The GOP's "Sabotage of the Democratic process" - Bill Moyers essay

[Bill USA]

http://billmoyers.com/segment/bill-moyers-essay-shutdown-showdown/

And now to the people who refuse to let democracy work. The people who hate government so much they’ve shut it down. Unable to abide by the results of democracy when they don’t win, they turned on it.

Republicans have now lost three successive elections to control the Senate and they’ve lost the last two presidential elections. Nonetheless, they fought tooth and nail to kill President Obama’s health care initiative. They lost that fight, but with the corporate wing of Democrats, they managed to bend it toward private interests.

So we should be clear on this, Obamacare, as it’s known, is deeply flawed. Big subsidies to the health insurance industry. A bonanza for lobbyists. No public option. And as The New York Times reported this week, “Millions of Poor Are Left Uncovered by Health Law.” Largely because states controlled by Republicans refuse to expand Medicaid.

As far as our bought and paid for legislative process goes, Obama’s initiative made it through the sausage factory. Yet even after both the House and Senate approved it, the president signed it, and the Supreme Court upheld it, the Republicans keep insisting on calling the law a “bill,” thumbing their noses and refusing to accept that it is enacted legislation.
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[rock]

1. They are fascists, you know

In particular, what the voters want means nothing; what they want is what counts.

[Thinkingabout]

2. K & R

I would add have voted more than forty times to repeal this law knowing it dies in the Senate. The House could have used this valuable time to work on the debt limit and avoiding a government shut down. The House leadership isn't strong enough to get their job completed and again it looks as if the Senate will have to step in and do the necessary work to get a budget passed. Boehner is worried about his Speaker position, why, he cant handle the job. If he was half as effective as Reid is we would not be in a shut down.

[blkmusclmachine]

3. "Death to America,"

screams the GOP.

[kestrel91316]

4. + 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000

[bvar22]

5. DURec for Bill Moyers.

He is one of the few "Journalists" left in America.




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