The Republican Party’s inability and
ineptitude to accomplish anything, ANYTHING, thus far, in the area of
health care is a failure of historic proportions.
After seven years of railing against the
Affordable Care Act (I am going to call it by its real name because apparently
whenever you ask someone who is on this program, they like it, it’s that Obamacare
thing that they just can't stand), after seven years of demonizing the former
President and the Democrats for wait, wait, ….wait for it ….. for wanting to
actually help people, after seven years and countless votes in the House to
repeal the Affordable Care Act, and one that made its way through the Senate to
the President’s desk, after seven years of obstruction, avoiding any efforts to
discuss improvements, solely so they could, metaphorically speaking, pin a
losing tale on the butt of the Democratic donkey, after their so-called populist
Presidential candidate promised to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act
with “something great” on the first day of his presidency, after all those
years, they couldn't scratch their own itch, no matter how hard they tried. Sadly it seems, they all fell victim to
actually believing their own Republican bull elephant excrement. And as elephants go, there was a lot of it to
believe.
Everyone knows we need to fix the Affordable
Care Act or alternatively repeal and replace it with something better. EVERYONE.
Maybe, you want to think about
sitting down with Democrats to actually reach some common ground. Senator John McCain, one of the few remaining
lions in the Senate, who sadly was just diagnosed with brain cancer, has
lobbied for this. And with the Tuesday Group
in the House, you could actually work with Democrats to make things better
instead of selfishly putting petty party politics over country. But you are in
control, so only you can make it happen.
The truth is I don't care which way we go. Let me say it again. At this point I don't
care! The Republicans own the House, the
Senate and the Oval Office. They control
the discussion, the votes and the Oval Office, so more importantly, it doesn't
matter what I care about.
And I’m sorry, but America does not deserve
your rudderless President who a) doesn’t
have a friggin clue about any of the intricacies of the health care debate (“Who
knew that health care could be so complex?”) b) changes his opinion on this topic at least
twice a day, c) would be happy with a simple insurance plan that reimbursed
Americans for band aids but ignored cancer treatments, d) only wants to put a
win on the board, any win, so he can celebrate in the Rose Garden with a
marching band, a parade of tanks and a newly-made-in-America fire truck, and e)
will blame everyone and anyone for any and all the failures of his
administration, because of course, he is completely blameless.
He is your chosen leader, so you need to
figure out what value he adds to the process. Because the rest of us are just
baffled.
You would do yourselves a favor to remember
the image of former Speaker John Boehner who experienced one of the most
privileged moments of his life, when the Pope made a rare visit to Capitol Hill
in September 2015. He left that visit a
changed man. The following day, out of
the blue, he promptly resigned his powerful position as House Speaker, and left
Congress. It would seem that the 50+ times he led the House in a vote to repeal
the ACA, set him over the edge. There he was, one of most powerful men in the
country, with a huge shit-eating grin on his face, whistling Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah, down the halls of this
great institution as he left. John went
on to, catch-up on his fly fishing and predicted that the Republicans would never
repeal Obamacare shortly after he kissed it all good bye. Who among you saw this coming?
So for Chrissake you weenies, do something!
Take a stand, draw a line, take a risk. Stop worrying about self-preservation and do
something. It would be my hope that you
would actually try to keep the neediest of our fellow countrymen in mind when
you do, whatever the frig it is you that you are going to do, but I can't
control that. So, If you are going to
repeal the ACA, then do it! It’s been seven years now, get it over with. You're uncertainty and incompetence and
disingenuous history has stalled the entire country and quite frankly, we are
sick of it, and we are sick of you.
If you can't take a stand, then please, we
need more of you to do a “John Boehner”, get out of the way, go home and maybe,
just maybe, we’ll get lucky and the next person in line, the next person to
follow you, will have some real balls.
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