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Posted: Dec 6, 2013

(Complete with video at site.) This man is a

Georgia Republican Who Made 'Callous' Pre-Existing Condition Remark Has One Of His Own

The Huffington Post | By Ashley Alman Posted: 12/06/2013 12:13 am EST | Updated: 12/06/2013 9:30 am

A day after Georgia's Republican insurance commissioner Ralph Hudgens was criticized for "out-of-touch" remarks on pre-existing medical conditions, spokesman Glenn Allen revealed that Hudgens has a pre-existing condition of his own.

Allen told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Thursday that Hudgens has gone in for regular checkups following surgery for prostate cancer more than a decade ago.

“He fully understands why it’s not somebody’s fault (he or she) has a pre-existing condition, because he has one,” Allen said.

Hudgens was forced to swallow his words Wednesday after the Georgia Democratic Party circulated footage of him comparing pre-existing conditions to at-fault car wrecks. Making the case against Obamacare's requirement that insurers accept those with pre-existing conditions, Hudgens suggested that such conditions were the fault of those who have them, in the way a car accident is the driver's fault.

"Say you’re going along and you have a wreck. And it’s your fault. Well, a pre-existing condition would be then you calling up your insurance agent and saying, ‘I would like to get collision insurance coverage on my car,'" Hudgens explained.

State Democrats accused Hudgens of being out of touch. After the criticism, Hudgens admitted to the Atlanta Constitution-Journal that he'd made a "really poor analogy."

“I’ve had family members, I’ve had friends … who have pre-existing conditions,” he told the paper. “It’s not the person’s fault they have a pre-existing condition.”

Still, Hudgens is a staunch opponent of the Affordable Care Act. In August, he told a group of Republicans that he was doing "everything in [his] power to be an obstructionist.”

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I know I'm proud. - TP Republican.

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nm

Me, too - Proud of my party

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I love my GOP!

It's easier to be a liberal/progressive than it is to - be conservative. For instance,

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a liberal/progressive politician can say, "we need to take care of the poor." Who would deny that? So will emotions running high, people support whatever policy they propose without thinking of the consequences.

Look what welfare has done to the family.

Mothers against drunk driving. Well, who is for drunk driving? Some of these groups just make you feel good about yourself, like you care more than others because you support these groups.

Well, then, if you two are proud obstructionists, you're - Libby

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part of the problem, not part of the solution.

Pardone'moi? Harry Reid is the obstructionist, - not us. Pesky facts again? (sm)

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Never let them get in the way or your alternate reality. :))

Exactly correct! Thank you for bringing some - sense back to the board (nm)

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nm

My post wasn't about Harry Reid. It's about - Libby

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another person who seems very proud to be an obstructionist.

Why not bother to listen to this moron's video, the subject of my post, rather than to deflect the issue?

That is the problem - sense back to the board

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People on this board are not obstructionist. We are not politicians. Ralph Hudgens does not represent all republicans like you make it out to be. He doesn't represent all republicans just like many moron democrats don't represent all democrats.

Harry Reid, however, is an obstructionist (and a moron). That is who the person that I replied to mentioned and since I was replying to her message and not yours that is why I wrote what I did. She was indeed exactly correct.

Constitutionally, the only role a government should play - is to protect individual rights

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and defend our country against foreign and domestic threats. We are so beyond that now, we live in a post Constitutional world.

It was a nice experiment to see if man can govern him/herself. States rights versus centralized government. Looks like the latter won. It never ends well.

These are dangerous times we live in, with Iran - MT57

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close to a nuclear weapon within 6 months. It's important to listen to people who understand how the world really works.

History shows that just because someone has an Ivy League college degree or is a politician doesn't mean they understand this. Look at Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill. The media of the time made fun of Churchil, and so did FDR. But he was right.

It's important to remember principles over politics, - which is sometimes hard to do

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with 24/7 news coverage.

We need to remember how this country was founded and stay true to those principles, not to a political party.

It's also important to try to stay objective, truth over - narrative, staying objective

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with all the news thrown at us only a daily basis, all the drama.

For instance, I respect Nelson Mandela and I know he was in prison for 27 years, but I asked myself why was he in prison? So I looked it up and you can too if you wish.

