There they go again. The GOP clown shows complete with its outrageous signs are out in full force this week. Health care reform has Republicans and its teabagger wing in a state of hysteria.
Too bad most do not understand that they will actually benefit from health care reform legislation. But oh well, I've given up on expecting rational thought and reason to prevail among a bunch of misled and manipulated extremists.
Glenn Beck must have spiked U.S. Rep. Gohmert's iced tea. Or maybe the weather has been so cold in Washington that most of Gohmert's brain cells have frozen. Or perhaps the fact that over 30 million uninsured Americans will now be able to afford health coverage and the insurance companies will no longer be able to hand out death sentences to patients is simply too much for Gohmert to bear.
Speaking shortly after he riled up a crowd at Tuesday's Tea Party protest, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tex.) declared that "demons" - yes, demons - have invaded the capital (and likely the souls of Democrats), forcing lawmakers to mislead the public about the content of the health care bill.
U.S. Rep. Gohmert is the one who is doing the misleading. He lied to the group of teabaggers, insisting that $700 million would be appropriated for abortions.
"I brought an abortion to show you today," he said, hosting a copy of the health care bill in his right hand. The crowd responded with a chant of "Abort the bill!"
And then, out of nowhere, Gohmert began spreading the word that underworld spirits were lurking around the Capitol building behind him.
"There's a whole lot of demon going on," he said. "There are a lot of demons around here apparently."
In the end, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi decided that abortion opponents would be allowed to offer an amendment that would impose tight restrictions on abortions that could be offered through a new government-run insurance plan and through private insurance that is bought using government subsidies. Sponsored primarily by Michigan Representative Bart Stupakhe, the amendment to the legislation passed 240 - 194.
I have news for Louie Gohmert. There are a lot of demons in Washington. And those demons are Wall St. and health insurance lobbyists who keep politicians like Louie Gohmert in their pockets.
I am sure Louie Gohmert, John Cornyn, Kay Bailey Hutchison and in my case, John Culberson, will enjoy spending the next two decades explaining why they were dead set against health care reform. One would have thought Republicans had learned their lesson when hugely popular legislation such as civil rights, social security and medicare passed. I guess when a political party works exclusively for fat cat it must be hard to grasp the real needs of the people. It also seriously underestimates the people's will.
