October 10, 2007


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY

GOP SHOULD PUT A SOCK IN IT

Even right-wingers wouldn't be so loathsome as to attack a sick twelve year old kid, would they? It seems they are. They wouldn't be so despicable as to attack military veterans of the war in Iraq? Yes, they would. They wouldn't resort to the same old tired and ridiculous cliches to describe a national health system, would they? Of course they would. We can't have any program that benefits the majority of us because that would be "socialism," according to this nest of vipers. This commentary by Joe Conason is at www.observer.com:

Once among the most frightening and effective epithets in American political culture, “socialized medicine” seems to have lost its juju. These days, that phrase sounds awfully dated, like a song on a gramophone or a mother-in-law joke or a John Birch Society rant against fluoridated water.

Yet despite their antique quality, the old buzzwords still appear regularly in columns, press releases and speeches. Rudolph Giuliani, Mitt Romney and the rest of the Republican presidential pack run around squawking about socialism whenever anyone proposes to reform the broken health care system.

Syndicated columnist Robert Novak warns that the federally financed, state-run Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) is essentially a socialist conspiracy. So does President Bush, who has threatened to veto a modest increase in that program’s funding because he doesn’t want to “federalize health care.”