Very Sick People

Now that the Supreme Court has ruled that the health care law, you'd think the Republicans would just shut up about it and concentrate on talking up jobs.  You'd think wrong.  Republicans - who haven't lent themselves to thinking since about 1975 - are pushing their opposition to the law and are driven to repeal it.  When they're not calling Chief Justice John Roberts a traitor, they're explaining how they plan to "repeal and replace" it without explaining how they'd replace it.  With "common sense reforms," House Speaker John Boehner once said, though he never explained with those "common sense reforms" would be.  Asked by Chris Wallace of Fox what he'd do to reach universal coverage, the Senate Minority Leader, His Holy Modal Majesty Addison Mitchell McConnell, said, "That's not the issue."

Isn't it? Isn't that why President Obama pushed the law in the first place?

When Wallace repeated the question, McConnell answered by saying what Republicans won't do, which is, propose Western European-style reforms.  Which is precisely what Obama  did not do.  (To my utter disgust.)     

We know what Obama did do.  We still don't know what Boehner, McConnell, or Mitt Romney would do.

Meanwhile, several Republican governors refused to implement the law until they heard from the Supreme Court on the matter.  Not liking the answer, these same governors - including the horrible Rick Scott of Florida - still refuse to do so until they hear from the voters in November.

I'm glad some sort of health care law passed, because the GOP is making me ill. 

If there's any bright side to all this, it's that enough of the health care law - particularly some of its most popular provisions - should be implemented by January 2013 and make it harder for Republicans to scuttle it even if they should win the Presidency and both houses Congress this year.  Watch out, though - that electoral outcome still has a very good chance of happening. :-O