Tea Baggers Go Home
November 10th, 2009God and Your Country Are Not With You
Under the Microscope
by Glynn Wilson
There must not be a tea-bagger alive who has ever had to sit all night in the Charity hospital in a city like New Orleans, waiting for the morning shift to call their number.
In hospitals across America, the uninsured wait there through the night in the midst of all that painful sickness, some with swine flu, others on the verge of a heart attack.
Others sit there in agony reading old magazines and drinking bad coffee, waiting for something as simple as a cup of pink-cocktail, the drink they mix for those who suffer severe acid reflux disease, a malady that sometimes hurts in your chest so bad you think you are having a heart attack. It is a mix of the anti-acid Maalox, Novocain to numb the esophagus, and the tranquilizer Xanax to relax the muscles and relieve the pain.
The only place you can get it in the U.S. is in a hospital emergency room. They serve it by the drink there, in a little plastic cup — for about $1,000 a drink.
I don’t know if there is a specific provision in the health-care reform bill just passed in the House to make sure poor people who need it can get that drink — without losing their houses or any chance at credit if they can’t pay that bill. But if a so-called “public option” means the hospital cannot deny you that drink and that the government must pay for it, the Senate better vote for that bill, and not just to save America’s poor.
Every time a poor person, who may be poor by no fault of their own, has to seek treatment in an emergency room, the doctors who get paid $700 an hour to treat them send the bill out anyway, knowing the cost will be borne by the rising costs of the bills of those who do have insurance. What do the insurance companies do to continue making their 30 percent profit so they can pay their white male executives a million dollars a year? They raise rates on everybody else, of course, which is the number one factor contributing to the growing squeeze on the middle class.
It is a vicious cycle that escalates until a few people have all the money and most people have none.
That, my friends and enemies, is not even close to the American dream everybody seems to be so concerned about, including the far-right lunatics who believe it should be legal to shoot the president not only because he is black, but because he had the gall to propose that poor people deserve to be treated for their maladies — just like everybody else.
We are a people who have completely forgotten our history, like the Baptists in the South who cannot answer the simple question: What was the man’s name who founded the Baptist Church?
How can we forget that our most visible symbol of liberty contains the words, “Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, longing to be free.”
It is kind of hard to feel free in this country if you cannot get a job that pays enough to house and feed yourself, much less one that provides health insurance.
Do the tea baggers even know the stories of their families who came here to escape one oppression or another at one time in history? That is why most of us are here, after all, except for those of us who descend from the natives. We all mostly agree Native Americans deserve a version of health care of their own in return for the genocide we committed against their people — as long as they are willing to be segregated and live on a reservation.
Are the rich not willing to allow the waitresses who serve them to be treated when they get sick? What about the guy who cuts the grass, or the writer you like to read so much on the Web?
Just because you have your Blue Cross insurance because you worked for the phone company for 30 years, or because you inherited enough money to buy a hospital, do you have no sympathy for those who were not so well-born or lucky in life?
Everybody cannot grow up to play in the NBA. There’s only ten men on the court at a time. Not every artist will be able to sell enough paintings or photographs to buy into Blue Cross-Blue Shield. What are they to do if they get sick? Curl up and die and to hell with them?
What will become of the couple living in the trailer in the woods with no electricity in Pinson, Alabama, who escaped a corrupt sheriff in another county who had it in for their family?
What about the woman who walks ten miles in the rain at 4 a.m. to cook those biscuits you like so much at the Hardee’s, who had that stillborn baby all by herself in that little apartment in Center Point? Does she just not deserve to talk to a doctor for a little prenatal care?
What about those 2,266 veterans we are honoring today who died due to lack of insurance?
Have we as a people just grown so downright mean because of everything we’ve been through that we cannot find a little compassion in this country that most economists agree is the richest in the world, even though the Bush recession knocked out about 20 percent of our value?
President Barack Obama did not cause the economic problems we face today, but he was elected by a majority of smart people in this country who believe him when he says he wants to work every day to try and solve the problems, rather than blaming them on the tired, the poor and the Latinos who aspire to come to America and work hard.
For that you want to shoot him, and pray to your god that he die today?
