Now that the omnibus health care reform bill is past its highest hurdle, it's all over but the shouting (if political analysts are to be believed). As we saw Sunday, the shouting is definitely not over, and it's unfortunate that many of our supposedly upstanding elected officials chose to be the cheerleaders of it.
Republicans have a great deal to answer for in their behavior on this issue over the past 12 months, but nothing more reprehensible and irresponsible than their self-serving, anti-American, Nazi-style incitement of the basest instincts of their very base base -- racial hatred, fear of change, selfishness, rejection of progress. These Republicans would like America to be a third world nation -- the only developed country not to offer its people universal health care. Obama and the Democrats have saved us from that.
The lack of GOP support doesn't reflect real differences over the issues, despite claims to the contrary; it reflects only the playing out of a party strategy designed purely for political gain. Now the Republicans are tarred with their own brush, coated with the muck they stirred up. If the quiet, sensible, pro-American majority of Republicans have any sense, they'll turn these worthless no-counts out of office in November.
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