New Mediscare Ad: Paul Ryan Throws Gramma From a Cliff
**Written by Doug Powers
The Weekly Standard points out that the creators of this ad, The Agenda Project, have a stated goal to “build a powerful, intelligent, well-connected political movement capable of identifying and advancing rational, effective ideas in the public debate and in so doing ensure our country’s enduring success.” Or just portray people with different political philosophies as murderers — whichever is most expedient.
What’s most surprising is that, in the ad, the Paul Ryan character keeps the wheelchair and doesn’t dump it over the cliff along with gramma to intentionally litter the environment and perpetuate global warming.
Will we eventually see a higher budget Medicare sequel starring Andy Griffith doing a little involuntary octogenarian base jumping courtesy of the evil GOP? Perhaps:
Fun fact: According to Chris Matthews, there/s a 50/50 chance that the elderly woman in the wheelchair was one of his viewers.
**Written by Doug Powers
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Alrighty then. Let’s roll out an ad showing Nancy Pelosi and other big name Dems throwing small babies into a wood chipper. “Fifty million and counting!”
The Gutless Obsequious Pu$$ies could learn to fight back.
Obama’s death panels will take care of the elderly long before they will even be close to needing a wheelchair.
Of course they won’t mention the inconvenient fact that DEMOCRATS passed OBAMACARE which CUTS FIVE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS FROM MEDICARE.
That is clearly throwing grandma off the cliff, but shhh, they can’t blame the democrats. They must blame Paul Ryan.
Excuse while I change into my RightwingRocker outfit.
Phil, you have style……. Like it.
Well, I think we all knew this was coming. That liberals are going to say we’re going to put Grandma on the street and make poor people eat dog food (Hannity’s saying).
What we need to do is stand on principles and not waver and let the American people decide.
Ms. Payne, the one responsible for the ad was interviewed on Fox today…I just wanted to biotch-slap the smugness off her face! Wouldn’t give and inch, even when shown how faulty her position was…and, repeatedly mentioned “her good friend” Rev. Jim Wallis, the socialist, as one who has the moral authority on the healthcare issue.
They. Make. Me. Sick! (She said she preferred elected officials/appointed officials to make healthcare decisions, instead of the “profit-motivated” private sector businesses.) Pure socialism.
Someone needs to ask her how she believes a company in a competitive environment earns a profit.
Then ask her what leverage there is for a government monopoly to keep costs down while providing great service?
Conveniently left out of the conversation was that Ryan’s plan wouldn’t effect those over 55 yrs. of age.
And, I agree, wholeheartedly, with the Virginia Patriot…man up, GOP, or change your avatar from an elephant to Liberty’s Cuckold!
Paging James O’Keefe and Lila Rose..
Planned parenthood video stings in all 57 states, asap!
Agenda Project’s founder Erica Payne is the filthy skank who runs this organization. I’m sure we can follow her paycheck to George Soros. This video pisses me off. Rot in hell Erica Payne. Your time will come like all the other demonic Democrats.
Somewhat O/T, but….
I get up every morning and check the news to see if we are under martial law yet. These thugs will stop at nothing in tearing this country down.
Oh my: Documents reveal that Kagan may have helped craft legal defense of ObamaCare
Anyone catch Chris Matthews likening Obama to a pure-hearted Batman trying to save Gathom from leering Republican Jokers who just want to rip everyone off? It’s going to be a rough campaign season not for the meek, and why I wish our current candidates had some of Trump’s balls and sass going at Obama. Even Rush ruefully fesses up to that. Maybe the fat red lady’s already singing.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
Does the GOP care what’s being done to them?The leftist get six punches in to their one slap attack,if that.
Hello!?!?!?!? Repubs, can you hear this B.S.? Is this thing on?!?!
What are they going to do about this? Nothing, I bet. Just a bunch of wussies. Just try throwing THIS Grandma off a cliff.
Slight exaggeration. Actually, when G-ma hit the turf, Matthew’s audience was reduced by 50%.
When Marxists have taken over both political parties, they know that nothing is being actually done to the GOP.
Awwww. What’s an election season without outrageous, over the top Dumocrat scare stories?
To make this REALLY scary, they could have said he was dumping granny in an “environmentally SENSitive but prisTINE” canyon, home to a tiny patch of land where endangered species are trying to live peacefully.
