HOLD BUSH AND CHENEY ACCOUNTABLE

THE RIGHT-WING ASSAULT ON ALL OF US

Maybe we need a new social science that combines aspects of political science, sociology, and psychology to analyze the behavior of the right wing in this country. It's a movement mostly moved by hate and paranoia. It's all emotion and no reason. Most of the knuckle draggers who fulminate against things like "socialized medicine" have no idea of what they're talking about. They've heard the talking points from the thugs who manipulate them, people like Limbaugh, Hannity, Savage, Gingrich, and Palin. They repeat those talking points endlessly. They talk about "freedom" while they busily go about denying freedom to their fellow citizens by threat and intimidation.

If we don't get national health care, it will be a national tragedy. We should have had national health care decades ago. But just as the vestiges of slavery endured for one hundred years after the Civil War--and still endures in many ways--we continue with the same broken and heartless system. Other countries have successfully implemented health care for their citizens but we, the "can do" country, can't do it because of the cruel and selfish ideologues on the political right. This editorial from The New York Times summarizes it well from www.nytimes.com:

If nothing is done to slow current trends, the number of people in this country without insurance or with inadequate coverage will continue to spiral upward. That would be a personal tragedy for many and a moral disgrace for the nation. It is also by no means cost-free. Any nation as rich as ours ought to guarantee health coverage for all of its residents.