They want to do nothing…well, other than to instill images of Death Panels, terrorist attacks, and gay married people running amok, into the minds of paranoid Americans.
As soon as Obama assumed office, Congress passed the ginormous stimulus plan in order to feed some financial lithium to an American economy on the edge of deep depression.
I get that.
It was an expensive proposition, but I think that in 9-12 months, the benefits of the stimulus package will begin to pay off for our economy, and even the job numbers, which typically lag behind an economic upswing, will see considerable improvement.
But, after that…
Obama decided to reform our health care system…As our nation’s health care costs are exploding, eating up 1/6th of our economy, and millions go uninsured, it is an admirable goal.
Cost containment, portability, and affordability are issues that must be dealt with.
However, Obama and the Democrats should have limited their reformation of health care to those three health care issues. What’s not to like about those goals? Nothing.
But noooooo, they had to go and push for a complete overhaul while Americans are already nervous about the economy. Boneheads.
On the other side of the aisle?
Republicans want nothing done on this issue, because even those three issues smack of a slap in the face to the free market system and are fascistic, Stalinistic, and any other fearful “istic” phrase they can think of.
The Dems went a bridge too far, and the Republicans want no bridges built at all. Unless, of course, it’s a bridge to nowhere.
On top of that? The Dems and the Obama administration are pushing for a new energy program, torture investigations, and a dozen other agenda items including repealing the Defense of Marriage Act.
Seriously, the Dems should have kept it simple until the economy turned around and people weren’t bombarded by proposals of change upon change while many Americans are unsure if their job or house will be there tomorrow.
Dems, you should have listened to the Richard Dreyfuss character from “What About Bob” and said to yourselves, “baby steps.”
Republicans, you need to get off your asses and offer counter-proposals…
Quit thinking that change is not needed and saying much like Voltaire’s character, Pangloss from Candide, “This is the best of all possible worlds.”
It’s not. And, I’m sure your tea baggers and town hall meeting naybobs don’t know who the hell Voltaire is anyway.
When I think of our government lately, I think of M*A*S*H. I remember Charles Winchester saying after his first session of surgery saying, “I do one thing. I do it very well, and then I move on.”
Either Hawkeye or BJ replies by saying something like, “Charles, this is meatball surgery. You patch them up and send them on.”
The meatball surgery idea is fine when you are close to a war front, because the wounded in M*A*S*H were sent on to an Evac hospital to be fully healed.
This nation has no Evac hospital. We need to focus on one thing at a time, do it very well, and then move on.
Of course, while Winchester had the right idea as to how to do something, Hawkeye had the right perspective.
Hawkeye was concerned about the patient, Winchester was more concerned about his own reputation.
America is the patient and needs a doctor like Hawkeye AND Winchester without the reputation and reelection seeking habit of Charles...
I doubt that that can happen...
Maybe it was Plato who was right…We need a Philosopher King. We need an Enlightened Absolutist.
What he have now, sure as hell isn’t working.
Cheers!!
