Joe McCarthy in Drag; Republicans in Denial

“In all honesty, I don’t want a bunch of nameless, faceless bureaucrats setting health care for my aged citizens in Utah.” - Sen. Orrin Hatch, [R], Utah

“There is no such thing as a rational belief.” - David Hume

McCarthyism existed long before Joe McCarthy came along.

It thrives today in multiple untruths that possess the shriveled hearts and brainwashed minds of people who think themselves both Republicans and Christians—an impossible task when it comes to the current debate on health insurance reform.

As a “geezer” who is a beneficiary of Medicare, I am especially disgusted with astroturf seniors who rail against this highly successful federal program, as willing shills in the efforts of insurance corporations to deny similar benefits to their children and grandchildren.

If they were not so mean spirited and so willing to manipulate mass emotions on the subject, I could feel some sympathy for how pathetic they are.

The same goes for Sarah Palin and Orrin Hatch.

I could feel sorry for the way that John McCain and the Republicans used her as a “sex sells” candidate for the Vice-Presidency, except that she was willing to read every lie put before her on the campaign trail, and even worse in the past months.

I could feel sorry for the principled conservative that Orrin Hatch once was, except for his language that uses “nameless, faceless bureaucrats” as new buzzwords to gull the gullible, instead of the former, “Godless Communists.”

I’ll show you some nameless, faceless bureaucrats, Senator Hatch.

How about those “Big Tobacco” executives that finally were hauled before Henry Waxman’s House Committee and perjured themselves many times over by saying that they didn’t believe that nicotine was addictive?

That bunch are a “death panel” I can believe in.

Were you publicly outraged, Senator Hatch, when that information about nameless, faceless bureaucrats in a private corporation came out?

Not likely.

Instead, you now add fuel to Sarah Palin’s fire, simply to preserve a derelict Republican Party that no longer has room for any of its members who might want to occasionally serve the public interest.

As a Senator, however, you and Chuck Grassley, and other Republicans who so distort the issues about health care and health insurance, at least are willing to “take it,” as well as “dish it out.”

Like Democrats who are attempting to talk sense to the American people, most Republican Senators and Congressmen, unlike former Governor Palin, are still willing to endure the “heat in the kitchen.”

I don’t want the latter to seem like that much of a compliment. Even Joe McCarthy died in office, rather than resign.

Sarah Palin doesn’t even “live down” to Joe McCarthy’s level. No matter how much she may “Twitter,” she’ll always be known as a quitter.

I just hope the same thing won’t be able to be said about Democrats fighting for a Health Care Insurance Bill.

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