Crazier than a shithouse rat

Here's a handy list of possible GOP healthcare reforms:

• Repeating the phrase “you can keep your current doctor” over and over until something happens
• Loosening regulations to allow Americans to ship ill and injured family members to cheaper doctors overseas
• Whatever the opposite of tyranny is
• Allowing sick Americans to choose how they exhaust their life savings on a single medical bill, even if it’s out of plan
• A true market-based solution—perhaps a convenient website—where uninsured people would pay for their own health insurance from private providers
• $2,500 cash incentive to the first person who cures cancer
• A health care law that won’t allow the disgrace of another Benghazi
• Unsettling language and several ominous-looking graphs labeled “Obamacare” followed by a breezy smile and soothing, unspecific words

Keeping in mind that while I'm not in a league with say a Rachel Maddow or a Chris Hayes in how much time I spend studying politics, I'm not exactly a novice, either.  I spend a good 30-40 hours a week reading about politics, if not more.  So when I saw the above, especially the part about the $2500 cash incentive for finding a cure for cancer, I thought, "Can you believe how fucking stupid these republicans are?  $2500?  Shit, that's worth millions!"

Ahem.  Turns out as I read farther in Digby's post these reforms were actually from The Onion.

Though it does say an awful lot about the current state of the g.o.p. that I thought these "reforms" were the real deal.

Peace,
emaycee