Great Speech RE: Health Care Debate

Senator Whitehouse from Rhode Island really nailed it with this floor speech (watch video here). He started out with a sixty-year-old quote from Richard Hofstadter, who warned that a right-wing minority could create "a political environment in which the rational pursuit of our well-being and safety would become impossible," and then went on to state that "the malignant and vindictive passions that have descended on the Senate are busily creating just such a political climate."

My favorite part of Whitehouse's comments occurred near the end:

"When it turns out there are no death panels, when there is no bureaucrat between you and your doctor, when the ways your health care changes seem like a good deal to you, and a pretty smart idea, when the American public sees the discrepancy between what really is, and what they were told by the Republicans, there will be a reckoning. There will come a day of judgment about who was telling the truth. * * *

"There will come a day of judgment, and our Republican friends know that. That Mr. President, is why they are terrified."

Great words, but for me, the amazing part of this whole health care debate is that the bill that will ultimately come out of Congress will probably be mediocre at best when it comes to actually addressing this health care crisis. In other words, the GOP -- along with Lebofuck and the rest of them -- were really able to water this thing down to a great extent.

But you wouldn't know it from listening to Drug-Fiend Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Lielly, Mike "Murderer Releaser" Huckabee, Lars Fucking Larson, and all those other right winged extremist assholes who dominate local radio station KBND -- they used to just dominate late morning/afternoon programming, but now we have to hear them spew their raw sewage in the early part of the day as well (I felt like giving my radio the Hitler salute this morning).

Anyway, these brain-dead ass clowns -- whom I blame for a good portion of our country's problems given that they were the ones carrying a lot of water for BushCo -- were talking as if the right wing lost everything. I guess they figure that anything the Democrats do with regard to the health care problem will be a victory for Obama and thus a problem for them.

What's the GOP plan for addressing this problem? Well, it's the same bullshit thing they always say: MORE TAX CUTS!! That's their answer for everything. Jesus, these America-haters even managed to pass a fucking tax cut during war time. Their twisted anti-tax message has gotten so pervasive that our country can't even have a real debate about tax policy anymore (i.e., the rational pursuit of our country's well-being and safety has become impossible). And I find the Republicans' recent interest in budget deficits to be hilarious, given that they were the motherfuckers who spent us -- and legislated us -- into this mess in the first place.

In any event, I love how upset all these right wingers are right now. Maybe Senator Whitehouse is right and these idiots are merely terrified that the American people will ultimately judge them for all the manure they spread around with the help of all the town hall teabagging idiocy. But I've had enough of their crap.

By the way, it is hard to argue with these poll results. The 00s did suck in a big way, and the reason it was such a crappy decade had a lot do with some of the things I mentioned above.