Reply #12: They are the same people who are ....

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birthers, anti abortion zealots who attack abortion clinics and those who go to the tea bag rallies. They have an agenda they are pushing and they are determined to push it even though they are in the minority. They are fanatics, they think and push like two year olds with about as much forethought or reason as is involved in a child's tantrum. They want what they want and they will say or do just about anything to get it. I am so tired of their antics and people letting them get away without calling them on it that I don't have words to describe it.

They don't care that people are sick and dying and need something more than a crack brained ideology to keep them alive and well. I know that AARP gave Bush that prescription abination that those with Medicare are stuck with. Later on they claimed that they had been lied to and the initiative had been misrepresented to them by the administration to get their endorsement. My question about that is that if they didn't know for a fact what was in the prescription plan why did they endorse it in advance? I mean Bush was always so trustworty, wasn't he? I don't know what AARP is thinking now.

Personally, I miss the Grey Panthers from the 60s. They were stone radicals who actually acted in the best interest of seniors. They lobbied, they spoke in public and they countered all of the right wing crap that was being used to try to prevent Medicare and other assistance progams for seniors. The organization kind of disappeared, but I sure wish they were here now.

Throughout all this wrangling and delay about the Health Care bill I remember that Medicare was passed in 1965 and they had it up and running in only eleven months. Lyndon Johnson was famous for twisting arms until they popped out of the socket if he wanted to get something done.