Watching the President address a special joint session of Congress last night on health care I was reminded why so many politicians are loathed by Americans. I have never witnessed a group of more petulant, arrogant, rude and downright unruly people in my life. Grown men scowling, waving papers, shouting “You Lie!” These wingnuts have lost their minds! Has anyone ever seen this level of disrespect in our government? Articulate, draft a counterproposal, argue your points but don’t sit in chamber with your GOP friends and act like complete hooligans. It was like watching one of those English soccer matches gone bad. I am horrified. The GOP has become less than a joke. They now represent a party of legislators that exist only to tear things down and risk the future of this country.
During the primaries, the GOP stirred up a hornet’s nest when they saw that the then candidate for President, Barack Obama wasn’t wearing an American flag pin on his lapel. Given what I witnessed last night, I cannot understand how they could have ever questioned his patriotism.
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It was just awful. I'm almost starting to think I should stop watching The Daily Show, just so I don't have to be exposed to such nonsense, even if it is done in such a humorous way.
ReplyDeleteWhat is really getting under my skin these days are the people who say that they don't agree with a given health care plan, because they know that the plan would somehow not be implemented as stated in the plan. For example, they say that they don't want to go for such-n-such a bill, because they know they would be forced to see a different doctor even though they know that they wouldn't really be able to see their same doctor. Ugh. No logic whatsoever...
And of course the worst one of all is the people who say we have the #1 healthcare system in the world and if you don't think so - then you're not patriotic. Uhhhh... So I ask, "What would be an example of a metric that is indicative of us having the #1 healthcare system in the world." At that point, the conversation usually shuts down since they often don't know what the word indicative means and/or they can't think of a single metric.
Can you tell I'm frustrated? ;-)