Shouldn’t Republicans be Supporting the Public Option?
August 20th, 2009 | 
Author: This is going to be a very short post, but since I have yet to see anybody in the mainstream media ask this question, I decided it was about time to bring it up:
Shouldn’t Republicans be supporting the public option on health care?
For nearly 30 years, since the "Reagan revolution," all we have heard out of most Republican leaders and operatives is that government is no good for anything, and that private enterprise is so much more competitive and so much more efficient than government can ever be.
So guys and gals, this is your chance to prove it. Why not support the public option and let the insurance companies prove your point once and for all? If private enterprise is so much better, more competitive and more efficient than government, if government can’t do anything right, then you should jump at this unprecedented opportunity to prove what you have been saying for at least the last 30 years.
In other words, why not put your private enterprise system where your mouth is?
Well, I’ll tell you why you won’t support it. Because you don’t really believe what you claim to believe. You are afraid to death that a government public option would work, that it would eventually force some of your biggest political contributors out of business. In other words, because you are and have always been full of hot air, not just unable to prove your philosophy is valid, but unwilling to take the chance that attempting to do so might backfire — just a bunch of greedy hypocrites who are willing to do anything for your corporate masters.
Oh yeah, you all talk tough, you all act tough, but when the rubber hits the road, when you really have the chance to prove what you have been pushing on this country for decades, you don’t have the spine for it. Cowards.
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Ha ha. Callm out for what they are dude! But you better arm yourself. Most are cowards, but there’s some crazy m*f*kers in that crowd to!
Hey, whoever.
I wasn’t really referring to the base of the party, but the leaders, and by calling them ‘cowards’ my point is not that they wouldn’t be willing to fight a war, or kill folks, or even die for their cause; my point is that, when it comes to standing up to their big money contributors, i.e., the insurance companies, etc. — as well as when any opportunity presents itself to prove a point that might actually backfire — the Republican leaders are absolute, spineless cowards.
They won’t do it even when they know not doing so essentially undermines some of the most explicit, vital and long-standing claims inherent in their own ideology, e.g., that private enterprise is innately more efficient and more cost-effective than government can ever be.
And I also suspect they won’t do it because they don’t really believe what they claim, or if they do, they’ve sure got a strange way of showing it.