Wed May 15, 2019, 11:40 AM
CatWoman (75,610 posts)
Karma just bit a huge chunk out of Mo Brooks' ass
Congressman announces cancer diagnosis months after characterizing illness as a personal failing
During a speech on the House floor on Wednesday, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) announced that he has prostate cancer. “Don’t ever, ever, take your health or family for granted. During the holidays, enjoy your family, because no one, no one, is promised tomorrow,” Brooks said, adding that he learned he has cancer following a doctor’s scan in October. Brooks’ announcement demonstrates the value of having health insurance, and the reality that everyone gets sick at one time or another. It also highlights the disconnect between his rhetoric about health care and people’s lived experience. While Republicans were trying to repeal Obamacare in May, Brooks — who introduced a one-sentence Obamacare repeal bill in March — went on CNN and defended Republicans’ plan to allow insurance companies to discriminate against people who have preexisting conditions, which he characterized as personal failings. “My understanding is that (the new proposal) will allow insurance companies to require people who have higher health care costs to contribute more to the insurance pool,” Brooks said in comments that generated swift backlash. “That helps offset all these costs, thereby reducing the cost to those people who lead good lives, they’re healthy, they’ve done the things to keep their bodies healthy. And right now, those are the people — who’ve done things the right way — that are seeing their costs skyrocketing.” But people “who lead good lives” get cancer too, and discovering and treating it can be exorbitantly expensive. Nonetheless, Republicans like Brooks who support legislation that would result in tens of millions of people losing coverage routinely characterize insurance as a luxury item that some people simply make the choice not to have, instead of a basic need. https://thinkprogress.org/mo-brooks-cancer-health-care-comments-0d472b2bc9ef/?fbclid=IwAR35fzt9vpjCgs_4J4Qp15JbPzfzTHeIerCzhLOc8gRmmbGWVz3bE-ZiX7w
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Author | Time | Post |
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CatWoman | May 2019 | OP |
malaise | May 2019 | #1 | |
demigoddess | May 2019 | #5 | |
rusty fender | May 2019 | #12 | |
Perseus | May 2019 | #23 | |
mountain grammy | May 2019 | #21 | |
Leghorn21 | May 2019 | #2 | |
Hulk | May 2019 | #13 | |
LonePirate | May 2019 | #3 | |
gratuitous | May 2019 | #4 | |
superpatriotman | May 2019 | #6 | |
librechik | May 2019 | #7 | |
0rganism | May 2019 | #8 | |
katmondoo | May 2019 | #9 | |
Cousin Dupree | May 2019 | #10 | |
lunatica | May 2019 | #14 | |
Vinca | May 2019 | #11 | |
safeinOhio | May 2019 | #15 | |
ooky | May 2019 | #16 | |
Scoopster | May 2019 | #17 | |
KY_EnviroGuy | May 2019 | #18 | |
Pepsidog | May 2019 | #19 | |
NotHardly | May 2019 | #20 | |
pangaia | May 2019 | #22 | |
ProudLib72 | May 2019 | #24 |
Response to CatWoman (Original post)
Wed May 15, 2019, 11:44 AM
malaise (227,726 posts)
1. No thoughts
no prayers - I only wish he didn't have tax payer funded health care
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Response to malaise (Reply #1)
Wed May 15, 2019, 11:59 AM
demigoddess (5,785 posts)
5. I'm so with you on that! Every man with a prostate is in danger of prostate cancer at a
certain age. I think we should elect people without prostates! then no prostate cancer to pay for.
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Response to demigoddess (Reply #5)
Wed May 15, 2019, 02:36 PM
Perseus (4,341 posts)
23. I have a prostate, but I also don't disagree with you
The thought is that the World will be better with more women leaders, and for the most part I believe that to be true, but then once in a while I see a picture of Betsy Devos and I come to the realization that every rule has its exceptions.
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Response to CatWoman (Original post)
Wed May 15, 2019, 11:46 AM
Leghorn21 (12,484 posts)
2. D'oh, I read this as "Kamala just bit a huge chunk out of Mo Brooks' ass"
and I said, yeah, and she's just the one to do it, too!
Anyway, LEAD A BETTER LIFE, Brooks, and this shit wouldn't be happening to you...well, according to you, it wouldn't (never too late to wake tf up, pal) |
Response to Leghorn21 (Reply #2)
Wed May 15, 2019, 12:19 PM
Hulk (6,278 posts)
13. Me too...
He needs a good hypocrite whipping, and she’s the person that could blister his ass good.
