Republicans Terroize Health Care Debate

Rachel Maddow and others are documenting some of the brutal behavior being unleashed by the Republicans. The thugery is meant to make impossible a public debate about health care. Republicans, in the service of parasitic "health" related businesses, are doing their best to sabotage a Public Health Care Option that would force so-called "health" insurers to compete with an efficient government run system. It is the simplest thing, much like making Medicare or VA-like medical care available to the public.

Medicare delivers about $97.00 dollars out of $100.00 for health care. Private "insurance schemes" generally commit twenty to thirty percent of all insurance premiums to something other than health care. A few people make a lot of money this way but only $70.00 out of $100.00 actually pays for health care.

More than ten thousand people die each year in the United States of treatable illnesses simply because big insurance companies and financiers run the health industry for profit, not for people. Some consider it a form of murder for profit. Anyway big insurers and the whole vampire pseudo health care industry like it this way. They like the multi- million dollar bonuses and multiple mansions, etc., etc..
So they are sending their quasi-fascist shock troops to intimidate decent law abiding citizens who just want to have a public debate about what health care option will serve the interests of the people,not the filthy rich!

Certainly some like their health insurance but for more than forty million, maybe more like eighty million the premiums are unaffordable. Projected premiums will make health care insurance unaffordable for most of us who are now satisfied.

Since the pseudo-health care industry is doomed anyway. we should escort it off the stage of history rather than let it drag the nation into an even more severe national medical emergency.

As long as public insurers and other narrow-minded profiteers continue to design the health care system for personal gain the United States will continue to fall behind
other nations in the delivery of health care to its citizens.
Republicans are generally complacent about mediocre American health statistics. The rest of us do care about the health of Americans!

Big, fat, ugly, whiter-than-thou folks are sent to these public fora not to discuss but only to disrupt the discussion about health care. Limbaugh look alikes and other assorted bigots shout until everyone gives up and the proceedings shut down.

We need to wake up! Republican thugs are brutalizing the rest of us as usual and making the Insurance Fascists proud. Of course the big Insurance companies want legislation that permanently puts their companies and investors on the public dole. That is what requiring citizens to buy insurance is all about.

The fascist offensive to shut down health care refor is similar to the Republicans tactics and strategy used to shut down the counting of the popular vote in 2000. Remember Bush v. Gore? The Republican coup of 2000 was largely the work of Republican brown shirts who cheerfully sabotaged democracy in Florida. Unlike the Iranian people we and especially Al Gore behaved shamefully and allowed the coup to occur without much protest let alone actually countering and defeating the Republican fascist offensive. The GOP and right wing Republican organizations sent conservative thugs to engage in rioting and the violent disruption of the work of officials trying to count the votes. It was a coup where Republican brown shirts stopped the counting of the vote by force thereby setting up the Supreme Court to bless the coup. Ultimately Supreme Court "Judges" backed the Republican brown shirts and gave the election to G. W. Bush supposedly due to some sort of discrimination!

It was at that time that the whole nation was treated to the spectacle of self-righteous Republican whites cheerfully joking that the people of Florida were too stupid to vote.

The politically corrupt and judicially bankrupt Supreme Court deliberately stood in the way of counting votes but the vote would have already been counted if Republican thugs and rioters were outmanuevered, arrested or wrestled to the ground by defenders of democratic processes. Shamefully the Democrats and most Americans went along with the coup which was only facilitated by Al Gore's loathesome surrender at every step of the way.

Today, Republican brown shirts are running riot again and trying to strong arm their way into destroying the public debates about health care in order to shut them down. It is just part of a broader hate campaign and white supremacist offensive lead by Republicans and their rank and file cracker supporters. This quasi-fascist mass movement that is meant not only to keep tens of millions of Americans without health care but also to overthrow Obama and any semblance of democracy. The Republicans want to turn back the clock but unable to do so they hope to impose a white supremacist cracker capitalism that expels immigrants and restores "white right", ie. forms of white supremacy that have been partially or completely abolished.

Numerous irrational, subtle but potentially effective attacks on Obama have been launched. One example is something you might see on any web site. It is a wandering head of Obama and the web surfer is invited to hit Obama with one of four boxing gloves.

