Dem Senator: I'm Embarrassed to Go to Europe Because Some Americans Lack Health Insurance

The Weekly Standard ^ | August 17, 2013 | Daniel Halper

[2ndDivisionVet]

Democratic senator Mary Landrieu says she's embarrassed to go to places in Europe like France and Spain because some Americans do not have health insurance. Landrieu, who is up for reelection in 2014, represents the state of Louisiana.

“People are scared when they’re sick, and they’re much stronger when they’re well,” Landrieu said at a Friday lunch, according to the American Press. “It’s embarrassing to me to go to places like France and Spain ... and their workers all manage to have health insurance that can’t be taken away.”

The report adds:

Landrieu said Louisiana has “more working people that are poor” than any other state. Of the 2 million people who file taxes in the state, she said, 70 percent have incomes lower than $50,000 a year. She said another 12 percent have an- nual incomes between $50,000 and $75,000.

“When people ask me what kind of health care people need, I think they need something they can afford,” Landrieu said.

Landrieu has doubled down on her support for Obamacare.

Republican governor Bobby Jindal, also of Louisiana is already blasting Landrieu for her comments. On Twitter, Jindal writes:

Gov. Bobby Jindal ✔ @BobbyJindal

Whoa! @marylandrieu agrees with Obama. She's "embarrassed" that America doesn't have socialized medicine like Europe! http://tinyurl.com/n6yohgh

1:20 PM - 17 Aug 2013

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[Mortrey]

Thank you for posting this photo—the first time I saw it, my skin crawled-—THIS is what we have to look forward to.

[TLI]

Yes Mary, and well you should be because you know, nobody here in the u.S. has any health insurance.

No sir, we did not even know what it was until the mighty French invented it, with the help of Spain, just about the time obammy got elected and told all us hick Americans what insurance was.

Yep, you should be SO embarrassed you should go home, sell everything you have and use all of your money to buy insurance policies for the homeless just to prove how horrid and backward the mean-sprinted Republicans really are.

Why, you could even tell any passing drunk all about the time two times you personally witnessed a gang of Republicans dressed in business suits throwing cat food at a 82 year old grandmother (in a wheelchair) and threatening to put her in a van and drive over to a cliff just outside of town and push her right off that cliff!

And, and, and... you saw some of those TEA Party people spitting on little black children!!

The stupid that rolls off a typical lib is beyond comprehension.

[ogen hal]

sen landreiu is such a pin-headed nitwit that I believe she should be embarassed to go out in public anywhere. Please, Louisiana voters, elect someone less ignorant and corrupt than this clown senator.

[vette6387]

“Yeah well they’re probably embarrassed that you are even in their countries. How can they possibly explain the presence of such a dumb ass to their children? “

They are embarassed? I am embarraed that she went! .She is the personnification of “the stupid American!”

[vette6387]

“Yeah well they’re probably embarrassed that you are even in their countries. How can they possibly explain the presence of such a dumb ass to their children? “

They are embarassed? I am embarraed that she went! .She is the personnification of “the stupid American!”

[G Larry]

That’s OK Senator, you are a walking embarrassment for America, so don’t worry about what people in Europe think.

[tallyhoe]

So resign Senator and go back to Louisiana!!!

[Southern by Grace]

To quote SNL Headline News and Chevy “Mary you ignorant slut”

You tried to sell Louisiana cheap with the La purchase ACA then you still voted for it after the bribe was taken out.

About the only thing you have done was to get a little better share of off shore oil and gas money. I bet that really cost us. I wonder what the Mary share was?

You whole family has made a very fine living off the backs of working people since “moon” was around.

In other words Mary mary you are a blood sucking parasite on the working man and woman of louisiana and the nation.

Time for you to be put out to pasture were you and your grifter family can really rake it in. I know your drug of choice is power but enough is enough.

I think the people of Louisiana have had enough of your family. Who by the way are no different than the outlaw Jefferson clan or the Markie mark Moreal thieves. You just haven’t been caught. Oh one other thing your boy Vitter isn’t much better and neither is wonder boy Pyush Jindal.

Lets not forget all those oil and gas leases the Noe and Long families still live high on the hog after all these years. You know stealing from all us “working” poor you worry about!

You are all grifters. NWO whores one and all!

I’m embarrassed to know Louisiana still elects you Senator.

Then again the 17th amendment never passed so you really aren’t a “senator”.

F all 100 of the pretenders!

[ronnie raygun]

So she’s feeling guilty about squandering American taxpayer money on lavish trips to socialist countries? What a gal!

[monocle]

No one has ever believed that she was in the same league as Einstein, Feynman, Friedman or von Hayek.

[SECURE AMERICA]

You can’t fix stupid..........

[The Wizard]

than stay the F home asshole

[bgill]

I’m embarrassed to eat oranges in China because Italians wear shoes. Makes about as much sense.

[Amagi]

Imagine how embarrassed the sentient citizens of Louisiana are to be represented by an overweight ignoramus.

[hattend]

So Mary, Here’s a solution.

DON’T GO TO EUROPE! Especially if you’re doing it on the taxpayers dime.

Stupid B.

[SunkenCiv]

Did she shop for any handbags in Switzerland while she was in Europe?

Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.