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  • Niggling Thought...

    Wednesday, Aug 5, 2009 7:47PM / Standard Entry / Members only
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    Lately - and oddly -, whenever I open the newspaper (or in my case start my morning "news surf") I've been catching myself "waiting for the other shoe to drop" . I think it's "disappointment prevention". You know, whincing before the fist hits you. Comes from bad experience or cowardice (the variety you're, or rather I was born with).  Given all my enchantment with and hopes for the new US-president, it seems weird that I'm scanning the news with that niggle at the back of my head.

    And then I remembered:

    "It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

    Douglas Adams

    But there's always one exception to the rule, right? Right? I'll go with "right". Now, I need a hammer to chase (and smash) "the niggle" before it wiggles away into another part of my brain. Hammer . . . Now, where did I leave that hammer . . . Weren't lessons in power all about learning where to hold the hammer? Arrrrrrgh . . .


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  • mariejost
    Official artist Marie Jost
    posted on Thursday, Aug 6, 2009 6:57PM [Report]
    If it was just up to Obama.... But he has Congress to deal with, and there are some real loose cannons in Congress, especially among the Republicans.  The Republicans seem to get more reactionary each week and are not doing their very best to scuttle both the Judge Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court nomination (they will fail) and the health care reform bill (they might succeed).  The rhetoric, the attack ads (on health care reform), the comandeering of townhall meetings to protest any form of health care reform, etc.  It just disgusts me.  This is the American way.  The president doesn't have anything to do with it, but it directly effects his attempts to institute change.  I just don't understand the Republicans, especially on healthcare reform.  Somehow the argument that we are already paying for everyone without health insurance in our insurance bill doesn't seem to make any sense to them, and wouldn't it be nicer to have some control how people access healthcare and make sure it is good and cost effective falls on deaf ears.  With a full 20% of the US population uninsured due to cost and/or preexisting conditions, their arguments make no sense to me.  But this is how it is.

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