Well in another piece here I will attempt to point out the obvious. However, I won't be able to point all of the hypocrisy spewed forth by the right wing conservatives. That should also include some echoed by Democrats as well. Usually, I don't expect conservatives to read this piece. Yet I took great pride a year and a half ago when Real Clear Politics featured an article of mine calling Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) House Minority Leader out for comments he made about those that didn't support George Bush and the war in Iraq. Real Clear Politics is defined by many on the left as a right leaning blog but hey there is an attempt to give because there is an attempt to present both views. So once again I hope conservatives surfing the web will at least take time to read this article.
This rant was originally posted at idealthoughts. Unlike many, I believe in political accountability, and I am not an ideologue despite the lack of leadership from the Dems to date there is still a chance. Follow along after the fold to view the BIGGEST LIARS and HYPOCRITES.Maybe you'll agree with me.
The inspiration for this piece came from both Rachel Madow and Keith Olbermanns reporting on Sen John Ensign (R-Nev) justifying his recent love affair as not the same as Clinton's, because "he didn't break any laws". Oh really Senator? What state did you have sexual relations in with the wife of your best friend and Chief of Staff? In Nevada, yes you possibly committed no criminal offense, unless you had sexual relations in the Commonwealth of Virginia, Washington DC or even Maryland. So Senator, depending on where you had sex with your lover, adultery is a criminal offense, albeit a minor one. Then there is the issue in your case of putting the the son of your lover on the GOP payroll and your parents offering $96,000.00 in "gifts" to the husband of your lover, whom as I noted earlier was your Chief of Staff and so called best friend. Please do not even try this card. As archaic as those laws are, they are still THE LAW, and in most states reasons to grant an immediate divorce. Oh, did I mention should that big gift be declared criminal, Ensign has hung his parents out to dry? Therefore I declare you tonight's worse liar and hypocrite.
The second group I single out here (actually) I am combining several as it all relates to one issue are the conservatives out there calling the single payer option a government sponsored socialistic take over of health care. They then decide to disrupt Town Hall meetings and not allow the rest of America to ask their questions. All the while the ones not allowed inside the meetings because they came to late are disrupting the meetings outside the doors chanting about their "first amendment rights". Hey guys we are not talking about the first amendment here, we are trying to discuss health reform. When you disrupt a town all meeting I am having with my representative by making so much noise it is impossible to have a civil discussion either for or against, you are trampling all over my first amendment rights. Who is the Nazi and fascist then? To top it off, many of you are not from my Congressional district, you are insurance company shills bussed in by a group calledFreedom Works, whose founder former house speaker Dick Army was an insurance company lobbyist until he was forced to resign from his lobbying company by progressive bloggers and political news reporters like Rachel Madow. With their fear mongering they have incited the elderly crowd (that's right you AARPers and I'm one of you as well), who cry " keep your hands off my Medicare, but don't know it's a government run program, probably the most liked program competing with Social Security. Can you point to a specific place in health reform that talks about cuts to Medicare? No, you can't, though Republicans like Ronald Reagan feel your program is "socialism" and along with his Republican ideologues, wants to cut these programs. What a bunch of hypocrites and liars when you distort the facts and try to drum up support for your minority causes out of fear and lies (hey isn't that the way Hitler and the Nazi's started out? Just saying.). Major kudos go out to Rep. Barney Frank last night who put one of those wackos in her place. What really is so dishonest and a lie is the comparison of Obama with Hitler over this health reform debate. Obama is speaking out for a proposal designed to decrease human misery and help lies. As I remember my history, Hitler had the Nazis killed six million people of Jewish origin. Where is the similarity? Or is it a modern history rewrite like evolution being a disproved "theory" because the bible version is fact?
