Special Comment: Do No Harm

I will almost always post Keith Olbermann’s Special Comments but on this one I could not agree with him more. And not only will I stand by his position to never buy federally mandated insurance from this corrupt, ugly cartel of sub-humans we call the health insurance industry, I was already there. Citizens are mandated to own car insurance. Fine. I’m not crazy about it because that insurance industry is almost as corrupt, but owning a car is a privilege, not a right. I will not pay for my right to live. You want to fine me? Fine. I won’t pay it. There are many stupid laws out there but there are few this disgustingly and blatantly evil. To pass this version of the bill is to sell out this country. It is the clearest test of who this President is and if he signs this bill into law, then I will not only refuse him my vote in 2012, but I will actively campaign against him. It comes to this. We’re at the climax at the third act. Either the President strong arms the wayward, corrupt senators like Lieberman, Baucus, Nelson, et al. into supporting real health care reform that helps people and not the insurance cartel, or Congress stops this bill from reaching the President’s desk. Otherwise, this President will have caused a wound to this country as bad as–and perhaps worse than–anything Bush ever did in his eight years.

The President wants this bill passed by Christmas no matter how twisted or revolting it may be. Christmas is seven days away. One week. Congress has one week to stop this bill from meeting the arbitrary deadline and after that there’s no benefit in rushing. It’s not worth it to show you can get things done if what you’re doing is harm. This nation will not tire of this fight because they are literally fighting for their lives. No matter what, the bill won’t be perfect but it must support key provisions, provisions this President never bothered to clearly lay out in detail. He gave broad goals with no parameter on reaching them. Technically, this version of the bill will cover 30 million Americans just like prostitution isn’t technically illegal as long as you leave the money on the nightstand.

We’ve come to it at last. You must kill this bill Mr. President in order to save our lives.

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