When it comes to health-insurance reform, the Republican Party has officially moved from opposition to obstructionism. First they screamed that the "public option" was socialist (despite the similarly "un-American" existence of Medicare), then they screamed that "co-ops" are the same thing and thus still socialist. It seems that the only non-socialist reform is none at all, leaving us stuck with what we have now. This works just fine for a few of us, works less well or barely at all for many more of us, and leaves almost fifty million of us out in the cold altogether.
So with their determination to oppose anything supported by the White House, it seems the GOP has become a bunch of Marxists. No, not Karl - Groucho:
Yes, it's true. The movie Horse Feathers predicted the Republican reaction to the Obama Administration a full seventy-seven years before it took office. After all, as Oscar Wilde said, "Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."
Since the GOP has made it very plain that they will oppose health reform no matter what, it's way past time for the Democrats to tell them to take a hike. The Dems have a strong majority in Congress, and it's about time they used it.
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