Just How Many Dead Bodies are Enough?

I want to know if the Republicans, Conservadems and their good buddy Liebermann are getting paid money to block healthcare reform. And, if they are getting paid, just how much?

It has to be a lot of money to be happy (for the Republicans it's a matter of positively relish) to let tens of thousands of Americans die every year from lack of healthcare. It has to be a lot to be happy to let tens of millions to go through life without healthcare insurance coverage and basic access to healthcare year after year. It has to be a whole lot.

We know with certainty that the insurance and pharmaceutical companies can afford the money. We can see the large number of ads on TV that run in commercial break and commercial break. We can see the lobbyists that daily whine and wheedle in the halls of the U.S. Congress and capital buildings in states across the country. We’ve seen how they pay so called non-profits to bus “protesters” in from who knows where to badger and threaten anyone that wants reform.

It has to be a whole lot of money. Either that or so many of our elected officials are flat out mean-spirited. They don’t care that children, American children, are dying daily. They don’t care that families are going bankrupt, losing everything, in order to pay for the doctors and hospitals and medicines needed to save themselves or their children.

Or, their just thick as two bricks.

I kind of think I would go for the money as the likely reason, but the other two a probably part of it.

Healthcare and the Land of Fear

Healthcare Insurance Reform, still waiting for it

I’ve been watching the whole circus that is our style of government in the hopes that more than the handful of courageous Senators and Representatives would stand up for the millions of people without healthcare insurance. I’m talking about the Democrats here. The Republicans lost their binky last year and have been throwing a big hissy fit ever since.

I’ve been hoping that there would be a collective enlightenment and they would see the illness and misery. I’ve been hoping they would put aside their own petty agendas and do the right thing by the masses.

Yeah, right. I know. I like to daydream and imagine the impossible.

Instead of taking pity on the tens of thousands that will die this year, there are certain of our elected officials that would rather puff up their own value, hold those tens of thousands, and the millions not able to afford healthcare, hostage. It doesn’t seem to matter that people are getting sicker, going bankrupt, even dying, while they wait for healthcare insurance reform. It’s more important for the politicians to get their way than help their fellow citizens.

I just hope they one day fully understand and FEEL what they have done. To me, it is stepping past the line of negligent homicide, if not premeditated murder. They know full well what they are doing, but they blithely go about the business of abusing their power.


Home of the Craven Cowards, Land of the Faint of Heart

It’s interesting, isn’t it, that the Party of No (Republican), are quaking in their boots at the thought of trying accused terrorists in New York? It’s fine to send our courageous young men and women to war in a far away, hostile country to fight. That’s fine. Talk big and brave and shout their own patriotism to every news camera in sight, but bring less than a handful of men under heavy guard to the U.S. and they wet their pants in fear.

The Republicans seem to be fearful about everything these days.

They’re scared of standing up to big business that is bleeding the country dry. Oh, wait, that’s were so much of their money comes from so they don’t dare touch it. If that pipeline closed up, they’d have to do fundraising with the constituents. That would mean having to prove they’re actually doing something to help those constituents. Eek!

They’re frightened of gays having the right to marriage. Me thinks they doth protest too much. I get the impression some of the homophobes may be actually be homo! Otherwise it must be that they’re filled with so much self doubt and loathing that they just hate everyone that doesn’t fit into their own narrow profile.

Just as an aside, the Bible was written by humans, people, men in particular, most often long after the events they were writing about were gone. The texts have been revised to fit the whim of whoever was in power. Just go count the versions on the shelf now? I bet I could find 100 different version without breaking a sweat. Which one is correct? Prove it!

Now, the members of the GOP (Grand Old Party just doesn’t seem to fit these days, does it?) are too frightened to bring three men to trial here in this country. Why? What do they fear? Is it that these men are accused of terrorism? Is it that the trial will reveal in stark detail the torture committed by this country? Or is it that the Republicans have fear-mongered so consistently and so loudly for so long that they’ve become infected themselves?