I Hate to Brag...

Leave it to the Dems to absolutely refuse to take advantage of the opportunity to brag about doing good.  We should by now be hearing in our sleep about the insurance industry being stopped in its tracks from allowing our citizens to die in the name of the not-so-almightly dollar.  No more pre-existing condition exceptions, no more lifetime caps, family policies including young adults up to age 26.  Wow.  Yippee.

But leave it to the Dems to modestly underplay the whole health care reform thing.  The liberals feel guilty because they didn't do enough; the blue dog democrats (the make-believe dems) are afraid their constituents (the ones that already have good health care) will be angry at them for spending their hard-earned tax dollars to fund the have-nots, the corporate democrats -- you know who you are -- don't want to flaunt the bill in front of their buddies in the insurance industry.

The saddest thing of all is that our senators and representatives take their lead mostly from the president, and Obama was never as convinced as we thought he was that we need to disengage from the insurance industry.

So yes, Harry Reid is a weinie, but if Barack Obama had stood strong for health care, Reid would have been tougher (I can't believe I used the words "Reid" and "tough" in the same sentence.).

But let's give credit to Nancy Pelosi, fearless and fighting for us to the bitter end.

And when I hear her speak, I think, that's what the voters are looking for.  We want someone who believes strongly enough in what's right for us that they will fight for it, whether it is during an election season or not, whether the polls support her or not, whether it looks like her opposition is stronger than she is.

Because we are looking for someone who will stand on their principles.

Despite themselves, the Democrats passed real health care reform.  Now we need to hear that they really believe in it. 

Because He Cares

We Democrats can't see a gift when it smacks us upside the head.  ObamaCare!  Isn't it wonderful???  When the republicans first started throwing the word around, we all ducked.  What a bunch of idiots we are!!!  It's a beautiful word, and what we need to do with it now is own it.

We need t-shirts and bumper stickers that say:

ObamaCare

Saves Lives!

I don't know what those republican word-smiths were thinking, but I do know that we need to get on this right now!

Send a message to the DNC and the White House, and tell them you support ObamaCare!

Where in the World is Jim Demint?

You may be wondering where Jim Demint has been lately.  Well, according to him, in an interview he gave to The Item, he is spending a lot of time in South Carolina, talking to the "real people" in his state.  He says, "Folks want to vent, particularly businesses."

Now, that right there might be the problem.  Jim Demint, who doesn't believe in the Supreme Court anyway, nonetheless believes that "businesses" are "real people".  We all know he tends to confuse reality with Mayberry, and it seems that he's being so stubborn about what people want because he just isn't talking to any of us.  Although he thinks he is.

Take farm subsidies.  Most of the over a billion dollars in farm subsidies goes to the few percent of top producing farms.  This is why small farmers continue to hurt and drop out of existence, while "folks" like Wright County Eggs continue to grow and poison us with their blatant disregard for health and safety.

Yet Demint votes "yes" to these farm supports that only help the wealthy, while voting "no" to "big government" bills like Health Care Reform, that will allow us to insure our children till they are 26, and -- oh, no, stop that big government -- force insurers to insure us when we are sick!

Demint talks about "what we've done to the banking system", I guess meaning things like making credit card companies stop cheating us by raising interest on pre-existing debt.  He continues to fight the good fight against regulation which will make sure Wall Street and the health insurance industry obey the law, and that BP and Wright County Eggs stop polluting and taking risks with our lives, for their fun and profit.

And while Jim Demint claims to be spending all his time here talking to what he thinks are "real people", he admits that he is going to other parts of the country campaigning to get more like him elected and sent to Washington, because...

"If I keep getting outvoted, the people of South Carolina are not represented." 

So PLEASE study Demint's voting record at Project Vote Smart, and don't confuse his Mayberry fantasy with the reality we all are suffering here in South Carolina.  We don't need six more years of Jim Demint and his Corporate Conservative cronies blocking the government from doing its job of protecting us from people like him.

Alvin Greene

because he's

Better than Demint