I learned to keep asking why from my grandchild.

And I think that Israel should get rid of all their - Libby

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nukes also.

When is the last time that Iran attacked another country?

When is the last time that Israel attacked another country?

Iran is the #1 terrorist sponsoring nation in the - world. Your post is very

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telling and proves we don't learn from history.

It is startling to watch the fall of America and it's support of Israel, and very few will face the reality of it.

Hypocrisy - Fail to complain about democrat obstruction during Bush Admin - but complaint about Rep Ob. now

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You don't even want to go there on talks about democrat obstructionism. The hypocrisy is so obvious.

"Obama didn’t complain about this kind of behavior when the Democrats were the minority during the Bush administration. Why didn’t he bring up the blocking of legislation by Democrats on The Patriot Bill? Bush’s energy bill? The border security bill? Parental notification bill? Class-action lawsuit reform?"

http://floppingaces.net/2010/02/19/the-obama-hypocrisy-fail-to-complain-about-democrat-obstruction-during-bush-admin-but-complain-about-repub-obstruction-now/

It all boils down to individual responsibility vs - centralized govt. The

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defenders of Obama will always defend whatever his administration does even though they were againt it when Bush or any republican was in power.

I'm always amazed how TP/GOP supporters always - Libby

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completely take the facts and twist them completely around, just like a mirror image.

Take a look in thine own mirror. - Not twisted here.

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No, that would be the libs/coms, reading all their posts here - The Sarge - sm

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The facts are out there. Facts are facts no matter how much you don't like them. They don't change, they just are. You can choose to believe facts or not, but evidence doesn't lie.

The only people who twist things around are the liberals. People post facts here regarding many issues, but yet the liberal posters have a way of twisting them completely around, to a point where they are obvious lies (OC is a big example). Liberal posters will give every excuse they can think of and then when they aren't winning they turn around and will bring Bush's name into the conversation (when he has nothing to do with it). It's a very common tactic used by the liberal propaganda stations. Take the facts, twist them into something they are not, then proclaim that the republicans are twisting the facts, then scream Bush. But facts are facts and no matter how much you don't like them and how much the liberals try and twist them into something they are not, does not change that they are simply facts.

Another fact that is true is that liberals will not discuss the obstructionism on their part. Every time I turn around there is obstructionism on the part of the democrat politicians. But liberals will never talk about that. They only talk about republicans obstructing as if its only republicans that do it.

I'm interested. Can you provide a link supporting - Libby

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democratic obstruction or provide an example, because I'd like to know.

And if so, I'm just as fed up with Democratic obstruction, as well.

Thanks in advance.

Every time House repubs pass a bill, Harry won't bring it up for vote. (sm) - nm

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It can't even be discussed in Senate. How is that anything BUT obstructionist.? Google is your friend. Try it.

In other words, you have no examples. - Libby

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No surprises here.

I totally agree, and then post provocative statements - as if it was a conservative

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doing the posting that makes it sound bigoted.

Another thing, I never agreed with 100% of the things any Republican president did, actually going all the way back to Nixon. I didn't agree with the Patriot Act, prescription drugs for Medicare, bail outs, etc. and was very focal about it.

facts are facts - points of view are not facts

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I detect no one screaming or proclaiming. lol

And all those bills you list - are bad bills

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Unfortunately, the Democrats were not half as successful at obstruction as the Republicans, since it appears most of them passed!

The bills the Republicans are blocking are, well, let's see: All of them. Just any bill for anything, any nomination for anyone, most especially those bills that would pass (immigration for example) but the tea party does not want passed, so let's try that other lovely trick up the sleeve, cloture. Boehner will not even bring it to a vote, thereby effectively one man is obstructing the passage of laws most Americans want but the laws even his own party would vote yes on, but maybe he would then lose his job, which is obviously more important than any other job in the world.

Boehner keeps talking about "The American People want..." There is actual proof the MAJORITY of American people want gun control, a higher minimum wage, immigration reform, infrastructure repair and rebuilding. So how come he is not hearing those American people (the majority)?

My guess when he talks about The American People he means a small percentage of Republican tea party voters who don't want any of those things and so they are holding sway over the entire country. This particularly lethal brand of obstructionism means this country has ceased to be a representative democracy.

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