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A CANTOR WHO SANG AT LEAST AN ACCURATE SONG

Eric Cantor, minority whip was asked on This Week; will this healthcare reform bill ruin the country as Representative John Boehner had said? He was asked this four times, and he of course didn’t answer the question. He said three times “it’s all about the fear”. And he truly has encapsulated the Republican approach toward politics, logic, ideology and healthcare, it’s all about the fear. Mr. Cantor, we salute the fact that while you may sing off key, your lyrics do make sense because no one can describe the thief (the thief of peace of mind) better than the one doing the stealing. As you said Mr. Cantor, it is all about the fear. Although, the 40 plus million people without healthcare, 40,000 of whom will die next year probably have a different kind of fear. And if this vote is going to ruin the Democrats and not ruin the country, because you are not willing to say it will, it sounds like you should be singing a happy song. And let us remind those of you in Faux Nation; Eric Cantor plays an important role in the Republican Party’s Jewish representation because with Eric Cantor as their elected representative, they are only nine short of a Minyan.

JUST ONE ARMENGEDDON AND YOU ARE FRIGHTENED

Representative John Boehner (R – Ohio), the House Republican Leader said that there were some “regrettable instances from the tea party group” through anti-gay epithets and in two cases spit on black members of the House of Representatives. Where could they have gotten so extreme? He said the American people don’t like the bipartisan process. And what can cause this? Maybe when he said that this healthcare reform bill would be Armageddon, that might have gotten a few people upset and work on the fear factor, because you know you are just one Armageddon away from having, well, a very bad week, or year, or eternity. And we also want to thank Mr. Boehner for emphasizing the importance of a complete sentence verses a complete truth. His complete sentence; The American healthcare system is the best in the world. The complete truth; If you can get it and if you can keep it and won’t be denied it.

STILL NOT MUCH METTLE IN THERE STEELE

Michael Steele, Republican National Committee Chairman as he decried the lack of bipartisanship on the Sunday morning talk shows, it was pointed out to him that the healthcare plan that President Obama supports is virtually identical to that of Richard Nixon and him calling it socialist is inflammatory and misleading, to say the least. His answer was; it’s not what the plan is, it’s what the American people feel. Meaning he’s proud of having so distorted what the actual plan is and coupled with Eric Cantor, on the same Sunday morning saying, it’s not about the plan it’s about the fear. You have the Republicans waving their own banner, labels and fear and by their account “only” 30,000 people die a year without healthcare, that’s only ten Twin Towers. Not much metal in their steel.

HISTORICAL STAFF INFLECTION

Interesting fact, at least it is to us at Faux News, is that no Chief of Staff has ever served an entire four-year term with a President. For one reason or another, the stresses, the close contact, the triumphs and defeats, they wind up being replaced along the way. Of course all staff members of the President submit undated resignation letters the day they are hired, so that that part is easy for the Commander in Chief. People can only ponder as to how the explosive Rahm Emanuel will thrive under the detached (and at time) low key Barack Obama. Yet he didn’t want the job, because he had a career as congressman that would have possibly led to him being the first Jewish Speaker of the House and he was persuaded by the President to take it and so far, so good, no staff inflection.

HIGH DRAMA OBAMA

We’ve heard the phrase “no drama Obama” for his cool and calm demeanor. But that is not when he is at his best; he is at his best when he is campaigning. So out he went; meeting with Democrats willing to talk. Sadly “Republicans willing to talk” seems to be a contradiction in terms these days, because they are the party of no, know, or don’t want to know. In any event the house passed a historic, sweeping healthcare legislation and when the Republicans tried to derail it with a faux-prolife amendment, Representative Stupak of Michigan a leading, anti-abortion activist spoke up saying that this was not about Pro-life this was about anti-healthcare. He pointed out so rightly (as we have on Faux News) that nothing can be more prolife than preventative prenatal healthcare, because to be pro-birth, you would have to be pro-health. And, obviously there is no more a prolife message than a health bill which can reverse this horrible trend of 45,000 Americans dying because of lacking healthcare, although right wingers contend it’s only 30, 0000. Makes you want to say, “feel better already”, doesn’t it?

