In this past week representatives of the state of South Carolina have delivered a great deal of extraordinarily vile and despicable rhetoric regarding President Obama and the plan to overhaul our health care system. First we have the good ol' boy, Congressman Joe Wilson, screaming 'You Lie!' to the President of the United States during a Joint Session of Congress. Classy. Seriously, who besides Jim DeMint thought it was a good idea to vote for this man? What was the worst part about Congressman Wilson's unprecedented outburst you ask? The President was telling the truth and Joe Wilson was lying. Health Care Reform won't insure illegal immigrants. If you plan on heckling the President and claiming he's a liar in front of the nation, at least be right.
Then we get Senator Jim 'Waterloo' DeMint, who believes that President Obama is transforming the United States of America into Nazi Germany...because of a health care plan. While I have no problem with debate and disagreement, especially within the halls of Congress, please do not lower the level of political discourse to name calling and false accusations. Ms. Terkel makes a fantastic point Senator DeMint, where's you're plan to fix this system? You can cry socialism all you want Senator, but you have yet to deliver more than vitriolic rhetoric and haven't added any sort of policy plans into this debate.
You see Senator DeMint, in the reality-based world I live in our health care system is non-functioning at the moment. You are right though, when health care reform does pass you will have 'lost it all.' You and Congressman Wilson will have lost the hearts and minds of the American people, as if you already haven't. While your plan is to decry the fictional rise of socialism in our nation, President Obama and the Democratic Congress will be covering the over 47 million uninsured Americans. While you hope for failure, the American people continue to suffer from exponentially increasing health care costs.
Maybe I should just move to South Carolina, where no one is uninsured. Right?
You Stay Classy, South Carolina.
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