Start over! Government Take Over! Throw out this Bill! The people reject
it! The added debt will destroy America.
Over and over by each and every one of them. So obviously
scripted and in the face of The President who specifically asked these 7
hours not be about political talking points.
But as we have seen since the election, that’s about all the Republicans have. Slogans for the GOP primary voters, aka the Republican Base, aka the Palineese, aka the Beckians, aka the Tea Baggers, aka the Ron Paul Ayn Randians, aka stupid white people.
The polls show the people are in favor of health care reform, in favor of the Public Option, in favor of the Medicare Buy In. The polls against the plan are equally divided between those who say it goes too far and those who say it doesn’t go far enough. The GOP slogans are not only remedial for remedial Americans, they are also lies told by liars. Notice I did not use the far more apropos "RETARDED!"
It is indeed ideological, the GOP is in lock step to put profit above not only our health but life itself. And not surprisingly, they are alone in the world in that. Wellpoint’s bottom line transcends even the lives of children. And they are the Party of Jesus no less. Wowzer!
Do we want health decisions made by Wellpoint who brag that their only concern is bottom line profit? Or do we want such decisions run by consensus of what the majority of Americans decide think best for Americans. There is the ideological line. What would Jesus do! Oops, I think we have to change that to WWARD… What Would Ayn Rand Do?
The high point of the day was when the President hit the Republicans on the $40,000 a year income family. The GOP is incapable of imagining that. Imagine there’s no Republicans, its easy if you try…
The problem with health care now is that there is a mandate with no public option. We will be forced to pay Wellpoint for crap.
But there is a light at the end of the tunnel! History is clear how Republicans stormed against Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, Workman’s comp. But once the door opened, the American people profoundly and universally accepted these government programs within just a few years.
This was shown again recently in the PBS Documentary Sick Around the World in which the Swiss – more like our capitalist system than any other – by some fluke passed a public option in 2005 by ONE VOTE with the accompanying sky is falling screeching and carrying on. Now 5 years later it is hard to find any Swiss citizen who is not for it and happy with it.
This why reconciliation is a must – majority rule democracy – to get that foot in the door, for once it opens it can never be closes. You can ask Margaret Thatcher about that!