Posted on 01/20/2010 10:36:31 AM PST by prairiebreeze
The tea partiers are enjoying their day in the sun, but coffee is the beverage preferred by most Americans, and we don't have time to gang up and holler and wave our arms -- we prefer to sit quietly with coffee in hand and read a reliable newspaper and try to figure out what's going on in the world. Great heaps of dead bodies are moved by front-loaders and dumped, uncounted, unidentified, into open pits in a stricken country while people feast and walk treadmills on enormous cruise ships sailing a hundred miles off the coast en route to the Bahamas and Jamaica. That's the real world, not the paranoid hallucinations of the right.
The problem for Democrats right now is that nobody can explain health-care reform in plain English, 50 words or less. It's all too murky. The price of constructing this intricate web of compromises for the benefit of Republican senators (who then decided to quit the game and sit on their thumbs) is a bill with strange hair and ill-fitting clothes that you hesitate to bring home to Mother. Like all murky stuff, it is liable to strike people as dangerous or unreliable. And demagogues thrive in dim light.
The basic question is simple: Should health care be a basic right or is it a privilege for those who can afford it?
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Holy Scripture would seem to point us in that direction. And yet the churches, so far as I can see, have chosen to stay aloof from this issue. Churches that feed the hungry and house the homeless dare not offend the conservatives in their midst by suggesting that we also tend the sick.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Say what??
Go drone into a tape recorder somewhere, Garrison. The MA voters spoke loud and clear.
It is a privilege for those who can afford it. Next question.
Hey Garrison, people are reading newspapers less and less these days. It's 2010, buddy. Wake the f up.
He doesn’t like people very much.
smoke your crack pipe some place else
Garrison Keillor use to be kind of funny. About 25 years ago. When he was alive.
The Daily Worker, for instance, Comrade?!!!
If you don't read the MSM, the Left says you are uninformed. But if you DO read the MSM, you are MISINFORMED.
Hey Garrison - Too bad, so sad. It’s obvious that there are more Tea drinkers than so called Coffee drinkers at this point in time. And they are the most influential and becoming more so by the day.
Yes - I can: OBAMACARE = "Death Panels"
There! End of story!
LOL!
None of the reliable news sources gave any creedence to the possiblity of an upset in this election and did not put together an exit polling coverage pool.
So much for what THEY know. Dumb&&&.
It’s the typical Garrison Keillor I’m-so-much-smarter-than-all-you-stupid-hicks-out-there drivel. He was never this arrogant when he was working his way up the ladder. What an ass he has become.
I guess us yokels is jes too stoopid to unnerstan healthcare reform.
And that’s the news from Lake Backwoods.
Well I guess that would preclude the rag that this article was printed in.
Smug a-holes like G. Keilor make me laugh.
welfare creep
Keillor used to be funny....then he decided like a lot of the rest of the entertainment yahoos that because people pay to have a laugh we must want to know all about their political views.
Go sit in the corner GK with Streisand, Baldwin, Penn and the rest of those jerks who should just be counting their blessings....WHILE THEY CAN!
Screw that a-hole. I have had no use for him ever since his audience broke into cheers with the announcement that Reagan had passed away.
One of the truly great humorists of our time.
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