2009 at 5:21 PM
The word ‘spin’ is synonymous with the word ‘twist’. It is a metaphor for the word ‘lie’.
percysunshine on August 27, 2009 at 5:22 PM
Yes, and when my teenage son begins to spin a story to twist the situation in his favor, I know he’s lying. By the way, this is a most enjoyable game.
pcpower1 on August 27, 2009 at 5:31 PM
We’ve gone from Gore’s “lockboxes” in 2000 to Obama’s “Seniors – f’ ya” in nine years.
Nichevo on August 27, 2009 at 5:31 PM
Like eating for instance.
katy the mean old lady on August 27, 2009 at 5:38 PM
WTF??
redfoxbluestate on August 27, 2009 at 5:40 PM
What is Betsy Markey giving up? I really want to know.
Socratease on August 27, 2009 at 6:07 PM
Oh man, wait till Obambi wee-wee’s on her!
lovingmyUSA on August 27, 2009 at 6:19 PM
Just think what the debate during the ClintonCare fiasco would have been like if Hot Air had been around. Then think what the 94 results would have been like. Maybe Congress can be completely flipped in 2010.
txmomof6 on August 27, 2009 at 6:57 PM
GAWD, BETSY MARKEY!……….
You are such a flaky, ditzy broad, not to mention an embarrassment to the citizens of Colorado. You’d think for all the money that Hungarian currency manipulator George Soros spent buying your seat, he could have gotten a little bit better value for his millions. You are a pathetic joke.
bannedbyhuffpo on August 27, 2009 at 10:48 PM
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