We have Repub neighbors whom we like a lot, and sadly, their son has some mental illness issues, which led to him being institutionalized for a time. The son is now struggling to finish college. The father snapped out a kind of nasty comment last Sunday about the House HC bill that barely passed.

My husband said to me later: the bill sucks, but you’d think that they would appreciate and be in favor of something that will force Big Ins to ignore pre-existing conditions. If things stay as they are, good luck to their son ever getting any Health insurance under any circumstances. Beats me how our neighbors can see this as “bad.”

I see most Republicans, esp some of my family members, as certifiable. They simply make no sense anymore, and the level of their inarticulate rage is, well, crazy. At the end of the day, I think they are all boiling mad because they are not “in charge” anymore. Plus BHO is black, ya know….

I can run a couple of minutes before the pain becomes overwhelming. For a guy who’s not supposed to walk, I’ll say that it’s a wonderful result. Biking should be back in my life next year. Hope you are well.

And as for the quickie version of the Palin book, she must be totally panicked to change her release date and went for a shorter book because of Levi’s Playgirl “spread” and article. Or, she’s trying to make more bucks off of his article by releasing her book at the same time creating the media frenzy of she said-he said.

http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=BA5B73C2AD0E9BC7FE9738CA2B583CD0?diaryId=3397

karen

Questioner: But the fact is, isn’t it, that [President Ronald] Reagan does get to the [George] Wallace voter and to the racist side of the Wallace voter by doing away with Legal Services, by cutting down on food stamps …”

Atwater: You start out in 1954 by saying, “Ni–er, ni–er, ni–er.” By 1968 you can’t say “ni–er” — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I’m not saying that. But I’m saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Ni–er, ni–er.”

This is why the GOP was willing to cut loose the Hispanics, who less than a decade ago were touted as becoming the GOP’s new base because of their social conservatism’s allegedly meshing with the GOP’s. They could not keep both the Hispanics and the racist crazy base.