Let Me Get This Straight...

I watched Republican leader John Boehner on the Newshour on PBS last night rant and rave about how frightened Americans are of trillion dollar deficits.

Um... Mr. Boehner? I realize that you're one of the history-revising republicans who thinks that this decade went 1999, 2009 with nothing in between, I feel compelled to remind you that the trillion dollar deficits had nothing to do with President Obama's health care plan and very little to do with the stimulus and rescue packages passed under EITHER President Obama or he-who-must-not-be-named. The trillion dollar deficits come from the mess in Iraq that was rammed down America's throat by YOU, Mr. Boehner, your fellow republicans and the last man to sit in the oval office. (Even the republicans seem to not want to hear his name these days.)

Which reminds me, I owe the sitting President an apology. Mr. President, I am dreadfully sorry for saying that you weren't getting us out of Iraq fast enough. In my impatience, I forgot that we are on a timetable requested by the Iraqi people to keep our troops there to help them rebuild through the end of 2011. My error.

Now.

To put this as politely as I can.

Any politician... especially any REPUBLICAN politician... who voted for the war and yet wants to say that health care isn't feasible because of America's trillion dollar deficit needs to SHUT THE FUCK UP! IT'S YOUR FAULT!

Universal health care is a good thing... it is a necessary thing... and it is a MORAL thing. The mess in Iraq that squanders our treasure and human lives is NONE of these things.

You know, whenever I hear republicans talk about this sort of thing, all that I can hear is “Why aren't you cleaning our mess up faster?”

SHUT

UP

It amazes me that ANY Americans still listen to you guys, let alone take you seriously. Like the death panel bullshit. From the first time that I heard that, I thought “Surely Americans are not dumb enough to take that seriously.” Way to prove me WRONG, America.

Rep. Boehner also said, regarding the “tea parties” and the town halls, that he liked to see Americans “involved in the system”. These people are not involved in the system any more than the kids who protested the Iraq war without bothering to vote were. They're either A) being paid by the insurance industry to block progress or B) simply hoping that they can shout loudly enough or be obnoxious enough to make one of the news shows. Which, by the way, need to stop giving these people air time.

Let me get one more thing straight while I'm at it...

The republicans have been harping since the beginning of the primaries that THEY are the ones who are going to protect your second amendment rights, and that Obama was going to send goon squads into your house to take your hunting rifles away. REEEEAAALLLY.

When someone wore a T-SHIRT protesting he-who-must-not-be-named to one of his appearances, he relegated them to “free speech zones” miles away “for his safety”. Can you imagine what would have happened to one of these people who turned up WITH A GUN? Whereas President Obama HAS armed protestors turning up at his appearances and makes no attempt whatsoever to remove them.

So let's get this straight... WHO'S protecting your second amendment rights?

Peace.

Rev. Randal