By Robert P. Bomboy
JULY 9, 2017
It's time
to place the blame.
I've been reading a book called the
Moonstone by the nineteenth century author Wilkie Collins, who was a
contemporary of Charles Dickens. How many times have you said - or heard
someone say- "I'm at a loss for words!" People a hundred or two
hundred year ago were never at a loss for words. They called a spade a spade;
for instance, in Wilkie Collins' classic, a woman cries out: "You coward!
You mean, miserable, heartless, coward!"
That's what I want to say to the
Republicans in Congress: "Shame on you! You cowards! You mean, miserable,
heartless, cowards!"
Those awful
words might have been tailor-made and cut-to-fit the Republicans in the House
of Representatives who created their "mean" Unaffordable Care
Act ("mean," that's what President Trump called it) and the
Republican senators who are now doing their darnedest to repeal Obamacare,
savagely cut Medicaid, and leave 23 million Americans like you and me without
health insurance for their families and children.
How many of us, from our
childhoods, have admired Robin Hood, the knight of Sherwood Forest who opposed
tyranny by robbing from the rich to give to the poor? These senators are no
Robin Hoods. They are the opposite: rich men and women - two thirds of them,
including our Pennsylvania senator Pat Toomey, are millionaires - who are
robbing from the poor and the middle class to put nearly a trillion dollars
into their own pockets and the pockets of other millionaires and billionaires.
Do you know
that a trillion dollars is a thousand billions?
They
fudge it over by calling the money "tax cuts," but it's real
money they're taking for themselves. The "tax cuts" are for
the rich: if all 52 Republican senators can stomach it, they and their
millionaire friends will be nearly a trillion dollars richer.
Beyond
that, they will have made millions and millions of Americans worse off, poorer,
sicker, seeing their children, their wives, and their families desperately ill.
So
what do you call people who are willing to do this? If it were Bernie Madoff or
other criminals we wouldn't hesitate a moment to say that they were
unprincipled scoundrels, heartless wretches, crooks, cheats, thieves, rogues of
the worst kind.
When it comes to this heartless bill to
repeal Obamacare, the Republican Senate is a Rogues Gallery. Picture the Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell, Pat Toomey, and the other Republican millionaires lounging poolside
at the mansions of their gated communities over this past Fourth of July
holiday, as Bernie Madoff once did. Picture them scheming to grab the 51 or 52
votes they need to pass their ugly Frankenstein out of the Senate so it can
join the "mean" House bill on the way to the president and
another glorious Rose Garden celebration with all the laughter and
back-slapping at out-foxing and cheating the American people once again.
It will take only three good Republicans to turn the tables
on them, three heroes willing to put the good of the people above the dishonest and unprincipled desires of their party
in the Senate.
Pray God that three heroes will stand up.
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