|
|
||
Date published: 11/15/2009
Current GOP: 'Gone Out to Pasture'?
The current Republican leadership and its Saturday morning spokespersons continue to repeat the lies and misinformation their apparent ideologues (Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, etc.) spew out and scare the American citizen with. Competition with the current health-insurance companies by having a public insurance program will help the out-of-work and poor find reasonable coverage. The right-wing bosses don't want their insurance buddies to have to face that competition, even though the jobless and disadvantaged will continue to suffer. This is the big hang-up on health care reform. It turns a national medical-needs problem into a cheap, partisan battle. I remember when the Republican leadership could meet with its opposites on significant national issues and, with civility, hammer out a reasonable solution. I think of Vandenburg, Taft, Dole, Javits, John Warner, and others of equal integrity. They or their like are not here now, and health care for 40 million is in jeopardy. Historians recall the Whig Party's demise in the mid-19th century. It couldn't take a stand even on the slavery issue. Out of that came the Republican Party, the party of Lincoln. A workable two-party system moved the country reasonably well. The current GOP bosses are destroying that. Unless moderate and common-sense party members step up to the plate, GOP will soon mean "Gone Out to Pasture." Chet Gardner Colonial Beach
Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kans.) told
reporters on 10/7 that opposition to the president's health
care package was driven, in part, by knee-jerk partisanship
and he urged Congressional Republicans to consider
backing a version of reform. Dole, framed the pushback to
Obama's reform agenda as almost perfunctory in
nature."Sometimes people fight you just to fight you," he
said, "They don't want Reagan to get it, they don't want
Obama to get it, so we've got to kill it..."
They STILL can't always ram through anything they want.
There ARE a couple independents who caucus with the
Democrats, but it only take ONE of them (Joe Leibernan,
Ben Nelson, Max Baucus, Mark Warner?) in the Senate to
break ranks and allow a Republican led filibuster and thwart
legislation.
the constant whining about Repubs holding up legislation. Boo hoo. The dems could pass gun control, any health care bill, gay marriage and even a $14 B aid package to Cuba if they wanted to. Duh, they have a majority in all branches of government. What’s stopping them? Moderates, you say? Then why the constant whining about Repubs?
You said "health care for 40 million is in jeopardy". In reality health care is in jeopardy for ALL Americans. The GOP is in bed with the insurance companies. The Republican congressfolks have the Federal Employees Health Benefits program which is really cheap compared to most health insurance policies! Why would they ever want to give up what they have so others could enjoy good health? !!!! Insurance premiums are expected to go up dramatically and we'll all pay without a public option!
any bitterness is coming from the commenters on the right whinge.
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||
