The Right Wing's Firm Grip:
"Enforced
Broccoli Purchase"
Other high water marks of reductio ad absurdem
Dear John,
Everyone "spins" the facts.
In recent years, "conservatives" came to consider
"spin" a form of reprehensible moderation.
"Far too moderate" as they often say in their oxymoronic way...
In consequence, we behold pit bull determination to topple
Obama -- specifically, Obamacare. This idée fixe of continual
negation compels "conservatives" to extrude fanciful yarns, leavened
with ex nihilo lies.
YouTube: "Republican
governors are not telling the truth about health care reform. Visit
DemocraticGovernors.org to get the facts." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSqcGAJpuYI
Unless we wish to divide the nation into gated communities
and a permanent underclass, something must be done about American healthcare.
And that "something" is not the "magic"
of enabling citizens to "buy health insurance across state lines"
reinforced by the panacea of individual "medical savings accounts."
The GOP squats on a seismic fault between adamant opposition
to so-called "death panels" and growing clamor to "bring 'em
on!"
"GOP To Uninsured: Drop Dead" - http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/07/gop-to-uninsured-drop-dead.html
***
The
National Lunacy began on 9/11.
It began in fear, and soon progressed to chronic
self-terrorization. (Bin Laden was never granted a wet dream to rival the
nation-destroying paralysis wrought by American "conservatives.")
Unlike
the Rockefellers and Eisenhowers who comprised The Greatest Generation,
contemporary "conservatives" despair of government altogether,
arguing that "nothing can be done" except to lower taxes and
"deconstruct government" under aegis of liberating
the (presumed) power of The Free Market.
Reality
Check: Between the Bush tax cuts and Bush-Cheney's reluctance to enforce
regulations already in place -- remember BP's Macondo spill --
America has endured precipitous job loss and the greatest economic calamity
since The Great Depression.
If it
were not for "federal deficit spending" to constrain calamity
to slow motion, we would now be mired in Depression - and likely
something worse. (If Romney is elected, we will find out what "something
worse" is.)
An
abiding fact...
Towering
over the entire field of American politics, the GOP is "The Party of
Complete Economic Irresponsibility," not the party of "job
creators" nor a party that raises Americans' purchasing power.
The
GOP is The Party of Nope whose political victories -- such as
they are -- derive from the coordinated effort of do-nothing dimwits, often
self-pithed.
"Where
there is no vision, the people perish." Proverbs 29:18
Whatever
one's view of Obamacare, The Affordable Care Act will -- for
the first time -- provide universal healthcare at lower per capita cost.
Obamacare
is far from perfect.
But
The GOP's deconstructionist "alternative" hovers between frank
fantasy and do-nothing disaster.
Several
years ago, Arthur drew my attention to Bill Roper M.D. - a life-long
Republican, head of UNC Medical School and UNC Hospitals, and former adviser to
George H.W. Bush.
Notably,
Dean Roper approved Obamacare right at the outset, not because it was perfect,
but because "doing nothing" would be catastrophic.
Alternatively,
conservatives foster the belief that "doing nothing" is the Distillation of
Genius and that there is nothing to do but "get out of the
way."
A
witch's brew of indolence, desperation (including the “divine desperation” of
Apocalyptic Thinking) and gullible belief in the miraculousness of "God's
Invisible Hand" set America on its current downhill trajectory, all three
propellants compounding damage synergistically.
Pax on
both houses
Alan
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