26 January 2011 Neither faction cares for the patient.

Roe:

Repealing Flawed Health Care Law & Replacing It Is The Right Medicine For Our Nation

. The House voted to repeal the health law for five main reasons: it costs too much; it includes $500 billion dollars in tax increases; it includes Medicare cuts that are harmful to seniors; it puts in jeopardy individuals’ ability to choose their own health care plan; and it uses taxpayer dollars to fund abortions. Repealing the health care law will provide a clean slate, and give Congress the ability to pass sound health care legislation in a transparent and bipartisan manner.

Bachman:

At a time colleagues have toned down their words, Bachmann went to Iowa and proclaimed: "If we want to kill Obamacare and we want to end socialized medicine, it must be done in the next election!"

Cassi Creek:

Roe, trumpets his 30 years as an OB/gyn. His concern for seniors and Medicare is less a problem for him than the old refrain of Tort Reform that the GOP keeps dragging out as a false flag. Tort Reform as proposed by the GOPers will effectively remove the ability to sue for patients who are victims of mal-practice. OB/Gyns are particularly hyper about mal-practice suits. Roe neglects to inform that he gave up medicine for politics. Any attempts to engage him in discussion of the need to reform health care elicit nothing but GOP talking points. Roe is actually too rightward to be in the current Republican Party. He won his seat because of widespread discontent with his predecessor, who injected his religion into politics. Roe would like to inject his religion further into the body politic as well. He’s actually a teavangelist in belief but doesn’t want to risk his seat by admitting it.

Bachman is a Palin clone, right down to the unethical financial dealings. She is an adamant anti-socialist/communist/fascist – she can’t separate them accurately – who reluctantly accepted $250,000 in federal farm subsidies for her family’s farm. Her excuses and explanation are as tortuous as a Palin utterance. She sees communists under every bed, is firmly entrenched in the teavangelist mobs, and has no appreciation of American history or of what it is like to actually need a paycheck.

Like Palin, Huckabee and Gingrich, Roe and Bachman are determined to roll the nation back to the 19th century. They intend to drag the GOP with them. Equally unsettling they would all prefer to see their Christianity made the de facto state religion despite the intent of the founders and the desire of most Americans to remove the religious right from power.

Last night’s fragmented response to the Obama State of the Union address demonstrates how the GOP leadership has lost power over its elected members. Bachman is right, the next election is critical. What she fails to recognize is that it is critical to stop her, the teavangelists, and the Palin clones.