If that is your prayer, you have no god. Either he doesn’t exist, or you have no clue what a god should be like. You can’t even heed the words of George W. Bush’s favorite philosopher, who spent his short life on earth serving food to the poor and healing the sick. The American empire these days is often compared to the Roman Empire. You remember what the Romans did to Jesus, surely, with the tacit approval of the Scribes and the Pharisees.
Unless no one has ever told you before, let me tell you to your face today. You are not being “Christ-like” when you oppose a national health care plan in this country. You need to crawl back into that dungeon you call a den in your suburban house, go back to watching Glenn Beck on Fox News and eating your greasy meat, and shut the hell up. You do your country and your religion more harm than good by showing your ignorance in a public park.
On the other hand, just keep on protesting. The more you do, the more normal Americans will wake up and realize they have no stomach for the right wing of the Republican Party. It was independent exurbanites — and college kids — who put Obama over the top in 2008, not hippies or queers in San Francisco. Get over it.
Once this health care bill passes and everybody moves beyond the emotion of the fight and sees that the world did not end as we know it, things may actually improve in this country and we may actually inch back toward the promise of freedom that exists on that Statue of Liberty.
Maybe the American Dream is just a fantasy and always has been, like some of my artist and writer friends think. Maybe there is no such thing and never was, but I for one will not lay down and stop believing it’s possible. I can’t. We can’t. That is the fight. That is the cause.
Besides, I have experienced real freedom in my life and times, mostly back in the 1970s, when I think American freedom hit its historic peak. I have also seen a little bit of heaven in my time, along with a fair amount of hell.
The people who are showing up with those signs in the park, protesting a plan for real progress in this country, do not represent freedom. They don’t represent heaven. They are the devil in cheap blue jeans with bad hair cuts.
Maybe I will show up for one of those protests one day soon and tell them that myself. Or maybe I will just sit here and laugh at them from a distance for being so ignorant, and take pleasure in knowing their day is almost done.
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November 11th, 2009 at 10:04 am
As a Meals on Wheels volunteer. I have seen clients
suffer and die from our sorry health system!!!
As caregiver for my mother who passed in 2001, I
cannot forget the many shortcomings in her care provided
by three supposedly quality hospitals in Birmingham.
It is an absolute DISGRACE to fight against health reform!
SHAME ON ARTUR DAVIS, SPENCER BACHUS, RICHARD SHELBY,
JEFF SESSIONS!!! SHAME, SHAME, SHAME!!!
November 11th, 2009 at 10:37 am
I continue to be worried about inclusion of alternative care in any new public health program. So far, I have seen nothing to indicate that chiropractic, homeopathy, naturopathy, or acupuncture will be covered under the public option. Any truly fundamental “reform” of health care should include alternative care.
AMA-style medicine is corporate medicine, in a nutshell. The system is not set up, for the most part, with actually healing people in mind. So long as there are no viable alternatives to “allopathic” medicine for poor people, they will simply be brought into a system designed to palliate symptoms and pain, conduct as many expensive tests as possible, and sell as many chemical phamaceuticals as possible.
If the consumer, when covered by a public option, has no option for alternative medicine, then there is no real fundamental reform other than who pays the tab.
Rent-seeking corporations have figured out time and again how to make billions in profits from other government largess. No reason to suppose the AMA-medical-pharmaceutical complex will not do the same.
Alternative medical treatment must be included as an option, in my opinion, as soon as possible.
November 11th, 2009 at 11:03 am
I tend to agree Yana. But how do you sell it in this political environment? For now we just need to get a historic health-care reform bill passed. Once the white hot debate is over we can begin to develop a system in this country to catch up with the rest of the world. Alternatives can be included easy enough in the future…
November 11th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
I don’t think that a national health care plan is the answer to the healthcare crisis we are facing in this country.
I’ve been an emergency responder for almost 23 years (Firefighter/EMT), “down in the trenches” so to speak, and I see what is being said about ER waits for rather simple maladies…I’ve helped haul some of those patients in. I’ve had my share of waits as well on the two or three occasions when I myself was a patient in waiting. And I also see the points about the high fees that doctors charge.
