OK, don't have a fit: Five thoughts on the Obamacare disaster

[Demo_Chris]

95. We rightly criticize Bush for his terrible handling of Katrina...

After all, we argue, he had a week to get ready, and once the disaster unfolded it took days and days for even half-measures to begin. And while we waited and the White House dicked around, people were dying.

And while it is apples and oranges the point remains. The task here with Obamacare is not the high-speed emergency rescue of a million people in a submerged city, it's four YEARS to build a WEBSITE that actually fucking works. So in that respect the analogy and the questions raised are reasonable.

And I still stand by what I have said all along: Obamacare might be swell for some, but the mandates are everything that our party claims to be against, and once the GOP stops acting like shreiking drooling lunatics those mandates are going to hammer us. We're the party that just slapped the poor with a bill they cannot afford to pay, for healthcare they will never see and cannot afford to use -- all to benefit the affluent at their expense. Just as the Social Conservative Bible-bators are obliterating the GOP, Third-Way Democrats are wrecking our brand.

Our loyalty should properly belong to our principles and our people.