Republicans Don't Care About Health Care

Sunday, February 25, 2007  -  reddit

Pushing Rope has a video of John Edwards talking universal health care, though I'm not sure where it's from or when. There's a note in there about how Republicans were more interested in using health care legislation as a weapon against Democrats while Bill Clinton was President, and showed absolutely no concern for all the Americans that needed that coverage back then, and all of the Americans that need that coverage right now. Somewhere in this country, there are thousands and thousands of Americans that need to go to a hospital, but can't afford it. Many of them are suffering, and some of them will probably die long before they ever should.

The (health care) plan, he wrote in the memo, is a “serious pol- itical threat to the Republican party,” and its demise would be “a monumental setback for the President.”

While John Edwards and other Democrats both now and in the past push to end this travesty, Republicans fight against it. They don't care about you, or your kids. No, the party of "family values" only cares about your well being when it comes to who you're sleeping with and what you're doing in the privacy of your own home. If you're sick and need a doctor, oh well **** you then, because there's nothing they can gain from that. We all know where they stand on this and they can't run from it. We won't let them.

No one who plays partisan political games with Americans health deserves to hold public office.

There's new polling data out that I've seen in the last two days, but I'm not going to even bother posting it here since the first primaries are so far way. We're talking about a political climate where one screwup can tank your numbers permanently in roughly 24 hours. These numbers mean absolutely nothing. It's like using todays temperature to forecast what it will be nine months from now. Anyway, most of these little polls are just that -- little. I see no value in what 600 people think compared to the 300,000,000 others (half of which of course won't bother to vote) that will exercise their constitutional rights to reject the party of zero accountability and the mud slingers and the liars in 2008.

Republicans have serious problems right now and they are well aware of it. Their top three candidates all have baggage that are keeping them from gaining the support of the religious right; extremists like Jerry Fallwell. The GOP has universally acknowledged that this is the weakest group of candidates they've had in quite some time, and it's not like their party is popular right now either. The '06 mid-terms were a collective kick in the shins that showed the countries general discontent with the whole party, not just the White House. It's only going to get worse for them, and that's the bed they made when they got us into an unwinnable war.

tags: John Edwards, Health Care, 2008 Elections, 2007 Primaries, Democrats, Republicans