Congress and Elections 2010
Western Pols Quick to Denounce Passage of Health Care Bill
And within the expected negative statements from western politicians are embedded political codes designed to shape how voters think.By Jill Kuraitis, 3-22-10
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It took less than five minutes Sunday night after Congress passed the health care reform bill for the press releases to fly - a sure sign they were written well in advance. No surprise there.
Neither is it surprising that Idaho elected officials and candidates for those offices are unhappy with national health reform; they’ve been clear and consistent about it for months.
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter’s statement is the most specific and least inflammatory of the bunch, except for the slightly snarky headline punctuation:
GOVERNOR REACTS TO HOUSE APPROVAL OF HEALTHCARE “REFORM” LEGISLATION
“States like Idaho are working hard to create public-private healthcare partnerships and facilitate local solutions. Big federal programs aren’t the answer. It’s even more important now for patients and practitioners, hospitals and health insurers, employers and employees to work together, because Congress and the White House got it wrong. All this will do is keep states and the marketplace from making healthcare more affordable and accessible while imposing a legacy of untold debt on our children and grandchildren.”
Idaho 1st District Congressman Walt Minnick’s statement reads in part:
MINNICK: RESPONSIBILITY TO START WORKING TOGETHER
“I voted no today because I was elected to listen to my constituents, seek the best possible information and use my best judgment to make the right decision for Idaho.
It was a difficult vote because, like all Idahoans, I truly do care about improving the health-insurance system, about reducing costs and about improving care. But I voted against this bill because it is critical to the long-term fiscal health of the country that we not get this wrong.
No one should ever be elected to be a blind loyalist to a political party, on any issue, but we owe the people we represent nothing less than our deep commitment to work together on the issues facing this nation. The people of Idaho have such a commitment from me.” (The full text of Minnick’s press release is below.)
Idaho 2nd District Congressman Mike Simpson’s press release uses a trigger word – “takeover” in its headline:
SIMPSON VOTES AGAINST NATIONAL HEALTH CARE TAKEOVER
Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson voted no tonight on HR 3590, legislation that represents the first step to a government takeover of the healthcare system. Despite Simpson’s strong opposition and repeated efforts to defeat the bill, this bill passed the House by a final vote of 219-212.
“There is no doubt that this legislation will be challenged in court,” said Simpson. “Beyond the question of its legality, this bill will ultimately damage the health care system in the United States while adding another $2 to 3 trillion to our national debt. At this time, I encourage all Idahoans to support Governor Otter in his effort to challenge its constitutionality in court.”
Congressman Simpson has supported a number of commonsense health reform bills that have been introduced in Congress, such as H.R. 1086, the HEALTH Act, and H.R. 2607, the Small Business Healthcare Fairness Act, to name just a few.
“Many have said we are the party of ‘NO,’ but that is simply not the case,” said Simpson. “We have offered several commonsense alternatives that will actually bring down the cost of health care. I am extremely disappointed to see that once again, the Democrats have failed to listen to the American people and chosen to push a partisan takeover of health care instead of passing effective health reform that everyone could support. (The full text of Simpson’s press release is below.)
Idaho Republican Party Chairman Norm Semanko’s statement also employs political code techniques such as failing to refer to President Obama as the President, Rep. Nancy Pelosi as the Speaker of the House (and using her name at all, a synonym for “Satan” in this red state.) The capitalization of “American People” is sometimes used to put special emphasis on the phrase, a trigger which could influence feelings of patriotism. These tricks of the trade are frequently used.
“Today’s disastrous vote on the health care bill in the House of Representatives demonstrates how out of touch Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and the Congressional Democrats are with the American People. Instead of starting over and working on a bipartisan agreement, Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi chose to ram through a bill that costs way too much money, puts government in control of personal health decisions, cuts Medicare, and grows government—while doing nothing to control the skyrocketing costs of healthcare.
The American people want true health care reform that isn’t about politics, but rather about the families, businesses and economy of the nation. Obama, Pelosi and the Democrats in Congress have continued to fail the American people, and today’s vote is proof that they still aren’t listening. Democrats can expect to pay the consequences at the polls in November, here in Idaho and across the nation.”
Candidates for the Republican nomination for Idaho’s 1st Congressional district seat - the winner will challenge incumbent Democrat Rep. Walt Minnick – also issued statements. Raul Labrador’s uses an old trick of using the term “Democrat” when the proper form is “Democratic” – probably designed to make “Democrat” a dirty word and to disassociate “democratic” with just one party.
