Chupacabra Report

More news that gets my goat:

Today I accidentally read Robert D. Novak’s column “Socialized Medicine for Kids.” He starts out:

“There is no need to wait until a new president is elected next year for the great national health care debate. It is underway right now, disguised as a routine extension of an immensely popular, non-controversial 10-year-old program of providing coverage to poor children. In fact, this proposal is the thin edge of the wedge to achieve the longtime goal of government-supplied universal health insurance and the suffocation of the private system.”

>He goes on for another 1,000 words or so, (he’s probably paid by the word) blah blah blah, etc, then he wraps up:

“The future is now for universal health care coverage, and President George W. Bush may soon face the decision of whether or not to veto it going into the election year.”

>Novak speaks to the same ass-backwards conservatives that do their best to make Texas a third-world state, the same people who cut the Texas Children’s Health Insurance Program two years ago, leaving 20,000 children without health coverage in order to maintain the regressive tax system favored by their patrons.

A solid majority of Americans favor ending the gravy train for the health insurance and pharmaceutical cartels. Likewise, most Americans are calling for an end to the neocon chickenhawk’s Iraq adventure.

If Bush and the rest of those people will only keep on being themselves, regime change will surely follow, and the republicans can spend another fifty years in the wilderness.