When All We’ve Got Is Hurt

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The assault has been brutal.

Insurance industry flacks, raving RePugs, craven Blue Dogs and K Street hacks have been beating the hell out of health care reform for weeks.  Senator Jim DeMint (Orc) South Carolina is blasting it as National Socialism.  The Mighty Wurlitzer up there in the organ loft of the Bipartisan Church of Beltway Believers has been cranked up to full volume, the choir is piously singing Onward Centrist Soldiers, the congregation is rolling in the aisles, speaking in tongues, the holy saints of Blue Cross and CIGNA must be defended, the trumpets have sounded, the heathens are at the gates, the Capitalists of Christ are no longer going to tolerate the unjust slandering of his Good Samaritan health insurance providers.  Verily, the Prince of Profits has said unto them: those evil unhinged godless Leftists bent upon destroying the best health care system in the world must be slain and cast into the Lake of Fire.              

As Armageddon approaches, the immaculately centrist Gang of Six is offering some friendly advice to Obama. They’re saying what reciters of the Catechism of Centrism always say when a Democratic President needs to be reminded that elections only have consequences when RePugs win them . . .  

Bipartisanship is a temple,

It’s a higher law,

Bipartisanship is a temple,

It’s the higher law.

We’ve all heard their sermons, we’ve all heard them singing the praises of bipartisanship, we’ve all seen them telling Obama to sing along, telling him to join them in moderate fellowship, telling him to enter that Cathedral of Centrism and worship beside them.

Yeah.  We’ve all seen it.

They ask Obama to enter,

But then they make him crawl.

So American soldiers are still dying, the NSA is still spying, CIA drones are still flying, Big Pharma, the Lords of Drugs, Blue Cross hacks and CIGNA thugs are still lying.  We’re told we have to be patient while our wise and caring leaders decide what’s best for us, we’re told there must be compromise, we’re told we have to hold onto the healthcare we’ve got until a few drops of reform finally trickle down from on high later this year or maybe next year or the year after that.    

Well we can’t be holding on,

To what we’ve got,

When all we’ve got is hurt . . .

The Gang of Six.  The RePugs of Bush and Cheney.  Proud guardians of fiscal responsibility. Principled icons of mainstream America.  Moderate killers of one million Iraqi men, women, and children.  Tell me, Gang of Six.  Tell me, RePugs.  Tell me, gutter crawlers of K Street, invaders of Iraq, defenders of war criminals and whores of the war machine, how much lower are you going to sink into the slime of Beltway corruption and treachery before you finally hit bottom?  How many more Americans will you betray?  How many more?

She just wanted her husband to come home alive from that war for oil you sent him off to fight because Bush told you to, because you’re frauds, because you sold your souls for power.

Did she ask too much?

More than a lot?

You gave her nothing,

Now it’s all she’s got.

They knew love,

But you’re not the same,

You hurt the helpless,

Then you do it again.

You say you love America,

But your souls are dark and dead,  

You’re just out there playing Jesus,

To the lepers in your head.

So here we are.  It’s time for Obama to put up or shut up, it’s time for him to keep at least one of his promises.  

The Washington Post . . .

Six months into his presidency, Barack Obama may have no greater test of his ability to translate personal popularity into a successful legislative agenda than the upcoming two weeks.  With skepticism about the president’s health-care reform effort mounting on Capitol Hill–even within his own party–the White House has launched a new phase of its strategy designed to dramatically increase public pressure on Congress: all Obama, all the time.

Senior White House aides promise “an aggressive public and private schedule” for Obama as he presses his case for reform, including a prime-time news conference on Wednesday, a trip to Cleveland, and heavy use of Internet video to broadcast his message beyond the reach of the traditional media.

According to a senior White House aide: “It’s time to raise the stakes on this.”

I’ve got news for you, stake raiser.  The stakes were raised long ago, they were raised by the Repugs whose asses Obama keeps kissing, they were raised by the thieves of Blue Cross and CIGNA, the stakes are as high as it gets for millions of American families, so tell Obama to put that butter knife of his away and make sure he brings a gun to this gun fight.  This isn’t about bipartisanship, it’s not about money, it’s about human rights, it’s about human decency, it’s about finally learning what we need to learn if humanity is to survive.