Labrador also invokes his opinion that the bill is unconstitutional, a frequent cry from the right.
RAUL LABRADOR’S STATEMENT ON PASSAGE OF DEMOCRAT HEALTH BILLS
“Tonight, with a majority of Americans opposing the government take-over of health care, Democrats in Washington passed a bill that is deeply flawed. I agree that Americans need affordable and quality health care, but considering the current state of the economy, I do not believe that small businesses and middle class families benefit from paying an additional half trillion dollars in new taxes.
I believe that this bill steps away from personal, private coverage and choice, to a Washington-controlled healthcare system that will limit choice, restrict innovation, and harm competition.
This bill endangers the U.S. Constitution and the principle of limited government through mandates forcing Americans to purchase health care coverage deemed acceptable by the government or face fines. This bill restricts personal choice and will shamefully force Americans to purchase plans they did not want or could not afford.”
Labrador’s most serious primary opponent, Vaughn Ward, also invokes a view of the bill as unconstitutional:
“Walter Minnick’s party has done it again. Though he voted “no” on the health care bill, he did nothing to work with Republicans to stop this unconstitutional bill from being forced on the people. Idahoans are frustrated and outraged that the guy they sent to Congress to protect us could not deliver, again. It is time to remove Walter Minnick and help pull the gavel of power from his boss, Nancy Pelosi. If the people of Idaho elect me to Congress, I will forge a new era of conservative leadership and I will work tirelessly to repeal this unconstitutional legislation. I will represent the families of Idaho and propose legislation that reforms health care using market driven approaches. These approaches will relieve the burden on our small businesses and put Idahoans back to work.”
Minnick voted “no” along with 33 other Democrats and every Republican in the House, but that didn’t stop Ward from trying to pin the bill’s passage on him. In this election year, Republicans are eager to place blame on Democrats for perceived injustices, mistakes, and outrages, and are counting on anti-federal-interference sentiment to boost their campaigns.
Utah’s 1st Congressional District Rep. Rob Bishop uses particularly pointed code language in his release, BISHOP LAMENTS DEMOCRAT HIJACKING OF INDIVIDUAL LIBERTIES; HISTORIC HEALTHCARE TAKEOVER PASSES THE HOUSE
Tonight, Congressman Rob Bishop (UT-01) cast a “no” vote for the Democrat takeover of healthcare, H.R. 3590. Despite significant bipartisan opposition, Speaker Pelosi wrangled 219 Democrat members to vote in favor of the bill- just enough needed to send the bill to the President’s desk for signature.
“I am proud to say that I was one of the 212 Members of Congress who opposed the Democrat’s freedom-robbing healthcare bill. Poor process produces a poor product and this trillion dollar tragedy is about as bad as they come. From the very start, this bill was on course to be one of the most historic examples of why we must restore a balance of power in Washington.
“Over the past year, Democrats consistently turned a deaf ear to the American people and to the numerous alternatives offered by Republicans, proving that it was not about passing the best possible bill, but instead about increasing government intrusion into the lives of all Americans. This abuse of power is exactly what the Founding Fathers sought to prevent when they drafted the Constitution.” (The full text of Bishop’s statement is below.)
Colorado’s two Republican representative voted with the rest of their party, while Democrat Betsy Markey, who was a wild card, voted yes despite having voted against earlier versions of the health care bill. The rest of the Colorado delegation are all Democrats who joined Markey with yes votes. According to Denver’s NBC affiliate 9News, Republican Rep. Mike Coffman said, “This stuff is just crazy and it will put Americans on a dangerous road.”
PRESS RELEASES IN FULL:
U.S. Rep. Walt Minnick released the following statement today after voting on the health reform package before the House of Representatives:
“I voted no today because I was elected to listen to my constituents, seek the best possible information and use my best judgment to make the right decision for Idaho.
It was a difficult vote because, like all Idahoans, I truly do care about improving the health-insurance system, about reducing costs and about improving care. But I voted against this bill because it is critical to the long-term fiscal health of the country that we not get this wrong.
Nevertheless, I remain committed to working on what comes next:
• We must enact comprehensive tort reform.
• We must bring more providers to rural communities.
• We must increase the number of primary-care physicians.
• We must improve mental and physical care for our returning military veterans.
• We must work to reduce the costs within the health care system.
