Day: September 30, 2009

Die—–Die Quickly!

Tit for tat…..I was wondering when a Dem would be stupid and say something that the Repubs would seize on and demand an apology….well, I did not have to wait long…now did I?

The Ministry of Information of the GOP is reporting:

Taking a page from Democrats who disciplined Rep. Joe “You Lie” Wilson earlier this month, Republicans are seeking their own pound of flesh from a Democratic congressman who said Tuesday that the GOP wants Americans to “die quickly” if they get sick.

Rep. Alan Grayson,a first-term Democrat known for being provocative, refuses to apologize for the comments he made on the House floor Tuesday night while criticizing Republican health care proposals.

Republicans are likening Grayson’s remark to Wilson’s widely criticized shout of “You lie!” during President Obama’s address to Congress earlier this month. They say Democrats should insist that Grayson apologize just as they did Wilson.

In case there was any doubt…this report is from FOX News.

These little minds are acting like 3rd graders….when will they grow up?  Grayson was a moron for giving the GOP the opportunity to play the blame game.  Sorry, guys but being disrespectful to the president and what Grayson did are two separate situations.  If we like let us go back a few months and demand apologies for members that question the Prez citizenship or the members that call him a Nazi or that all Dems are un-American or that Dems would kill Grandma or ………oh hell that is enough they are giving me gas.

If they want an apology then they, all of Congress,  owe the American people an apology for their blatant disregard of the people they are elected to serve.  Or how about they apologize for being a prostitutes for big business.  Or apologize for wasting time and money on their childish little games.

When will the American people tire of these childish little games?

Health Prognosis: Sinking Fast!

I fully intended to go for as long as possible without posting on the health care debate but as usual I could not resist the temptation…but will it be my last temptation?

Yesterday the public option met its match…..cowards in Dem clothing.

thinkprogress.com reported on the voting today in the Senate:

The Senate Finance Committee just voted 15-8 against an amendment offered by Sen. John Rockefeller (D-WV), which would have established a self-financing robust public health insurance option. Democratic Sens. Max Baucus, Kent Conrad, Blanche Lincoln, Bill Nelson, and Tom Carper voted with the Republicans to defeat the provision.

And then the Schumer thing:

A public option amendment offered by Sen. Chuck Schumer, which would have allowed for negotiated reimbursement rates, failed by a 13-10 vote in the Senate Finance Committee moments ago. Sens. Max Baucus, Kent Conrad, and Blanche Lincoln voted with the Republicans to defeat the amendment. Today’s votes on the Schumer and Rockefeller amendments mean it is unlikely the Senate Finance version of the health care bill will contain a public option. The Senate HELP Committee and the House versions all include a public option, however.

Hopefully, the people back home are watching the vote and will take that into consideration at next election….but they have a long while for their memories to fail….which is what will most likely happen.

And the Dems put on a happy face and took their optimism pill….but in reality, they crapped in their chamber and the conservs, both Repub and Dem, rubbed their noses in it before being showed the door.

I have been saying that reform does not look good for the health industry and the public option is waiting for the paddles to get its heart beating again, but I do not know if it will resuscitate the patient.

The health industry and insurance biggies have spent their health budget wisely….and why would I say that?  That is very simple, if you have cared enough to keep up with the whole debate…if you have been an occassional observe then you will have NO idea what I am talking about.

The following are excerpts from an article written by Ken Hoover of Business Times:

Americans: 54 percent of U.S. adults don’t think Congress will pass health care reform this year, according to a survey conducted this month by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions.

Many lobbyists for small businesses and other employers blame Congress for overreaching. They said Congress should have focused on insurance market reforms aimed at lowering premiums and ending the ability of insurers to deny or modify price coverage because of health status.

Instead, Congress embarked on a complete overhaul of the health care system that would give the federal government too much power and cost hundreds of billions dollars more than was necessary, they contend.

Health insurers said they will support insurance market reforms, such as guaranteeing coverage for pre-existing conditions, as long as all individuals are required to buy insurance. Without an individual mandate, some people would wait until they are sick to buy coverage, which would result in higher premiums for everyone else, he said.

Business lobbyists said they would continue to work for insurance market reforms at the state and federal levels if Congress doesn’t pass a comprehensive bill. Employers, labor unions, insurers and health care providers also would continue their work on reforms that don’t need legislation, such as quality standards for hospitals, the chamber’s Gelfand said.

And there you are!  We have just heard what the outcome that will most likely be your reform.  The markets, both insurance and health, will get “reformed” and the rest of America will continue to be screwed four til Tuesday.  Costs will continue the upward spiral,  patients will die because of existing conditions and others will be denied just because….the only thing that remotely sounds like it would be patient friendly is the co-op proposal, but it only sounds friendly…it will just take the insurance giants a little more time before they control those also…but maybe that is the idea all along…after all they have bought a bunch of our legislators.

Also keep in mind that the US Congress has a public option and they are using it without thought….but somehow it is not for the common man or woman….why is that?  Or maybe they just do not want us peons in their health plan.

If and when health care reform is defeated, especially the public option, then all those assisting in the defeat will BE guilty of murder, because of their complacency.

I leave my reader with a joke….”a government of the people, by the people and for the people” gets NO funnier than that.

Sleep well you soul-less SOBs!!!!!!!!!!!

GOP And Its Foreign Policy

Two words that do not go together…GOP and Foreign Policy….it is an oxymoron…..while the GOP has always been a staunch defender of national security, that does not mean they have a strong foreign policy.  Look at the last admin in power….it was my way or the highway….gunslinger foreign policy….it was not effective then and it will seldom be effective, if ever.

Daniel Larison reporter for “the Week” magazine has put it very well.

Republican criticism of President Obama’s foreign policy is increasingly divorced from reality. David Frum’s recent column outlining Obama’s alleged failures is a prime example. Indeed, it’s part of a pattern of behavior in which Republicans have tried to transform their greatest weakness—the conduct of foreign affairs—into a political weapon against Obama. It is scarcely nine months since the end of an era marked by some of the greatest foreign policy failures in postwar history. Yet the perpetrators and their supporters are now condemning Obama’s attempts to undo the damage. Even when these critiques are not factually false, they reflect the bankruptcy of mainstream Republican foreign policy thinking and demonstrate that many Republicans still have no idea why the country turned against them.

In the short term, the Republican credibility gap means that Obama will have little effective domestic opposition to his foreign policy. The GOP’s recent hysteria over Obama’s decision to cancel the Central European missile defense system confirms this. Unfortunately, an administration that lacks credible critics is far less likely to be held accountable for its misjudgments. By failing to make credible, accurate arguments against Obama’s decisions, Republicans will make it far more difficult to resist the administration when it does err—as it inevitably will.

I do find it on the silly side when the Repubs in Congress are rbbing Obama to make a decision on Afghanistan immediately, but if I recall correctly they turned their back on the country to go kill Saddam and his non-existent WMD program…..But now Obama is a real meany for not paying more attention to Afghanistan.

I know there well be a wealth of conservs out there that will throw lots of manure my way….but hey….okay look at Reagan…..his foreign policy was to make USSR spend all their cash and go bankrupt trying to keep up with the US and its arms thing……Bush 1 his was fight a war and accomplish little…..And there is Baby Bush….need I say more?

These are some of the reasons that people chuckle when they hear the term GOP foreign policy.