May 6, 2010

• LISTEN UP REPUBLICANS!

  Listen Up, Republicans! By Burt Prelutsky
  
  I am as irate as anyone at the way that Obama and Pelosi, like a pair of old-time bootleggers, strong-armed members of Congress into voting for ObamaCare.  But just because the Republicans fought back, I’m not as prepared as some to give them a pass.
  
  I would say to GOP politicians, you had control of the House, the Senate and the Oval Office from 2001-2007, but you didn’t do a darn thing about health insurance.  It’s only now that the liberals are gobbling up one-sixth of the economy that you’re suddenly all for tort reform and allowing insurance companies to compete across state borders.  When you had the power, all that people like John McCain and the rest of you punks did was cozy up to people like Feingold and Kennedy, like a bunch of school girls hoping the liberals would ask you to the prom.
  
  You didn’t even acknowledge that most people, excluding illegal aliens, can afford sensible health insurance, just as they can afford sensible insurance on their cars and their homes.  If people had the same absurd expectations of their home and automobile insurance that they have of their health insurance, they wouldn’t be able to afford either.  It would be as if we expected those policies to cover dust collecting on our drapes and dew collecting on our cars.  The truth is, most of us can afford to pay for antibiotics when we get the flu and vaccinations when they’re required.  It’s when catastrophe hits -- when you get cancer or require a quadruple bypass -- that you really need coverage.  With higher deductibles across the board, insurance companies could pool their resources and handle the really dire situations.
  
  But instead of behaving responsibly, you cheered Bush on when he signed a blank check to cover pharmaceuticals.  You patted him on the back and took a few bows yourself, as if you or he were personally picking up the tab for granny’s meds.
  
  Finally, why weren’t you demanding during the endless health care debate that the Democrats identify the 31 million uninsured people that Obama and Pelosi kept yakking about?  It’s my hunch that they’re young people who prefer spending their discretionary income on clothes, CDs and cocaine, and illegal aliens who have no business being here in the first place.
  
  I’m not suggesting that I don’t despise Obama, Pelosi, Waxman and the other left-wing gnomes, but just letting you know that there’s more than enough well-deserved contempt to go around.  So don’t assume that simply because you call yourself a Republican and make nice with the Tea Party crowd that we trust you any farther than we can throw Barney Frank. 

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