Obama-care at the Debate!

Do Republican voters live in a different dimension?  I'm not in the least happy with the Affordable Health Care bill that passed Congress, but not because it's "socialized medicine."  It's not, far from it.  It didn't go far enough and it didn't address the real problem--running health care as a profit-making industry, which we do here, and which is why the quality of our health care is rated 37th in the world, and dropping each year.

But when Michele Bachmann said that Obama-care had ruined our economy and the audience cheered and everyone on stage nodded their heads "yes," I almost choked on my tea (well, actually, my wine).  Republicans, please read a book once in a while or your skill might atrophy.  Stop watching those reality TV shows!


Obama-care, as it's called by Republicans, won't be implemented until the year 2014, so it's a three year stretch to say it ruined our economy.  And for the record, the policies that broke our economy (the seeds were planted during the Reagan administration) were those instituted by the Bush administration or vigorously supported by his administration.  Please try to remember, Republicans (back to that reading thing again), that when Bill Clinton left office we had a balanced budget.  So, not Obama-care but the following:

the wars with Iraq and Afghanistan
the Bush tax cuts
the sub-prime mortgages which made millions for Wall St

And lots and lots of other stuff, and none of it--none!--has any relation to Obama-care.

And for the record, many Democrats were complicit in what happened to our economy but they were secondary players.  Too many of them after 9/11 lacked the courage to vote against the made-to-pander wars.

And a word for Ron Paul--my philosophical view of government's purpose and his are very different,  but he was the only Republican on stage who refused to pander.  He corrected Cain at one point, who called the prisoners in Guantanamo terrorists.  They're "suspects, not terrorists" he said.  Good for him.