The Democrats need a swift kick in the ass. They’ve squandered the 6 months or so they had a majority. (Due to various deaths of Senators, they haven’t had the full 60 votes the whole time). I like some of what they’ve done, but their big accomplishments have still only been half assed. They keep walking around in their majority, saying to the Republicans, “Please don’t hurt me!”

Meanwhile, the Republican’s have gone off the lunatic fringe!

In Delaware, we have Sarah Palin 2.0, also known as Christine O’Donnell, who once was a witch… but then not… and wanted to be a Harri Krishna, but couldn’t give up cheeseburgers. She’s also single and doesn’t believe in masturbation….. or paying taxes.

Then there is Sharron Angel, the Tea Party backed candidate for Senate running against Harry Reid in Nevada. This is a woman that has suggested, repeatedly, that if the election doesn’t go her way, people should resort to their “2nd Amendment rights” to take Harry Reid out. I don’t know if there is a specific law against calling for the assassination of Senators, but there should be.  Sharron Angel has also said she wants to end Social Security and Medicare…. except when she’s questioned about it, she says “No! I want to SAVE social security!”

Then there is Rand Paul, who was against Medicare before he was for it…. but stay tuned on this one because I’m sure it will change again.

But here is why I fully support all of the above candidates. They are so extreme and so unqualified that the electorate will finally see the Tea party and Republican party for what they really are.

Even the Republican’s “Pledge to America” is painful to read… not because of the meat of it’s content (it has very little of that), but because it’s 64 pages of the Republicans clearly not getting it. Even in House Minority Leader John Boehner’s words “American’s aren’t ready for solutions”

If the Republicans get a majority in this election, we’re going to have 2 full years of congressional investigations into whether President Obama lied to his 2nd grade teacher about needing to go number 1 or number 2 and absolutely none of the Republican agenda will be able to get done. (They aren’t able to take enough seats for a filibuster proof majority)

At the end of 2 years of Republican pettiness, they’ll proudly march into the Presidential election fielding such candidates as Mitt the Plastic, Palin the GILF, DeMint the Mean, or Huckabee the Dope to go up against an embattled but still smart President Obama.

It will be two years of dark ages, but at the end of it, the Tea party will be capsized and the Republicans will hopefully be smart enough to reform into the socially libertarian/fiscally prudent party I’d like them to be.

The anger being thrown at the health care debat baffles me. From my observations, the people protesting the loudest against the public/government option are the ones without health care. Talk about fighting against your own best interest!!  What I don’t understand is this idea that if the government offers a low cost health care plan, suddenly we’re all going to be in a socialist health care system like the one Great Britain has. This is not socialized medicine, it’s socialized insurance.

The big insurance companies have gotten so greedy, they have brought this on themselves. By colluding to charge higher rates to their subscribers and lower payouts to the medical centers they’ve taken a “5 for me, 1 for you” attitude. The government option would force insurance companies to compete on cost and payouts again.

Government insurance should be thought of like Amtrak. It’s government funded, and I make no illusion that it will break even. Still, for people who can’t afford to fly and don’t own a car, it’s the next best option.  Amtrak will get you from Pittsburgh to DC in relative comfort for an inexpensive price.

I’m in favor of a government option because it means that someday if I decide to become solely self employed, I’ll have an easier time getting health care. When I lost my job a few years back, my Cobra benefits were nearly $400 a month for a 25 year old, non-smoking male in good health. I ended up dropping the Cobra and got catastrophic insurance coverage but it still cost me $175 a month.

Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) said yesterday  “the people are speaking and we should listen”. Let see. House – 256 dems to 178 reps, Senate – 57 dems to 40 reps, Whitehouse – Dem 1, Reps 0.

I agree Congressman. I agree.