Showing posts with label healthcare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label healthcare. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Michelle Bachmann's Slitting Her Wrist

I don't know if I've heard anything this crazy in a long time. And believe me, I'm listening!

But maybe the craziness factor is compounded by the fact that this is from a Congressperson. Who, at least at some point in my past, I always figured to be at least semi-sane.

Minnesota's favorite daughter, Michelle Bachmann, though, is setting a new low for the reputation of members of Congress. She is so loony it's scary. This is no longer funny performance art -- I try to be generous. She has passed over into something so bizarre even Sarah Palin's shaking her head.

What did she say now? How about this:
"What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass. We will do whatever it takes to make sure this doesn't pass."
She's talking about healthcare reform. Isn't that weird? You know, she cuts her wrists, the first thing they'll do is rush her to the hospital. And being a Congressperson, having government health insurance, we'll be paying for her recovery. There's some irony there!

Friday, August 7, 2009

Healthcare For Crotch-Related Injuries

Hunter at Daily Kos has a great post today about the Republicans' shenanigans.

It's all right on as far as lamenting their extremism and their weird insistence on stupidity as the best way forward for America. They somehow think trashing up everything and watching our nation go down the tubes is the best way to preserve our values. Type that in on your calculator and see what the answer is. It's less than zero.

But Hunter sees one ray of saving sunshine, the utter incompetence of the Republicans. We lamented their incompetence most recently for eight miserable years. But who knew that very incompetence might eventually save us all?

Hunter says:
I'd be afraid for the future of our country, but I know that if these people ever actually armed themselves and tried to take over they'd all have accidentally shot themselves in the groin within the first ten minutes. Then they'd all limp to D.C. to hold a rally demanding free government healthcare for crotch-related injuries.
True, true, true. Except they'd probably restart the whole cycle by blaming Bill Clinton for letting them keep their guns!