Just want you all to know that Veteran Veritas is sitting here with drooped lids just about ready to bow out with fatigue, waiting for the final vote of the U.S. Senate on ending the debate on Health Care.
At 11:19 pm Tucson time the vote was 58 Democrats; 2 Independents; Aye. 40 Republicans Nay.
Lieberman, Lincoln and Ben Nelson were in favor of ending the debate.
The Talk Show hosts are going to have a hey day. Only can Jesus himself solve this one.
The problem is, there is no “aye” button at republican desks.
I catch alot of flack from my GOP acquaintances for being a registered Independent; first in 1979 as a supporter of John Andersen of Illinois, flat tax proposal through to today where ideological polemic and its consequent polarity has paralyzed the two party system and caused both parties to be impotent puppets of lobbyists and major corporate donors both from the United States and foreign entities, mostly unknown. Even John McCain concurs with this.
Curiously, George Washington, our first president, warned adamantly about the dangers of the two party system, and the liability of being vulnerable to foreign influences. That was 1777! It appears we like foreign and corporate control of our populace. Ergo, the broken “aye” button the GOP desks. They are voting for their donors not the voters.
Two items in this Health Care Bill stand out for me. First, the complete support of the AMA, as they cannot afford to be extremely partisan. And secondly, the support by way of scholarships for the education of a regiment of new doctors. This takes the whole caste system of Medical School and re-orders it to the needs of Americans, not the needs of a country club class. The last time I looked, the former ones fight our wars.
Not many carpenters would choose to use a piece of wood laced with termites to build a house. One piece so infested would eventually bring the house down. No matter how beautiful it looked in the beginning, decay spreads. Those that support the bill understanding the rot it includes, shame on you. Those that can’t see rot even when it hits them in the face, I’m sorry for you and wish you well.
They said that about the Civil Right Act too. Change is a bitch, especially when no viable options are offered. We have had Medicare since 1965. What Government is it that runs that one!
The termite analogy is good, as our most all of the cute comparisons of the Party of NO. Where is the meat? Sore loosers usually spend all their waking hours proving that their minority opinion was the right one. They even spend millions on confabulated advertisements to instill fear— there is no such thing as a Death panel.. never was and never will be. And rationing has been with us for 40 years. Try to get a kidney replacement if you are over 70. Or mental health if you have expired your quota of hours….as if health or lack thereof is a static state.
Lets hear a rational response about why the AMA and the Pharmaceutical giants supported the Bill. Think it had anything to do with the venture capital that is going into the control of, ‘Biotics”. The AMA needs to control this burgeoning corner of immense prosperity, insider trading, and the next generation of elite that will dwarf the “dot.com” boom. They can only do so with Government on their side. True Capitalism went overseas long ago. While the GOP decries government intervention they whore themselves for personal gain with the same set of lobbyists and the same set of electeds. America has never seen such hypocrisy unbridled.
As is the case with most all Radio and TV poppycock, and paid for adatorials, the hidden agenda rules the day, and the voters never really know the true low down. Distraction is now an art form par excellance.
And did you notice, that Cashgreen answered nothing specific in the treatise that Brewer presented. Like I said, distraction is the game of the week