Recently, Tea Party moron and brainless wonder Senator from Wisconsin, Ron Johnson, recently called ObamaCare the “greatest assault to freedom in our lifetime.”
These right-wingers get so creative in their melodramatic insanity. Thinking that a law that forces big business to provide health care will lead to a medieval system of slave labor tending to the needs of greedy land-holding aristocrats who make all the decisions requires a mental disorder. If we were the serfs, the guys whining about giving health care would be the aristocrats. Moron!
He continued with the now infamous frog analogy:
“I think Americans are a little bit like frogs in that pot of water,” he said. “The water’s being brought up to boil.”
You know conservatives have gotten pathetic when they steal Al Gore’s analogy for Climate Change from An Inconvenient Truth (which was not only animated with a frog in boiling water, it is one of the most memorable scenes in the movie), to explain their conspiracy theories about a law that requires employers to provide health care to their employees.
It’s always the poor businessman that is being hopelessly oppressed by the tyrannical socialist Obama. What about the millions who can’t afford health care and are literally dying due to greed and obstruction from tyrannical business owners like Ron Johnson who care so little about their own employees, they don’t care enough to give them health care.
Yet as you would expect from a guy who has no political history and financed his own campaign to the tune of $8.5 million dollars would do, he rarely has a true voice of his own, relying, as much as the Right does these days, on talking point agendas produced in a think-tank laboratory in Washington, forged in the fires of burning anger by rich, wealthy business owners and board members who wish to push a cynical, Randist Libertarian agenda on the masses. In other words, Johnson is a stooge for big corporate business interests and their centralized capitalist agenda.
So much for the grass roots Tea Party.
What do you expect from a guy who married into his money and made his name by arguing AGAINST a bill to eliminate the length of time child sex abuse victims have to file lawsuits, perhaps because he worked for a religious diocese finance company that was sued for child abuse.
Makes you also wonder whose freedom Ron Johnson is talking about. It must be guys like him who had daddy buy him a business, not the vast overwhelming population of people like us who have to work for a living.
Otherwise, wouldn’t the Patriot Act be the greatest threat to our freedom? It gives the government unprecedented power to read our emails and monitor our conversations, even to remove us to a prison and lock us up indefinitely, without habeas corpus, if we are deemed a “threat”. Under Bush, this happened to many innocent American citizens, non-Muslims included. A left-wing activist friend of mine saw some of his friends taken and wrongfully accused. Do you remember when Bush deemed so-called “eco-terrorists” as big a threat as actual terrorists?
What about Voter ID laws? Conservatives like Johnson back laws that are trying to steal our only voice in this democracy, our vote. The fact that these laws disproportionately affect the poor, the old, the young and the disenfranchised never played into that decision right? Or maybe it was the only factor in that decision. I forget which one.
Oh and of course it isn’t the Conservative Supreme Court’s rulings that restrict citizens from suing corporations (see Walmart sexual discrimination lawsuit) , or give corporations more rights than individuals. What about Bush’s bankruptcy bill that allows creditors, the same ones we bailed out, the ability to deny your bankruptcy, while they get to abuse the same laws over and over again. No, no, “corporations are people, my friend,” and while they cannot die, always do what makes them rich even if it’s illegal and commit more crimes than the mafia, they never go to jail and never take responsibilities for their own actions. Liberty? We want to give these guys freedom? Would you give it to the mafia?
If you want to see a real threat to freedom Senator Johnson, try looking in the damn mirror. You and your cohorts are the greatest threat to freedom in this country because your definition of liberty, is YOUR liberty to steal OUR freedom.
That’s what it boils down to, sadly. There are the rich people who run the country and then there is the rest of us. Some of the rich people pander to the masses. They don’t always do good but they at least care. They are called Democrats. Then there is the rest of the greedy bastards who seem obsessed with making money and obtaining power. We’ll call them Republicans, just for the hell of it.
In the Republican camp are people like the Tea Party and Ron Johnson, as well as businesses like Murray Energy (a big coal company) Whole Foods, Applebee’s, Papa John’s Pizza and the Bain Capital owned Domino’s (notorious for it’s lobbying efforts to anti-gay causes). Papa John himself, CEO John Schnatter complains that ObamaCare will cost his customers an extra 11-14 cents per grease-pie, and that is just too much to bare. Jon Stewart did the math and discovered that was the cost of a million pizzas. Sounds like a lot till you realize that Papa John’s gave away 2 million sauce wheels during last year’s NFL promotion.
Bill Maher has pointed this out as well, and I don’t mean his performance in the 1990 cult classic The Pizza Man, I mean his argument that reduces these proud “job creators” to a bunch of whiny, pissed off, greedy elitists who made a fortune on the backs of minimum wage labor and are now crying because they have to lend the people who did the hard work a hand. Why on Earth are the Big Pizza conglomerates so angry? Why can’t they provide the common decency of health care to their employees?
So as Super Bowl Sunday approaches, why not give your hard earned money to the local community pizza joint? Instead of giving your money to help water Papa John’s private golf course, or finance Bain Capital’s latest endeavor to send jobs to China, keep the money local and in town by getting your pizza from a small family owned pizza joint. The pizza is usually better than that corporate crap anyways that’s made in a factory in the Mid-West somewhere and shipped to locations for quick and efficient food preparation, instead of, ya know, made from scratch and baked in an oven. What a concept.
Oh and enjoy the Big Game Sunday, brought to you by the socialist revenue sharing NFL and its big corporate far right capitalist sponsors, with its half-time show performed by usually liberal aging rock stars. Pair it up with some Pizza and wings, from your local joint while downing it with some foreign owned “American” beer and you’ve got a true slice of Americana!