Reply #17: Or maybe a mourning kick…

[warren pease]

... because the sad fact is these vermin have more in common with the Bushies and the slime creatures they fronted for than they do with the people who granted them overwhelming majorities in both houses -- a position of rare political omnipotence that neither Reid nor Pelosi seem to have the slightest idea what to do with.

Dems even got the White House, along with control of all House and Senate committees, and note how well the alleged effort to end our disgraceful for-profit medical scam is going. Note how hard Obama, Baucus and the rest are pushing for single-payer, universal-access health care.

This way of delivering medical services based on patient needs rather than bank account balances has polled very well for more than a decade -- ever since Harry & Louise went bankrupt because they couldn't pay their hospital bills and finally, finally sat the fuck down and shut the fuck up.

The single-payer system has been field-tested, tweaked and refined for decades and it works as long as there's adequate funding to keep things in top shape. It works around the world -- in all states, provinces and countries where it's the sole or leading public health care delivery system.

Cheaper, too. There isn't a country in the world using single-payer that spends even half what the US does on medical-related bills each year.

Despite the standard industry hype and polished pitchmen, it works demonstrably better than this monument to corporate sleaze we've had shoved down our throats.

Plus, it actually reflects the will of the people. About 60 - 70 percent of all Americans, including me, say they want a health care system that works for patients and health care providers rather than for faceless shareholders and lily white CEOs.

Which, of course, means we can't have it unless Congress' corporate sugar daddies give them the OK. You're seeing what happens when their real employers turn thumbs down on any serious efforts to alter the status quo.

They spent 18 eternal months and gawd and the FEC only know how much money on self-congratulatory 30-second TV spots, delivering little "messages" that no sane person would approve of, much less expect people to vote for them based on that unwatchable drivel.

But it's all about their commitment to the common person, the little guy, the ones who "play by the rules..." All this just so we can finally learn that the rules were made up by the richest of the rich a long, long time ago and have withstood the test of time. And really, only idiots would design a system in which they stood one chance in a billion of ever losing the game.

But because we don't know nothin' 'bout history, paraphrasing Sam Cooke, they were all talking about how they'd work overtime to erase the stain and eradicate the stench of eight years under a fascist occupying force, watching as they blew apart hundreds of thousands of civilians -- or at least the couple dozen the "embedded reporters" were allowed to mention. And about those "transfer tubes" at Dover AFB...

They swept into town on a magic carpet, promising populist reform and a rapid return to a federal government run according to the consent of the governed rather than the consensus opinion as to how far the law can be bent without breaking.

Hard to tell it ever really ended, although they all tell us it's a brand new day in America now that accountability has been restored to the Washington political classes.


My ass...


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