SNL Hits the Nail On the Head

Their opening bit was a bit overlong, but it hit a lot of truths.

"We're going to cave in like crazy. That's right, the President wants to pass a health care bill so bad that he will literally sign anything. You can water it down however you like; as long as it's a stack of paper with the words `health care` on it, he'll sign it."

That's not comedy, that's the truth. Let a bunch of male, overpaid, overfed white-bread living examples of the Peter Principle decide when or if women should have access to abortion? Fine with this Administration, which is forgetting how it looked when Chimpy tried to restrict abortion:


I'm a Democrat, which means that just because some Democratic politician says something or does something, I am under zero obligation to fall into line. I formerly thought that as long as health care reform was passed, the details didn't matter as much, but I no longer hold to that view.[1] Not when "health insurance reform" has been turned into a huge profit protection bill for the health insurance industry, one of the main culprits in the fucked-up system we have today. Not when the party of Hoover is so fixated on preventing patients from holding doctors accountable for mistakes. Not when, in the middle of the Great Recession, when the cost of living has actually fallen, the greedy motherfucking drug-pushers pharmaceutical companies are jacking up their prices for medications.

Right now, I'd love to see the Obama Administration try to pass a gun control bill, for we'd probably be able to sneak in a total repeal of the `34 and `68 gun control laws.[2] You can bet that if they tried to pass a climate change bill, the bill would include subsidies to encourage people to shift to heating their homes with coal once more.

If the strategy of the party of Hoover,[3] aided and abetted by Traitor Joe and His Blue Dogs, is to so load up the health care bill with toxic amendments, it is working, at least for me.

[1]I don't know who is planning to run against Congressman "Coathanger Bart" Stupak in the next election, but I'm going to seriously consider sending a few bucks that person's way.

[2]I'd settle for legalizing silencers.

[3]Over the weekend, I read that during the Great Depression, the Connecticut Legislature tried to pass a bill to help out people who could not afford to buy food. Republicans opposed it as "socialism", showing their true colors as the Party for Starving the Poor. You can bet that if Republicans were in England during the Potato Famine of the 1840s, they'd have been smugly pleased at what was transpiring in Ireland.