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Send In the Health-Care Clowns
As the public option starts to morph into an expansion of Medicare and Medicaid in the main tent, two Senate buffoons, Harry Reid and Joe Lieberman, are stepping up their side shows in the health care circus.
The Majority Leader is dragging slavery and woman’s suffrage into the debate by invoking them as precedents for Republican resistance:
“When this country belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery, there were those who dug in their heels and said ‘slow down, it’s too early, things aren’t bad enough’…When women spoke up for the right to vote, some insisted they simply, slow down, there will be a better day to do that, today isn’t quite right.”
In another corner of the freak show section, Joe Lieberman’s antics are drawing so much attention that TV ads for an opponent of Connecticut’s other senator, Chris Dodd, are taking shots at him: “Joe never forgets who he ran to represent: Himself. It’s not about you. It’s all about Joe.”
Hundreds of protesters from an interfaith organization, reports the Washington Post, “showed up at Lieberman’s home in Stamford and at his office in Hartford, to plead (and pray) for him to support the bill…”
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5 Responses to “Send In the Health-Care Clowns”
Harry could have mentioned the 1887 Indian screwing bill. After 14 years the U.S. settled today for 3.4billion.
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/12/08/08green…
So when did slavery become wrong? You see, the opposite of slavery is independence. Slavery is supported, in part, by making sure that the slaves can't live independently of their masters. Making people into dependents and making it harder to escape poverty, instead of trying to help them out of it, is a step toward, not away from, slavery. Or maybe someone can name a federal program that's meant to help the poor become self-sufficient.
Name a federal program that's meant to help the poor become self-sufficient.
Well, I was going to say many are meant to. But on reflection I'm not so sure. If you consider self-sufficiency a virtue, that makes dependency a vice. I tend to see them that way, but I'm not sure everyone does.
regardless of the bill they pass we are going to have to deal with this http://www.typobounty.com/Funny/Health_Care_Ref… just be prepared
Yes, Professor — the superficial impression is just that Harry Reid is frustrated and stooping extra low with his comments. However, informed minds find it amusingly ironic. Reid is majority leader in the Senate from the party what wants to be, along with a Washington that it ideally controls forever, the benevolent master of everybody. (Those who aren't PC will be punitively re-educated until they change.)