Our third winner tonight goes to a similar group in the health reform debate though a different brand. This relates to those protesters against health reform who decide to show up to places where Obama is speakingwith their AR-15s andloaded handguns. They claim it is about their second amendment rights and that Obama basically wants to take their guns away. More of Big Brother right? Wrong. This is asinine. Does anyone remember George Bush with Dick Cheney and their "free speech zone"? Had anyone showed up a Bush event like that they definatly would have experienced worse then what that poor granny got at the GOP National Convention in Milwaukee. Then there is the complaint of government sticking their nose into our private lives. Where were all these screamers and shouters when George W. Bush decided he did not need court approval to snoop on your emails and telephone calls. Or how about that bit about the President being able to arrest anyone on the grounds they are a terrorist, or even suspected of terrorism and hold them indefinitely without access to the courts or counsel? Better look out you right wing southern rednecks, Obama has that power now based on the premise Dick Cheney and George Bush operated on. Though I would support your appeal based on constitutional grounds and shout just as loudly against Obama as I did Bush should he decide that was ok. Free government paid tip to Romania anyone? Yes, rendition still exists.
Fourth in our list are the conservative democrats and Blue Dogs whom you really can't distinguish from Republicans. Maybe they should be higher up on this list but....... These are the people who supported the Democratic platform which called for a major over aul of our health system yet when it came down to work towards this process, they jumped ship and have held everyone hostage (except the House) to the wishes of the insurance carriers. Sen Max Baucus (D-Mont) seems to have hijacked health reform by ruling out from the start any consideration of universal coverage or a single payer option. As Chairman of the Finance Committee, he has dismissed all the members of that committee except himself and two other blue dog democrats and three Republicans. Could it be that he receives the second highest amount of political contributions from the health insurance industry and has to keep that money gravy train protected despite what his voters may wish? Go to his campaign web site linked above and you will see a picture of a smiling Baucus behind Obama who is speaking. Damn he sure has a firm grip on those coat tails. Then if you look down, on the web site is a linked article about "delayed mail holding up his response to many who write in. Wannna bet their feelings? Look at todays news story about a town hall meeting here the audience clearly supported major health reform, not the crap Bacus supports and he blames it all on the "YouTubers" coming from out of state to harass poor Sen. Baucus. It's ok if they astroturf against reform, but to harass this poor Senator? Could it be Senator Baucus that you are hamstringing legislation in favor of a greedy corrupt industry that affects the entire country. You don't want hear what I call you.
Finally, there is President Obama and his staff. Mr. President, you promised me and three hundred million Americans you were going to change government. There would be transparency, honesty, integrity and no lobbyist in your Administration. One of your first cabinet picks was a lobbyist. All of the people on your economic advisory committee and cabinet like Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Treasury, or even SEC are either Wall Street insiders or member of the regime that brought us into this financial pitfall. They were either too lazy, or too invested in the status quo to do their jobs. Mary Shapiro is aclassic example. As former head of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority did nothing, like Nero while Rome burned. Hell, she could not even investigate Bernie Madoff appropriately, although all the evidence needed was anded to her agency on a silver platter.Kathleen Sebelius, Health and Human Services Secretary this weekend along with President Obama dismissed single payer coverage as insignificant to health reform in this country. Pardon me here but WTF? Today, according to a Washington Post article, numerous so called White House advisers and aides that remained unnamed expressed surprise at the vitriol the issue of single payer health care raised? Who the hell are these folks? Obviously they no nothing about what the American voter wants and are either biased by their own views or basically incompetent stupid morans (I include the two authors of this article as well although the ladder applies to them for sure). What happened to transparency in government as President Obama promised? That went out the window with the revelation of Obama's secret dealings with Big Pharm. Then there is the issues of wire tapping, rendition, DOMA, DADT, and a whole host of other things early supporters and contributors were promised. Don't even get me started on all the financial reforms we were promised that seem to have been <span style="font-style: italic;">Blowing in the Wind</span> and vanished.
A message to the White House. The reason health care costs have spiraled is the insurance industry plain and simple, Huge premiums, less coverage, increased out of pocket expenses. Insurance premiums over the past decade have risen three hundred percent! While the average workers pay makes it barly above three percent. Do you folks see the disparity? Oh yeah and we get less services as well. Recently the right wing hero Joe the Plumber talked about "taking the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosie behind thewood shed and beating her senseless". He claimed she and the dems lied and that was the "way we used to do it". I am older then you Joe an yes I know what that phrase means. Though we are not entirely without our faults, based on the list above, no matter how you rank order them, I thing were I your father I'd be in handcuffs for killing you and your brothers and sisters.