Obey Lies to Seniors

From the Chetek Alert

Claim:
"Obey said he originally introduced a bill that was directly tied to Medicare. "But the White House cut us off at the pass with their own bill," Obey claimed."

Truth:
Obey did not introduce his own Medicare prescription drug bill. He co-sponsored someone else's bill.

Claim:
"The congressman explained that the Part D bill passed for two reasons. Initially the bill failed, but the Congressional voting machine was kept open for 15 minutes longer, and another vote was taken. Part D failed again. The scenario repeated itself, and the bill failed one more time. After three hours of re-votes, the bill finally passed."

Truth:
While the vote on the Medicare bill was held open, the bill did not fail over and over again on a series of votes.

You may be saying to yourself these are just "little white lies" or "miscommunications" so you guys at Obey Out are nitpicking a little.

Well how about this then -

"Obey opened by highlighting some of the confusion the bill has caused. "Surveys have shown that two weeks before the sign-up deadline, 50 percent of citizens didn't even know the deadline was coming," Obey mentioned."

According to the article, Dave Obey held this meeting on June 2nd a the Rice Lake Senior Citizens Center. The deadline Dave Obey referred to was May 15th, 18 days earlier.

The question we ask is, what did Dave Obey do to help seniors sign up for the plan before the deadline to avoid the penalty? If he was so concerned about 50% of seniors not knowing the deadline was coming, why didn't he try to give them a helping hand? I mean, we all received his two recent postal patron mailings recently, right. One announcing his after the deadline talks on the issue and one where he bragged about holding these meeting two plus weeks after the deadline had passed.

That leads to the next logical question, why didn't Dave Obey use some of his office budget he wasted on advertising after the fact meetings on the prescription drug plan to help seniors sign up before the deadline?

The only logical answer we can come up with is that he wanted to suppress the number of seniors who signed up for the new prescription drug plan so he could go around to seniors centers and complain about how lousy the plan was and that it was all Republicans' and big drug companies' faults. The more seniors who hadn't signed up, the more he could rile up.

It's sad really, but what do we expect, it's how he's played politics here for 37 years.