If despair is truly a sin, I'm in severe jeopardy of spending eternity in perdition; or wherever it is atheists like me are sent (an endless Sarah Palin rally?)
The following comment was posted in response to a column in today's NYTimes and pretty well sums up my feelings as well.
Kate Madison
Depoe Bay, Oregon
August 8th, 2009
9:07 am
Okay, Gail, I surrender! Give up! Call in the men with the white coats to take me away!!!
What is going on in America today is in no tradition I can remember, and I am pretty old! I listened to Bill Maher tonight, and his New Rules were positively depressing--although funny in a "gallows humor" sort of way. For instance: 34% of Americans STILL believe that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11! 47% of Republicans TRULY believe that Barack Obama was not born in the US (maybe that's a good thing?), Sarah Palin says Obama's healthcare plan is "downright evil," and would force her to take her Down Syndrom child before a "death panel" every five years!!! Eeeeek! Get me out of here!
Is it any wonder that our ill-informed, highly anxious citizens are massing at town hall meetings yelling at their congressmen to "Tell the Government to Keep Its Hands Off of My Medicare?" Who think that a Living Will is a "Death Panel?" OMG--is our citizenry really this stupid and uninformed? Will we ever get over ourselves--and the Civil War????
The day I hear a Republican senator renounce his taxpayer subsidized, government run health plan, I'll begin to listen to their concerns. Just once, I'd like to hear one of those bozos explain how hard it is when the government gets between a senator and his doctor. How about if we just require that all congressmen and women get the same health care as the bill they pass?
ReplyDeleteZenCane
I hate a goddam Republican and the Democrats oughta start wearin' tutus.
ReplyDeleteP magas
marquette, mi
Gee Zen,
ReplyDeleteMight we say the same thing about a Democrat senator? Surely you can find one among the sixty blues that is willing to give up his health benefits.
Nice meeting you at Rusty's.
Angry Andy