Health care reform part I: An Armey of opposition

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Nov. 13, 2009

It’s no mystery that conservatives have been galvanized against President Obama’s efforts to reform the national health care policy, but the man behind much of the outrage and anger is himself an old soldier of D.C.’s wars. Dick Armey’s Freedom Works was the main organizer of anti-Obama “tea parties” earlier this year and has recently turned its muscle against the Democrat-driven health care reform plan. We hear from the man himself and whether his target is President Obama himself, health care reform or the entire liberal agenda.

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Guest:

Dick Armey, former House Majority Leader (representing Texas’s 26th District); Chairman of FreedomWorks

michael from Orange
4 months ago

How old is this guy ? He sounds like a senile old typical conservative Republican who are out to destroy the the needs and feelings of the majority US citizens under the guise of liberty and a small loud mouth minority. Same old bull. Selfish old person who should be kept out to pasture. Put him out of his misary and pull the plug like they keep saying the Democrats were going to do to grandma.

linda
4 months ago

It's always good to hear people answer well-yes-because (to having a Medicare card)! That is what teenagers do when they try and rationalize their bad behavior. The man wants no public health care but uses it as a true hypocrite! Former is the best part of his title.

Richard
4 months ago

Dick Armey is a an American who like many of us, should say MOST of us, cares about the Republic and isn't for handouts, the biggest of which in this bill is not for us, the man on the street, but literally trillions for the psycho-pharma industrial complex. I invite you to read the bill. It's not written for you and me.

Helen
4 months ago

I hope he never comes back. What a bunch of despicable hot air. He needs Rachel Maddow to light into him again.

pat
4 months ago

Wow. It's good to see Dick's "Politics is 97% fiction and 3% imagination" mantra is still in full effect. What a ridiculous and completely unbalanced interview. Hey NPR, why not just buy Mr. Army billboard space upon which he can spin more of his outright fabrications? Perhaps next time hire a basic fact checker to challenge some of his bs. Maybe include language from the ACTUAL BILL being debated?

db
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Wow--I'm impressed you could get any follow-up questions in at all--this man just talked and talked while hardly ever saying anything. His rationale for being against gay marriage (which he is) was absolute hypocrisy--the govt is imposing on gay people by not allowing them the same rights everyone has--no one will be forced to marry someone of the same sex.

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