But I don’t think that a national health care plan is the answer. What I DO think is the answer, at least to begin with, is breaking the strangle-hold the “AMA-medical-pharmaceautical complex” has on our healthcare. Plus, how about breaking the strangle-hold that the insurance industry has on this country? As to the high rates that doctors charge? One of the big reasons is the staggering costs of malpractice insurance they have to pay if they want to practice medicine. I have friends who are FORMER doctors- they got out of practicing medicine because of that kind of thing.
I mentioned I’m an emergency responder- to me, it’s ridiculous that we charge $1,200 (and much more in some places) for a three-mile ambulance ride, and that’s only if we’re NOT doing CPR or other advanced life support on the way to the hospital. Why does it cost so much? Two answers- insurance and the cost of the equipment we have to have in the ambulance.
The problem here is not Bush or Obama, or any other president we’ve had… nor is it entirely the Republican Party, or the Democratic Party. The biggest cause of the current crisis, as I see it, is the special interest factions that constantly push their agendas with Capitol Hill. Money talks. Plain and simple. Before we can fix anything else, we have to eliminate the influence of the special interest groups. Easier said than done of course.
So by this point, you might be wanting to ask me what my alternative plan would be to national healthcare…
Here’s how I see it- we need to break the stranglehold of the AMA complex and insurance industry, which are directly responsible for the high costs of health care. That’s the second step, and just as important as getting rid of special interest groups.
Time and again, I’ve had patients in an ambulance who were legitimately in need of care, who were going to have a problem with paying for the care they needed. Honest, hard-working people. On the flip side of the coin, I’ve also had many people in the ambulance who were just doing everything they could to take advantage of the system, having us transport them to the hospital for silly things like a stubbed toe, as an example, knowing full well that Medicaid or Medicare, or whatever plan they’re on would pick up the entire tab. Some of those, we call “frequent fliers” because it’s a weekly event. Literally. That kind of thing helps drive up the costs for everyone else.
If our legislators (Republican AND Democrat) are willing to take steps to break the stranglehold of the AMA complex, and get the costs of healthcare back down to a decent level so that everyday working people can afford it like they were able to a few decades ago, ONLY THEN do I think the healthcare problem can truly be fixed. Average Americans will be able to afford private health plans again without bankrupting themselves, or near to it. And you won’t have people complaining about a national health care plan that takes money out of their pockets in taxes, to provide for those who don’t want to work to earn it for themselves. And we all know we are hearing that within the debate over national healthcare.
It’s a difficult problem, and there’s NO way around that. To truly fix this will be hard. National health care will not fix the problem, or reduce wait times in ER’s…it will only make the wait times LONGER and further overload ER doctors and nurses, many of which are terribly overworked as it is.
Feel free to agree or disagree with me as you see fit. This is just my opinion, brought on by dealing with this issue almost every day I come to work.
November 11th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Dan forgot to mention the traitor, Parker Griffith.
In making excuses, Parker’s going from one lie to another to explain his “No” vote – the latest one being that it would bankrupt Medicare which of course makes those over 65 ring their hands in worry. The one before that was that it would ruin the hospitals, or something about the hospitals.
Perpetual, incidious lying over time, will eventually sink into the brain of the listner and become a fact to him.
Mission accomplished.
November 11th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
You know, I met him once and talked to him at some length and thought he was a pretty good guy, unlike Artur Davis, but he turned out to be just another lying bastard with political ambitions who betrayed the people who worked to elect him. I figure he’s toast in this political environment, but it would help of the Huntsville Times would actually do its job. Don’t hold your breath…
November 12th, 2009 at 12:19 am
Dan,
I appreciate your comments as a professional and would like to see more from folks like you.
But is it possible that the only way to accomplish getting the special interests out of it is to include everybody in a single-payer system? That seems to work quite well in all of Europe and much of the world.
Many on the left are not supporting this health care reform bill because it does not go far enough and they fear the special interest money will continue to influence things if the for profit model is not completely obliterated. From a practical and a moral point of view, many of my friends think the only way to fix the system is to take the profit out of it. The only way to do that is a government health system like Medicare. That seems to work pretty well for the elderly. Why would it not work for everybody else?
