Republican Wuss Factory

One of you sent me the piece quoted at the end of this.  The author's name has been lost as well as the location, but I think you will find it interesting.  Thanks for sending it along.

Meanwhile...


I must confess that I have been watching television lately, primarially following the health care bill, such as it is.  I have also seen a poll of Republicans taken by the Harris agency.  In addition, I have noticed the behavior of people outside the congress.  I also noticed that there was absolutely no coverage of the demonstrations against our adventurism in Afghanistan and continued occupation of Iraq.

What I have seen has not been very encouraging and one hopes that our European allies have not been exposed to these uglier facets of the Republican character.  I know that the BBC simply mentions the main parts of the bill and the representatives, so there is hope. 

This health care bill is the first such bill to be successful since Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt, started trying to pass one, to provide health care that is anywhere near the quality found in other industrialized countries.  Franklin Roosevelt, it should be remember, saved Capitalism from its own greed after it nearly collapsed and even today he is considered "Socialist."  It should also be pointed out that even the morally challenged Richard M. Nixon tried to reform health care, and failed. 

The movement to "free" capitalism from restraint began is earnest with Ronald Regan and culminated in the repeal of the Glass-Steigle (spell it as you will) act by Clinton (I do wish he had inhaled).  Georgie then allowed greed to run rampant until the system nearly collapsed as it did in the Depression.

Well, what Obama did was save the insurance industry from itself with this bill.  A socialist approach would be to simply offer single-payer insurance for everybody and let them purchase insurance instead if they so wished.  The insurance industry would dissappear and we would all be better off.  No, Obama got health care reform passed and saved the insurance industry in the bargan.

So what was happening amongst Republicans, not one of which supported this reform?  Well, the great masses of them were very bitter as it was passed by Obama.  The real hatred of Obama is nothing more than purile anti-intellectualism.  Obama is intelligent and can use long words.  He can converse intellegently on a vast array of topics.  The mob know that it is inferior to such people and lack these qualities and thus finds ways to assert their superiority.  How do they do it?

Here is where observing their behavior applies.  As representatives walked to congress, many legislators of color were called "Nigger!"  One, an African American representative from Missouri, was spat upon.  Obviously, the inference is that those shouting and spitting were thereby superior in some way.  Another representative, perhaps the most intelligent in the house, is Barney Frank.  He was called "Faggot", and the unbrained masses thereby again felt superior.   Another more recent tactic has been to vandalize the home headquarters of representatives.  While I have had no chance of counting, several of these representatives were female.  Again, the stupid and dull-witted vidicate themselves to themselves.

What about that Survey?  Well, about 70% of Republicans think Obama is "Socialist".  Obviously an inferior status.  About 60% or so think he is a Moslem.  Does anybody remember Reverend Wright?  Obviously, memory is not a strong suit amongst Republicans.

Except when it concerns Waco when Janet Reno and her storm troopers attacked a small, weird, religious compound.  To celebrate the first anniversary of that day, the attack in Oklahoma was carried out.  Similar celebrations, I gather, are being planned for this year.

The patron saintess of these morons is Sarah Palin.  She has posted on Facebook a map with gunsight markings on the districts of Democratic lawmakers she feels should be, er, defeated.  However, we can not ascribe too much importance to that because she has been called a "wannabe Teabagger," not one of them, because she supports McCain.  McCain has tried to redeem himself with this crowd by swearing not to cooperate in any way with any democrat.

Now THAT'S the American way!  Damn the Torpedoes!  Put up or shut up!

Our next issue will be an art exhibit.

Here is the account sent by one of you:

"This morning I was awoken by my alarms clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the U.S. Department of Energy.

I then took a shower in the clean water provided by a municipal water utility.

After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC-regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather was going to be like, using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

I watched this while eating my breakfast of U.S. Department of Agriculture-inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

At the appropriate time, as regulated by the U.S. Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration-approved automobile and set out to work on the roads build by the local, state, and federal Departments of Transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the Environmental Protection Agency, using legal tender issued by the Federal Reserve Bank.

On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the U.S. Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.

After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health administration, enjoying another two meals which again do not kill me because of the USDA, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to my house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and Fire Marshal's inspection, and which has not been plundered of all its valuables thanks to the local police department.

And then I log on to the internet -- which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration -- and post on Freerepublic.com and Fox News forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can't do anything right."