HEALTH CARE: A LESSON IN AMERICAN POLITICS

The summer of 2009 will be remembered as the Give Him Hell Summer of American politics. Some have said that the heated "Town Hall" meetings that center around President Obama's push for health care reform, represent America political democracy at work. To this writer, it represents the reaffirmation of the thought of the gullibility of the American electorate and the abiliity of a small group of well connected, well financed, and determined, to reshape the progressive movement toward change, Whatever that means.

Conservativeism, by its very nature, is always diametrically oppose to progressive change and has been a part of American politics since the time of George Washington. I start here because of the constant references to the "Founding Fathers" and "Strict" interpretation of the Constitution of the United States. Not to mention always cloaking these arguments with the Christian traditions that brough about the United States of America, as we know it today. My mother often told me me that if you tell a lie often enough, you will begin to believe it.

American Government 101 teaches us, or should teach us, that the Constitution came out of the Liberal teachings of John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Baron Montesquieu. These men influenced the likes of Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, the "Founding Fathers". Add to this Christianity and the Protestant Reformation, one should have serious doubts about the anti-health care noise makers that seem to dominate the make or break debate over this issue.


Controlling the debate on a particular issue has also been a critical component within American politics, again, American Government 101. So, let's review the facts: First, during the election of 2008, President Obama promised health care reform. He won by a landslide. Not only that, His Party, Democrats, took control of Congress. Why? The Conservative Republicans, who had control of the government for six of the last eight years had all but bankrupted the Country. And, who have produce such "Great" Presidents as, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George and George W. Bushes. The latter Bush came into office when the Country did not have a deficit and left office with the Country a "Trillion Dollars" in debt. (Supply-Side Economic) Who [Republicans], by the way, lost the last election, BIG TIME!!! I remember that Granni, from the Berverly Hillbillies, thought that the American War Between the States, Civil War, was a current event.

Secondly, this surviving group of Conservative Republicans and "Blue-Dog" Democrats, whatever a "Blue Dog" is, are calling for bi-partisanship, when for Twelve of the last Fourteen years, they have rammed their agenda through Congress, pushed the Nation into two un-winnable wars, widen the gap between the haves and the have-nots, disbanded Civil Rights, and the list goes on.

I can, today, predict the end of this health care debate: The Republicans and some "Conservative Democrats, have forced delay after delay, to create these hihacked town hall meetings, prolong Congressional debate on the issue, and in the end, VOTE AGAINST OBAMA!!! The view is to apear to call for compromise and then VOTE NO!!

This is American Politics at work.


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