Getting Schooled - #358

#358 SEN. JOHN BARASSO
SENATOR FROM WYOMING

Yes, he may be tops on the evolutionary ladder when it comes to the shitkickers in Wyoming, but when Sen. John Barasso, the cattle vet who sometimes doctors regular folks tried to go toe to toe with President Obama on the health care reform bill. He got his head handed to him really fast.

Barasso told the president at the health care roundtable which the Democrats embarrassed them into going to, that health care savings accounts were a much better idea than the health care reform bill. People could pay into them with some of their disposable income and then pay for their health care out of that.

The President took 40 seconds to hit a visibly startled Barasso right between the eyes with the question: Would you still feel that way if you were making $40,000 a year? Cause that's the reality for a lot of folks. In other words, what disposable imcome?

Barasso didn't have a response. In fact, he started when the president asked the question because he knew he'd just been schooled. He tried saving himself later by saying health savings accounts work fine for members of congress. Obama told him that was because members of congress are in the country's highest income brackets and can afford HSAs. The common people aren't.

With regards to TPM Muckraker

S. Olson