I was going to write about other things today. Things that bother me. Like Mike Huckabee’s comments at the Value Voters Summit the other day, where he equated those with pre-existing conditions seeking health insurance coverage to people with burned down home or wrecked cars trying to obtain insurance after the fact. Comments that seem to be lacking in compassion, not ot mention the pure idiocy of finding equivalency in a living human with a medical history of any sort with a destroyed house or car. Or lacking in intelligence for attacking the one aspect of the Healthcare bill that is by far the most popular and widely accepted by the general public.
The comments bothered me as did the lack of coverage they received in the mainstream press.
Or there was Republican strategist Jack Burkman who caused a minor buzz on a Fox News broadcast when he made comments about closing down the US Postal Service while somehow bringing in the subject of Nigerian and Ethiopian cabdrivers. It drew the ire of Ex- Senator Al D’Amato who called Burkman’s comments “rascist bullshit’. But it wasn’t the comments about the cabdrivers or even the closing the Postal Service that caught my ear. It was the last line Burkman uttered in parting, where he stated that Postal workers, like much of the middle class, were basically unskilled and needed to be pushed down. I assume he was talking about pushing them down the economic ladder. A telling little comment, if that is the case, for a so-called strategist of any political party. Read into it what you will.
But that is all I can write about these people. And I use that term loosely. I need something to keep my head from exploding so I’ll turn to a tune from John Prine. I think this song pretty much sums it all up… It’s a Big Old Goofy World.
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