Joe Klein says it out loud
"This is a big deal.
"And a big problem for Republicans who, yet again, have chosen not to participate in the extension of a basic human right to all Americans--the right to health care--a right that is common throughout the rest of the civilized world."
posted by The Front at 4:04 PM
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I don't mean to pile, but I do.
Going by the actions of its leaders, the GOP apparently exists to make my life worse, my country weaker, to injure my friends with neglect and contempt, to excuse the worst excesses of the privileged, to unbuild civility, public education, constitutional rights and the rule of law, to cultivate toxic lies for the personal benefit of wealthy colleagues, or to wallow in hate-spewing ignorance. On the rare occasion a Republican leader speaks the truth, it is only in lying service of some despicable self-serving policy.
To me the GOP moderates are the most destructive: people like McCain, people like Schwarzenegger, mild-mannered Lisa Murkowski, who put a sheen of amiability on the GOP like chapstick on a herpes sore, but always, ALWAYS cave on every important point. If John McCain can cave on torturing prisoners, there is only negligible hope for a return to basic morality on the part of the GOP.
I spent three decades being reasonable with the Republicans. Well, two and a half. The last five years, you may have noticed, I have stopped, and until a very long string of actions demonstrates otherwise, I will consider that party the enemy of everything I value about the United States, and the conservative movement a wholly dissembling rationalization of market forces, an opinion that the news reinforces every single day.
We have been going a little soft on them lately.
Idling away my hours on a plane ride to the midwest today (row 32, middle seat), I came up with the following possible new marketing slogans for the GOP:
- Losers Should Die
- God Says: Kill
- One Dollar, One Vote
* or *
- The remarkably high infant mortality rate in the U.S. is due not to our failure as a society to provide the basic human right of healthcare to the needy, but the the moral decadence of poor people generally.
It shocks me at this moment of victory how angry I am.
I challenge anyone to make clear the difference between that unspeakable party and American neo-fascism.
I'll take that challenge: Apparently the GOP makes less use of strong-arm tactics by individuals wearing colored shirts and more use of mass-media outlets.
But reading the fear-mongering / ill-informed rants on the comments section of the latter makes me worried the about the eventual rise of the former.
Either that, or the inevitable "lone gunman" scenario.
Any period with this much inchoate rage floating around is bound to produce... something.
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