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In her 3 minute floor speech during the final House vote on the Senate's Obamacare bill, Rep. Shelley Capito described Obamacare as a blanket, which it is, figuratively speaking. Other than that, what she depicted is worlds apart from reality.
Her descriptions of "Wall of Government" "Government Bureaucracy" and "Generational Debt" are essentially the same arguments that rightwingers endlessly bleated back when the Democrats passed the extremely popular "socialist" Medicare and Medicaid programs. Capito cleverly used these lies much in the same way that my own mother once recycled patches of shopworn cloth to piece together colorful and useful patchwork quilts. The difference is that that Capito chooses to recycle only the most filthy material to present us with her own tapestry of lies.
Like the skilled professional artisan who often purchases new material to finish a patchwork quilt, Capito worked in a new lie that a "government bureaucrat is coming between you and your doctor". She stopped just short of recycling Sarah Palin's bureaucrat death panels.
Coincidentally, she and her coal-powered supporters spend TONs of money on campaign ads here, so when she spreads her tapestry of deceit across WV, it will remain practically unchallenged by the local editorial and news rooms. For example in all the years she's been in office I can't recall any reporter ever asking Capito how she's made so many millions over such a short period of time. Her own income declarations reveal that she's somehow raked in many many times more than what she's earned as a congresscritter, despite never working at any other jobs or holding any other titles. Other than being ranking GOP member of the House Banking and Finance Committee whilst consorting with her award-winning Citigroup hedgefund hubby Charles.
But of course the perks with that territory are all legal. Just ask Bill Frist.
As for her prediction that the state of WV will go bankrupt under the burden of Obamacare, Capito ignores the fact that West Virginia i the fourth richest state in natural resources in the entire U.S., and that we export more coal than any other state. Perhaps it is because of coalocrats like her and her daddy Arch's legacy. Never properly taxing the coal industry here is why we've never properly taken care of our poor, our sick, our aged, our undereducated and our underemployed without the federal government stepping in.
And how Capito can publicly rant about West Virginia being saddled with health care "unfunded mandates" without choking after her daddy was convicted for robbing the state's black lung fund and bankrupting its public employee retirement benefits fund is utterly astounding.
But the biggest reason she yowls so vehemently about Obamacare is likely because the bill raises capital gains taxes on unearned interest, meaning that she and her entire brood will now have to start sharing a piece of what they're all raking in from her sweet wall street "investments". And besides, they're all still covered under her cushy federal health care plan, anyway, so why should any of her priveledged clan have to cough any of that sweet sweet unearned interest up?
It just ain't fair to tax the money that they elite makes off suckers betting on the open market, dammit!
Most folks are likely unaware that the endless moaning and groaning about "record tax increases" that her Repub pals were doing during the Obamacare debate wasn't about HCR funding raised from tax increases on us working stiffs. It was because they're all hopping mad about Dems rolling back Bush's tax cuts on the wealthy.
It's likely why Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity, and all of the overpaid wingnut pundits chant that Obamacare is PURE SOCIALISM!
It's also why the mainstream media never mentions it. They also never mention that when she and the rest of the rejected Republican rubberstamping regime passed Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy, the CBO said that they were raising the deficit by $349 billion. Capito had no problem voting yes on them, justifying the tax cuts bill as a real job producer. We all know how that went.
In fact when Capito and her Republican pals passed the first round of Bush tax cuts in 2001, the CBO said that would raise the deficit by a whoppin $1.3 trillion - trillion with a "T." The CBO is now projecting that Obamacare will actually cut the deficit by $138 billion over 10 years.
Did I mention that Capito is the ranking Republican member of the House banking and financial services oversight committee?
The complete transcript of Capito's Blanket of Dung speech is below the jump. |
