Early GOP big on human rights, now it's about the rights of the wealthy

Having read Dennis Myers excellent post on how Sharron Angle would do away with the eloquent language of the Republican crafted 14th Amendment to the Constitution - which guaranteed full civil rights to freed slaves, and went on to provide remedy to school segregation, gender discrimination, political expression, religous freedom and so much more - I took a peek at a GOP website listing the great achievments of the GOP down through time.

It is an impressive list to be sure.

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True, false and the in-between of health reform: Illegal immigrants

A large part of the noise provided by opponents of health care reform has been in reference to claims that illegal immigrants would be getting open access to health care.

One of the best ways to prevent this, is to have provided for a robust form of photo I.D. that anybody applying for health care benefits must show in order to prove citizenship. You’d think that the Republicans would have been all in favor of this, but instead opposed it at every turn. They believe that a national identity card will be the next step to ‘big brother’.

May I also assume that these same folks have burned their drivers licenses, passports, military ID,  Medicare and social security cards? Uh, probably not. Logic rarely enters into these sorts of discussions.

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Monday Musings: March 22, 2010

Updated on Monday, March 22, 2010 at 09:59 by mavenandmeddler

Well, that was certainly a cliff-hanger worthy of Hollywood. Although I’m not sure just how many of these eleventh hour dramas we really need as a country, at least this one went the right way for the left.

Of course the day was not without its’ moments as GOP stalwarts stood in line to defend the status quo, distort the facts (even more) and defend everything from the Confederacy (WTF?) to unborn babies in the name of denying some 33 million Americans access to affordable health care.

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Just when you think you haven't got anything to blog about ...

Arlen Specter changing parties! I can’t say that I’m terribly surprised however, since he’s long been dissatisfied with the move by the neo-cons to the far, far right and the anything goes expansion of executive powers. From my own perspective, Arlen Specter has been one of the few Republicans that I couldn’t quite dislike or dismiss out of hand. I admired him - albeit grudgingly at times. When he was diagnosed with cancer, I felt an immediate kinship, since he really seemed to ‘get it.’

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