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CONGRESSMAN MAKES CANDID ADMISSION WHILE ATTACKING GOP
U.S. Congressman Bob Inglis is finally admitting what voters in South Carolina’s 4th Congressional District have known for years: He’s a bum.
Inglis made the candid admission to the Greenville News Thursday while taking shots at the Republicans who would like to see him voted out of office.
Inglis said he faces an anti-incumbent, “throw-the-bums-out” mood among voters similar to the one he rode to victory when he was first elected to Congress in 1992.
“Now I am the bum, so I’ve got to figure out how to help people understand that maybe your local bum isn’t so bad after all,” Inglis told reporters and editors of The Greenville News .
Inglis said he considers himself a part of the “religious right” and can’t identify with a new group that has emerged within the party that he called the “hard right.”
“I’m concerned about abortion,” Inglis said. “It’s very much a concern to me. The hard right really doesn’t care about abortion. They just want you, government, out of their pocketbook, by golly.”
Inglis said “hard-right” activists have told him that they are willing to let people without health insurance “die on the steps of the hospital” to make a point about the problem of “free riders.”
“As a religious right guy, I’m thinking there was a guy named Jesus who had some things to say about these kinds of concepts,” Inglis said. “And I don’t want to live in a society that lets a few test cases die on the steps of the hospital. I can’t go there.”
With four Republican challengers in next year’s primary, Inglis should probably find a way to identify with someone other than just the religious right.
Sure, that stuff helps in Greenville more than almost anywhere else in the state, but it only goes so far. Eventually, people get pretty tired of having a certifiably crazy Congressman who favors government-run health care and taxpayer-funded vacations to exotic locations.
Inglis said “hard-right” activists have told him that they are willing to let people without health insurance “die on the steps of the hospital” to make a point about the problem of “free riders.”
Get the point Bob–you are going to be one of the bodies we step over on the hospital steps. I am a conservative, not a religious conservative but a conservative. I was raised that if a person does not work then there is a price to be paid.If you get into financial problems it is your own fault for either not planning ahead for possible problems or living beyond one’s means. But in neither case is it my responsibility to take care of you.
Sorry Bob, but you picked the wrong issue to disagree with the voters on but June 2010 is still a long time a way and maybe you can redeem yourself to the upstate GOP…maybe…
It’s tough being a member of a political tea bag party that has gone totaly insane………..
…there was a guy named Jesus who would be voting against appropriations for WAR. Dumbass.
Rino, with a capital “R”.
This hard right also decided to act fascist. If a person attempts taking care of themselves , that privilege is likewise taken away.
Example: A human being gets sick. That human being is covered by two long term disability income policies. That human being applies for Social Security disability. Social Security refuses to obtain their medical evidence for over two years and refuses to allow the claim.
In the meantime, the disability insurers say, well Social Security says you are not disabled and cancels both long term income producing policies.
Then Social Security doesn’t pay the cash award as ordered.
The human being loses their home.
The circle jerk is never broken because this hard right and these conservatives think this can’t and won’t ever happen to them too.
Get sick and die quickly is the name of the game.
One of these hard right people might lose a buck if a human being needs help.
Don’t get sick people, like you have control over that.
Might want to mention this particular sick human being has been sick since age 10, got a college degree despite of it, worked, was on disability, VOLUNTARILY returned to work for over ten years….. only to loose every single thing that was accomplished.
There is a thing called compassion but it interferes with profit in this state.
Inglis is a good, fair Congressman who has been very good for the 4th District for six terms.
There is a loud minority of people who aren’t adding anything but complaints and a a strong willingness to make the conservative movement a minority for a generation or two.
In response to Liz. The social security issue that you reference is part a big problem that is two fold. 1. The trial lawyers that continue to fund liberal candidates do so knowing that those candidates will not do anything to change current regulations regarding lawsuits. ( tort reform ) Where this becomes an issue in your example is that a private sector disability insurance policy should not be tied to the actions of any government agency. It should pay based on the findings of your doctor. They know that social security automatically denies most first and second time claims without merit, therefore the insurers and their attorneys are using the system to hurt you. This needs to change. 2. The Social Security Administration is just as out of control as most other government agencies. When a person attends a hearing without an attorney because they figured since they are a paraplegic why spend the money, and still get turned down. You know the system is broken. It is designed specifically for the employment of attorneys.
Rather than give more control to the idiots in Washington. Make the private sector work better.
Maybe so, Andrew, but six terms is ENOUGH!