I just canned another post on the passage of the health care bill, frankly, I was talking outside of my area of expertise. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, as far as this blogging thing goes, I'm in the business of pointing out the stupid, the inane, the retarded, and the moronic. Thanks to this great debate of the 21st century, business is boomin baby! I'm not real excited one way or the other over health care reform, for a number of reasons. I don't know what all is even in the bill, and whatever is in it now, may not be in it a week from now. The members of the house and senate are equally clueless. Obama doesn't even know what all is in this thing. So I'm gonna err on the side of Unicorns, Cotton Candy Clouds, love, peace and chicken grease. I'm going to assume that every man, woman, and child will soon be afforded the quality care that I enjoy by way of the Veterans Administration Hospital system, and we will all live in peace and harmony for 100 plus years. Of course I could be totally wrong, and this bill may be the worst piece of legislation to come down the pike in my lifetime. Either way, I doubt it's ever going to actually see fruition. States are already seeking to challenge the legality of the thing, elections will be won and lost over its passage, and you can bet your rectal thermometer, millions of angry white folks, who normally don't bother to vote, will make sure Bama is a one and done president. Right , wrong, or indifferent, the Obama administration, and the dems have pushed this thing through, using unprecedented methods for a bill of this scope. It feels less like change we can believe in, and more like bully partisanship, with a deaf ear turned toward the majority of voters.
What is undeniable in the ongoing debate and drama, ugliness, and the very worst in people has surfaced. A mob descended upon Capitol Hill. Angry middle class white folks, with a smattering of fringe, racist, lunatics, for good measure, probably did more to sway dems who were on the fence, than any pleas from their party members. No self respecting liberal wants to be seen as voting against fellow liberals and siding with groups who have members that act like a bunch of Bubbas. When the first redneck tossed out the first rebel yell of Nigger and Faggot, the battle was lost. Tea Party members can spout all of the outrage and denial they want. It doesn't matter who said it, it doesn't matter which one of them spit on Congressman Cleaver. All that matters is they were there as one voice, whatever legitimacy they hoped to achieve, was lost by one of their backwoods members, showing his inner ugliness. Consider that these rallies have drawn some real nut jobs out of the wood work. They have carried pistols and rifles to rallies, an unprecedented act prior to our first black president taking office. Consider the developments on Capitol Hill over the weekend. It's those incidents that now define the Teabaggers, like it or not. Much like the right sees Obama as the guy who was connected to Rev. Goddamn America Wright, anyone outside of the Tea Party movement will forever define them as the group of yelling ,near rabid protesters, who acted more like they were in 1950's Alabama, rather than the nations Capitol. Anyone who tells you a couple of bad apples don't spoil the whole bunch is full of shit. If I see a bad one atop the bushel, it's a pretty safe bet there are more in there somewhere.
Congress is currently enjoying a 17 percent approval rating, there are going to be lots of new faces come election time. Obamas approval ratings are dropping like a stone. The economy is in the tank. Jobs are being lost left and right. Now wasn't the time for defining a presidential legacy based on health care reform. We should have been focusing on Jobs and the Economy. I hate to say it, but not unlike George W Bush, the current president seems to have let his ego get the best of him. He pulled all his strings and favors to push this thing through, to define his place in history. Now he best hope he was right, or he will be writing books and planning his library in Chicago or Hawaii, after the next presidential election. As for me, when it all comes crashing down, when Armageddon or the Apocalypse takes place, I'll be in Amsterdam, eating a Royale with cheese, or something.
I love that people are screaming, tearing out hair, rending garments, throwing shoes at pictures, spitting on people... and the bill hasn't even passed yet. There are two houses of congress folks. Although I hope it does pass because the theatre of the absurd is just too good to pass up.
ReplyDeleteI'm all for it. Some of my Facebook friends are in a tizzy because, they claim, "The American people didn't want this!!!" but in fact the American people, by a majority, voted for Obama on the strength of the campaign promise to reform health care. I've watched and read analysis all day and can't find one single thing I object to, other than the fact that it doesn't go far enough, that concessions were made to the very party who let the situation get this bad in the first place.
ReplyDeleteOh! Congrats on the book deal!!! I can't wait. I'll sell it on my site(s)!
In every election, there is one issue that deserves top priority. Jobs and the economy were the key issues last election. For some reason, our prez doesnt see it that way, and yes, he is a one-termer. FDR knew what the main reason for the troubles of his day were, and he addressed them.
ReplyDeleteThats why he was elected over and over.
Dear MM: Good Posting!! As for the bargaining in the past few days, we have a saying in politics: legislation is like sausages, the more you know what goes into it, the less appealing it appears!! Lots of people in the House bought off in recent days--once again, to no one's surprise, people show that they can be bought for enough money!! The longer I am involved in politics, the more people I see betray friends for money and "set up" innocent individuals for money--as the Good Book says: "A love of money is the root of all evil." Sincerely and Respectfully, Ernest Evans
ReplyDeleteFDR addressed the Depression by getting into two world wars -- his economic policies were ineffective and unemployment was just as high at the beginning of WWII as it was at the beginning of his term.
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