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So I got to thinking about healthcare, and this shit sandwich they served up. Why the Democrats didn’t start at universal healthcare and settle for single payer is beyond me. That’s just how the Democrats role, like a three-legged dog.
Anywho, it took Germany a hundred years to get to their universal healthcare system together, and they had this little side project in the middle of that. Even Canada had to province by province, once LBJ taught them how to do it.
Even back then, the biggest son of a bitch Texas has bred for generations backed down to crazy Republican tactics and we just got Medicare. We could have what Canada has now had Democrats not compromised then. And isn’t it funny how it’s always the Democrats who compromise.
It’s like watching the AV Club try to sit at the table with the “cool” kids while the rest of the cafeteria gawks and giggles. They can only sit if they give themselves wedgies, which they glad do, just to sit a bipartisan table.
Personally, I’m throwing peanuts.
The nuts say civics are broken, it’s all just politics now. There is no more governance, there is only perpetual campaigning. The nut of the problem, as it were.
First off, we all have to admit this has always been going on. It is just now painfully obvious in this high information age. What was once just slight blemish is now seen to be the full blown cold sore it is and would need lysine ointment to treat it. Just pulsating with the dumb.
I watched the healthcare debate Sunday on the BBC, the only proper English news source. Objective journalism still lives on the British Isles, I say. But I just felt sorry for the poor lady commentating as Republican screwballs said our shit sandwich of a healthcare reform bill would lead to communism. I know she wanted to laugh, but her professionalism kept her from it.
And to know that world political reporters watched our august Congress have such an asinine and ludicrous debate, just what must they think of us. Hours of yakkity yak and just moments of policy debate. Congress is a lot like an NBA game. You only need to watch the last five minutes because everything before that was utterly pointless.
But at least you had some popcorn.
Speaking of popcorn, I’m fixing me up a big old bowl for when the Constitutionality of the Shit Sandwich Reform is called into question. Right now, there are countless “conservative” lawyers out there tripping over themselves to be the first to get a case on this on.
This is a career maker.
And once it gets to the Supreme Court, the neoclowns who sit on that bench will surprise you with all kinds of pies to the face. Bush vs. Gore comes to mind.
I bet these asshats find the shit sandwich is to good just for the people and that the corporation deserve a slice, too, least they be discriminated against. Why I bet the Supreme Court would even rule that the people have to pay for the corporation’s health insurance, as if something could exist.
Say, something exotic, like a credit derivative swap, an insurance without which the corporation would die.
Yeah, I bet the Supreme Court would do something that crazy had the President not already beat them to it.
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