Yes, my Republican friends, even though you have opposed this health care bill, we’ve made sure it is going to cover you, too, in your time of need. I know you’re upset right now. I know you probably think that if you did get wiped out by an illness, or thrown out of your home because of a medical bankruptcy, that you would somehow pull yourself up by your bootstraps and survive. I know that’s a comforting story to tell yourself, and if John Wayne were still alive I’m sure he could make that into a movie for you. –Michael Moore
More Perfect:
Overheated talk has made it impossible for representatives to represent and elected leaders to lead. The real leaders are on TV and radio, and they have very different imperatives from people in government. Talk radio thrives on confrontation and recrimination. When Rush Limbaugh said that he wanted President Obama to fail, he was intelligently explaining his own interests. What Rush omitted to say – but what is equally true – is that he also wants Republicans to fail. If Republicans succeed – if they govern successfully in office and negotiate attractive compromises out of office – Rush’s listeners get less angry. And if they are less angry, they listen to the radio less, and hear fewer ads for Sleepnumber beds. –David Frum
A reasonably ‘radical’ lib, & a ‘moderate’ repub.
And how about a little bit of Perspective:
Ronald Reagan: “Medicare means the end of American freedom”.
Newt Gingrich: If Democrats pass health reform, “They will have destroyed their party much as Lyndon Johnson shattered the Democratic Party for 40 years” by passing civil rights legislation.
Whereas in Fact:
The Obama HealthCare plan has a broad family resemblance to Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts plan. It builds on ideas developed at the Heritage Foundation in the early 1990s that formed the basis for Republican counter-proposals to Clintoncare in 1993-1994 –David Frum.
Unbelievable, that all this hype, blistering ad hominem attack & outright intellectual dishonesty… to kill the very same Health Care Reform that Repub’s supported in 1994.
People bandy about the term “Party of NO”, but they don’t realize–
this is the EXACT SAME PLAYBOOK that Repub’s used to attack Carter, Clinton, & now Obama:
1) Message Discipline
2. Allow Zero Democratic ‘Successes’
3. No matter how much you support the Policy, vote the Politics… by any means necessary (cf. outright lying, hypocrisy, etc)
Let’s see if Obama has now figured this out, & will start Taking Action on the Other Big Messes from Bush:
…I have a daughter. Let’s see if w/in 5years SCOTUS makes the USA the largest, richest, & highest educated Democracy in the World to ban abortion… Lessee– religious fundamentalists forcing their theocratic views on the populace from a position of governmental authority… isn’t that what we call the “Taliban”????
…& lest one thinks this is overheated rhetoric, Chief Justice Roberts made it clear in his addendum to the Majority Opinion, re. partial-birth abortion in ’07, that “challenges” to the current law (ie “Roe vs Wade”) are welcomed…