Republican politicians have no empathyThey only want government to intervene when they suffer personally
so let's yank their federal health insurance
Sept. 11, 2009 | In the lyrical conclusion of President Obama's speech on healthcare, he talked about the emotions and experiences that drove his late friend Sen. Edward Kennedy to work so tirelessly and passionately for universal coverage. He tried to describe what Kennedy must have felt as two of his children suffered through bouts of cancer. Ordeals such as those, said the president, had helped Kennedy to understand the "sheer terror and helplessness" of parents whose children are stricken by serious disease, and lack the means to save them.
Reaching out to his opponents, the president tried to emphasize that such empathy toward other human beings "is not a partisan feeling," but is instead an aspect of our national character. This kind of Americanism represents "our ability to stand in other people's shoes -- a recognition that we are all in this together; that when fortune turns against one of us, others are there to lend a helping hand ... and an acknowledgment that sometimes government has to step in to help deliver on that promise."
>> More Salon article by Joe ConasonCINDY MCCAIN
Perhaps the problem is that a certain kind of Republican -- often with a connection to the
White House or Capitol Hill -- will only endorse government action to remedy the adversity they have experienced for themselves. The most recent example is Cindy McCain, the wife of the Arizona senator, who announced the other day that she suffers from migraine headaches, which she considers a "disability." " She is outraged that the United States government only spends $13 million annually for medical research on migraines, and is bent on increasing that amount drastically. She is determined that a remedy will be found someday soon -- with federal money.
"I'm missing a large part of my life," she said. "I want to stay active. I want a cure."
NANCY REAGANOnly after her husband began to disappear into the twilight of Alzheimer's disease did Mrs. Reagan perceive the value of the kind of government action they both had spent a lifetime denigrating. Government was the problem, not the solution, according to the Reaganite dogma. But then Nancy realized that federal support for stem-cell research might someday bring relief to patients like her beloved Ronnie, and anguished families like hers. Suddenly, spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on something other than Star Wars wasn't such a terrible idea.
Why Babygate Matters
More on Wasilla, Palin and religion:
"Pregnant teens, drug addicted teens, rape victims being victimized a
second time to raise money for a hockey rink. A rape rate 2.5 times higer than in places like Los Angeles and NYC. Constant lies about everything." anonymous commentHow the vice-presidential nominee brought fringe biblical teachings to her work as the chief of Wasilla, Alaska.
All God's Children ~ Salon.com | Vyckie’s Story
The Quiverfull movement saddles women with a life of submission and near-constant pregnancies. One mother explains how she embraced the extreme Christian lifestyle -- and why she left.
Wasilla church and The Gothard Teachings
Here is a little song celebrating our position at #37 in the world in healthcare.