…and that he threw granny’s puppy after her.
I don’t disagree, but part of me is hoping the smarter conservative is keeping their powder dry til closer to the election.
Let the RINO’s shoot their wad early and start sputtering next summer when things heat up.
Two shot off early already.
this is why i wanted the government to shutdown, so everybody would see no dead people lying in the streets, as we were told there would be. also, i am hoping some creative republican can use video of the two truckloads of illegals being sent over here to describe democrat amnesty policies.
FIFY
The liberal illiterate literalist’s interpretation: That wasn’t an old lady Paul Ryan dumped over a cliff—it was a dummy.
And that wasn’t Paul Ryan–it was someone pretending to make you think he’s Paul Ryan.
Republicans are going beyond not caring about black people. Now they want to litter America’s canyons and waterways with dressed-up mannequins (made of non-biodegradable materials, no doubt). This is truly appalling.
Down with corporate video editing software!
Time for a response video: Young children toiling away to pay for our nation’s debt while seniors sit around enjoying their “entitlements.”
Paul Ryan: “We face the most predictable economic crisis in our history” (while the dems demagogue)
The teabag battle cry 2010 “Don’t touch my Medicare” and in 2012 “We’re not really taking it, it’s really Gubberment Healthcare”.
The infuriating part is that this is (as usual) 180 degrees backward: The dems gutted Medicare (senior citizens) for Obamacare (slacker kids).
They threw grandma over the cliff over a year ago.
Of course, even the recipients of all this largess are worse off for it. The slacker kids will never reap benefits anything like the crushing taxes they will inevitably face.
The lack of any response to this ad by the RNC reminds me why I stopped giving any money to the RNC some years ago. PS. Nice wood chipper imagery Phil, but the RNC doesn’t have the nads to even step up to the plate, much less to run such an ad.
Meanwhile back at the ranch you have pundits like Dick Morris and Bill O’Reilly discussing the GOP Presidential contenders. They agreed that ultimately the nomination would come down to four candidates; one “moderate” and three “conservatives.”
Romney was the “moderate.” The three “conservatives” were Daniels, Gingrich, and Bachman. THAT IS THE VIEW FROM THE ELITES.
Gingrich believes in the indivudual mandate and Daniels has a “D” rating from the Cato institute, but to those two elites they are conservative. The elites have no idea what’s going on in the country.
We must work as hard as we have ever worked, if we are going to prevent four more years of Obama.
Bachmann is the one conservative in that group.
Remember that Dick “toe sucker” Morris was a Democrat strategist for Bill Clinton so he doesn’t know what a conservative is.
O’Really? is just a bloviating ego.
Fighting the RNC first is making defeating Obama a lot more difficult.
YES WE CAIN!
I think Palin is waiting out the early BS before she announces. It would be a terrible thing for her life and her family to be our President but we need her.
She knows we need her and I think her love of our country will bring her into the race.
When she really starts to campaign, everything is going to change.
I would like to thank her in advance for trying.
Let’s make an ad showing Obummer, SanFranNan, Dingy Harry, et.al. going into a childs room, smashing his piggy bank, taking his lemonade stand money, and saying they need it to pay for Obummercare.
Saw the woman supporting this ad on Cavuto yesterday. What a moron. Luntz came on and panned the ad. The political elites killed the SS by putting the money collected in the general fund and spending it!!!. Then they resisted any ideas for reforming it. So now they think that preserving the status quo will keep grandma safe. Just another pipe dream.
He kept the wheelchair at least; that can go to someone whose been waived from Obamacare.
GOP commercial featuring a millionaire lottery winner using his food stamp benefit card in 3, 2, . . .
Aww who am I kidding?
FIFY
This is almost as tasteful as the 10:10 Climate Change Campaign exploding heads ad from last year.
I thought they all used the “Scooter Store” scooters on the public dime.
The smut has just started to fly. Obama’s minions will do anything to get him elected and they will do it with Obama’s full approval. Conservatives are on the menu.
Meanwhile, how about an explanation from Congress as to why they pissed away our Social Security like drunkards at happy hour. Oh, I forgot. Congress doesn’t have to explain why they screw the country up. They just point the finger at somebody else and defer the blame.
Oh Obama, how’s that Libya thing going?