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Response to CatWoman (Original post)
Wed May 15, 2019, 11:49 AM
LonePirate (11,126 posts)
3. The press should call him on the carpet about his previous remarks but I bet they let him skate.
Response to CatWoman (Original post)
Wed May 15, 2019, 11:51 AM
gratuitous (73,827 posts)
4. Dear Sen. Brooks
I was sorry to hear about your prostate cancer diagnosis. Since you are on record saying that people who have higher health care costs should contribute more to the insurance pool, I am confident that you will not be dunning taxpayers who have done things the right way to help pay for your treatment, correct? Perhaps next time, you will lead a good life so that you don't get cancer.
Love and kisses, Yr friendly neighborhood gratuitous |
Response to CatWoman (Original post)
Wed May 15, 2019, 12:04 PM
superpatriotman (5,575 posts)
6. Because I haven't always 'led a good life'
This puts a huge smile on my face.
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Response to CatWoman (Original post)
Wed May 15, 2019, 12:07 PM
librechik (30,009 posts)
7. evil and self righteous ignorance
it's a straight path to heaven, right?
Pompous Confederate rebels like this guy.are still traitors who want to disrupt the democracy of the US and revive slavery. Why are we so intimidated by these freaks? They really just pretend they are powerful, and we are buying it. |
Response to CatWoman (Original post)
Wed May 15, 2019, 12:08 PM
0rganism (23,364 posts)
8. thoughts and prayers that his dick falls off, climbs down his esophagus and chokes him out
that is all
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Response to CatWoman (Original post)
Wed May 15, 2019, 12:12 PM
katmondoo (6,033 posts)
9. Selfish, mean and greedy, that is every Republican's MO
Response to CatWoman (Original post)
Wed May 15, 2019, 12:12 PM
Cousin Dupree (1,806 posts)
10. Well bless his heart
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Response to Cousin Dupree (Reply #10)
Wed May 15, 2019, 12:28 PM
lunatica (51,951 posts)
14. Love this description!
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Response to CatWoman (Original post)
Wed May 15, 2019, 12:15 PM
Vinca (45,999 posts)
11. So I guess old Mo needs to stay on the government payroll to keep his coverage.
After all . . . he now has a pre-existing condition. What a personal failing!
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Response to CatWoman (Original post)
Wed May 15, 2019, 12:40 PM
safeinOhio (22,903 posts)
15. Harvard Medical says he didn't jack off enough
Response to CatWoman (Original post)
Wed May 15, 2019, 12:44 PM
ooky (5,585 posts)
16. I guess the insurance companies will take care of Mo's health care bills
since he's such a big shill for them.
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Response to CatWoman (Original post)
Wed May 15, 2019, 12:47 PM
Scoopster (423 posts)
17. This article is from Dec. 2017. n/t
Response to CatWoman (Original post)
Wed May 15, 2019, 12:53 PM
KY_EnviroGuy (12,682 posts)
18. Rethugs don't even understand how insurance works, or don't care.
And, they continue to prove it over and over 'cause we've heard this bullshit before.
The issue with rethug thinking (?) is that many health problems come from work-related injury and stress, outright poverty, or are from a person's genetics - problems that don't fit into Mo's "life-style" equation. KY....... ![]() |
Response to CatWoman (Original post)
Wed May 15, 2019, 01:01 PM
Pepsidog (4,465 posts)
19. Wish I could feel bad for him but I don't. I wish a slow and painful recovery.
Response to CatWoman (Original post)
Wed May 15, 2019, 01:14 PM
NotHardly (793 posts)
20. Prostate cancer is not a death sentence...
extraoridnalily curable... he just won't be able to get it up anymore, if he could anyway
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Response to CatWoman (Original post)
Wed May 15, 2019, 02:17 PM
pangaia (24,324 posts)
22. The fucker is an Alabama Rep... Huntsville,
one of the 2 or 3 barely civilized places in the entire god-forsaken state,
Here are his contact phones. Call him and tell him,.. well tell him whatever you like, I will not print here what I am going to tell him. Huntsville (256) 551-0190 D.C. (202) 225-4801 Decatur (256) 355-9400 Florence (256) 718-5155 |
Response to CatWoman (Original post)
Wed May 15, 2019, 02:39 PM
ProudLib72 (17,984 posts)
24. Put a cactus in his seat
There's your cure, fucker!
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