| rocketpig said: Akuma, I'm not against something being done about the healthcare industry. It's badly needed IMO. I just don't know if Obama's route is the correct one. Honestly, I don't know if it's the wrong one, either. I'm just going to take a wait and see approach to this. The first 6 months of Obama's presidency will be extremely telling. I'm just praying that he doesn't take advantage of this and swing way left, alienating the Republican base of Congress. Some real work can be done if he maintains this "uniter" approach, now let's see if he does it. |
That's reasonable. I agree that the situation is not an easy one to fix, and that any action taken to fix it should be done very cautiously. But the fact remains that it needs to be fixed.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
