Would Jesus treat someone with a pre-existing condition ?

Shame that this dives the point home.  I think if the court overturns the healthcare law, insurance companies denial of service to those who need it most is more harmful to society than any of the so called socialism scares the right is conjuring.   As bad as those who hate Obamacare hate the government running things, the grip of insurance companies MUST be loosened somehow.

Obamacare death will be due to partisanship, NOT common sense

There was a SNL skit during the healthcare debate before congress where the players imitating the Republican members indicated that they could indeed support Obama if only he would change HIS position.  It was comical...but it was true....as their is often truth in the best comedy.

President Barack Obama: Sen. McConnell, as the Senate Minority Leader, I want you to have a voice too. Now, uh, what can I do to bring the rest of the Republican Party into the conversation.

Mitch McConnell : Well, uh, Mr. President, maybe I can explain the Republican position -- it's not that we don't want health care to fail. We don't! We just want you to fail. And defeating health care reform is the best way to do that.

[ President Obama clenches his jaw. ]

Mitch McConnell : Because if you fix health care, that would be a big victory for you and that's bad for us.

[ The President rubs his neck over and over. ]

Mitch McConnell : With that said, I could see us supporting health care but only if you switch your position to AGAINST it. 

Does anyone see the point ? Who on earth could be for giving the insurance companies even MORE dominance over our lives. Letting them continue to deny people who have indeed paid premiums all their lives to enrichen the insurance companies...DENY them life saving coverage when they may need it most because of pre-existing conditions.  Republicans can do that ..checking their moral character in the mirror on the way out the door, somehow telling themselves they saved the country from the socialism they so preach about.  I will consider the irony of the fact that I am now not required to buy medical insurance the next time I am at the DMV where the State of Virginia requires me to buy auto insurance, but somehow THIS doesn't threaten a cloud of socialism to anyone who has gone along with that program all along.  Republicans have been claiming they will defeat Obamacare at the ballot box.  Now with a partisan group of the 9 most powerful men and women in the world, MORE powerful easily than the congress, senate, or president (just ask Al Gore), about to drive the dagger into the most incredibly needed piece of legislation that has been passed in my lifetime. 

I am sad that partisan politics has come this far.  Ruining a good idea for the sake of that it wasn't their idea.   

Who Said It ..Romney or Burns

Limbaugh Lies and Offends EVERY Woman

Recently, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) angrily walked out of a congressional hearing on the contraception coverage rule last month because the one female witness the Democrats brought,  was not allowed to speak because a republican deemed her  "unqualified" to contribute to the issue at hand.  She was to add the young woman's perspective, as a college student at Georgetown.   Basically, she could relate to a fellow student who lost an ovary because the birth control she needed for a medical condition was not affordable.  Sounds like many would say she DID have something to say. 

But Rush Limbaugh says she is a "slut" and a "prostitute."    Her name is Sandra Fluke.  She is a law student.  She is most certainly not a prostitute, and no woman deserves to be called the other name Limbaugh called her.  He also insulted young women by saying he would by aspirin for Georgetown girls to put between their legs. 

My problem is not a First Amendment problem...Mr. Limbaugh has the right to say whatever he feels and believes. But what this blog is becoming about, this discourse that it acceptable to some, is just poison. Because Limbaugh will certainly continue to be hated by his haters, but, a great many people will tune right in again to him, unoffended by this.  I think, personally, that broadcasters have been fired for less.  I'd like to see him pay with his job.  But, that won't happen, because he is basically self employed.  The only way to get rid of him is to complain to the station that broadcasts him and demand his removal ..but it will never happen.   What bothers me is that nobody walked out of the room Limbaugh was speaking to. 

Some of the poisonous diatribe in politics today is muddy half truths.  But, all too often, and dare I say all too often from the right, its just lies ..and in this case, a young and bright woman, a future lawyer, being the brunt of very hurtful lies, as Limbaugh said on his show about her,  "What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke [sic] who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex -- what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She's having so much sex she can't afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex."


Mr Limbaugh  ..and Mr Limbaugh's listeners and supporters, that is just undefendable BS.

As I always say on this blog ..go ahead and disagree and use whatever the facts are to back up your positions, and you probably can get accomplished whatever your agenda is.  But, folks, we with common sense, MUST begin to stand up against dialogue like this ....the half truths and the lies must exit from the conversation, or we are sunk as a society, because it makes the great idea of democracy, to ugly to stomach in it's current form.