July 31, 2012 12:43 AM UTC

Scott Tipton Promises Everybody Everything

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• by: Colorado Pols

The Pueblo Chieftain’s Peter Roper reported yesterday on this weekend’s town hall with Rep. Scott Tipton–who seems to have trouble telling voters anything they don’t want to hear.

The Affordable Health Care Act of 2010 and unwanted federal regulations are crippling the U.S. economy – according to U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton – and one needed remedy is to make permanent the decade-old package of tax cuts that Congress approved during President George W. Bush’s administration…

Currently, Senate Democrats have approved a plan to extend those tax cuts except for people who earn more than $200,000 a year, or $250,000 as a couple. House Republicans have refused that and will be approving a full extension for all income categories next week. It’s a legislative deadlock that both sides apparently believe will appeal to their respective supporters.

Letting the Bush tax rates expire this year will amount to “the highest tax increase” in the nation’s history, according to Tipton.

What is different this year is that Tipton now supports features of the Democratic health care legislation, but has voted to repeal it several times. Specifically, he supports the new ban that blocks insurance companies from rejecting a person for coverage because of prior conditions.

He also supports the feature that lets parents keep adult children on their insurance until age 26.

But Republicans can do better in improving health care, he told the Pueblo audience. And they will repeal the new law’s central requirement that everyone be required to purchase some kind of insurance.

Once again, you’ve got to marvel at the contradictions that Tipton manages to string together here without blinking. Letting the Bush tax cuts expire would cause “the highest tax increase” in history, even though he and his House colleagues are happy to risk just that to preserve the tax cuts for income over $250,000 per year. Tipton wants to keep the popular parts of Obamacare, like the requirement to cover pre-existing conditions and insure children through age 26, but wants to repeal the individual mandate that would allow the system to function.

And remember, he’s going to do this with “no cuts, no privatization” of Medicare (never mind that Ryan budget), while managing to “cut the government in half” at the same time. “Unrealistic” doesn’t quite do Tipton’s campaign promises justice. More like “incoherent.”

Now, if Tipton promised unicorns and rainbows for all, we’d have to consider it.

Everyone has their price, folks.