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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
