The Real Progressive

The Republicans should have seen it coming. He only talked about it his ENTIRE campaign. He said that he would be a priority in his Administration. He told the Congress to start working on it. The Health Care Bill was posted online for … months. It was discussed in committee. Over 200 Republican amendments were added to the Bill and, according to John Boehner (R-OH), they still hadn’t read it. AHHH! I get why they are the minority … they don’t read. And they keep their eyes closed so they can see they are about to be knocked out. WHAM!!!

It would be funny if they weren’t serious. I can’t tell you how many Republicans and Democrats who couldn’t bring themselves to vote for a black man, are still against this Health Care Law. It would be funny if they didn’t have children that would be without health care on their own and could really benefit being on their parents insurance until they are 26. It would be funny if we weren’t talking about families that only insure their children because they as working parents couldn’t afford to insure themselves too. It would be funny if they knew that this bill didn’t lower the costs of prescription drugs.

May be they do know and they just don’t care. Maybe it’s not what’s IN the bill, but WHO signs it that causes people to bite the hand that feeds them. I’d be surprised to learn that anyone who voted for Barack Obama is part of the Tea Party non-sense. Congressional Republicans waved flags from our nation’s capital stating: Don’t Tread on Me. This is the flag we used to form our own government and fight the British. We were fighting then for freedom to govern with real representation. We got that. It’s called CONGRESS. The President didn’t arbitrarily decided to impose Health Care on the people. We the People demanded it! We VOTED for people for people who would support our mandate for Health Care Reform.

Ready to Fight! States can opt out of the Health Care Reform provisions. This makes me double dog dare a Republican to run for governor in a state such as Michigan where 500,000 people are uninsured, not. This number doesn’t reflect those who can barely afford the health care they pay for. I wasn’t all that excited out my Democratic candidate for governor, Andy Dillon, but when my Republican Attorney General, Mike Cox, joined the other Republicans in filing a frivolous lawsuit about the constitutionality of the Health Care Bill, I am fired up! I am ready to lobby my neighbors to donate money for Dillon’s campaign. I am thankful for the down payment we all made in the ’08 election finally paying off. So Republicans can waive signs with the “N” word or flags of succession, but we progressives can fight hard too, but we just don’t need ethnic slurs and intimidation to do so. I’ll grab my checkbook, tie up my grassroots supporting shoes and get out as many as I can to vote Democrat this fall. You wanted a fight and here it is!