Marsha Blackburn Called Me To Apologize For The 71 Dead In Her District Of Lack Of Healthcare

Of course she didn’t. But she did call me and was sorry that I was unable to join in on the town hall conference call (some of the latest and greatest technology available).

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Wow, what a chipper woman. It might help had you not called my FAX line, for goodness sake. I am sure I would be interested in asking you about those 71 that will die in our district simply due to the lack of health insurance. Rep Grayson mentioned them in this series of videos starting with the following:

And speaking of which, I’d like to share the list that Chris Kromm of Facing South (written by Sue Sturgis)  sent me that shows the numbers per congressman of folks in the south that will die due to lack of health insurance. I’m sure you can shrug this off just like Jesus did:

• Alabama District 1, Joe Bonner: 114 dead
• Alabama District 3, Mike Rogers: 88 dead
• Alabama District 4, Robert Aderholt: 114 dead
• Alabama District 6, Spencer Bachus: 69 dead
• Arkansas District 3, John Boozman: 151 dead
• Florida District 1, Jeff Miller: 130 dead
• Florida District 4, Ander Crenshaw: 116 dead
• Florida District 5, Ginny Brown-Waite: 200 dead
• Florida District 6, Cliff Stearns: 152 dead
• Florida District 7, John Mica: 143 dead
• Florida District 9, Gus Bilirakis: 129 dead
• Florida District 10, Bill Young: 138 dead
• Florida District 12, Adam Putnam: 133 dead
• Florida District 13, Vern Buchanan: 160 dead
• Florida District 14, Connie Mack: 159 dead
• Florida District 15, Bill Posey: 152 dead
• Florida District 16, Thomas Rooney: 165 dead
• Florida District 18, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: 199 dead
• Florida District 21, Lincoln Diaz-Balart: 195 dead
• Florida District 25, Mario Diaz-Balart: 195 dead
• Georgia District 1, Jack Kingston: 123 dead
• Georgia District 3, Lynn Westmoreland: 102 dead
• Georgia District 6, Tom Price: 100 dead
• Georgia District 7, John Linder: 156 dead
• Georgia District 9, Nathan Deal: 159 dead
• Georgia District 10, Paul Broun: 120 dead
• Georgia District 11, Phil Gingrey: 113 dead
• Kentucky District 1, Ed Whitfield: 113 dead
• Kentucky District 2, Brett Guthrie: 102 dead
• Kentucky District 4, Geoff Davis: 83 dead
• Kentucky District 5, Harold Rogers: 130 dead
• Louisiana District 1, Steve Scalise: 111 dead
• Louisiana District 2, Joseph Cao: 98 dead
• Louisiana District 4, John Fleming: [garbled on video]
• Louisiana District 5, Rodney Alexander: 132 dead
• Louisiana District 6, Bill Cassidy: 105 dead
• Louisiana District 7, Charles Boustany: 112 dead
• Mississippi District 3, Gregg Harper: 117 dead
• North Carolina District 3, Walter Jones: 100 dead
• North Carolina District 5, Virginia Foxx: 97 dead
• North Carolina District 6, Howard Coble: 103 dead
• North Carolina District 9, Sue Myrick: 82 dead
• North Carolina District 10, Patrick McHenry: 101 dead
• South Carolina District 1, Henry Brown: 157 dead
• South Carolina District 2. Joe Wilson: 118 dead
• South Carolina District 3, Gresham Barrett: 112 dead
• South Carolina District 4, Bob Inglis: 133 dead
• Tennessee District 1, Phil Roe: 110 dead
• Tennessee District 2, John Duncan: 85 dead
• Tennessee District 3, Zach Wamp: 94 dead
• Tennessee District 7, Marsha Blackburn: 71 dead
• Texas District 1, Louie Gohmert: 155 dead
• Texas District 2, Ted Poe: 126 dead
• Texas District 3, Sam Johnson, 144 dead
• Texas District 4, Ralph Hall: 134 dead
• Texas District 5, Jeb Hensarling: 151 dead
• Texas District 6, Joe Barton: 136 dead
• Texas District 7, John Culberson: 103 dead
• Texas District 8, Kevin Brady: 132 dead
• Texas District 10, Mike McCaul: 127 dead
• Texas District 11, Michael Conaway: 164 dead
• Texas District 12, Kay Granger: 156 dead
• Texas District 13, Mack Thornberry: 144 dead
• Texas District 14, Ron Paul: 146 dead
• Texas District 19, Randy Neugebauer: 132 dead
• Texas District 21, Lamar Smith: 119 dead
• Texas District 22, Pete Olson: 150 dead
• Texas District 24, Kenny Marchant: 138 dead
• Texas District 26, Michael Burgess: 162 dead
• Texas District 31, John Carter: 124 dead
• Texas District 32, Pete Sessions: 209 dead
• Virginia District 1, Robert Whitman: 68 dead
• Virginia District 4, Randy Forbes: 93 dead
• Virginia District 6, Bob Goodlatte: 99 dead
• Virginia District 7, Eric Cantor: 76 dead
• Virginia District 10, Frank Wolf: 81 dead
• West Virginia District 2, Shelly Moore Capito: 102 dead

I dunno bout you, but that seems like a lot of dead folk. I’m sure they are all dead beats, anyway, right?

At least we won’t starve to death (h/t A Tiny Revolution):

Nearly half of all U.S. children and 90 percent of black youngsters will be on food stamps at some point during childhood.

“The current recession is likely to generate for children in the United States the greatest level of material deprivation that we will see in our professional lifetimes,” Stanford pediatrician Dr. Paul Wise wrote.

The analysis is in line with other recent research suggesting that more than 40 percent of U.S. children will live in poverty or near-poverty by age 17.

Right. Just more dead beats, huh?

Originally found here.

Nearly half of all U.S. children and 90 percent of black youngsters will be on food stamps at some point during childhood.    “The current recession is likely to generate for children in the United States the greatest level of material deprivation that we will see in our professional lifetimes,” Stanford pediatrician Dr. Paul Wise wrote.    The analysis is in line with other recent research suggesting that more than 40 percent of U.S. children will live in poverty or near-poverty by age 17.