Supply Side Jesus, from the vault.

Al Franken put this together before he became a senator, and I thought it kinda fit with the supply side standstill instituted by our Republican Congress.

From the lips of Jesus....

What a great idea from Kimmel...



What the heck, here's Al Franken's Supply Side Jesus....

Republican Rep. Davidson compares buying Health Care to buying a flip phone: "We weren't endowed by our creator with health care..."

Health care is like a flip phone? And it's not like health care is endowed by our creator either. God just gave us life, after that, you're in the free market baby, cough up the cash or die. Just a few pearls of wisdom from Ohio Republican Rep. Warren Davidson:

Warren Davidson: "Lots of people don't believe in a free market, they want health care as if it were endowed by your creator for health care. (eliciting loud yes', exactly). We weren't, but we weren't. We weren't endowed by our creator with health care, we were endowed with life. So  you're not entitled to someone else's stuff. So in health care for example, we have to protect the free market."

Free markets were endowed by our creator? No wonder so many "pro-life" groups don't care about providing health care, no reason to save the "baby" after it's born. (check out Supply Side Jesus below)

Funny thing, constituents knew and groaned in reaction to Davidson's easily recognizable inhumanity.

I started the town hall video off with Davidson's big mistake about his own party's health care subsidies, based on age. He wrongly claimed it was based on income, you know means tested, like it is on the Affordable Care Act. And these guys are going to pass a national health care plan?:

Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) told the mother of a service industry worker who has benefitted from the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion that her son should get a better job if he wants decent insurance when Obamacare is repealed.  

Her grown son lacked health insurance for four years, because his job in the service industry did not provide it. He received coverage through Medicaid.

Constituent: “Can you explain why my son and millions of others in his situation are not deserving of affordable, decent health care that has essential benefits so that he can stay healthy and continue working?”

Davidson: “OK, I don’t know anything about your son, but as you described him, his skills are focused in an industry that doesn’t have the kind of options that you want him to have for health care. So, I don’t believe that these taxpayers here are entitled to give that to him. I believe he’s got the opportunity to go earn those health benefits” (eliciting boos from the crowd).  “If he doesn’t want a catastrophic care plan, don’t buy a catastrophic care plan. If you don’t want a flip-phone, don’t buy a flip-phone” (eliciting loud groans from the audience).

Constituent: “I’m sorry, health care is much different than a cell phone and I’m tired of people using cell phone analogies with health care.”  

Davidson’s metaphor resembled remarks by Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), that people should not buy iPhones if they wanted the money to pay for health insurance.
Consumers do not have the same power to command lower prices for health care, since it is not a product they can choose to not have.

Before he was a Senator, Al Franken put this piece together:

GOP presidential candidates speak in service of narrow and politicized Faith & Freedom Coalition's interests!

On the heels of hearing every Republican presidential hopeful criticize Pope Francis’ latest statements about climate change and capitalism, the three-day Faith & Freedom Coalition saw these same hypocrites preaching the gospel of Christ, the conservative supply side Jesus they know and love so much. Hell, who does the infallible Pope think he is anyway? Politico: 

The ones who found particular favor with their audience described a conservative Christian community under siege by government, Democrats and an increasingly godless society. Rand Paul called for cutting foreign aid to countries that “persecute Christians.” And Ted Cruz warned that a Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage would amount to “naked and lawless judicial activism.” Gov. Bobby Jindal warned of an “assault on religious liberty” in America. 

Jeb Bush invoked Terri Schiavo ... (ending with)“If we act on our faith everyday, we’re going to create a more just, more loving world.”

A truly contradictory statement after Jeb Bush stated this the other day:

"I don't think we should politicize our faith … I don't get economic policy from my bishops or my cardinals or my pope … I think religion ought to be … less about things that end up getting in the political realm.

And yes, after bashing the Pope unmercifully…

The candidates are betting that the moment is right to mobilize evangelicals and other Christians worried about the erosion of religious values in America. 

Think they lack a little self-awareness? 

The Pope's encyclical centered on a very broad pro-life agenda, a point missed by our Republican pharisees. Despite Chris Christie's lack of concern for climate change, which will have a major effect on food supplies and result in millions of premature deaths around the world, the concept he has of being pro-life missed the mark: 

Gov. Chris Christie said, “I believe if you are pro-life, as I am, you need to be pro-life for the whole life. You can’t just afford to be pro-life when the human being is in the womb.”