Now didn’t the Sock Puppet Regime take 500 Billion Dollars from Medicare to help fund the Spine Of Steel Health Care Scam?
I am waiting for the Trolls to make their visit and address that one point.
On May 18th, 2011 at 10:53 pm, Pasadena Phil said:
Alrighty then. Let’s roll out an ad showing Nancy Pelosi and other big name Dems throwing small babies into a wood chipper. “Fifty million and counting!”
Or how about showing dump trucks full of money being dumped down a hole. Maybe even top dems throwing money at (insert pet project here).
Phil, with the big, fake choppers Nancy has trouble talking around in her mouth, she’s the wood chipper.
yeah, but we got bin Laden!
Excellent!! Optionally, put it in a pile and then have Obama, Reid, Geithner, Pelosi, look-a-likes pour gasoline on the pile and set it on fire.
I would also like to see something like the Ten Minutes to Midnight Clock,and display all of the liberties we have lost in the past few years, from Healthcare, to food, to light bulbs, to land use, private property rights, etc. etc.
This kind of nonsense is truly disturbing. But what’s more disturbing is that there is an ever growing segment of the population that has been so dumbed down that they buy it. Randomly line up 100 people and ask them to name three Supreme Court Justices. Then ask the same 100 people to name the last three winners on American Idiot or Dancing With the Spares. I’ll guarantee you that the results of such a survey would not only alarm you, but also would explain why we are in a situation where an unqualified boob like Obama can be president.
Ad from GOP fighting back in 3.. 2…
HOLD THE LAUNCH!!!!
The GOP does not fight back. That wouldn’t be polite.
How bout Odumbo, Timmy, Pelosi,Reid sitting around a table using the Constitution as a coaster, spilling coffee, back handed swips to clean it off, say some coffee rings from the cups and finally some snickers and the Constituion thrown in the trash.
We covered this yesterday. Check back sometime after noon for troll commentary. They’re still getting their dummy sleep.
Better yet, an ad showing Nancy crawling out of her coffin to suck the remaining blood out of the country.
I see they aren’t mentioning the savings from medicare that are going to be generated by Obamacare. You can keep your doctor, if you can find one who works for free.
No hope, keep the change.
An ad with people in a circle. A union guy tosses a bag of money to a union exec, who tosses it to a Dem legislator, who tosses it back to the union guy… and around it goes.
March 23, 2011
The Wall Street Journal
What’s $2.3 trillion among friends? That’s the canyon between the Congressional Budget Office’s estimate of a $9.5 trillion federal budget deficit over the next decade under White House proposals, and the White House’s own estimate of $7.2 trillion. The discrepancy emerged in a CBO analysis released Friday, not that it got much media attention.
We thought you’d like to know, and we also want to underline a less-noticed section that shows that ObamaCare will be far more expensive than advertised. To wit, CBO says the entitlement’s health insurance subsidies will cost $1.13 trillion between 2012 and 2021, not $1.04 trillion, the prior estimate. This 8.6% jump is the result of revised assumptions, the so-called technical factors in CBO’s budget model. The bill’s total cost now stands at $1.445 trillion, according to another recent CBO estimate.
If they kill all the Grandmas, who’s going to knit all those mittens and slippers for the children for Christma…excuse me Winterfest?!
On May 19th, 2011 at 10:00 am, Rogue Cheddar said:
If they kill all the Grandmas, who’s going to knit all those mittens and slippers for the children for Christma…excuse me Winterfest?!
The slipper and mittens union.
Someone should take the video and edit it to show the dumocrats have already gutted Medicare.
and even though they’re all skew & ill fitting, you will buy them, wear them, and like it!
who knew people ACTUALLY peddle this kind of lowbrow crap. Absolutely pathetic
They do try, but then their position is distorted and they are demonized in the State Controlled media and by Dems…which leads to tears from John Boehner.
We need scrappy fighters leading the GOP, because the Dems have been at war with the GOP for a long time.
Tough–If grandma was an NRA member and carried a revolver she could protect herself. Paul Ryan’s grandma is none of my business. Really, some people just will not fend for themselves!
May the Farce be with you ObieDougOne.
(when Nancy Pelosi or Dingy Harry become chair bound give me a call
)
If all the Grandmas are killed, it racks up potential huge savings in Obamacare for the younger generations, so from a leftist point of view there might be some merit in it.
