In Praise of Tom Carper

It is rare that I’m wrong, and even rarer, that I’ll admit it.

But those who read regularly will know that as a proponent of the public option, the real reform that  would actually make much difference,  I chastised our senior Senator for not backing it..

I felt that creating a large enough wave in full support of the public option, would override the opposition and serve to convince more Americans of it’s beneficial value….

But in the House, the Health Care Reform Bill passed  by only 7 votes.   Obviously had the public option been included, it would not have passed at all..  Our Senator, Tom Carper,  repeatedly said the public option did not have the votes to pass.    He was apparently right.

Had Senator Carper listened to me, and promoted that public option on his committee, we would not have this bill signed right now…

Instead, on March 23,  it did get signed.  In a big way because the Public Option was kept out by Senator Tom Carper…

Those in politics know it as a nebulous business… One can compare it to a game where each team tries to see who can get the most fog on their property.   The press, the talking heads, the politicians, all try to portray the fog, as supporting their viewpoint.   One can look at Congress and say that they appear to be for something, or against something, and find sufficient evidence to back either claim.

Only when a vote is cast, and policy either lives … or dies,  does one get a sense of where Congress truly is…

Tom Carper was closer to the real number than was I.  Had it been me, a weakened bill would now be in committee… But Tom held firm against a backlash of his party crying for a public option, and because of his spine… we got this bill passed..

So…   thank you.

It is Quite Obvious

Republicans are going loco, because they are getting proved over and over and over again, that for 8 years, they were wrong.

They are having difficulty dealing with the truth that they, and only they, perhaps ruined this country forever… They deregulated Wall Street; it crashed. They cut taxes; it bankrupted America. They fought two wars and didn’t put any costs on the books, instead they charged our children and grandchildren . They tried in-your-face diplomacy; it bankrupted America and made us look like goats. They deregulated the FDA so now poisons can creep into our food chain and no one even knows it…

It’s a good thing they didn’t get a chance to ruin Social Security…

Now, … that health care is in effect, they KNOW they have lost.. and they can’t deal with it…

Their thought process goes like this… I will do rash, crazy acts so no one remembers that our party destroyed America… and that it took a black man to save it…

Well, in their insular world that might work. But the rest of us have 401K’s half of what they should be because of the policies of Republicans. Those of us in danger of losing a house, know that Republican, not Socialists, are the evil that brought this upon us… Those of us out of work, who can’t find a job to save our lives, know that Republican’s caused the crash … not socialists. Republicans are the Nazi party of America, if one compares the damage done between the two countries those parties represent…

Republicans can hem and haw and crash their cars into Obama stickers or threaten Washington Politicians with shootings… but it doesn’t change the fact that they and their politicians are the ones who messed things up…

In fact, they messed it up so bad….. it just might take a little Socialism to put things back on the right track.

And that is not even comparing the end of the Bush era to that of the Clinton era, where every category did better over 8 years of Democratic rule…

So if you hear someone going off on Obama being a Socialist, don’t even bother to argue with them… They know the facts and their whole argument is to cover up those very facts they know…

Since they know the facts, and you know the facts… you are both in on the joke... So laugh your ass off at them… At what ever they say, just guffaw…. And get your friends to help you… Because the only way to turn a sad situation into a good one… is to laugh at them….

After all, they ARE fools….

What’s Going On Is This

Now that the Republicans have been rendered impotent by the passage of the Health Care Bill, the media, sponsored by corporate interests,( ie advertising) has begun reporting incessantly on a radical fringe known as right wing militias, who they allege are being set in motion to disrupt the normal workings of society.

Some of us saw this during the Vietnam era, when the liberal side, went all SDS and Yippie, and used the threat of violence to give THEIR points some credibility on the national stage. It worked. McCarthy and McGovern took up their cry of pulling out of Vietnam, and…. as a result of their believing the media’s amplification over the amount of support those fringe elements had, … lost miserably.

Today, Republicans who cannot win at a battle of politics, have resorted to shocking the population with similar threats of radical militias. The idea behind these threats, is that…. “oh, we had better do away with health care reform, or these deviants will climb the University of Texas bell tower, and spray our best and brightest with machine gun fire…” Republicans = Al Qaeda .. Everyone see the similarity?

Ok, we are scared, shaking in our boots, and we’ll repeal Health Care reform right away. NOT…..

The same type of thing happened in Germany when the Nazi’s began blaming Jews for all of Germany’s woes … Today, its liberals and Socialists who are getting the blame, when just like the Jews before them, they were actually the ones responsible for bringing their respective nations back to a return to normalcy.

What should have happened in Germany back then, was that the population should have bloodied each brown shirt’s noses while they were only a handful of people. If you lost a tooth every time you opened your mouth to preach death and hatred towards a group of people, you would soon shut up.

Although I am not advocating the physical actions of punching a stupid Republican in the face, (of course they deserve it), I highly recommend the metaphor of doing its equivalent in the arena of argument. Letting them talk unchallenged is like letting Himmler open Auschwitz without saying a single word.

So when they open their traps, respond with real facts. Gang up on them and don’t let them get a word in edgewise….