I guess Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is trying to cornhole us again. I imagine that he woke up early one morning and realized there was another absurd, extreme, preposterous, shameful, ridiculous and grotesque simile he hadn't used yet to vilify any health care reform that doesn't appeal to the corporate overlords he serves. We've already heard about 'death panels' and how extending the program that Cornyn benefits from to the rest of us, is just like Pol Pot's Killing fields and Hitler's death camps. Somehow he'd overlooked Stalin's Gulag Archipelago and it's important we hear about it right away.
You see, the problem is that the Democrats aren't accepting "input" from the Republicans although it's pretty clear that the only "input" he or they have offered is to drop the damn subject. Still it's hard to understand why Tex himself isn't trying to escape from that death camp of Federal Employee insurance that just might kill him at any time now.
Extending health care to the uninsured is like Communist or fascist slave-labor camps. Torture is as American as apple pie.
ReplyDeleteThe Republicans are living in the Mirror Universe.
I think we need to make sure everyone knows that he called MEDICARE a government gulag!!!!
ReplyDeleteThat will really rattle all those seniors who showed up at those healthcare town hall meetings....
I also think liberals need to get out the word that the Democrats want to SHARE their current healthcare plan with the rest of us!
Letting us in the country club!
I'll give Cornyn a cookie if he can PRONOUNCE "Solzhenitsyn."
ReplyDeleteAh, yes, a Communist gulag -- the scarecrow du jour. The more things change, the more they stay the same, it seems -- at least in the US approach to health care.
ReplyDeleteIn the early 1900's, Americans were warned against universal health care because it was something that Germany had -- and since Germany was "evil" at that time, we had to guard ourselves against Germanization of our society by avoiding universal health care like a plague that it was.
See this (from Jill Lepore's recent and very interesting New Yorker article -- and read on, it's worth it):
"At present the United States has the unenviable distinction of being the only great industrial nation without compulsory health insurance,” the Yale economist Irving Fisher said in a speech in December. December of 1916, that is. More than nine decades ago, Fisher thought that universal health coverage was just around the corner. “Within another six months, it will be a burning question,” he predicted. Oh, well. What’s a century, give or take?
Yes, I read that article. Teddy Roosevelt was called a communist for advocating universal health care even before that.
ReplyDeleteWhat can I say, they've had America under their thumb and enjoying being exploited since the beginning and as much as German Health care frightened us, Fascism had a hell of a lot of support until Hitler declared war on us, making it unfashionable for a decade or so.