Your Womb, My Health and Who Cares

I am distressed, becoming very very angry and a little confused. Whether it is a woman's womb or my health care, in this country the worst of all possible thing has happened. The Republican, Conservative and pseudo Religious Right segments of the political arena have chosen to politicize these issues. These are not something I wish people to be voting about because of party affiliation. They are deeply personal issues which affect all of us and we should all have that very precious right to make a decision regarding them personally and not according to government dictate.

Sounds like I am against Roe vs. Wade or the Healthcare Plan? Absolutely not! Roe vs. Wade preserves a woman's right to make her very personal choice herself, alone. The proposals for Healthcare Plans are not carbon copies of the Canadian plan or the Massachusetts plan or any other plan. Indeed the proposals so far are very adamant that a person should still have a choice to remain in an independent plan or go with the government insurance plan. You got that you lying misinforming pain in the Ass right wing idiots!! You will still have a choice!

Next item - the health care plan is in a proposal stage and both parties agree that reform is needed. The problem that sticks in the craw of the Conservative Right is that Democrats want it to give virtually free healthcare to millions of poor Americans (you know the black guy that wants to rape you and never works for a living) or (the Mexican who drinks tequila all day and snorts coke all night). "Kinder and gentler" and "a million points of light" be damned! The Conservative Right detests African and Hispanic America but don't have the balls anymore to just join the Klan and get it over with! They are racists and bigots of the very worst and cowardly kind. They hide behind the artful distribution of lies on radio programs, emails etc to gather the unsuspecting herd of closet bigots and mis-informed white Americans behind their cause.

But what do they have to offer? More of the same? More political comedy shows and mishandling of our nation's affairs like the Bush administration brought us? Have they ever been "kinder or gentler"? Perhaps we should ask African and Hispanic America their opinion on that. We all know how well their "Leave no child behind" program went. The problem with that was some of their own children started to get LEFT behind and a generation of semi-illiterates is coming to maturity without the capacity to participate competitively in a world that is slowly passing us by.

On top of this my Republican friends (yes I have quite a few) seem to loose their intelligence during these political soap operas that occur when something I actually care about comes to the forefront. They seem to believe any lie out there and help spread it in emails to people like me, with whom there is absolutely no chance of convincing to change our minds. They show me copies of The Bill when no bill is in existence. Then CNN reports everything they say and seems to never get in any ones face and point out the outright lies they are spreading. I have emailed CNN twice to find out if there IS an actual bill in existence and I don't get an answer. The media is enjoying the fray and the fights in town hall meetings. It makes their day and their news. So who can we trust any more? The media? They have abandoned news reporting for Jerry Springer tabloid style news. The political parties of our country? They can't put one foot in front of another without finding a way to politicize every issue and polarize and divide America.

So what do we do? Folks, I do not know and that distresses me. I do not know. Hate rules, lies prevail and the public interest be damned!