The Rage Is Not About Health Care
The New York Times- Opinion
But the laughs evaporated soon enough. There’s nothing entertaining about watching goons hurl venomous slurs at congressmen like the civil rights hero John Lewis and the openly gay Barney Frank. And as the week dragged on, and reports of death threats and vandalism stretched from Arizona to Kansas to upstate New York, the F.B.I. and the local police had to get into the act to protect members of Congress and their families.
How curious that a mob fond of likening President Obama to Hitler knows so little about history that it doesn’t recognize its own small-scale mimicry of Kristallnacht. The weapon of choice for vigilante violence at Congressional offices has been a brick hurled through a window. So far.
No less curious is how disproportionate this red-hot anger is to its proximate cause. The historic Obama-Pelosi health care victory is a big deal, all right, so much so it doesn’t need Joe Biden’s adjective to hype it. But the bill does not erect a huge New Deal-Great Society-style government program. In lieu of a public option, it delivers 32 million newly insured Americans to private insurers. As no less a conservative authority than The Wall Street Journal editorial page observed last week, the bill’s prototype is the health care legislation Mitt Romney signed into law in Massachusetts. It contains what used to be considered Republican ideas.
That’s exactly correct!
Our school children will repeat VP Joe Biden’s comment forever; “big f—ing deal”. The TEA protestors were just needing a pretense to demonstrate their frustration with the pervasive amount of money needed to placate narcissistic self serving pompous elitist career politicians.
Yes, the deal making and lobbyists that wrote the bill for our incompetent legilators did seem politically incorrect. However, commercial media is blind to the evil done by the hands that feed them.
So, a minor detail in praise of FDR starting Social Security in 1935. The congress has seen fit to use the 2.5 trillion in surplus deposits for earmarks and nonsense. And today they solemnly announce in surprise that the program is underfunded today. Lots of luck in finding how our current leadership will keep the additional healthcare funds from being spent before needed in program benefits.
In other words, the foxes are guarding the chicken coop. So TEA protests will seem mild when the average citizen discovers an IOU paper for their Social Security promised by FDR in 1935.
hoboduke:
Your fear tactics don’t work around here- we are all intelligent enough to know what your real message is. It’s bullshit!
Adios!
Love conquers hate, and courage of conviction is stronger than fear of challenge. Good luck, you will need it.
Be careful don’t let those teabags smack you in the rear-end on your way out.. don’t ya think tea bags hanging from your hat is a little silly?
They don’t call me “Q” for nothin’..
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Hey Ho, why don’t you go with your teabagger friends and hide where you feel right at home…under the Pope’s dress…with all the other Pedophiles he is hiding under there.
You are so deluded that you and your ilk believe in Gods, Ghosts and Guns…how Christian of you warmongers…
WOW! Pedophiles are a sacred cow of the liberal intelligentsia, and there are specific entitilements in the new healthcare bill with funding for pedophiles. Actually most sex crimes are merely a reflection on the flaws of TEA morality as reported by the commercial media. Why are you guys so worried about God? He’s not there, he doesn’t exist but there is endless lawsuits and complaints about an invisible non esitent fiction? Why not complain about Moby Dick? What a minute, whales are sacred to be worshiped and so are Polars Bears that enjoy eating people.