Well, the story I’m most fascinated by today, of course, it that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are getting a divorce. After all that jumping up and down on the couch. After the Eiffel Tower Engagement.
Some day, we will know the full story
But, I don’t really have much to say about it. I don’t have any inside information as to whether he’s gay or not and Holmes, and equally stunning first wife Nicole Kidman, were just beards to him, so I will leave that to lesser columnists to discuss.
No, the serious topic of tonight’s column is the volcanic eruption of red hot stupidity coming from the right, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Decision that, hey, we might not really like Obamacare, but there’s nothing about it that’s unconstitutional, not even a little bit.
They are calling Justice Roberts a traitor. Coming up with insane conspiracy theories. (Roberts was being blackmailed. Roberts was having a psychotic episode.) They are vowing to fight it, again, in congress. And there is one Republican activist, Matt Davis, the former spokesman for the Michigan GOP, who is leading the call for an armed insurrection. I shit you not. He wrote this: If government can mandate that I pay for something I don’t want, then what is beyond its power? If the Supreme Court’s decision Thursday paves the way for unprecedented intrusion into personal decisions, then has the Republic all but ceased to exist? If so, then is armed rebellion today justified?
No, Matt, it is not. The last time anybody tried an armed rebellion in the U.S. was in 1861. As I recall, it didn’t work out real well. Now, imagine that little brouhaha with automatic weapons, helicopters and drones. Then, just shut up.
So, I’m sure that Matt Davis didn’t really mean it, and the Secret Service will come have a chat with him, and they’ll say he’s not a real threat or anything. That’s the way these things seem to go.
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I agree. Being forced to pay for health insurance is no different than being forced to pay for auto insurance, homeowners insurance, property tax, sales tax, toll road fees, etc. Republicans just can’t stomach the idea of helping those they consider ‘less worthy’ have healthcare. They should realize they are paying much more to cover the same ‘uninsured’ people anyway every time the ER is used instead of a General Practitioner due to lack of health insurance. Republicans don’t want to be told ‘what to do’, but they would be paying for healthcare for themselves and others one way or another. This law just makes it more obvious.
It’s not exactly the same, Jean. For example, I wouldn’t have to pay for automobile insurance if I didn’t own a car. Likewise, if I didn’t buy gas, I wouldn’t pay road taxes, etc. Those are taxes on things you don’t have to do.
The healthcare tax is a tax on just being alive. I can agree with mandated auto insurance. I can’t agree, in principal, with mandated health insurance. What’s next that I will, by virtue of being alive, have to buy?
I appreciate that healthcare should be universally available and not cost prohibitive, but I disagree with giving Congress the power to tax us in this manner. Just imagine what the looney right will force us to buy, when they are in power.