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GOP Ignores Country's Needs (Again), For Mealtickets
posted Saturday, 15 August 2009
The GOP won't condemn the hatefulness. After all, the hatefulness was their idea.
The recently-Republican Senator Spectre says that the GOP made a decision in January, before the inaugeration, never to help Obama do anything -- especially in regard to healthcare reform -- in hopes that he would crash and burn. If Spectre's word is good, and I think it is, this means that the Republicans have been consciously playing stalling and blocking games, through the health care hearings. This also jibes with my own observations of the House hearings, on CSPAN; where the Republicans proposed fifty (no, not quite) ways to kill the "public option" dead, dead, dead; all girded up as Amendments to the Bill.
Cancel the public option.
Don't fund the public option.
Require the public option to destroy itself, if anyone steals money from it.
Deny the public option the ability to undercut private plan rates.
Etc. All voted down, one after lengthy one. The toil of the ages creeping by at light speed. "The measure is not adopted."
And all this time, the Republicans have been trying to kill, not only the Health Plan, but Obama as a President. They don't care about healthcare problems in this country. They're all well-insured themselves, and working for the insurance companies' agenda certainly pays well enough. I don't see them obsessing much about the crazies harping away at their foes, now.
Trouble is, their plan's not going to work. Trouble is, there was little enough plan to start with (I'd bet some money) besides giving Obama enough rope to hang himself, and supplying the FOX and Clearchannel arenas for the event. They've got Limbaugh and O'Rielly and Beck, don't they? Just let those outraged voices roll on about socialism for a while, and some of their badly misinformed and misled viewers will walk themselves onto the bus (thanks for driving, API! ) "to take their country back."
The crazies are a godsend, to the GOP.
The recently-Republican Senator Spectre says that the GOP made a decision in January, before the inaugeration, never to help Obama do anything -- especially in regard to healthcare reform -- in hopes that he would crash and burn. If Spectre's word is good, and I think it is, this means that the Republicans have been consciously playing stalling and blocking games, through the health care hearings. This also jibes with my own observations of the House hearings, on CSPAN; where the Republicans proposed fifty (no, not quite) ways to kill the "public option" dead, dead, dead; all girded up as Amendments to the Bill.
Cancel the public option.
Don't fund the public option.
Require the public option to destroy itself, if anyone steals money from it.
Deny the public option the ability to undercut private plan rates.
Etc. All voted down, one after lengthy one. The toil of the ages creeping by at light speed. "The measure is not adopted."
And all this time, the Republicans have been trying to kill, not only the Health Plan, but Obama as a President. They don't care about healthcare problems in this country. They're all well-insured themselves, and working for the insurance companies' agenda certainly pays well enough. I don't see them obsessing much about the crazies harping away at their foes, now.
Trouble is, their plan's not going to work. Trouble is, there was little enough plan to start with (I'd bet some money) besides giving Obama enough rope to hang himself, and supplying the FOX and Clearchannel arenas for the event. They've got Limbaugh and O'Rielly and Beck, don't they? Just let those outraged voices roll on about socialism for a while, and some of their badly misinformed and misled viewers will walk themselves onto the bus (thanks for driving, API! ) "to take their country back."
The crazies are a godsend, to the GOP.
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