Nah, the Chinese already have that market wrapped up.
Many of them got in that mindset thanks to leftist indoctrination and perpetual feeding from the government trough.
Lefist elites fear people who are able to fend for themselves.
You’re right #56. The NRA should do an ad showing grandma defending herself with a gun before the government throws her off the cliff. Great example of the people defending themselves from tyrannical government.
I think we should also show them throwing a copy of the Constitution on the burning pile, as well. It’s so fitting.
Just like those SENIORS did when THEY were young you mean?
I have been “toiling away” paying for seniors “entitlements” for forty years. I have also been blessed with enough income to invest in my own retirement and would be willing to take less than I am “entitled” to in order to help out my country in a diffficult time. Toiling away to pay for government ponzi schemes is something we have done our entire lives (when you have paid your $1.5-2.0 MILLION in income, social security, property, etc. taxes like my wife and I have over the years, come talk to me about “entitlements”…) We need to address these schemes because they are unsustainable, but placing the blame (and burden) on elders who are no longer in a position to be able to change course financially isn’t likely to work out very well…
I think the The Agenda Project goons have the wrong man pushing gramma.
Let’s not forget this gem via Newsbusters.
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The ad failed to show the Republican stealing the last pennies from Granny’s purse–and feeding her a dog food sandwich before throwing her off the cliff.
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As the ObamaCare “plan” strips $500 Billion bucks from Medicare payments to Grannies all over the place! For “redistribution” to Comrade Obama’s Illegal Alien voters. As The Messiah sets up the Death Panels called out by Governor Sarah Palin.
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This Grandpa knows where the wheelchair is going. And the socialists / marxists / communists will be going over the cliff in the November 2012 election. Short trip–with a bad landing Tsunami coming soon.
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John Bibb
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I say show the exact same commercial, but at the end, have the guy in the suit wave over an illegal alien to sit in the chair and hand him a wad of money and a cold drink.
Brought to you by the DNC.
I hope these communist propagandists get their way, as it hurries the day when all the social policy ponzi schemes blow up. Russia in 95! Goodbye Social Security, Goodbye Medicare, Goodbye Medicaid, Goodbye food stamps, Goodbye Welfare, Goodbye school lunches, Goodbye unemployment insurance, Goodbye EPA, Goodbye Osha, Goodbye Pell grants, Goodbye HUD, Goodbye the progressive agenda of the last 80 years.
who says liberals aren’t sick, just take a look at the video and what are the repukians doing to fight back? Oh nothing you say, that’s typical.
If they want to play commercial wars then I propose the
GOPa Conservative group create a commercial showing an average American worker showing up at the bank on payday to deposit their check only to have Reid, Pelosi, and Obama run in and rob the worker of his paycheck at gunpoint. The voice over could say something like, With the Democrats in charge we all feel like we are being robbed at gunpoint each and everyday, the problem is the Democrats never end up in jail.A second commercial could be the same worker in line at a grocery store with a shopping cart with water, bread, and cheese. The person in line in front of him will have rib eye steaks, Lobster, gourmet chees, etc and then pay with a food stamp card. The averagae American then looks at the camera and says thanks to the Democrats my family gets to starve while the lady in front of me gets to eat cavier while sitting at home all day watching Oprah.
Ok, so I’m not understanding this situation: Newt is considered a really bright guy by the right and Palin is considered really awesome by the right.
So when Newt calls Paul Ryan’s proposal to overhaul Medicare was “right-wing social engineering,”
And Palin calls his assessment “terribly wrong.”
Which one of them is smarter?
Answer: not you.
Did Nancy get waivers for her hotel employees?
America weep no longer…
The days of the liberal socialist democrat vote-buying machine is at an end!
The adults are coming to reclaim the nation envisioned by the Founders!
What’s not to understand, it’s perfectly clear to all, your head is up your bewtockal area.
The one you HATE the most !!!
That’s because Marxists have taken over both parties. The GOP fighting back would mean they go against their masters.
What’s that? Robert ThirdReich calling for people to be killed?
Leftists never change.
Here is one for you to answer.
John Kerry is considered to be a very smart guy by the left. He has said he was for $87 billion for funding out the troops. Then He voted against it.
So which John Kerry is smarter?
What happened to post #31?
What happened to my earlier post that displayed OK and now it is gone?
