It’s nice to know that Democrats have passion too..not the “Baby Killer” type..but passion nonetheless
Be honest: It is a pretty big fucking deal!
Category: Health Care
I awoke this morning, from a nightmare. In which I STILL had no healthcare, and conservatives and tea party members alike, often interchangeable in this political climate, were loudly celebrating across the streets and airwaves in America. Happy about the fact that, should I get sick..again, I would have to succumb to the last resort of many, the emergency room, and add yet another bill to my growing mountain of health, credit, and student loan debt that seems to have become the customary burden of millions of other Americans. Yes, solidarity. For I am not alone.
In this dream,there were calls of impeachment and resignation from President Obama,and upon the lips of every pundit, was the opinion that “America had spoken.” Forgotten, was the “start over” rhetoric. There would be no starting over. No rebuilding of a health care bill. The GOP regained the Senate that November,and everything returned to the status quo. Our guns and right to one God were still firmly intact.
For you see, this has ALWAYS been about more than healthcare. This is a clash of wills and ideologies. As we witnessed yesterday, when 2 African-American and 1 openly gay members of Congress were assailed with cries of “Faggot” and “Nigger,” by tea partiers before entering a speech given by the President, its never been JUST about health care.
As one of the members, a long time Civil’s Rights activist later said, “it brought him back to the 60s when he was still fighting to get off the back of the bus.”
The ushering in of our nation’s first Black President, did not open the door to a empowered, post racial America. Instead, we have seen that it has brought out the worst in many. Fear mongering and a gross misrepresentation of facts has labeled him as a commie/fascist, [though no one seems to be able to tell you the definition of either term, and the fact that the two have no correlation seems to matter not] illegal alien, [yes let's not forget that they don't believe he is an American either] who somehow usurped the Presidency of the United States.
His agenda has been attacked by all sides. He has been been cast as a modern day Hitler, the bringer of ill omens and economic disaster. The fact that the last administration straddled us with an unprecedented debt means nothing, all of our problems began the day that Obama took office. Oh yes, “LOGIC BE DAMNED! He’s going to take our guns! [How will we shoot up schools?] And he’s gonna let them darn gays shoot too! What’s next? Monkeys gettin hitched too?”
Yes. It has always been about more than the fight for health care. The millions who lack it, have been denied it, or are barely holding on to it be damned. the cries of these Americans has fallen on deaf ears, to those who resoundly oppose it. After all, it is hard to emphasize with those whom situations you have never been in. Yet they know best for us! Leave it to the corporations! Yes! Thank you GOP America! You know what is best for us.
It has always been about more than the fight for healthcare.
Our nation has always been reluctant for change. Many are quick to denounce the role of government in our lives, yet conveniently ignore the fact that our nation has often needed “Big Brother” in order to do the right thing. Who do you think ended slavery, ended interracial marriage bans, and integrated our school systems? That’s right, Big Brother. Yes, because Americans have repeatedly shown that in times of change, many simply cannot be trusted to do the right thing by ALL Americans.
Yes, this has always been about more than health care.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Rush Limbaugh is in the news again.
Due to the nature of our country’s legislation, every American citizen has been equipped with the liberty that is free speech, however with this right comes a responsibility. My problem with pundits, be it liberal or conservative, is when they sidestep facts, instead espousing nonsense and self-righteous indignation that they then attempt to pass off to the public as “opinions.”
Any journalist worth their grain of salt can tell you, an opinion must be mired in fact; or else you run the risk of it being…yes you guessed it! A lie!
Cable news has made access to these falsehoods even more prevalent; and the public has readily consumed the opinions of various pundits on both sides of the political tracks, without thought or reason as to whether or not these opinions…have any truth to them at all.
Case in point. Limbaugh has once again made headlines for his assertion that, should the health care bill pass; he would pick up and move to Costa Rica. An opinion that he is well entitled to hold. However…Costa Rica has universal health care. So is it just me that sees the irony in that proclamation? Or perhaps I’m daft and the point that he was trying to make simply went over my head.
The greatest danger in this arises when figures build their public platforms on these opinions, these entities that have no merit or truth to them which thus makes them falsehoods.
Rush proudly proclaimed that he would move to Costa Rica should the health care reform legislation truly come to fruition. I hope the irony of that fact that Costa Rica has a universal health care system; one of the best in Latin American…got a chuckle from more than I.
Not to be outdone, Sarah Palin made news last week, for her admission that as a child her family received care in Canada, whose system she now finds so utterly deplorable.
We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada,” said Palin. “And I think now, isn’t that ironic?”
Not ironic, more like hypocritical. It seems that it is always “Opposite Day” in GOP land!
While many have been quick to point out, and rightly so, that as a child Ms. Palin had no control over where she received health care; it should also be pointed out that her parents did. So one can only assume that as adults they were quite aware of the differences between the American and Canadian health system when they took their children there. However, judging by their daughter one is often reminded that “common sense is not common.”
Indeed it is not.
Senator Durbin issue’s a challenge to Republicans:
If you think it’s a socialist plot… drop out of the federal employees health program.”
