Time for a new WAR!

It’s not Iran, but right here in the United States SENATE. Today it’s the warfare of the minority Republicans holding anything but pork-barrel bills hostage to the “filibuster”. Senator Sherod Brown’s speech on the topic of confirming the latest “hostage” (Greg Becker, nominated in April 2009 to head the National Labor Relations Board) was a riveting plea for some common sense among the Rethuglicans to do something besides just saying “no!” and attempting to hand the President a political defeat that they hope will bring them benefits in the November elections. This is politics of the most revolting and cynical design and it’s time to draw a firm line in the sand and say “put up or shut up!”  At a time when the financial health of the country (and to no lesser degree the global economy is at peril) it’s just not very bipartisan to say “let’s start over on a Health Care reform bill that can’t pass Congress”. 

Uh, wake, up, folks! It HAS passed—including the 60-vote filibuster override. The polls the Rethuglicans cite reflect the confusion that they have introduced, along with their co-conspirators, the for-profit healthcare industry. Only in a delusionary-induced could “death panels” and other fictional horrors of “socialized medicine” creep into what purports to be a serious discussion about how to improve our lot.

ENOUGH! Every Democratic Representative and Senator needs to pick up whatever gumption got them there and RESIST this tomfoolery. To expect anything less at this time borders on national insanity. Get past Health Care Reform, throw in some legitimate and rational tort reform (limitations), put some true competition in place (removing the authorization for the health care monopoly that has stood for so many decades) and expose those congresspersons who are in the PAY of big Pharma, the health care cartel and those who really don’t have the true “public interest” in mind.

Make a clear comparison between government that is legitimate and working for the “common man” and the party that brought us the financially irresponsible tax cuts for the super-wealthy. It’s time!