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August 28, 2009

GOP Health Care Two Step: Cowards or Hypocrites?

Enzi health care.jpg

“If I hadn’t been involved in this process as long as I have and to the depth as I have, you would already have national health care.”

– from: “Mike Ensue, Gang Of Six Republican, Admits He’s Simply Blocking Health Care Reform“/HuffPo

Either ranking Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and “Gang of Six” GOP Senator Mike Enzi a.) has been working “across the aisle” to try and fashion some kind of health care solution but is terrified to own up to it before angry right-wing town hall agitators or b.) he is determined to torpedo health care legislation but has been play-acting the part of team player (1 , 2) to avoid appearing like he doesn’t give a damn.

So which is it (as Enzi exhibits diligence in this photo op, arranging copies of the health care reform bill prior to a markup hearing in late June)?

(image: Charles Dharapak/A.P. June 17, 2009)

  • gryphon

    he looks like a caveman grabbing a big rock to smack somebody in the head with.. I hope it’s Beck…
    unfortunately for us, though he may be a nice man deep down, he has an ideology and a wounded party to nurture so they can take their country back from the dirty hippies and scary ‘off’ colored people before it’s TOO LATE!! ‘cry here for effect’
    I like how wingnuts say exactly what’s on their minds now, no matter how crazy or seditious, without fear of reprisal from the Liberal Mainstream Media which they appear on all day.. funny that. certifiable crazy will get you your own show.

  • DanM

    I’m not sure if he looks more like he’s going to hurl the stack of reports or hurl on the stack of reports.

  • http://profile.typepad.com/6p011570cf05d3970b elfpix

    waste personified.

  • yg

    the banality of evil.