Friday, October 30, 2009

It's a cream puff!

Would you buy a used car from this man? That used to be a popular phrase back in the Nixon years when we were asked to buy his "secret plan to win the war." The secret was that there was no plan, but never mind, there was nothing to win and we didn't win it.

It's the first thing that comes to mind listening to the last ditch effort by Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell who is still telling us the public option will kill us all, although you can see he's having a hard time keeping his face straight while doing it. It's a prodigious effort of course, since he and his henchmen all have government health care just like the French and the Norwegians and the Germans and everyone else and all too many of them live to really ripe old ages because of it.

"I think if you have any kind of government insurance program, you're going to be stuck with it and it will lead us in the direction of the European style, you know, sort of British-style, single payer, government run system, and those systems are known for delays, denial of care and, you know, if your particular malady doesn't fit the government regulation, you don't get the medication. And it may cost you your life. I mean, we don't want to go down that path."

Yes, we do want to go down that path -- the majority of us anyway -- and it's an argument dependent on American ignorance of what the rest of the modern world enjoys and benefits from and chooses to have. There is no slope here, it's only his logic and his grasp of truth that's slippery. The problem with our health care cartel system is exactly the problem he tells us we will have if we abandon it and the coverage we have to buy now isn't even available to millions and millions. It may cost you your life and it's cost millions of lives already.

No, I wouldn't buy a load of fertilizer from this man and that's what he's selling and no matter how many times the truth is flung back at him, he'll continue. He's paid handsomely to continue and he's got a great health care plan as well which isn't known for denial, delay or enormous annual price increases like the one we have if we're lucky, young, in a good job and haven't ever been sick.

It's the old Republican song he's singing -- the corporate song, the best money can buy: I've got mine and screw you.

10 comments:

  1. I just had to laugh, the picture of this rethug is like looking at a little fairy cream puff! I'm really looking forward to this country moving past HC reform so we can start to see progress before the next election. According to the rethugs and especially Faux noise, 2010 is gonna be their year!! Did ya hear, there's gonna be an earthquake of change comin'! lol

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  2. What's the difference between Mitch McConman and a flaming bag of dogshit?

    I'm not sure there is an answer to that one.

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  3. Jesus I am sick of these flaming bags of dogshit (there is no difference democommie).

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  4. democommie:

    I can think of a couple of differences between the two--as far as I can tell dogshit can actually be useful: fertilizer. Plus it has more of a personality and higher intellect than McConnell.

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  5. Mitch McConnell isn't just corrupt, he advocates in favor of corruption by opposing campaign finance reform.

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  6. By golly, delays and denial of care for maladies. Now those are two things we would NEVER suffer if only we adopted an untrammeled private enterprise system for health care. Yup.... And "travelers ne'er did lie, though fools at home condemn 'em."

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  7. Aye! No government for me! Nothing be not better done, but privately.

    I' th' commonwealth I would by contraries

    Execute all things. For no kind of traffic

    Would I admit; no name of magistrate;

    Letters should not be known; riches, poverty,

    And use of service, none; contract, succession,

    Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none;

    No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil;

    No occupation; all men idle, all;

    And women too, but innocent and pure;

    No sovereignty.

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  8. Canadian grandmothers get death panel'd all the time, dontcha know. It's true because I read it on Sarah Palin's Facebook page, yessirree Bob. Patriotic American, that Sarah.

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  9. You betcha - and there are witches in Alaska too.

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  10. Capt. Fogg:

    Not in Wasilla, Sarah the Impalinator's wiza--, I mean, minister, John Muthee ran 'em outta town.

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