More words of stupid out of the mouth of an idiot:
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Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) runs the Senate "like a plantation."
Cassidy's comments were published by E&E Daily on Tuesday. Cassidy, who is running for Senate, made the comments while bashing Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA), who he said has helped Obama "get his agenda through" thanks to her support for Reid.
Cassidy added that Reid "runs the Senate like a plantation." - TPM, 9/9/14
Here's what he said:
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When he talks about the campaign, he's liberal in dishing out criticism of Landrieu, linking her whenever possible to Obama and Reid, the Nevada Democrat who holds the reins in the Senate as majority leader. "[Obama] wouldn't get his agenda through if she wasn't there supporting Harry Reid," Cassidy said during a meeting with David Rabalais, executive director of the port.
Reid "runs the Senate like a plantation," Cassidy said. "So instead of the world's greatest deliberative body, it is his personal, sort of, 'It goes if I say it does, if not it stops.' Senator Landrieu's first vote for him to be re-elected means that every other wish for a pro-oil and gas jobs bill is dead. Reid will never allow a pro-oil and gas jobs bill."
Cassidy's anti-Washington, anti-Democratic messaging is getting some traction in Louisiana, where GOP candidate Mitt Romney won 58 percent of the vote in 2012, compared to Obama's 41 percent. - E&E Publishing, 9/9/14
This isn't the first time something stupid came out Cassidy's mouth. Lets not forget, he's the guy who said this:
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Louisiana GOP Senate candidate Bill Cassidy recently attacked Obamacare's Medicare provider cuts even though he admitted to voting for the same cuts.
"Among the things that the president's health care law does is it cuts Medicare Advantage. Now it would be one thing if the savings that were taking from Medicare Advantage were put back into the trust fund -- because as we mentioned, the trust fund is running out of money," the U.S. congressman told constituents at a town hall. "So if they take in the savings of that and put it back in the trust fund, I'm OK with that. Actually, I voted to do that at one point."
Cassidy's remarks were unusually honest in that he admitted he voted for the same Medicare Advantage cuts his own party leaders are attacking as deeply damaging to the one-third of Medicare beneficiaries the program covers. By contrast, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and a swath of other Republicans have been bashing those cuts even though nearly all GOP lawmakers voted to make the same cuts permanent in Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) budgets proposals.
But Cassidy's related attack on the use of the savings reflects a common misunderstanding of how Medicare's trust fund actually works. "You've paid into the Medicare trust fund, the money should be for you," he said. "If there are savings to be achieved, put it back in to extend the life of the trust fund." - TPM, 3/18/14
And this:
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Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who is running to unseat Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), sought Thursday to explain his controversial comments about how, in his opinion, the uninsured are "less educated" and "less sophisticated" and therefore will experience difficulties enrolling for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
The Times-Picayune reported that Cassidy, who is a physician, issued a statement explaining what he said about the uninsured.
"As a doctor, I can tell you that you need an honest diagnosis before you can provide the needed treatment," Cassidy said in the statement. "It is self-evident to anyone who has worked with the uninsured, as I have for decades, that the uninsured come from all segments of society. This includes the more and the less educated. That's exactly the point I made and make: if we seek to be truly compassionate, our policies must meet people where they are. Obamacare's one-size-fits-all model lacks this basic measure of compassion."
Cassidy's comments, which were first reported Wednesday by BuzzFeed, were made as the congressman spoke at the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association’s annual meeting last week.
At the meeting, the Senate candidate explained the rationale behind his alternative proposal for health care reform.
“[The plan] I think actually reflects the reality of who the uninsured are: relatively less sophisticated, less comfortable with forms, less educated," Cassidy said. "Those are the folks that -- not all -- there’s a guy who goes to my church who’s uninsured, who’s middle-class but couldn’t get it because he has Type I diabetes. So it’s not all, but it is the folks who I think are going to have the hardest time reaching.” - Huffington Post, 3/28/14
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