Healthcare Again

As I read another article on how, in the developed world, America finishes last again. I'm sure this is called America hating but you need to work to make something the best, not just sit on your ass and say you're great. I've worked with too many people who operated that way, its just not me.

So I had to wonder why the republicans would sit by and not attempt to fix anything. 9 months after screaming "no" the republicans finally cook up a bill that covers less people and costs more. Why they thought, in 9 months they could build something as good as a bill 60 years in the making I don't know, but thats neither here nor there.

I think the reason this bill was opposed so heavily is because in 1994, the destruction of such a bill lead to a 12 year dominance for Republicans. Except John Boehner is no Newt Gingrich, and theres nothing close to the "Contract with America" on the table - that every republican can run on. Actually, the Republican party now is not only ununified, its in open rebellion.

I think Cantor probably went behind clsoed doors and did the historical math and realiezed 1 and 1 isn't 3, the republican party isn't going to duplicate its success in '94 with the exact opposite stratagy. And looking at where it was, what it does, and where its going the conservatieves, not the republicans, are winning the party.

For one thing Republicans are generally unparalleled on discipline. They don't get off message, they have a sort of hive-mind that allows small gaffes and missteps to be exploited to a maximum capacity. This, obviously, it right out the window in 2009. For one reason or another, this leftist mentality of party purity like we experienced in the 60's has come, in full force to the republican party. We've also seen a tremendous amount of "front group" use by the neo-cons who are simultaneously ousted from power but who remain the loudest voices in the public eye. Something Ellesworth Tooey would have been proud of (or pissed about because of plagerism).

Secondly, the republican party has, very appropriatly, had a long memory on many things. Not least of which is the 40th president of the U.S. But today their forgetting his 11th commandment, his revolution that lead to the '94 victory, and the unity that Gingrich brought to the table with universal position on policy through his contract with America.

Healthcare, it was said by Roger Ailes (i think), cannot be allowed to pass because it will forever hand the democrats votes from the impoversed. He's kinda right. It would forever give them the votes of a generation, but with a National Policy on healthcare, the impoversed would at least have the same economic oppertunities and thusly few would remain impoversed for long.

As a conservative who wants Healthcare, I had to go down to the crossroads and figure out why I was so passionate about it in my gut, even if it didn't make sense with regard to liberties. But ultimatly it makes the world a more hands off place, one in which everyone can afford the same oppertunities because the cost of ailments born or aquired are no longer a hunderence.

And ultimatly thats the point I'm going for. I don't care where people start or finish economically - I'm a man born fighting and can only respect those ruthless enough to take what they want. I believe thats only valid if the oppertunity to fight is there. If you can't afford your bills because you bought a $30,000 car then thats your problem.

If you can't afford your bills because you have cancer and in the end it costs $30,000 then thats unamerican. Keep fighting the good fight friends. We'll have the power soon enough.