So I am of course a left of center Democrat. I was happy with the new health care bill. I would have liked there to have been a public option but I will settle for what we got. I can't believe that the GOP is so hostile to Obama that not a single Republican voted for the bill. After all many of there districts and states would have been helped by this bill. I have a hard time believing that no one in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi is being screwed over by the insurance companies right now.
What scares me more right now is how the GOP leaders both in Congress and on the Radio are talking about the bill. I assume they know(well maybe Glen Beck doesn't) that this bill is not socialist or going to destroy the country. And yet everyday these leaders go on TV and rile up a base who seem to be getting angrier and angrier and yet seem to have no idea what congress actually just voted on. And nowt here are threats of violence. It is really scary. Paul Krugman(NY Times) is totally dead on in his latest column when he says that the right wing believes that no one but them should be in charge. We saw this hatred with Bill Clinton and now we are seeing it a gain.
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