Let the GOP go without health care and solve the budget deficit
Posted by: msgruntled on: October 1, 2009
Quoting Garrison Keillor from Salon.com:
When an entire major party has excused itself from meaningful debate and a thoughtful U.S. senator like Orrin Hatch no longer finds it important to make sense and an up-and-comer like Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty attacks the president for giving a speech telling schoolchildren to work hard in school and get good grades, one starts to wonder if the country wouldn’t be better off without them and if Republicans should be cut out of the healthcare system entirely and simply provided with aspirin and hand sanitizer. Thirty-two percent of the population identifies with the GOP, and if we cut off healthcare to them, we could probably pay off the deficit in short order.
Isn’t is shameful that a party so committed to values and patriotism thinks it‘s okay to make their primary goal to bring down their nation‘s duly elected President?
After all, South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint was quoted in Politico.com as saying: ”This healthcare issue is D-Day for freedom in America. If we’re able to stop Obama on this it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.” Such patriotism and moral values…
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