So now we’re mad because a black man is president and he is doing great things?
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Is apathy the name of the game in America? Are we over the president because his magic wand is exhausted? Will no one stand by him? Will we desert him so soon? Are we mad?
Writers who stop writing because people don’t agree with them or agree, but in a different way, become frustrated and stop writing because of “ego block.” Why do they do that? Are we mad?
What about the talking heads? I mean really! Where is their outrage? The producers, writers and directors all lose courage and strength in their own convictions, accepting their own belief in the almighty pay check and yet don’t get mad until a black man becomes president. Are we mad?
Shame on you and what do you really have against affordable health care? Why do these things happen? Why am I uneasy? Am I mad?
You Republicans frighten me and I’m not easily frightened. Why is that? Why am I afraid? Can’t someone help me?
Here is the story:
You didn’t get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a president.
You didn’t get mad when Dick Cheney allowed energy company officials to dictate energy policy and push us to invade Iraq. Or when a covert CIA operative got outed. Or when the Patriot Act got passed. Or when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us. Or when we spent $800 billion (and counting) on said illegal war. Or when George W. Bush borrowed more money from foreign sources than previous 42 presidents. Or when over $10 billion in cash just disappeared in Iraq. Or when you found out they were torturing people. Or when Bush embraced trade and outsourcing policies that shipped 6 million American jobs out of the country. Or when we didn’t catch Osama bin Laden. Or when Bush rang up $10 trillion in combined budget and current account deficits. Or when you saw horrible conditions at Walter Reed. Or when we let a major city drown. Or when we gave more people who had more money than they could spend over a trillion dollars in tax breaks.
You didn’t get mad when 200,000 Americans died because they didn’t have health care insurance. Or when lack of oversight and regulations caused U.S. citizens to lose $12 trillion in investments, retirement and home values.
Now you get mad because a black man was elected president and tries to ensure that we can see a doctor when we are sick.
Tip of the hat to Maui News
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I am going through one of my spells where I don’t have much faith in the current make up of the American character to discern truth from fiction, and make good judgment about what is in one’s best interest. Not every baby boomer is an irrational moron, thank goodness (plenty are not), but it seems like most of our irrational morons who vote are boomers. I don’t see a paradigm shift shifting us in the right direction until Generation Y starts to take over. But by the time they get to, will there be enough power concentrated in the U.S. to make any difference in the world, or will we be at the mercy of other powers, having relegated ourselves to irrelevance?
I think, my friend, that we have been irrelevant for many, many years. Until we step up we will remain that way. Sad but true.
Alright, I’ve just read Holte’s post “Lazy ass …”
Now there’s a list that includes some “great things.” But health-care “reform” isn’t one of them.
Considering HCR hasn’t really kicked in yet, I didn’t include it. Might not kick in at all, the Republicans think it is so bad they want to repeal and they could get it done. If they want to kick it back, it must have some good qualities.
“… must have some good qualities.”
Oh, I don’t know about that. The Repubs will oppose any initiative just because it came from the Obama White House. Surely you know that by now.
Their opposition will be little more than posturing. They can’t do a thing without the executive branch and they know it 🙂
Mike you have to remember that the president can only do so much. A failure to compromise would have resulted in a failure to achieve. This is a first step to a longer stride. He did what no one has been able to do in 60 years…..Ya gotta give him kudos for something.
Good points, though I wouldn’t go so far as to say the Prez “is doing great things.” Y’all had to settle for health-care reform requiring people to buy insurance from the crooked companies that had been screwing them over and leaving countless U.S. citizens to die. That’s not a “great thing.” In fact, it barely qualifies as reform.
Matt Taibbi’s excellent new book, Griftopia, has a chapter on insurance and health care. I highly recommend reading it.