Wednesday, September 9, 2009

The Republican Soul is Like a Unicorn; It's Mythical: President Obama's Address to Congress.

Spinning furiously on an axis of anger, there are a great number of people in this country who have completely lost the ability to carry themselves respectfully; they have also lost sight of what really matters, the American people’s access to health care. How disgusting is it that a member of congress would dare shout at the President of the United States of America while he is giving a speech to the two houses of congress?! This isn’t some rowdy town hall, and even if it was, Barack Obama is the elected leader of this country; he deserves to be able to give a speech without being heckled by men and/or women who haven’t accomplished nearly as much as he has.
Does the right have an alternative plan that they are fighting for because they care about the American people? No. Their goal is simply to kill any bill President Obama puts forth. It isn’t about representing the best interests of the people, it’s about bringing down Obama. Their behavior is representative of this; heckling the President, spreading lies about “Death Panels”, and offering no plan to replace the one they are against. Sure it’s easy to say that they know the system is broken, all people deserve care, and no one should be denied because of a pre-existing condition, but where is the bill? It’s in the same place as the Right’s soul (i.e. the imaginary land in which either of those things exists).
If the Right succeeds, and we have no reform, where are we then? We are in a country where millions of people have no insurance, people loose their insurance when they are sick, and the middle class rapidly disappears under mountainous piles of medical debt. It boils down to two things. First, the behavior of people on the Right blatantly exposes the fact that they care more about brining down Obama than they do about providing their constituents with affordable insurance (why heckle the President and then have no alternative plan for reform if this is not the case?). Second, for a group of people who have spent the last eight miserable years calling anyone who disagrees with the President of the United States un-American, the Right is awfully fond of showing absolutely no respect whatsoever for that office. These people are disgusting.