The Incredible American Right Wing

I can't believe what I'm seeing and hearing about the right wing of American politics. How can any group of people be as stupid, as incredibly stupid as they are behaving?

First, the right hasn't come up with any good ideas that actually help the majority of people since Eisenhower was in office. Let's see: Nixon. Watergate and massive numbers of lies and constitutional obfuscation. Let's step up drug enforcement and create a "War on Some Drugs." Ford: "Whip Inflation Now." Reagan: Eliminate the regulations on financial institutions so there is no protection against the excesses that have put us in this economic mess. Let's gut the labor unions so the average worker doesn't have a defense. Let's lie, cheat and steal to keep tin horn dictators in South America in power while selling weapons to an unstable fundamentalist dictatorship in Iran. Let's continue to shred the Constitution and step up the war on some drugs. Bush: Let's pick up where Reagan left off and force people to pee in cups for employment. Let's sell chemical weapons to another unstable middle east dictator. Bush Jr: Space doesn't permit a full accounting of his treason. Suffice to say the economy is in ruins and civil liberties possibly irreparably damaged.

Now we have "Birthers," who, in spite of every piece of evidence possible to the contrary, claim that Barack Obama is not an American citizen. Now the "Deathers" are trying to claim that Obama's health care plan will kill older Americans.

Now, don't get me wrong: I'm not a supporter of Obama. So far it looks like "Bush Lite," and I'm not talking about beer. Obama's health care plan falls woefully short of being of real help to Americans. And, no, I don't trust the American government to be able to efficiently and effectively administer health care, but I damn sure trust the insurance industry considerably less. After all, they are the ones who will stand to lose if a public option that actually helps people comes to pass. As far as I'm concerned, the greedy bastards running the insurance industry and their hand maiden, big pharma, can both go screw themselves. They've cost us enough in terms of money and lives.

The Republicans are insane, corrupt and vile. The Democrats are too stupid and cowardly to do what's right. Time we dumped them both.