Anything that makes John Boener scream like the melting Wicked Witch is something I know instinctively must be a good thing. Yes, it's very trendy to say "it's not perfect," and "it's not everything we wanted," but the passage of the health care bill in the House yesterday is a bold step forward in the right direction and has provisions with real teeth and genuine progress. Just as importantly, it's a crushing defeat to those who continue to lie, bully, patronize and insult the people they claim to represent.
Bipartisanship can kiss my ass. Seducing, pleasing and appeasing the current Republican Party is as interesting to me as lopping off an arm. These people have allowed themselves to be taken over by extremists, imbeciles, racists, fear-mongers and ignorant thugs. They choose circus politics over good policy, the popularity of the mediocre and incompetent over responsibility, intelligence and common sense. The Republican political bible begins with the god Karl Rove, exalts cartoon prophets like George W. Bush, Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin, and demands its disciples receive communion from lunatic priests Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. The Right laughably and transparently throws around euphemistic bumper-sticker words like "small government" and "socialism" to thinly disguise their real agenda to relieve your conscience of any inconvenient feelings of responsibility toward your fellow humans.
I'm sure there are real arguments to be made from genuine conservatives but this crowd is not making them. I have friends and family members who talk passionately and intelligently about their conservative point of view, and sometimes I even agree with them, but this party, right now, at this moment, isn't interested in intelligent debate. Watch any five minutes of Fox News and you'll smell the familiar and sickening whiff of indifference, intolerance and naked cruelty.
Now take a look at the victors in yesterday's vote. What is their agenda? To provide health care to the people who don't have it, to prevent loss of coverage when you lose your job, to prevent the denial of coverage for preexisting conditions, to prevent your children from being denied coverage. Monsters, right? Un-American beasts! I'm sure you can understand why so-called protesters spewed racial, anti-Semitic and homophobic epithets at United States Congressmen on their way to vote for such "Nazi" legislation (yeah, the Nazis were really big on health care). These people aren't activists, they're a mob.
Make no mistake, this isn't an argument between thoughtful people with opposing viewpoints. This is a fight between good and evil. Good won yesterday. But as in any epic story, the villain doesn't go down easily and these particular villains continue to be formidable. But today the heroes have a right to stand tall and proud.
P.S. - These pieces say it all:
David Frum's "Waterloo"
Bob Herbert's "An Absence of Class"
Paul Krugman's "Fear Strikes out"
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The fact that you refuse to view this issue any other way only illustrate
We have liberal, moderate, and conservati
Hence the watered-do
A trillion dollars in new spending is not a conservati
Neither is requiring by law that private citizens by a service, nor requiring by law that insurance carriers have to take them.
What you mean to say is that the only reason Republican
In truth, the only way to keep his real campaign promise on health care is to follow up on what he told the unions, Kucinich and the House libs, etc: that this is only the beginning and more legislatio
You are aware, I hope, that I am neither an elected official or registered with any party in my state.
All I said was that people want to do the right thing the right way, and there is nothing evil about that. It's myopic to simplify a debate of this magnitude to such a petty degree. In response, you shoot off your mouth about "you people" and call me racist. Classy.
Exactly.
Ok...expla
How were they expecting to get their good ideas implemente
I admire President Obama for his reaching out to Republican
What took 14 months to do could have been done in perhaps 7 months if he hadn't done all this dancing around with Republican
Well, President Obama is a gentleman. But next time, don't dance with the ugly wallflower because you feel sorry for her, dance with the person who brung ya!
You can't have it both ways, although Obama tried to do that when walking away from that "summit" saying there were good ideas that would be worked in, and then doubled-do
Were they? I don't know. I haven't read the entire bill. Have you?
Do you care or are you just mouthing Republican talking points?
Two words: Republican filibuster
And while I am asking questions that won't be answered (while someone is too busy celebratin
I think I'm going to put that on a bumper sticker.
Health care reform may be complex, but Republican
That's exactly what it is.
The majority has spoken.
Co-sign, and the Republican
The question remains, do we remain a free people, or do we bow to the rulers in DC?
"So this is how liberty dies...wit
Those millions, incidently
It is no different to have a Government or HMO beaurocrat funnel the money to the doctor. Medicare even denied a higher percentage of claims in the last few years than HMO's. And if the only problem you have is that the CEO's took some money, look at what your politician
So much debate, for so little change.
Two of the provisions that were pushed by members of BOTH parties include, Anti-Trust Exemption repeal and across state lines competitio
To be so blindly partisan as many people have allowed themselves to because is the reason why we have such hate in our politics and no civil discourse. If you think our Politician