It's truly an American spectacle to see the Republicans spewing vitriol towards Chief Justice John Roberts ~ or as they are calling him on Twitter "Chief Traitor Roberts."
Do these morons have any idea what they sound like to people out here in the heartland whose lack of health insurance has been keeping them trapped in a bad job or even keeping them from having children? I can't be the only person who thinks the Republican Party the past few days sound like a bunch of cruel sore losers who would begrudge benefits to anyone less fortunate. What a bunch of hypocrites!
Remember folks ~
Every single one of those politicians and pundits on TV have Major Medical for themselves and their families. That goes for any politician on a local, city, county or state level, no matter how much they like to slam "government." That is an act - they don't really mean half the stuff they say!
And they are lying and using propaganda techniques to scare the public into thinking that Obamacare is everything from a communist plot to "take away our guns" to turning the IRS into Obama's private army. Come on - who believes this horse hockey? Rush Limbaugh is NOT the voice of truth, people. He is a whiny complainer who uses his bully pulpit to mock our President as an illegitimate criminal bent on destroying America. I think it's the opposite - it's as if he is looking in a mirror and talking to himself. The Republicans want to destroy America and rebuild it in their own image, and that's not a pretty sight.
Guess what? We won't ever see these politicians on the right cutting their own health care plans to balance the budget. No, they look out for themselves and their own familes. Why do you think these bozos want to get re-elected over and over? They are NOT volunteers. They wouldn't do it if the money and benefits weren't there, and many republicans are in the 1% anyway. They just don't want to help anyone else. They are cold, mean, and lacking basic empathy towards other human beings, and they don't even pretend to care anymore.Even Romney doesn't try to court the voters on the fence by displaying empathy. I don't think he has any.
What do the Republicans and Teapublicans have to do or say to prove to "undecided voters" that they are nasty people? Kick a dog in the street? They've already had the vomiting dog on top of the car. Slap a woman? They are threatening women with transvaginal probes and calling them sluts and whores - isn't that enough? Yell fire in a crowded building? That is what they do in a figurative sense every single day when they insist that Obama is single-handedly bringing on Apocalypse Now.
And no, I don't buy the theory that "both sides are just as bad" and I think the constitutionality of Obamacare proves that. The President ironically now has a "mandate" and the seal of approval of the Supreme Court, thanks to that low-down scumbag, Dread Pirate Roberts. But it's the Republicans who can't have it both ways. If a ruling was good enough for Citizen's United to be constitutional, then it's good enough for Obamacare to be constitutional. End of story . . . or it should be.
Let me explain it the way my parents explained it to me:
It is always the Democrats who give us large social programs that raise the standard of living. It has been that way since Franklin Roosevelt. It was that way when Kennedy and LBJ were in office. In the old days when Republicans had more backbone, they would join in and vote for worthy programs that would help needy citizens, but now the Republicans follow their leaders like so many chickens in a pecking order, and they get so scared when the others start squawking at them. The underling Republicans hurry to prove their worth to their Overlords by slamming Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and now Justice Roberts. Insults are the new key to success in the Republican Party. But when all you have is a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail. They will say "NO!" to anything Obama puts forth so they can stay in the Republican Club, but meanwhile they have no good ideas of their own.
Shouldn't the American people have a right to the same benefits that these bloviating ignoramuses take for granted as a job perk? These nutters who pray loudly and publicly to God for deliverance from the evil Obama - yes, they even pray on Twitter and Facebook - get right up off their knees and onto the nearest soap box to slam unemployed people as "lazy freeloaders," sick children as "wanting a handout," and now a Supreme Court Justice as "Benedict Arnold" or "Judas."
We need to get smarter as a country and point out this bad behavior and lack of statesmanship loudly and often. More than that - it's just plain immoral to hate sick people and leave them suffering until they die in the richest country on earth. It's immoral to shut out millions of people from health care just because they are too young for Medicare or because they have to work three part-time jobs in this economy just to pay for rent and food.
The conservatives are taking a morally indefensible stance and I can't see it's going to help Romney win at all. He's the one who helped craft the original health care plan in Massachusetts. And his plan is still in force and 98% of the people there are covered. And that's a good thing, not a scary thing. Believe it.