November 12th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Hmmm…Parker Griffith? I’ve no idea who that is. And let me just go on record as saying that Limbaugh and Beck are idiots, and are the LAST two people on this planet I’m going to listen to. Talk about the two biggest blowhards on TV/radio, and those two are it. I’ve been a Republican voter most of my life (only breaking with that to vote for Obama), and those guys are a slap in the face to intelligent Republicans everywhere. Okay, I’m off that soapbox now. LOL.
Getting back on-topic- my opinion on the healthcare plan, as I mentioned in my first post here, has a strong basis on what I see every day in my job. A few things in answer to some of the points above…
I see the point about Medicare. If it’s done properly, maybe a national healthcare plan COULD in fact work, based on that model. But there’s the key phrase- “If done properly”. I’ve known too many elderly patients, friends, and family members, who were on Medicare and who had legitimate issues, yet at times Medicare refused to pay a bill for them. Why? The reason most given- not enough money, or something along those lines. Yes, that was actually what they were told! So, from what I can see, and I may be wrong here, but those who abuse the system (like the “frequent fliers” I mentioned earlier) are costing Medicare too much money as well, and impacting on the needed care of those with legitimate complaints.
If we have a national healthcare plan, what is to prevent the same thing happening there? It has to be paid for somehow, and it’s going to come from the taxpayer, raising already high tax rates.
In order for a national healthcare plan to work, these in my opinion are what needs to be addressed-
1. As already mentioned, it needs to be capable of knocking out the special-interest groups and the “for profit” model. Structure the plan to take all that money out of it, and switch the focus from making money to coming up with better forms of care for various diseases and ailments. Maybe the plan could include incentives for doing exactly that.
2. It needs to be capable of breaking the AMA-complex stranglehold. It’s a well-proven fact that there are treatments for cancer, as an example, that are better than anything available in this country today. Why aren’t we getting those treatments from our own doctors? One of the main reasons (if not the SOLE reason) is that the AMA won’t approve them- there’s FAR, FAR more money to be made in chemotherapy, as one example. (which also goes back to #1 above)
3. It needs to provide for alternative forms of treatment. What might work for you, may not work for me. A very simple example- say we both have a cold. Daytime Nyquil might work for me, but not for you- you might find that Sudafed works better for you. Now apply that concept to things like acupuncture, homeopathy, etc. Not everyone responds the same ways, or even at all, to common treatments, and a truly comprehensive national healthcare plan will need to take that into consideration and provide for it.
As I see it, those are the three most important things that a national healthcare plan needs to address. Seems to me that the other issues facing the plan in its current form can be traced back to one or more of those three items. Private healthcare plans would do very well to address those items as well, but we’re dealing with “for profit” models in the private sector, so…
My biggest fear right now is that in its current form, the national healthcare plan doesn’t do enough. And I don’t want to see one imperfect system merely exchanged for another imperfect system, because that is NOT progress. Rather, it would simply further complicate the issues already facing people, like our seniors on plans such as Medicare.
I am by NO means opposed to change and progress…I just want to see the RIGHT change and progress. If the national plan adresses this, I’ll be one of the most vocal people out there supporting it.
And Glynn, like you said, it seems to work in places like Europe…so let’s find out WHY, and apply that here in this country.
November 12th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Not being on the ground in DC, I can’t say for sure, but it seems to me Congress has been trying to do just that, with some fits and starts and having to compromise with certain members and interests like they do on everything.
But unlike what the tea baggers say, Obama is not a socialist. He went behind the scenes and negotiated with the drug companies and some interests, and even got the AARP on board.
I have just been watching this issue and waiting my entire adult life for the federal government to do something about a corrupt and screwed up system, and now we seem to have that chance. The Republicans can’t do it because they are in bed with big business all the way. Some of the Democrats are too, like the ones from Alabama, so there’s really not much we can do here — except vocally support the national effort and try to educate some people around here about the realities, as opposed to the spin…
November 12th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
I agree with you on your points about Obama…he’s doing a great job on this issue, as best he can, and he’s definitely made good progress. (I’m not on the ground in DC either- I’m just an average American who doesn’t listen to “spin” and prefers to do my own research.)
