Republican House Leadership Joins the Strip Club, Enjoying Every Moment

If you thought Republicans were the party of authentic family values, watch them as they eagerly join the strip club in an effort to repeal health care in  the most underhanded fashion, by defunding it. I am not sure what they call this. Strip and dance? Defund and destroy? Somewhere along the way they have suggested that after all this peeling away, that they will improve and replace, but you kind of have to have a lot of faith that the two birds deep in the thorny bush are worth what we have in Obama's hands.

One hopes that people will smarten up when this battle heats up, but it requires those who support the law to stand up and fight for something worthwhile. The new House leadership is wasting no time in showing us where their hearts lie.

The House Republican whip, Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, described the strategy this way: “If all of Obamacare cannot be immediately repealed, then it is my intention to begin repealing it piece by piece, blocking funding for its implementation and blocking the issuance of the regulations necessary to implement it.”

“In short,” Mr. Cantor said, “it is my intention to use every tool at our disposal to achieve full repeal of Obamacare.”

The Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said he, too, wanted to shut off money for the new law.

(N.Y. Times)

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It's also fun to note the use of language by the unstructured conservatives (as I don't want to paint all conservatives with the same brush. We are talking about a certain type). They have converted the name of the legislation into "Obamacare," and while it is used now as some sort of destruction by association, it will be interesting to see how quicly they abandon this moniker if the legislation unfolds and begins to benefit people in a noticeable way. At that point it will suddenly revert back to being called the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act".

In any case, remember the date it was signed into law. March 23, 2010. That is a date that will stand alongside other great legislation that has moved America forward and guaranteed quality of life. We didn't pull kids out of factories, or insure basic environmental practices, or labor and construction standards, or the rights of blacks or women to vote, with action that was universally praised at the moment the idea germinated. There was always an opposition that could make the argument against reform.

When you look at videotape of people during the 1950's and 1960's yelling at blacks as they got hosed, or shoved on their way to school or to eat or protest... well many of those people are anonymously alive today, short of memory and hiding their strong, righteous stand on the wrong side of history.