Congressman: Jesus and Moses Would Oppose Bill Repealing Obamacare and Defunding Planned Parenthood

[rangerrebew]

Congressman: Jesus and Moses Would Oppose Bill Repealing Obamacare and Defunding Planned Parenthood

During Wednesday’s House floor debate on a reconciliation bill that would repeal Obamacare and defund Planned Parenthood, Rep. Steve Cohen (D.-Tenn.) argued that Jesus and Moses would oppose what the House was seeking to do.

“We just came through Hanukkah and Christmas, and we ought to think a little bit about what Hanukkah and Christmas were about and what Moses and Jesus would be about,” said Cohen. “I think they would be about saving lives and about giving everybody an opportunity to live, not patient-centric health care, but people living and getting health care like every other civilized, industrialized country in the world provides for its people.”

Cohen spoke immediately after Rep. Chris Smith (R.-N.J.). In his remarks, Smith said: “Subsidized by over $500 million taxpayer dollars each year, Planned Parenthood dismembers or chemically poisons a baby to death every 2 minutes, killing over 7 million innocent children since 1973.”

In its latest annual report, Planned Parenthood said that its affiliates performed 323,999 abortion procedures in fiscal 2014, which works out to an average of one every 1.62 minutes.

The reconciliation bill repealing Obamacare and defunding Planned Parenthood, which passed the Senate 52 to 47 on Dec. 3, passed the House yesterday by a vote of 240 to 181.

It will now be sent to President Barack Obama, who is expected to veto it.

Here is the full transcript of Rep. Steve Cohen’s remarks:

    Mr. Speaker, we ended the 2015 Congress working together with a tax extender package that I voted for that gave relief to the medical device folks in an omnibus bill.

    But we are back, and there you go again trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act, taking health care away from people and taking Planned Parenthood, which gives people who are poor and live in areas where there is not other healthcare opportunities—taking away from them the opportunity for preventive health care.

    The last time this was tried in Tennessee, there was a 1,400 percent cut in women getting preventative care. That is just not right. We just came through Hanukkah and Christmas, and we ought to think a little bit about what Hanukkah and Christmas were about and what Moses and Jesus would be about. I think they would be about saving lives and about giving everybody an opportunity to live, not patient-centric health care, but people living and getting health care like every other civilized, industrialized country in the world provides for its people.

Source URL: http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/cnsnewscom-staff/congressman-jesus-and-moses-would-oppose-repealing-obamacare-and-defunding

[rangerrebew]

Cohen is a racist, islamaphobic bigot for excluding allah from his speech.!!!!!!!!! 13291

[raml]

No way would Jesus be involved in telling the government what is required of it. He never said health care was a right nor did Moses. He by miracles cured a few people not all of the sick and ill and that was just to show his mercy. He also said work for your requirements in life never did he say to suck at the governments tits. Democrats booed God why do they keep trying to use him for reasons of doing what is not anyone's right unless he earns it. Bringing Moses into this is sillier than Jesus. Moses couldn't abide slackers read the bible it is all in there and quit making false statements about people you obviously never read about.

[Scottftlc]

Based on my understanding of the many writings about his life and actions, it doesn't appear that Jesus had much need for medical professionals or health insurance programs.

[andy58-in-nh]

Sorry, Steve: not all of us Jewish folk are socialists. We take the Bible and the Talmud without a schmeer of left-wing politics.

Am I my brother's keeper? Yes, but only as a matter of personal choice, and certainly not because he's a slacker who demands that the state open my wallet on his behalf.

[Bigun]

Sorry, Steve: not all of us Jewish folk are socialists. We take the Bible and the Talmud without a schmeer of left-wing politics.

Am I my brother's keeper? Yes, but only as a matter of personal choice, and certainly not because he's a slacker who demands that the state open my wallet on his behalf.

  Right on Andy!

[jmyrlefuller]

Based on my understanding of the many writings about his life and actions, it doesn't appear that Jesus had much need for medical professionals or health insurance programs.

If Democrats ran Rome, they'd demand Jesus perform His miracles and tax him extra if He refused.

[mountaineer]

“We just came through Hanukkah and Christmas, and we ought to think a little bit about what Hanukkah and Christmas were about and what Moses and Jesus would be about,” said Cohen. “I think they would be about saving lives and about giving everybody an opportunity to live, not patient-centric health care, but people living and getting health care like every other civilized, industrialized country in the world provides for its people.”

What does Moses have to do with Hanukkah? This guy doesn't seem to know much about Judaism or Christianity.

[Scottftlc]

What does Moses have to do with Hanukkah? This guy doesn't seem to know much about Judaism or Christianity.

Worse yet for the guy...

“I think they would be about saving lives and about giving everybody an opportunity to live"

Umm, what would happen when Jesus mentioned the little children about to be born?

[Formerly Once-Ler]

If Democrats ran Rome, they'd demand Jesus perform His miracles and tax him extra if He refused.

Jesus spoke about PP he said "What you do unto the least of my brethren, you do unto me"  Moses spoke about Obamacare.  He said "Thou shall not steal."  and if Moses wrote Exodus he also wrote about Hitlery - "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."

[flowers]

Any other time this congressmen and the rest of them spit on religion. Only when they need to use it to help their agenda it is OK for them.