Those crazy ole Republicans aren’t funny anymore

[Swagman]

Those crazy ole Republicans aren’t funny anymore

by Guy Rundle

So OK re the whole Obama thing, remember when I admonished people for not enjoying the spectacle of Republicans with their pants round their ankles, running six ways from crazy a coupla months ago, because it was rare to get a win, and it wouldn’t last, and soon it wouldn’t be fun anymore?

Well, OK, I can officially declare I am not having fun anymore. I noticed this a couple of days when I went to click on the bookmark for nationalreview.com, the centre of US right-wing sane craziness — and decided not to. For a while — since about November 5 last year I think – it’s been great to read their rolling blog The Corner an extended version of the sick room dialogue in Cuckoo’s Nest, try to convince themselves that everything Obama got done, from overtures to the Arab world to getting two journos back from North Korea, was some sort of catastrophic disaster for the US.

Now, not so much. With Obama’s health care plans running into the ground, and his team carving off and giving away so much of it in order to get a bill they can pass, I don’t need to read the enemy — the friends are idiotic enough to take care of all my anger needs.

Team Obama has already given away Medicare parity — the idea that fees for the public provider would be set by using the government’s aged-care (Medicare) free health service fees for providers (i.e. doctors hospitals etc), which are mandated lower than most health insurances fees. This means that the proposed public health care provider has less scope to leverage fees down, a big part of the exercise.

Then there was the “death panels” madness, in which a specific line item whereby providers could bill for the specific tasks of treating end-stage patients — counselling, etc — was constructed as some Nazi health selection, and the ruling Republican on the Senate health committee sucked up to his lunatic constituency, even though he knew the charge to be false

http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/18/rundle-those-crazy-ole-republicans-arent-funny-anymore/

[thelordofhell]

1. Yep, that's the GOP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yFSpml8oSw