SpectreWriter

Yep, that’s what we need.  A military coupe, fascist control of our government, until they decide to give us our country back by election.  Go ahead, let me know how that works for you,  El2007.  So far, Guinea has endured 2 dictators over several decades that way, and they’re still trying to get someone elected from the last coupe.   But let’s move on beyond the laugh factory and take a fair and serious look at it all.

First off, the label “Obamacare” is demonstration of a bias.  Why wasn’t it Bushwars?  Because the GOP’s mouthpieces truly love to ridicule positions other than their own.  Every ill-intended nickname in my recollection has come from that group.  (For the record, I’m neither Liberal nor Conservative, Democrat nor Republican.  I prefer to think and decide for myself.)  Obama simply promised to bring people the health insurance they need.  And he’s correct, people have needed relief from the insurance company’s ways of doing things for a very long time, now.  But he didn’t devise the plan.  Over 500 of our elected officials are behind the 2309 pages of junk about to be decided in the House.  There are many things to complain about, from the lack of time (72 hours just isn’t long enough to read that thing, let alone analyze it.  We’re talking 32 pages an hour, and that’s if you didn’t sleep or eat or shower,) to the means of passing it being proposed by the Speaker of the House.  But blaming Obama for trying to drum up support for the health care bill is about like blaming him for the existence of taxes.  He didn’t make the problem OR the solution being posed.  He’s just pushing us to do SOMETHING, rather than nothing.  What he HAS insisted on was all good.  He insisted that it be paid for, not just a bottomless pit or a blank check.  How terrible of him to suggest such a thing?  So tell me, pundit types: Why do you blame him and the Senate and House mouthpieces, when it took more than 500 representatives to come to this point?

There are many issues with the current health care reform bill.  I am sorry to admit that I am not convinced that it will do the job.  It lacks Tort Reform, so there’s no end to the need for Defensive Medicine, and that is the single biggest cost we face, when all aspects are considered.  The lack of Public OPTION bothers me as well, because I don’t see how the insurance companies will be kept from raping us on the rates while blaming the currently uninsured for the increases.  That it’s being rushed through by Pelosi bothers me, too.  That the 500+ in Congress couldn’t come up with anything better than the House and Senate bills is pathetic.  But none of that has anything to do with Obama.

Then there’s the whole Socialist angle.  Just about every Obama basher with a keyboard is labeling him a Communist, a Socialist or a Muslim (though he’s clearly Christian and decidedly affluent.)  Let me enlighten a few of you: Socialism is not Communism.  Our roads and highways are a socialist policy.  Our bridges are a socialist policy.  Even our airports, trains and bus systems are socialist, as are our groceries, dairies, and just about every other part of our society.  We are social creatures.  Capitalism is wonderful for the Haves, but even they have need of the “socialist” services.  Even through my libertarian leanings, I’m able to recognize that travel would become untenable if we were to rely upon Capitalism to provide us with streets and highways.  Imagine if EMS were a strictly private enterprise.  The ambulance arrives, you’re in cardiac arrest, and they’re qualifying you to make sure you can afford the $6000 they’re going to charge for the 5 mile ride, instead of administering CPR.  No thanks.  Anyone who thinks things through will admit they prefer our Socialist version of life to the Rugged Individualist suicide that a truly anti-socialist society (talk about an oxymoron) would be in practice.  So, for the love of whatever it is you believe in or cherish, lay off the dull-witted labels!

Should we impeach the President?  For what?  The last President violated the Constitution itself, lied to the American people to get us into wars that cost trillions of dollars, killed hundreds of thousands of people (including many thousands of our own,) and benefited the Vice-President and their cronies.  Gas prices were huge and choking (while he and his family owned 12% of Exxon,) yet the Democrats never got anywhere past committee with the  Articles of Impeachment justly filed by Dennis Kucinich.  When Bill Clinton lied about something that no one with any decency would have asked him, the GOP tried to impeach him for it.   Starting to see a pattern?  The GOP is a bunch of whining crybabies.  They call foul whenever they don’t get their way.  They try to impeach, even the day after the People re-elect Clinton into a second term.   It comes as no shock or surprise that some of them drag up impeachment of this President as well, even though he hasn’t done anything unlawful.

Even if the support were there in Congress, it would be ridiculous to impeach President Obama.  Compared to both of the Bushes and Clinton, Obama is a Constitutional saint!  If you’re upset about the healthcare “reform” legislation (or lack thereof,) take that up with Congress.  That doesn’t necessarily mean voting them out and letting the chips fall where they may.  It DOES mean getting involved in the process.  When all is said and done, Don Henley was entirely correct when he penned “We get the government we deserve.”