Another attack on Obama shows Obama in Whiteface, looking like a demented clown but still, clearly Obama. He really looks diabolical sort of like the Joker in the Batman movies. This "whiteface" is obviously or not is a way to appeal to white supremacists while demonizing the President.

A third example of what may be scores of small scale assaults on the image of Obama the President is the use of Obama video to sell useless or fraudulent services. The example I have in mind shows an Obama video where he is saying something about credit card and consumer debt. This is on for hours and the salesperson and pseudo new person is using the Obama statements to push these miracle cures for personal debt.

Of course Obama has nothing to do with the product but his video is used for hours at a time, always running in the background to sell what are probably useless or fraudulent schemes to cope with consumer debt. These shoddy products are thus being associated with Obama and are likely to influence some to dislike him even though it makes no logical or factual sense.

Unable to win on any of the issues the Republicans have opted for terrorizing the public and scores of subtle, irrational and they hope effective attacks on Obama. It's
a form of psychological warfare being directed against Obama and the American people by the rich, super rich and Republicans.

Meanwhile Republicans in public office and in private suites shelter literally hundreds of violent militias and white supremacist organizations across the nation. Will anyone stand up to the Republican menace or will their fascist tactics win for them again like it did in Florida?

The Republicans murdered the Presidential election of 2000. The Republican rank and file organize and run white supremacist militias that seem to be configured to carry out acts of violence against other Americans. Curiously, these
well armed vigilantes and militia remain immune to scrutiny or prosecution because of protection by Republican lawmakers and the timidity of Democrats.

The remarkably powerful campaign to convince Americans that Obama is of foreign birth is indicative of the fanaticism and lethal intent of the Republican leadership. They want power and they seem to be willing to say or do anything to get it. I see no respect for the rules of the game with the Republicans!

Nor should we forget the Republican born and bred low intensity war against abortion and birth control providers. The anti-abortion terrorist movement, centered in the Republican right, recently claimed another victim in the person of Dr. Tiller of Wichita. After more than twenty years of bloodshed one might expect Congressional hearings and an effort to deal with this terrorist threat.

Democrats seem weak in their own self defense and in criticism of these widespread acts of terrorism. Republican sanctioned and protected violence continues to intimidate and undermine democracy. These assassins are nestled in the bosom of the Republican Party and are one reason the GOP should be outlawed as a criminal conspiracy.

Dr. George Tiller of Wichita was murdered by a right wing nut case typical of a sector of the Republican Coalition and Right to Kill, oops, I mean Right to "Life" movement. I suspect a majority of "law abiding" Republicans actually are pleased with the murder of Tiller.

Perhaps most residents of Johnson County think of Tiller's murderer as some sort of hero. Of course most are not going to go public with such views but a disturbing number of Republicans seem to think they have a right to terroize, threaten, besmirch and even kill those with whom they disagree politically. And those Republicans who don't endorse such violence themselves are pretty happy to smugly enable the whole thing.

Of course the Republican Insurance thugs invading and disrupting the public fora on health care must be confronted and defeated in the field of public opinion. Of course, legitimate discussion and even protest is fine but the Republican effort to shut down these fora is clearly part of a systematic effort to terrorize the general public and to intimidate politicians who care about actually delivering health care rather than simply funneling super profits to Republican fat cats, parasitic "insurance" companies, big hospital chains, big Pharma, etc., etc..

Republicans could care less about the forty and more millions of citizens not getting health care in this nation.
It is a disgraceful record and all the facts prove the health care vampires and Republican profiteers to be wrong, wrong, wrong. The Republicans, big Pharma, and the Insurance rip off artists cannot win this debate so they and their Republican thugs are going to do their level best to shut the whole debate down with shouting and other forms of violent intimidation.

Will the Republican bullies successfully kick us wimps around once again? I say, "Kick them down the stairs!"
and let them glide on their Limbaugh-like derrières to defeat at the hands of the tens of millions of Americans who need health care and who may ultimately struggle for it with at least the intensity of the Republican brown shirts.

Frankly, modern Republicans look more and more like the fellows that used to run around with ax handles beating up civil rights protesters in the 1960's. Lestor Maddox Republicans, that's what they are! The Republican Party is a party of the past and a party doomed to extinction. Hopefully the Republicans don't succeed in messing up health care reform or in overthowing our elected government.