Could that someone be a poor, upper level union official who has been laboring all his life protecting his workers against the evil corporations?
Who has a sore back from all that bending over so the dumocrats can kiss his azz?
Billy boy believes in gun control. That proves he is not a real conservative.
I know he says he’s a “traditionalist” or something like that, but the American tradition includes gun rights. That makes Bill O’Reilly a hypocrite.
FIFY
FYI, Gingrich now claims that the “rightwing social engineering” comment was not about the Ryan plan, and that he would have voted for it.
Personally, I think he’s a moderately intelligent, progressive phony.
To my brother Andy,
Dude you couldn’t be more wrong … especially when you start babbling about stuff being “free”. As a seeker of the truth, you really missed the boat on this one.
SLIBFS
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Wrong.
OBAMACARE is nothing more than MediScare revised – an extension of it. If only someone would cut 500 Billion from MediScare for real … Better yet just eliminate it altogether to bring DC closer to actual compliance with the law.
As if that’s going to happen with the power hungry idiots that get elected these days …
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Takes a long time to switch over folks, sorry about that.
It’s just really hard to squeeze my frame into that ridiculously short costume. The hat never fits right, and I can’t see through the dark sunglasses required to keep from being blinded on stage.
Now if I could only learn to play his instrument …
PPH
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
MUAHAHAHAHAH
Hmm … I’m going to have to look into this Agenda Project. Looks like satire to me.
The question at the end is telling:
Is America beautiful without MediScare?
It was quite so before it, and the law says DC can’t do it, so the answer is an emphatic YES.
Paul Ryan and the Republicrats should be ashamed of himself for not seeing this and fixing it once and for all.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Agenda Project: F*** TEA …
Satire trolls or Ueber-Left Nutbags …
You decide!
MUHAHAHAHAHA
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Re: Agenda Project.
These guys are masters of the bait-and-switch.
After coming off with obvious truths like
These clowns actually Call George Bush, an obvious liberal Republican who gave the Left a VERY high percentage of what they wanted, part of the radical conservative movement.
While they are correct in stating that Bush is “religiously-engaged”, to suggest that it was or is in any way justifiable to connect him to conservatives is a complete joke. Promising pro-life judges does not a conservative make.
The video would make great satire, though. It forces us to ask ourselves whether America would still be America without MediScare. It’s a very important question, as it gets to the very heart of the debate. Why did the Founders seek to keep the federal government out of such matters? The answer is in the current situation and what has happened as a result of disregarding that law. The people of this country screwed up royally in their choices at the ballot box, and now it is time to stand up and fix the problem.
Do I believe for one minute that they will? Of course not. It’s going to take more than long waits and death panels for Americans to get the message. You could read the Tenth Amendment to most people verbatim and they wouldn’t get it. I honestly do not know what it will take, but I do know that the right thing is for those who do get it to stand firm against those who don’t.
That is what I do.
So I challenge everyone today to actually take the Agenda Project’s question seriously. Ask it without the sarcasm implied in their presentation.
Is America beautiful without Medicare?
True conservatives know the answer. Constitutionalists don’t even have to think about it.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Throw the demorats off the cliff. That would be a fitting end to all those worthless idiots. Not to mention the fact that we could reduce their negative effect on nature. Just make sure there is not a river or lake at the bottom as that would be water polution.
I posted a comment in the article below and it is not displayed. I checked the article right after I submitted it and found it was there with its response number so I assumed it was ok. I checked back a little later and my posting was gone. Unfortunately, I failed to jot down the post number for reference. What did I do wrong or are only the ‘regulars’ comments listed?
In checking for my post (again), I noticed that #31 was skipped. Just curious as to why.
My handle is firemission.
New Mediscare Ad: Paul Ryan Throws Gramma From a Cliff
By Doug Powers • May 18, 2011 10:50 P
MarkD, you were half right. “You can keep your doctor if you can find one.” That’s the future of our health care system if we are forced to swallow ObamaCare.
This ad was deplorable in every respect, but it’s exactly the kind of hardball we can expect from now until November of 2012. The Democrats will be as wily, bitter and vindictive as they have and can be, because their end game is to win, not be liked, or respected.
Will our side fight back as diligently? I’m afraid (from past experience) that’s not in the cards and if that turns out to be true, the Republican Party will be dead for years to come, if not forever.