"I hope Senate Democrats tonight vote for their own 'pay fors' and show Americans that they are committed to fiscal discipline. I will be watching them closely and checking off the hypocrites one by one.”
– US Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY)
Uh, so I guess that means you’ll begin with yourself after playing chicken with people’s lives while trying to score political points over an extension of unemployment benefits? You sir, are a disgrace packing exactly the same amount of functional brain cells you indicate above.
Although I had hoped—perhaps naively—that yesterday’s healthcare summit at Blair House would yield actual results in terms of breaking the current congressional deadlock between Democrats and Republicans, the conduct of the latter was often marked by talking points repeated ad nauseum in an effort to grind reform to a halt.
Particularly lame were Eric Cantor and John Boehner hiding behind their symbolic stacks of paper, and droning on about how the current Senate bill must be scrapped and begun again – which is just code for shelving healthcare as an issue entirely, and burying it in committee until the year of 2061 A.D.
Recall that while under GOP control, the party had countless opportunities to push for substantial health reform measures yet failed to do so. Thus, were Republicans to re-assume control of Congress this fall there’s no reason to believe they won’t do so again – paying lip service to reform with the actual intention of doing nothing.
Also, it was fun to watch Republicans at yesterday’s summit—particularly John McCain—quake in their proverbial boots regarding the notion of Congressional Dems using reconciliation to pass reform by a popular vote when the GOP has used the measure several times themselves. Watching McCain grouse about the recklessness of such a move by Democrats was pretty pathetic, as Barack Obama himself noted in so many words.
Click here for a revealing confrontation at CPAC last week between anti-gay conservative Ryan Sorba (member of the very fascist-sounding "California Young Americans for Freedom" - see his CPAC speech here), and a gay Republican who later called him out on his crap.
The way in which Sorba’s “natural law” argument versus homosexuality is dismantled is beautiful.
Vis-à-vis DFTCW, the following piece may have some liberals alarmed, but despite my opposition to issues like organized school prayer I’m not among them. Or at least as long as “Bible As Lit” coursework in public schools is not mandatory.
Lots of colleges and public universities offer similar curricula in their English Departments as a great deal of period American and British literature is riddled with Biblical allusions and symbolism.
