{"id":274,"date":"2009-11-18T03:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T11:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=274"},"modified":"2009-11-18T03:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T11:24:00","slug":"supply-side-jesus-opposes-health-care-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/18\/supply-side-jesus-opposes-health-care-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Supply Side Jesus Opposes Health Care Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Coburn is at it again.<\/p>\n

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Speaking to reporters last night, the Senate\u2019s<\/font> top obstructionist<\/a>, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), said that he would attempt to slow down progress on health care reform by<\/font> insisting<\/a> that the 1,000-page-plus health care reform bill be read aloud on the Senate floor. \u201cThe American people are going to get to<\/font> hear this bill read, period<\/a>,\u201d said Coburn, adding that \u201che would also block other legislative shortcuts\u201d in an effort to delay the bill, such as requiring \u201cthe Senate to use up the entire 30-hour debate period called for after a filibuster has been broken.\u201d According to Roll Call, \u201cearlier this month, Republican leadership aides said Coburn was unlikely to make such a move without the blessing of GOP leaders.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

This is just a GOP delay while thousands of Americans keep dying from the lack of health care.  Perhaps this GOP scum should remember the Hippocratic oath he took when he graduated from medical school.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:<\/font><\/p>\n

I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.<\/font><\/p>\n

I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.<\/font><\/p>\n

I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon’s knife or the chemist’s drug.<\/font><\/p>\n

I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient’s recovery.<\/font><\/p>\n

I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.<\/font><\/p>\n

\"coburn\"<\/a> I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person’s family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.<\/font><\/p>\n

I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.<\/font><\/p>\n

I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.<\/font><\/p>\n

If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <PBS<\/a>><\/p>\n

The top graphic is a Hippocrates.  The bottom is a hypocrite.  There is no resemblance between Coburn\u2019s oath and his behavior trying to prevent the neediest Americans from having access to health care.  One of the biggest opponents of health care reform is Supply Side Jesus, not the real Jesus who practiced love, tolerance and care for those in need, but the Republican\/Religious Right Jesus who practices hate, fear, and greed.  In the opposition to health care reform many roads meet at C Street.  There\u2019s some good news there.<\/p>\n

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\"republican_jesus\"<\/a> Residents of the C Street Christian fellowship house will no longer benefit from a loophole that had allowed the house’s owners to avoid paying property taxes.<\/font><\/p>\n

Previously, the house — despite being home to numerous lawmakers — had been tax exempt, because it was classified as a church. That arrangement had allowed the building’s owner, the secretive international Christian organization The Family, to charge significantly<\/font> below market rents<\/a> to its residents. In recent year, Senators John Ensign (R-NV), Tom Coburn (R-OK), Sam Brownback (R-KS) and Jim DeMint (R-SC), and Reps. Zach Wamp (R-TN), Bart Stupak (D-MI) and Mike Doyle (D-PA) have all reportedly called C Street home.<\/font><\/p>\n

Natalie Wilson, a spokeswoman for the Office of Tax and Revenue for Washington D.C., told TPMmuckraker that her office inspected the house this summer. "It was determined that portions of it were being rented out for private residential purposes," she said. As a result, the tax exempt status was partially revoked. Sixty-six percent of the value of the property is now subject to taxation\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <TPM<\/a>><\/p>\n

If they are a church, as they claim, all their political activity has been a violation of the separation clause, so they should lose all tax exemption and have to pay back taxes, with interest and penalties for all the years they have been proselytizing politicians.<\/p>\n

Rachel Maddow did a beautiful job of tying it all together.<\/p>\n