LINDSEY GRAHAM-TO THE RIGHT BUT NOT A CRACKER

Lindsey Graham, Republic Senator from South Carolina has many times worked with Democrats, in a more center-right way (but that is who he is) on among other topics immigration reform. Now he is bitterly opposed to the idea that we will be a reconciliation generation, that we will have healthcare reform through reconciliation, that it will be a nine hundred billion dollar bill over ten years, even though the Congressional Budget Office does affirm that monies will be saved this decade and even more the following decade. But those facts aside, he considers reconciliation a sleazy process, yet was unable to answer on This Week why the Republicans had used it far more than the Democrats, including to pass a 1.8 trillion dollar tax cut (twice the size of the health care bill) the biggest such cut in our nation’s history in time of war under (who else?) President George W. Bush. Senator Graham dodged the question, he bobbed, he weaved, and then he said for the Democrats to use reconciliation is like playing football with 12 men on the field, well, actually there are 22 men on the field, but to go beyond that Mr. Graham should have gone all out and attacked with a complete truth, instead of a complete sentence. He should have said that when the Democrats use reconciliation to put through multi-billion dollar bills, who do they think they are…..us?

BRIDGING THE BROOKS OF REASON

We at the Faux have (on a pretty good number of occasions) talked about “babbling brooks”, referencing David Brooks who would nuance this, access that, judge something else, but would always come up on the side of the of the political right wing. Somehow, he always endorsed the Republicans and always leaned to the right side, an opinion to which he is entitled. In his column in the New York Times on Friday, March 12, 2010, entitled “ Getting Obama Right” is a shocker, because in the view of Faux he nailed it, he got Obama right. Long story short, while they disagree on fundamental things, he feels that Barack Obama “is still the most realistic and reasonable major player in Washington“. He further goes on to say, “in a sensible country Obama would be able to clearly define his project without fear of offending the people he needs to get legislation passed”. And then he sadly, or realistically, (or maybe for the future if more people buy into this) notes that this is not that country. But, if people did not live in what he calls “information cocoons“they could be that country, because the information is out there, you just have to listen to others (as in our president). You have to listen to the case in Afghanistan for a surge that has the Taliban on the run, and again as Mr. Brooks pointed out (and we have noted) leaders are being regularly killed and assassinated. These people are not doing well under their secret Kenyan Muslim president and the world is not condemning us for it. Because, when you have a man that is not dismissive on a world stage our case doesn’t get dismissed. Oh, that our country can catch up and reason with our leader. Interesting times, huh?

SHOULD WE BE ROAD WORRIORS?

The Department of Transportation reports that in the year 2009 there were “only” 34,000 deaths on our roads, the least since 1954. And really that is even better if you consider the population of then and now. Remember those who resisted seat belts, airbags and right up on to healthcare reform because they are brothers and sisters under the skin and the lives that were or could be saved makes you want to keep keeping with the Government and let Americans do what they want right? I am waiting for the right wingers and the ultimate, oh, you progressives that are so obsessed with saving lives to get a life. P.S. You have to be living to get one.

RECONCILIATION GENERATION

RECONCILIATION GENERATION

For those of you who are unfortunate enough to be between jobs but fortunate enough to be on Cobra, but don’t like the Obama plan to do healthcare by reconciliation, we have a symbolic and patriotic, I guess you might say an archaistic gesture to make. Cobra gives you the right to buy insurance for eighteen months after you leave your job, and this bill was a bill passed by reconciliation, did you know? So, cut yourself off from it and go without healthcare, be one of those proud forty million Americans without healthcare and says the hell with you Obama and don’t tea bag your life, but bag your life. But again it’s an important symbolic gesture, you don’t believe in reconciliation and you simply have to refuse your Cobra to prove it.

WALKING IS GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH, MARCHING MIGHT BE BETTER

We had the Tea Bag marches, we had the Million-Man March, we had the anti-war Marches. How about this for a march on every State Capital, in every state; a march by people who only fall into three groups; 1) You have been dropped by a healthcare plan because of an illness, 2) You can’t get healthcare because of a pre-existing condition (by the way in some cases include domestic battery, where you tend to get bruises around the head, neck and shoulders) 3) a relative or close friend of yours had died because of the being unable to get healthcare for the aforementioned. That would be some interesting march in all the State Capitals and if walking is good for their health, we think marching just might be better.

THE BEN-DULUMS OF JUSTICE, IN UNION THERE IS WEAKNESS

There is no weaker players union in pro-sports than in the National Football League. The NFL has limits to what the players can get paid, but no bottom as contracts are one way streets, which the owners can void at any time. But interesting also is their code of conduct (if you want to call it a code) which says that if you are charged with a crime but exonerated you can still be suspended. Now, Ben Roethlisberger has been charged with a sexual assault, a very serious problem. But if he didn’t do anything wrong how can you suspend him for being charged? Anyone can be charged with a crime, that’s kind of a harsh swing of the Ben-dulums of justice. But that’s apparently one aspect of the collective bargaining that is not in the NFL’s union, if you want to call that a bargain.