• We must decrease the Medicare rate disparity that hurts states like Idaho.
• We must shift the basis for medical payments from procedures to outcomes.
And I offer my firm commitment to hold the administration accountable for their promise that this legislation will not add to the deficit.
Whether you supported or opposed this bill, surely you agree that we must now work together to move beyond the rhetoric and anger that has so divided our nation. There are too many important issues facing this nation for us to allow the divisions created by this vote to remain beyond this vote.
No one should ever be elected to be a blind loyalist to a political party, on any issue, but we owe the people we represent nothing less than our deep commitment to work together on the issues facing this nation. The people of Idaho have such a commitment from me.”
Simpson Votes Against National Health Care Takeover
Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson voted no tonight on HR 3590, legislation that represents the first step to a government takeover of the healthcare system. Despite Simpson’s strong opposition and repeated efforts to defeat the bill, this bill passed the House by a final vote of 219-212.
“There is no doubt that this legislation will be challenged in court,” said Simpson. “Beyond the question of its legality, this bill will ultimately damage the health care system in the United States while adding another $2 to 3 trillion to our national debt. At this time, I encourage all Idahoans to support Governor Otter in his effort to challenge its constitutionality in court.”
Congressman Simpson has supported a number of commonsense health reform bills that have been introduced in Congress, such as H.R. 1086, the HEALTH Act, and H.R. 2607, the Small Business Healthcare Fairness Act, to name just a few.
“Many have said we are the party of ‘NO,’ but that is simply not the case,” said Simpson. “We have offered several commonsense alternatives that will actually bring down the cost of health care. I am extremely disappointed to see that once again, the Democrats have failed to listen to the American people and chosen to push a partisan takeover of health care instead of passing effective health reform that everyone could support.”
Simpson and 70 of his colleagues have cosponsored H.R. 1086, the HEALTH Act. This bill would implement effective medical malpractice reform and put an end to junk lawsuits by placing caps on non-economic damages and limiting attorney fees. This bill would save as much as $120 billion in wasteful spending by stemming the practice of defensive medicine.
Simpson is also a cosponsor of H.R. 2607, the Small Business Healthcare Fairness Act, which would allow small businesses to band together through associations to buy health care coverage. Large corporations and labor unions already leverage their size and buying power to secure lower premiums and rates when buying health insurance for their employees and members. This bill would give America’s small businesses the same advantages to make health care coverage for their employees more affordable. In addition, Simpson supports reforms to prohibit insurers from denying coverage to people because of pre-existing condition as well as reforms to make the purchase of health insurance for individuals tax-exempt like it is for employer-sponsored insurance. He also supports prescription drug re-importation, which would control prescription drug costs by allowing Americans to buy FDA-approved prescription drugs from places such as Canada and Europe where drugs are sold for much less money.
“I also believe that we need to do more as a country to focus on prevention and early intervention,” said Simpson. “If we truly want to control the cost of healthcare, individuals must be part of the solution by taking an active role in our overall health.”
BISHOP LAMENTS DEMOCRAT HIJACKING OF INDIVIDUAL LIBERTIES; HISTORIC HEALTHCARE TAKEOVER PASSES THE HOUSE
Tonight, Congressman Rob Bishop (UT-01) cast a “no” vote for the Democrat takeover of healthcare, H.R. 3590. Despite significant bipartisan opposition, Speaker Pelosi wrangled 219 Democrat members to vote in favor of the bill- just enough needed to send the bill to the President’s desk for signature.
“I am proud to say that I was one of the 212 Members of Congress who opposed the Democrat’s freedom-robbing healthcare bill. Poor process produces a poor product and this trillion dollar tragedy is about as bad as they come. From the very start, this bill was on course to be one of the most historic examples of why we must restore a balance of power in Washington.
“Over the past year, Democrats consistently turned a deaf ear to the American people and to the numerous alternatives offered by Republicans, proving that it was not about passing the best possible bill, but instead about increasing government intrusion into the lives of all Americans. This abuse of power is exactly what the Founding Fathers sought to prevent when they drafted the Constitution.” (The full text of Bishop’s statement is below.)
“The State of Utah has realized the need for true healthcare reform and started a process based on the needs of the state’s unique demographics that would have provided viable options for all Utahns. This vote will stop Utah’s efforts as well as those of other states working to provide tailored alternatives to this massive one-size-fits-all assault on freedom and choice. The destruction of Utah’s creative alternative is the real tragedy.
