21 January 2010 How fast can we roll back to the 7th century?

21 January 2010 How fast can we roll back to the 7th century?


Can we, under the loving guidance of the GOP and the American Taliban, abolish science, banish knowledge, and bring about the “American un-enlightenment?

Today, the internet and television channels are filled with GOP politicians promising that they hear the people who voted in Massachusetts. They want us to believe that they are happily going to trot back into their respective chambers and bring forth bills that will reform health care instead of sitting in their offices and taking bribes from the insurance companies to block any health care reform. The GOP spent the last year lying to the American people, ignoring the needs of the American people, and blocking every attempt by the administration to make this a better nation for its citizens.

The public option for health care enraged the GOP. Never mind that the GOP’s elected get their health care paid for by the public. That fact is glossed over in any attempt at discussion.

The American people need that obscene “doughnut hole” closed immediately. People who depend upon Medicare as their sole insurer can’t afford that gift from Bush to the Pharm houses. The people who require the greatest number of medications to continue living generally don’t have that much cash sitting around to use for medications when the plan keeps raising the dollar amount seniors must pay out before any catastrophic coverage is engaged. Let me remind anyone who needs it, if you have purchased enough medication to be in the “doughnut hole” it is already catastrophic. Congressmen and Senators don’t have to worry about such coverage, “we” pay their premiums and they simply write modifying bills to make sure that Medicare never denies them any service.

The GOP, in its continual quest for power over the wallets of working men and women nation-wide, have allied with the American Taliban, they who want power over the loins of men and women everywhere. They are quite willing to ban any access to birth control of any sort but all too unwilling to provide any services or care for the children produced by their “abstinent” members and those captive in the system they maintain we all must follow.

Congress, and the Theo-cons are all too willing to proclaim that, once those unlucky and unwanted children are born; that their condition is “God’s punishment for someone’s sins.”

We intended to leave such divine right rule and theocracy behind us in the old world as we made our separate paths to this nation’s shore. Instead, we brought the worst of it with us. We brought those chains forged for man by churches and we watched as the churches and politicians slipped them onto the legs of everyone they could reach. Those chains are still being forged and applied today.

We ended slavery in 1865, at the end of the Civil War. But the Southern Baptist leaders claim that women must be subservient to man in any relationship. That suggests that those leaders find the 19th amendment invalid and say so publically. Is this not a form or slavery? Not to be outdone, the Latter Day Saints, while officially renouncing polygamy, have splinter sects in various compounds around the nation that are bastions of polygamy and child brides. We punish men for having sex with underage females, unless they cloak the act in the guise of religion. How long will we let them get by with that?

The current Theo-con frontrunner for high office is Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas, renowned for pardoning nearly any prisoner who finds Jesus in jail, purveyor of Fox News commentary. This Southern Baptist preacher has publically stated that he would attempt to rewrite the Constitution to make it agree with, and therefore be subservient to, his particular version of the Bible. Other than the language he prays in and the uniform he wears is there any real discernable difference between Huckabee and Mullah Omar of Afghanistan’s Taliban? I don’t find that much except that I would probably trust Mullah Omar’s word more than Huckabee’s.

To really heighten the sense of disaster that springs from the day, The Supreme Court has decided to loosen restrictions concerning corporate campaign funding. CNN reported that:

“Hours after the ruling, President Obama responded, saying the court has given "the special interests and their lobbyists even more power in Washington -- while undermining the influence of average Americans who make small contributions to support their preferred candidates."

The GOP will benefit from this decision almost immediately.



What it comes down to is this:

If you prefer superstition over science education,

If you believe that politicians need to be protected from witchcraft,

If you favor women as captive breeders,

If you think health care should be available only to the wealthy,

If you think political descisions should be formulated by lying to the voters,

If you favor the church and its inquisitors in your bedroom,

Then you will love what the newly-funded GOP and its American Taliban base has planned for you.

If you happen to believe that the 1st Amendment is there for our protection, then you, like me, want nothing to do with anyone running for the GOP.