It’s pretty simple. Obama is calling you conservatives out. You’re all talk, and yes, you’re powerful enough to gum up the works—but you don’t have a good reason to do so. You’re just doing it out of spite. (“Obama to pro-repeal Republicans: ‘Go for it’,” USA Today, Mar 25, 2010)

On Sunday Pelosi and the Dems got the Healthcare Reform bill Passed, something that Hillary couldn’t do when William Jefferson was president—history has been made, no matter what happens next. Of course, what’s next is what’s been going on already. For a year now we’ve been listening to the right’s rhetoric against Health Care reform, but that’s all it is: rhetoric. And it goes on. You have to admire the “conservatives” who are, indeed, conserving their stance, regardless.

Already we’ve got a quarter of the States’ Attorney Generals prepping lawsuits against the bill. (“13 attorneys general sue over health care overhaul,” Seattle Times, Mar 23, 2010) And what’s “hilarious” about this is they’re suing specifically over a portion of the bill that was the only part Republicans wanted—the part the requires people to buy health care, or get fined. (“Healthcare reform bill included big GOP idea: individual mandate,” Miami Herald, Mar 23, 2010) Let’s not wax paranoiac about that—let’s not assume the GoP laced the bill with a poison pill just to get the whole state-rights thing going. No, let’s chalk it up to the vast difference between Political Conservative and Popular Conservatives.

To think that a bunch of fat cat money-hungry elitist old-world politicians are the ones who represent good old country-boy Americans is not laughable anymore, it’s tragic. The very people who made them poor in the first place, shoved them to the side where they got stuck on a moralistic time warp, are now the ones courting them, to stay in office. They have nothing in common except rhetoric, and so that’s all there is to health-care opposition.

The use the same tactics as terrorists, fear mongering, outrageous slippery-slope arguments. The bill will kill the elderly? Bankrupt the country? Expand government? Install socialism? How? How will it do these things? Quit talking in platitudes—save that for your Jesus rants. We’re not interested in fiery pulpit speeches. We want dialogue, we want context, we want to understand.

You know what other attitude is supported by rhetoric, only, and has no basis in fact, logic, or any kind of reason? Racism. The reason a lot of people on the left thing conservatives are anti-Obama for reasons of racism alone is because the right sounds just like the people against civil rights in the 60s. It’s really hard to see any difference.

And what with the recent spate of violence against Democrats around the country, one wonders if there’s any difference at all, or if we need to bother finding one. (“Health care reform anger takes a nasty, violent turn,” CNN, Mar 26, 2010) Of course, when Obama said “Go for it” he wasn’t talking about bricks. He was talking about mid-term elections. The reason Obama is not that student standing in front of the tanks in Tienanmen Square is because Obama is president of the most powerful nation on earth, and leader of the party in charge. You want to start a civil war, Republicans? You think you can rally poor folk to die so you can stay in power? Go for it.