“Today is not the proudest day of this institution and I am committed, more than ever, to work toward getting this country back on track by rebuilding individual liberty and restoring the principles of Federalism on which this country was founded,” said Congressman Bishop.
Among other things, this legislation will:
· add $569.2 billion in tax increases
· cut Medicare by $523.5 billion
· add $48 billion more for Medicaid
· create $17 billion in new taxes on Americans who do not comply with the individual mandate
· force $52 billion in new taxes on employers that do not provide health coverage deemed “acceptable” or “affordable” by government bureaucrats
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with the Governor of the State of Idaho!
Clement is going to tell us how states and the marketplace were working to make healthcare more affordable and accessible, before the Wicked Witch of the West came in on her broomstick, and made all their plans fizzle and splutz.
You're offended by the term democrat instead of democratic? What do you see in this process that remotely resembles anything "democratic"? This was a shamefull moment for America.
I hope you feel better, and get the treatment you deserve.
God Bless Obama and the Democrats for doing what Jesus would have done.
The issue is, and will be: What the F--K is in the bill?? We really don't know, because even though the vote was sunday, the bill is still being written. And then it has to go through a process in the Senate, again, because that was how it was set up. We still face a convoluted and heavily choreographed political dance till the end, which is not yet here.
If the whole process smells a lot like horse shit, it is because this bill was the result of endless horse trading, all of it among dissident Democrats. There was not one Republican vote to be traded for. Stupak, the Catholic, getting an Executive Order on abortion funding holds, which is like getting a time out in Kindergarten. Short lasting and soon forgotten. De Fazio in Oregon, getting the insanity of the Medicare payments having a geographical area limitation, so that a doctor in Miami got paid three times what a doctor did in Oregon for taking out your appendix, changed so that all doctors make the same. De Fazio claims the HRBill treats every area of the country equally. And it might, or it might not, because even De Fazio does not know what will be there in the end. His pea might not be under the shell he thought it was. There is a cabal of Democrat leadership that has written and is writing the HRBill. When they are done, it will go to the Senate, where it will have an up or down vote, after it winds it way through the Byrd procedural processes and obfuscations. Meanwhile, Jill doesn't know what is in the bill, nor do I, nor does any of the Republicans she is shining her light on. So we wait. There will be pleasure and outrage at the end. And probably some from both sides. Someone once counseled against trying to be all things for all people, and that it can't be done. We will find out. Meanwhile, the pundits and congressional spokespersons all are saying that most of the change does not happen before 2014, but the taxation and money collection begins immediately, along with a few of the provisions, provided they pass legal muster in one lawsuit or another.
My tax preparer had us in yesterday to sign the returns so he could file them electronically. He was lamenting about all the changes in taxes, on whom, and when, that are retroactive, and payable for the upcoming first quarter 2010 quarterlies, but there exists no form, no context, in which to report. Nothing you can download, no directions, nada. All of it requires new software for tax preparers and the Feds. All related to a "jobs bill" passed also this weekend. I guess there is provision for employers to NOT have to make the matching SSI contribution. So we are going to employ more people by shorting SSI? How quaint those economics are. The savings to the employer are supposed to help them hire more people. I am not holding my breath. The real issue is for people to spend money, which is the only way to goose the economy, but people have reverted to the saving money mode, or they are in some sort of foreclosure or bankruptcy because they no longer have money to spend, jobs notwithstanding.
My local, weekly, countywide newspaper usually has a page or two of "legals" to report foreclosures, public budgets, the usual. For the last year it has been averaging about 7 pages each week. This last week it was 11 pages, the highest in this recession. I would say, on the surface, that people's economic status is not improving, unless of course, you are working for the public sector, which has gained over 10,000 jobs in Oregon during this recession while the private sector has lost 220,000 jobs, and loses more each month. How large the unreported unemployed body has become nobody is saying. We do know the reporting unemployed group is 75% male.
