House Democrats finally remembered last night they are the majority party, elected to enact change, and passed a health care reform bill despite every obstructionist trick in the book by the GOP. They remembered nobody really cares what the extreme right fringe doesn’t want, except perhaps other teabaggers and wingnuts.
The lone Republican to vote for the bill was Joseph Cao of Louisiana and within minutes, wingnuts had vandalized his Wikipedia entry. That’s a mature sign of support for democracy, isn’t it?
But do they even understand the precepts of democracy and a federal republic? The fact they use the terms communist, socialist and fascist as synonyms tells me they missed a lot of school. And they don’t care if they’re wrong, aren’t bothered by how little they know and how much they don’t. They simply soak up whatever vitriol and untruths they hear from their heroes such as Glenn Beck, whom you’ll never see at a Mensa meeting.
The nadir of wingnuttery and teabaggery came at a Thursday rally when some displayed atrocious anti-Semitic signs comparing health care reform to the Holocaust, prompting Elie Wiesel to say, “This kind of political hatred is indecent and disgusting.”
Imagine what the wingnuts will do and say when they discover Rep. Cao was born in Saigon. They make Archie Bunker seem like Dag Hammarskjöld. If Watergate was a cancer on the presidency, the extreme right fringe is a cancer on the Republican Party and a fetid wound on the national discourse.
I’d say shame on them, but they are quite clearly shameless.
Monday update: Wingnuts don’t like what Wiesel said. They say “jews should clam up” and “this hollowcost [sic] thing” is overblown. My full post about their disgusting reactions has more.
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I’m really, really unhappy with the Stupak/Pitts amendment. I’m assuming it will be deep-sixed in conference committee. If not, might we actually have “pro-life” Republicans taking the place of disaffected “pro-choice” Democrats in a final vote?
That’s mostly a rhetorical question, but I got blindsided by Stupak. This is starting to make my head hurt.
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I’m there with you, shore. Even my hair hurts from it. I think there are a lot of women on Capitol Hill who feel the same, so who knows where this is going? Toss in schmucks like Joe Lieberman and I want to scream. I wish Pelosi and Reid would each grab one of Lieberman’s legs and turn him into a human wishbone.
I’m reading a recent book about the Constitutional Convention. The willingness of the Fathers to compromise is such a stark contrast to what goes on now. If our current mood and legislators existed then, I think we’d all have British accents now.