Tuesday, January 19, 2010

"Americans Are Happy Dying Because The Free Market Wants Them To!"

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because concurrently, the military banned long hair on males; mini-skirts; Sophocles; Tolstoy; Euripedes; smashing glasses after drinking toasts; labor strikes; Aristophanes; Ionesco; Sartre; Albee; Pinter; freedom of the press; sociology; Beckett; Dostoyevsky; modern music; popular music; the new mathematics; and the letter "Z", which in ancient Greek means "He is alive!"

Over and over again, Muir reiterates that Health Care Reform is a bad thing. He does this by turning it into a purely ideological battle, with no practical effects. He refuses to acknowledge that our present system is unjust, unstable, and unsustainable. He refuses to acknowledge that it's killing people now, and it will kill more people if we don't fix it. This is because he's a reactionary little shit with the brainpower of bacteria, and the morals to match.

Not that I'm angry. Oh, heavens forfend.

2 comments:

  1. What he has said is that, according to the Constitution, the Federal government does not have the authority to create a national health care program.

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  2. And that is not "turning this into a purely ideological battle with no practical effects" because...? Insisting that we can't do anything because of a laughably narrow intepretation of the Constitution? When he himself has supported blatant violations of it in the past? And has continued to support them?

    Further he has not said "that". Or rather, he's said an awful lot of things, many of which contradict each other. Muir's objections to Health Care Reform tend to vary from day to day, probably depending on what right wing talk show host he's listening to at the moment. I strongly doubt even he could tell you why he's against it at any given moment.

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