So, we have a new HRBill mandate on employers, fines for non-compliance, more taxation, more mandated demands on insurance while the insured pool shrinks due to economic downturn, a growing public sector employment group who is close to having to "shine each others shoes" to exist (they work, pay taxes, to support their working--you do run out of that money at sometime), a spate of union wage demands coming up, at a time when the private side compensation is dropping and the public side wants more money. I can see conflict on the horizon. It will be characterized as a partisan issue, Democrats supporting the poor public worker and the unemployed, against the rich, evil capitalists, all Republicans, who are not quite the demographic they used to be. I find out all the time about someone I have known who was a real successful something or another, who is now penniless from some business venture that has failed in this recession. So and so was worth $125 million and now they live in an apartment. Another killed himself in despair and shame. I hear these stories more than I ever thought possible. I have a brother who is a doctor, and he tells me about his high school and college mates who became doctors who are now penniless, and having to work to stay off the streets, all in their shakey 60s. Some comfort that brings.
There are many fewer rich people being required to support a whole lot more who have never been able to support themselves. Only we don't know how it will work out, end up, with Health Care....It does upset and apple cart, and it does make drastic changes. Some are very helpful to people who cannot help themselves. Others are going to take away from people who will not be able to replace what they had. We just don't know. We just don't know, nor will we for several years as all the Administrative Rules are made, enforcements challenged, issues and parts of the bill declared unconstitutional or in violation of prior public law that was not changed in the bill. We just do not know. In flux? Incomplete? Legal plasma? The lava has yet to harden? Gee, we didn't think.....and unintended consequences. This bill was passed for no more reason than the political will and persuasion to pass a bill, any bill, because it was imperative to reform health care, for better or worse. The jury is out. Not unlike buying that dress that does not fit but it was the last one on the rack and is the latest style......so I had to have it. Now you have to alter it, remake it, find a way to make it fit. Money is not an issue. There are no financial limits. We have to have a prom dress. And with 535 dressmakers with differing ideas of how it should look at the prom......WE just don't know...and that is scary, really. To me.
Since Obama "reneged" on having "open government, with antiseptic sunshine lighting the process, and no smoke filled rooms and policy making behind closed doors", "you will see the law made on CSPAN," in the health care reform legislation, neither you nor I have any idea of what those now more than 3000 pages of crap to be sent to the Senate and then to be printed in the Federal Register, and then the tsunami of Administrative Rules are put forth to administer the new Health Care Reform Bill and the estimated 16,000 new IRS employees are put to work to interpret their job to collect the money that is entailed in the super secret still not seeing the sunlight of public scrutiny Democrat bill, with zero Republican support and 34 dissenters from the Democrat party also voting "no", what will it look like or say, and who the f--k really knows what is in store?
The American mushrooms are still in the dark, and maybe we will always be in the dark, when people three thousand miles away make decisions on how we lead our lives. Our elected representatives did not answer phones, emails, letters, on this reform. We have no connection to the bill. It was made by lobby interests, from non-profits, to public employee unions, to big pharma, big insurance, big banking, and the hijacking of a sixth of the US economy has happened. The Pelosi Brownshirts got the job done. For now. Just how it will look and how good or bad it will be, only time will tell. The people who don't work, don't vote, but live off the dole will have health insurance, is hard for my mind to wrap around. I guess it is one of those deals where they file a tax return, and if they make less than some amount of money, the US Govt will send them money to purchase health insurance. A voucher. So some hard working person will be buying it for them, as directed by the guns, the courts, and the full might of the US Govt. Heil Who? Charity used to begin at home. Now home is the end of charity. Uncle Sam gets all the money today. But I really don't know because there was no place on the net to see the real bill, and the damn thing is probably still being written as the senate has it now. We just don't know. Opaque law making. The secret society of the House Rules Committee and the Speaker control who does what to whom. Or as Oregon Representative Ben Dover once said "I just want to drive home this one point." Like you knew which Boy Scout troop he was from.
So my wife and I have health insurance we buy. $5000 deductible. Has a drug benefit. Is that what we now will have? Or is there now a co-pay or deductible? What kind of insurance do the formerly uninsured now get, in 2014, after we have paid for it for four years? Is it a one size fits all, like the Congressmen and women get, and the Senate, and the Prez hisself? Do we now have to pay more for less, as is often the case after someone from the government comes to help you? I guess I take my own advice, hope I live long enough to see the result, and then we will see. I just hope it is something that does not cause a lot of strife, because our economy is in the tank, with the lowest housing starts since records have been kept, twice as many people of color out of work (you do have to finish school, people) than other races, and three quarters of the unemployed are male. Lots of them have been well trained by the military on how to fight. We do have a problem on our hands and I hope all the political capital has not been exhausted on health care. If so, there is trouble in River City, and elsewhere.
