Hey GOP - Haven't You Noticed We're Just Not That In To You?

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Hey GOP - Haven't You Noticed We're Just Not That In To You?
by Trish Purcell | June 19, 2009



Every time I see Mitch McConnell on TV making a statement that starts with "The American people want..." or "The American people think..." I laugh out loud. This man and his fellow No, No, No'ers, do not have a clue what the American people want or think. It seems impossible that the Republican defeats in 2006 and 2008 didn't make that fact clear to them.

Hopefully, the American people are too smart to give the too-dumb-to-learn GOP'ers the chance to repeat the mistakes that obviously taught them nothing. Their attack mode against President Obama's calm and measured handling of the Iran situation is a case in point. After eight failed years of trying to bludgeon other countries into line with America's ideas of governance and democracy, the GOP continues to advocate the same policies, apparently expecting a different outcome. Do they not realize that is the definition of insanity?

George Bush, who liked to think of himself as emulating Teddy Roosevelt, was looking in a crooked mirror. While Roosevelt walked softly and carried a big stick, Bush trampled everything in sight while swinging a two by four at anyone within reach. Comparing America's relationships with other countries pre-Bush and at the end of the Bush terms give a clear snapshot of just how damaging his Presidency was.

Still we are inundated day after day with Republicans telling us what we want, what we need, what we think or what we should think. Who are these people? What altered reality do they live in? Teddy Roosevelt once said "...there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head." Today's Republicans unfortunately evidence both of these traits.

While offering "the good of the people" as their motive, they try to block real health care reform. They claim Canada's system is an example of failed single payer health care. The only problem with that is that it isn't true. Canadians are for the most part satisfied with their system and resent the lies told in our country. Still Republicans, either through hardness of heart or softness of head, use the ads made with a few malcontents decrying long waiting lists for treatment, as proof of their assertion.

Still claiming to be concerned for the "good of the people" Republicans oppose the public option in health care reform. Spouting insurance company talking points they complain about not having a level playing field - it hasn't been level but it has been tipped in the insurance industry's favor so that's OK; they paint a worse case scenario of everyone flocking to the public option creating huge expense and driving private insurance out of business - not likely unless insurance companies refuse to become competitive; they criticize the government's ability to run the program and claim it would dictate which doctors could be seen and what treatments would be allowed - guess they haven't noticed Medicare. All of these claims are scare tactics to protect insurance company profits.

So are Republicans showing hardness of heart by supporting insurance company profits over health care for the people? Or, are they are so soft headed they can't see the truth staring them in the face? Or, perish the thought, are they just selfish enough and corrupt enough to lie to protect their big campaign contributors?

The public option is the least our representatives can do for us. The real answer no one will talk about is to get profit out of the health care insurance business. If those billions of profit were spent on treatment, it would go a long way toward solving the financing problems of insuring everyone. Jeanette Oxelson of Denver said it well in the Rocky Mountain News Speakout:

"Profit-based medical insurance is a disease masquerading as its own cure."

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1. McConnell did the GOP weekly radio address early this morning

I swear, it was like Fred Thompson II - It put me back to sleep like Sominex never did.

I think he's totally worn out in more ways than one.

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2. Great title

Rahm and the Obama crowd should act on that