I’ve been waiting and hoping for the same thing you have. And your comment “now we seem to have that chance”- we’ve got the best chance that I’ve ever seen! I just hope and pray to God that it works out in a manner that’s beneficial, because we sure do need a better system.
November 16th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
Urgent!! Robert Reich on your healthcare http://bit.ly/SAQ7a
Why A Strong Public Option Is Essential – By jacksmith – Working Class
Robert Reich explains the pubic option: http://bit.ly/dDYSJ
Hollywood Supports The Public Option
http://bit.ly/3XLwPi
Beautiful HEATHER GRAHAM http://bit.ly/12sRYD
It’s not just because more than two thirds of the American people want a single payer health care system. And if they cant have a single payer system 77% of all Americans want a strong government-run public option on day one (86% of democrats, 75% of independents, and 72% republicans). Basically everyone.
It’s not just because according to a new AARP POLL: 86 percent of seniors want universal healthcare security for All, including 93% of Democrats, 87% of Independents, and 78% of Republicans. With 79% of seniors supporting creating a new strong Government-run public option plan, available immediately. Including 89% of Democrats, 80% of Independents, and 61% of Republicans, STUNNING!!
It’s not just because it will lower cost. Because a strong public option will dramatically lower cost for everyone. And dramatically improved the quality of care everyone receives in America and around the World. Rich, middle class, and poor a like.
It’s not just because it will save trillions of dollars and prevent the needless deaths of millions more of YOU, caused by a rush to profit by the DISGRACEFUL, GREED DRIVEN, PRIVATE FOR PROFIT MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX!
It’s not just because every expert in every field, including economist, and Nobel laureates all agree that free market based healthcare systems don’t work. Never have and never will. The US has the only truly free market based healthcare system in the World. And as you all know now, IT IS A DISASTER!
It’s not just because providing or denying medically necessary care for profit motivations is wrong. Because it is WRONG! It’s professionally, ethically, and morally REPUGNANT!, Animalistic, VILE and EVIL.
THE REASON THE PUBLIC OPTION IS ESSENTIAL:
The public option is ESSENTIAL because over 200 million of you are trapped in the forest of the wolves. Which is the forest of the DISGRACEFUL, GREED DRIVEN, PRIVATE FOR PROFIT MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX! With no way out except through needless inhumane suffering, and DEATH. While the wolves tear at your flesh, and rip you limb from lib. Then feast on your lifeless bodies like a dead carcase for transplant parts.
At the most vulnerable times of your lives (when you were sick and hurting), millions of you have had to fight and loose cruel, but heroic battles. Fighting against the big guns of the DISGRACEFUL, GREED DRIVEN, PRIVATE FOR PROFIT MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX! in the forest of the wolves. All because you have no place else to go. You have no other CHOICE!
But the PUBLIC OPTION will give you someplace safe to go. And it will give us someplace safe to take you. The public option will be your refugium (your refuge). Where the wolves cannot get at you when your down, hurting, and vulnerable. Where everyone who needs it can find rest, security, comfort and the care they need. Protected by the BIG GUNS of We The People Of The United States. THE MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE AND COUNTRY ON EARTH.
This is why it is so critical that we do not lead another 50 million vulnerable, uninsured Americans into the forest of the wolves, without the protections of a Strong Government-run MEDICARE like public option. We The People Of The United States MUST NOT LET THAT HAPPEN to any more of our fellow Americans. If healthcare reform does not contain a strong MEDICARE like public option on day one. YOU MUST! KILL IT. Or you will do far more harm than good. And millions more will die needlessly. Rich, middle class, and poor a like.
To those who would continue to obstruct good and true healthcare reform for the American people, and who seek to trap millions more vulnerable Americans in the forest of the wolves. We will continue to fight you. We are prepared to wage all out war against you, and will eagerly DESTROY! you. Time…is…UP! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! No Co-op’s! No Triggers! NO INDIVIDUAL MANDATES! without a Strong MEDICARE like public option on day one.
Healthcare reform can be the GREATEST! Accomplishment of our time and century. A time when future generations may say of us, that we were all, AMERICAS GREATEST GENERATIONS.
BUT WE MUST ACT!
I therefore call on all my fellow Americans and the peoples of the World. To join us in this fight so that we may finish becoming the better America that we aspire to be for everyone.
