Let Me Make This Perfectly Clear

The current GOP echo-chamber that is endlessly

chanting "start over" with "blank sheet of paper" on HCR is nothing but disrespectful political hacks looking the people in the eye and lying through their teeth. The "incrementalism" that they so passionately urge as a solution to the partisan gridlock (which THEY have engineered!) is designed not to achieve progress, but to stop HCR and, in the bargain, pass several of their pet projects. The Republican chorus earnestly pleads with the Democrats to "adopt a series of cost-cutting measures upon which there is general agreement". They go on to list medical malpractice reform, buying insurance across state lines and other relatively minor issues which, they say, could be "on the President's desk" in short order. Yeah, right. This amounts to saying, as Republicans always seem to get around to saying, "Give us what we want first and then we'll discuss what you unAmerican socialists want". Their idea of "tort reform" or "medical malpractice reform" is simply to put a cap on a patient's right to recover damages for a doctor's negligence. If you or I run a red light and cause someone permanent and painful injuries, none of our assets are shielded from recovery; i.e., there are no limits on the amount of the judgment that the injured person could get against us. If, however, the same injuries resulted from medical malpractice, Republicans want to assure the doctor that damages for pain and suffering, for example, won't be permitted to exceed $250,000. Sound fair? That is the type of elitist "got mine, to hell with you" CRAP that these smarmy bastards are trying to peddle as "true bipartisanship" and "the reasoned approach". They need to be called on it EACH time they trot it out and we should be raising hell with any talking heard that let's them get away with it.