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Friday, November 13. 2009
Friday the 13th
It’s not like I’ve been ignoring the news. Not in the least. But, with having a J.O.B. again, I don’t get to watch the news channels as religiously as I once did when recovering from surgery and pneumonia. I miss Olbermann and Matthews especially and the occasional Hannity. He’s always good for a laugh.Jon Stewart and The Daily Show caught Hannity in a BIG lie the other night. Hannity had used footage from one teabaggers event, Glenn Beck’s 9-12 thing, as if it had been shot during Michele Bachmann’s anti-health reform rally that too place two months later. Hannity used that 9-12 footage to inflate the numbers of Bachmann’s sparsely attended rally, which, according to Washington, D.C. police, was estimated to be about 4,000 people. Both Bachmann and Hannity claimed there were “20,000 to 45,000” people in attendance.
Nice lie, if you can get away with it, but he didn’t. So, Hannity issued an apology for the “inadvertent mistake.” There was no mistake! You want us to believe, Mr. Hannity, FoxNews doesn’t date and name the footage it shoots to make it easier to catalogue? That the producer who put together the video clips didn’t know he was using video from a different event?
You and your producers knew exactly what you were doing when you tried to use Glenn Beck’s 9-12 footage to make Bachmann’s rally look larger than it really was. You’re a liar Sean Hannity and you got caught. I remember when Dan Rather was forced from his job after airing a story about President Bush that used forged documents. You can bet Fox won’t be forcing Hannity to resign. Lying is part of their culture.
It’s been fun watching the little bit I have seen of the news. The crazy antics of the chief teabaggers at Fox and their racist, ignorant and illiterate followers. I’m still wondering how President Obama can be a socialist and a Nazi at the same time. Those two political philosophies are diametrically opposed to each other.
That lunacy has given bloggers everywhere funny stuff to write about these past four months.
The real reason I’ve refrained from writing about the news though is this: I’ve become completely disenchanted with the Democrats in Congress and the White House. They’ve caved in on the most important issues, not just to their core constituents, but issues important to most Americans — in particular the public option in the health care bill.
The president insisted on bipartisanship, long after it was clear the Republicans were not going to agree on anything put forth by the Democrats, that the Republicans were only interested in being the obstructionist party of “No.” That was clear the day after President Obama was sworn in.
That health care bill should have been on the president’s desk before August and it should have been signed into law before Congress took its summer recess. But no, the Democrats dragged their feet and let the Party of No gain a little momentum with outlandish lies about what was in the bill. That momentum has turned the “moderate” Democrats away from health care reform, especially those Democrats who come from districts and states that vote heavily for Republicans.
Now the Democrats in the House of Representatives put in the “Stupak Amendment” which bars health insurance companies that provide coverage for abortions from participating in the health insurance exchange. The claim, by Congressman Bart Stupak (D-MI) and his supporters is that it puts the Hyde Amendment, which bars federal funds from being used to pay for abortions, into the health reform bill.
As the health reform bill is written, federal money — taxpayer dollars — would not be used to subsidize the health insurance exchanges. That is paid for using money from health insurance premiums. What it means is, if health insurance companies want to participate in the exchanges then they have to drop coverage for abortions, which is a federally protected medical procedure.
Democrats have become a major disappointment.
The major differences between the Democrats and the Republicans: The Democrats have no party discipline and certainly no backbone. The Republicans do. They march in lockstep regardless of the consequences, even if they know what they are doing is wrong. Even Senator John McCain got in line and flip-flopped on issues just to win his party’s nomination in 2008. McCain’s no maverick, he’s just a tired old steer following the herd. He compromised his values at his earliest convenience to win that nomination.
Wish the Democrats would grow a spine and get a little party discipline. Shit-can Senator Joe Lieberman. He’s going to stab the Democrats in the back anyway. Democrats are the party of diversity, but now’s the time for that party to huddle up and become a team. The life and health of America depends on it.
Today is Friday the 13th. I’m traveling up to Hell-A today for a little event on Saturday. Wonder if I should be worried. I’ll bring a four-leaf clover or something.
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