SPREAD THE WORD!
I have been privileged to be witness as many of you fought, and struggled to take your first breath, and your last breath on this earth. Rich, middle class, and poor a like. Life is precious.
Whatever the cost. WE! MUST SUCCEED.
God Bless You My Fellow Human Beings
jacksmith – Working Class
ATTENTION!! Congress Has The Votes Needed To Pass A Public Option – TODAY http://bit.ly/TCq7O
Things You Can Do To Help NOW! http://www.everydaycitizen.com/2009/09/tired_of_watching_people_die_n.html
A majority of voters would rather have a Democrats only bill with a Public Option. Than a bipartisan bill without a Public Option.
A state based insurance plan is NOT!! a Public Option. Nor is it a Strong, National, Medicare like Public Option.
No Triggers! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-rosenbaum/a-trigger-for-the-public_b_277910.html
Triggers http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/weve-seen-these-triggers_b_283583.html
Krugman on heathcare (http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/why-markets-cant-cure-healthcare/)
Senator Bernie Sanders on healthcare (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSM8t_cLZgk&feature=player_embedded)
John Garamendi on the Public Option and the Grassroots: http://bit.ly/TJMty
Howard Dean on the Public Option http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SKfW2dUnow&feature=player_embedded
We’re Number 37! in quality of health care http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVgOl3cETb4&feature=player_embedded
Twitter search (#welovethenhs #NHS #hc09 #hcr #healthcar #obama #p2 #topprog #) Check it out.
November 17th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
To the Tea Bagger who called me “Pal”…
Put It There Pal
by Richard Thompson
Old friend, it’s been so long, and it’s been so real
And if I helped you once it was no big deal
Too bad I can’t be there when they call your name
They’re going to write you down in the hall of fame
You really got what you wanted, I’m thrilled as pie
It really couldn’t happen to a nicer guy
Put it there pal, put it there
Now and then just throw me a crumb
Put it there pal, put it there
Thanks for the help when I needed it, chum
You saw me drowning, you said I was a fake and laughed
Then you jumped right in and used me for a raft
You shot me down with friendly fire
You were all dressed up to play Gun For Hire
The rope you threw me was made of barbed wire
But put it there pal, put it there, pal
Put it there
I know you mean well, call me a sentimental fool
I know sometimes you’ve got to be kind to be cruel
When you pat me on the back, that was quite some slap
That kind of compliment, it could kill a chap
So I’ll drink your health, oh this emotion’s given me a thirst
But maybe I’ll have my food-taster drink it first
Put it there pal, put it there
You deserve everything you got coming
Put it there pal, put it there
Call me up if you want to come slumming
Some say you’re a rattlesnake in the grass
But I say the sun shines out of your arse
So it’s no hard feelings, live and let live
With a gift like yours, you’re born to give
You’re so full of love it leaks out like a sieve
So put it there pal, put it there pal
Put it there
Put it there
Put it there
Put it there, pal
Put it there, pal
Put it there, pal
November 17th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
To the preacher man who said I was not a “serious” journalist for using the term tea bagger:
Other new words were considered for the New Oxford American Dictionary 2009 Word of the Year:
teabagger – a person, who protests President Obama’s tax policies and stimulus package, often through local demonstrations known as “Tea Party” protests (in allusion to the Boston Tea Party of 1773)…
http://blog.oup.com/2009/11/unfriend/
November 18th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Rather be a tea-bagger than a tea-baggie.
November 20th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
These tea party protestors are patriots. And if you’re going to bring up the teeny-tiny handful of idiots who are saying “death to Obama”, then you have to speak out against the people who said “kill Bush”. Where were you then?
http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=621
November 20th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Where was I? Trying to stop king Bush from turning America into a religious, authoritarian monarchy. Read the archives.
Where were you when he took our Fourth Amendment Rights and spied on us all, took this country to an unjust, war of choice, not necessity, and raped and plundered our economy? Your patriots were a bunch of couch potato morons when the real threats to our liberty were on the line. Bush should have been impeached.
We will be critical of Obama and get into every public policy fight in the days ahead, but he has done nothing to deserve prayers for his death.