Enlarge the Conflict

There's a philosophy that some follow in war that when you're losing, enlarge the conflict. That's essentially what the Bush Administration did in the Middle East after Afghanistan, and we didn't lose that one. It's the whole GOP corporate operative idea behind the Brooks Brothers riots in Florida 2000, the whole idea behind the GOP corporate operative anti-health insurance reform lobbyists who are ginning up the stupidest, most fearful, most easy to anger amongst the American population. They're hoping that it spreads like the plague.

They're delighted that some teabaggers mixed it up with some union people last night in Florida. (That state again.) They're delighted that Representatives are being hung in effigy, demonized, having their lives threatened. I'm sure they're thrilled to pieces that teabaggers are tweeting to bring your gun to the next town hall and "exercise your Second Amendment rights."

They want blood.

I believe we're seeing a replay of the demonization by a prejudiced, reactionary rightwing combined with corporate interests, the least moral among the wealthiest individuals, of the kind that was building before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, who also happened to be the first Catholic to win the Presidency. I'm not saying that this is going to lead to the untoward loss of our current President, but does anyone in their right mind think it's out of the question -- or less likely now than a year ago?

Even Satan Palin is getting into the act, claiming that health insurance reform will lead to her Down's Syndrome baby being killed by government order. Who in the motherfuck does she think she is to say something like that? Oh, that's right -- a profiteer-in-waiting, hungry like the wolf she's shoot from a helicopter, jaws dripping with anticipation of her book deal money, her next play to hopscotch from Governor title (just long enough to keep it) to amoral rapacious vampire.

Yes, I do think this is having a deleterious effect on the Republican Party, and may even be the very thing that turns the debate into a must-pass. If GOP Senators and Congresspeople, after gutting true reform anyway (no Single Payer, no drug price negotiation, possibly no public option or even exchange) and likely setting up private insurers for more government largess or even a mandate without public option so they can just keep raping our bank accounts for mansions-at-the-top, if these GOP govern-people vote no then they'll be in the same swiftboat with the birthers 'n' baggers, the dregs of American brainpower, the most reactionary of the right, the cranks and the scamalongs, the ones so fearful of losing their right to own a gun that could someday be used to eliminate a President they've demonized in their minds with a 180 degree relationship to reality.

Obama and the rightful Dems must be getting close to actually passing some sort of health insurance reform.

Otherwise why would these people be going so insane?