I’ll never forget when I thanked some of them for their hospitality. Their response was always the same and was as sincere and wonderful as it was horrific: “No — thank you. It’s nice to know somebody cares.”
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DB Editorial Appearing on the August 16 edition of Meet the Press, former House Majority Leader and inaugural inductee into the Tea Baggers’ Hall of Fame Dick Armey presented perhaps the strongest argument to date in support of the principle of a government run health care option. Armey, best known to many Americans as the author of the mid-1990s GOP “Contract on America” was speaking about his role in a lawsuit seeking the right of individuals to [...] While the ‘national conversation’ has been much more contentious than it has productive, I hope we can all agree and take solace in the fact that it has effectively brought out into the open the need for another potentially expensive but badly needed initiative – mental healthcare reform. Every report on the passing of Eunice Kennedy Shriver describes her as the “sister of John F. Kennedy”, rather than mentioning her surviving, if not prominent enough for Papa Joe, brother. “… In the case of the ‘Birther Movement’, however, we don’t see the intellectual exercise necessary to get as far as ‘Step A’, let alone bypass ‘B’ to get to ‘C’. In short, if I were somebody described as a ‘conspiracy theorist’, I’d be pretty pissed-off by the comparison.” PERSONALS: Male satirist, mid-40s, behind in rent, enjoys old movies, sports, and free publicity, seeks post-statutory daughter of prominent and/or polarizing politician willing to commit to relationship through next national election. Contact: TheDesperateBlogger.com They may not understand the Constitution, but they understand numbers. It is time they be shown that blatant hypocrisy and total disregard for integrity have no place in the ‘News’ business. |
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