In the case of the CA Central Valley, ESA issues for salmon on the San Joaquin and Sacramento Rivers (all the tributaries are dammed and no salmon can access them...and I mean ALL) had limited water allocated for irrigation due to a drought. And that was the case until the Speaker needed votes to pass Health Care Reform, and viola'!!! Interior Sec. Salazar (the Bureau of Reclamation and water stored behind Corps of Engineers dams are under his authority) determined all by himself that it has rained, some, this year, and snowed some, so there is more water in the dams (with reservoirs at historic lows, but higher than a month ago) to allocate a whole lot of water to irrigation in a desert, and salmon and Delta smelt will have enough water (to survive in the river, but since no water goes into SF Bay and to the ocean, the young fish will see pump intakes instead of salt water as the irrigation water and dam releases to ensure water flows at 750 cfs down the San Joaquin River) except none of that water will flow to SF Bay and onto the ocean. But Obama got the votes. And Central Valley irrigators got water. Who said Nancy Pelosi is not pimping for Obama? Who said Salazar is the environmental saviour? Just another street walker turning tricks for votes, all to benefit the President, Pimp in Chief. Sorry. I don't see the Statesman in this deal. I see commerce. I see buying votes. I see pragmatic politics. But is all forgiven because it is your dog in the fight? It is your guy, not Bush or Cheney, paying off politicians? All I see is business as usual, and no statesmanship. All I see is very informed constituents telling their congressman that if they don't get what they need from the Health Reform horse trading, they will ride another horse in the next election. So all the altruism of environmental concerns went out the window for more water for corporate farms and a letter of condolences to salmon and Delta smelt. Business as usual. Obama bought the votes he needed with your money, dodged your laws to pull it off, and you will suffer to that he might prevail.
Did you really mean that a statesman would never listen to the views of a minority of constituents with whom he does not agree? And "ignorant" is your evaluation of anyone who disagrees with popular opinion or the bare majority?
As for TR, he thought Taft would continue his (TR's) political path of progressive politics, but Taft mostly concerned himself with when the next meal would be served. So TR tried to get back into the game, he and Taft split the Republican party vote, and both were whipped by a tall, skinny academic who went to bed and cried when the going got tough. That the end of his Presidency was in bed suffering from the effects of a stroke did the country no good. It was Wilson who started the whole drug prohibition thing, for which Mexicans can be thankful. Another ineffective academic progressive liberal who was just never up to the job. The bare bones toughness and work ethic of a TR cannot be found in academics and liberals who want to talk about it, and not do anything until there has been a debate. Maybe Obamanation has had a change of direction, and he is now listening to the hardassed Chicago pols with the pragmatism to "git 'er done." Never the less, we are a divided nation right now. And Obama, who recently dissed McCain by telling him the campaign is over, is out campaigning as I write. I guess it is not over. And McCain is back to shooting off his mouth. Yahooo!!! America is alive and well!!!
As far as I can see what the country needs now is a lot of common sense and for those with reading skills to read the friggin Healthcare bill. That just might shed a little light on the thaings that are to start immediately and the ones that will be inacted a little later.
Also, if Rush would go where he promised he could hook up to a little 5 watt station and scream his heart out about how unfair America is.
capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It
will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama
presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and
good judgment to an electorate willing to have such a man
for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more
serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails
us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone
to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince.
The republic can survive a Barack Obama. It is less likely
to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him
their president.
MIckey: your Demoncraps are no better than your Repulsicans. They are taking aim like a Mormon Boy Scout leader. So do you bend over or try to run for it?
I have a suggestion. Quit bitchin and vote with your head not you passion next time. If the Tea Party is your bag go for it. If others believe as I do and want a country that is respected again, as it is now, they will vote the Rethugs out and get a real democracy started again.
The rules of discourse here are that simple veiled innuendo such as "a man like him" is pathetic and weak. Tell us what you're really thinking so that we can take the measure of what sort of person you are, so freely waving your digits at fools all around you.
I am an unabashed Democratic former Idahoan. I loved my state and Hagerman where I was reared for the most of my young life. But, I could not grow because of the mind set of the majority of the folks so away I went.
That said the Obama administration has so much to clean up that it is awfully hard to accomplish anything with a batch of thugs still in the different departments of Justice Commerce etc. It is also hard to get anything done when the Rethugs, oops sorry, the Party of NO is stinking up the Congress.
By the way, "It is a really big F@@kin deal."