Always Positive, Sometimes Right

President Obama’s position on health care delivery systems and the need for comprehensive reform is totally consistent with the ideals and traditions of the nation. The Republican continuing assertion that an apparent populist aversion to the reforms should prevent their adoption reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of the underpinnings of America.

I will assume, without much confidence in the assumption, that many of those opposed to the health-care legislation are sincere folks, albeit the victims of cynical manipulation of GOP operatives, honestly are concerned about sky-rocketing deficits (more. . .)

Almost every weekday evening I can be found in my red VW Beetle driving the 30 to 40 minutes from my Jackson Hewitt Tax Service kiosk at a nearby Walmart where I am, for 105 days, office manager of the location. The ride is not that exciting and I invariably put the radio on and listen to either Country and Western tunes or one of three stations in Tampa that dispense political talk. In central Florida that means Michael Savage, Hugh Hewitt, or some other (more. . .)

But they cannot be totally ignored!

If I have, finally, learned anything by writing political blogs it is that it is impossible to engage in rational discussions with those on the rabid right fringe. Fortunately, all the evidence seems to point to the impotency of their rants. Glenn and Rush and the stalwarts at Fox News spew irrational and inconsistent garbage, but garner only a miniscule proportion of voters and have no real influence in elections.
David Brooks, in a brilliant essay in the New York Times, (more. . .)

In return for the hoped for Republican bi-partisan joining health care reform efforts, Senate Democrats accepted Republican negotiators’ instance that the “public option” and other provisions be dropped. And then the negotiators admitted that none of them would vote for that which had been agreed. Democrats in the Senate, so far, have surrendered in hopes for compromise, all to no avail.

Last November, the American people elected a new president who had run on a platform promising innovation, far-reaching health care reform and, above all, creative (more. . .)

The President’s health care address and the GOP reaction

Last Wednesday, President Obama, that well-known Socialist-Fascist-Kenyan-tool of Marxists everywhere, in between meeting with revolutionaries who are tasked with subjecting our kids’ tender ears with un-American thoughts of killing Granny, addressed a joint session of Congress to plead for an overhaul of our health care delivery system. The opposing GOP acknowledges that the system is flawed and needs reform but urges restraint and warns against rushing into things. Universal health care and reform have been discussed in (more. . .)