November 22, 2009 archive

Listening to the Senate debate the vote on cloture its amazing how much fear mongering and misinformation has been presented by Senate Republicans. One after another they have gotten up and misrepresented not only what is in the bill but how the American people view the current legislation. Siting study after study and opinion polls all from conservative think tanks and media outlets stating that the American people are against health care reform. Except that isn’t true. Republicans have also made  pronouncements like taxes for average Americans will increase, people will lose their health insurance, that there has been out of control spending since the beginning of this current legislative session, that it is the Democrats who created the budget crises and that it is the Democrats who’ve done little to control spending.

Yet as anyone one with a turnip for a brain knows it was under the Republican control of the legislative and executive branches of government that the budget surplus became a budget deficit because of tax cuts for the rich and two wars one of which was completely unnecessary that help lead America towards the abyss. It was the complete lack of oversight and regulation that just added fuel to an already dangerous fire.

So, tonight in the American Senate the Republicans spoke against health care reform not because the bill was about to be passed but because the Democrats simply wanted to proceed to debate and the eventual up or down vote on this important legislation.

America needs health care reform not today but yesterday because so many: 50 million Americans have no health care insurance and the system is almost broken beyond  repair.