Taking Everything to the Supreme Court

Rush played a soundbyte from a woman named Jean Cummings at The Politico today, and then dismissed her, calling her ignorant. Frankly I thought he was way out of line.

Here's what she said.

CUMMINGS: I think the administration is just going to move forward and hope for the best and hope that they get the ruling that they argue they deserve. Clearly this judge in Florida went further than anyone else did, and basically put the entire issue of the law now before the Supreme Court once the case gets there. But the Supreme Court would have had the ability to review the whole law anyway. So whether these negative rulings are narrow or broad doesn't really change the process that this issue is on, and that is resolution in the Supreme Court.

Then Rush went off on her, and I don't really understand why, expect it does sound like she's for the health care bill, instead of against it.

But what did she actually say? Obama's regime is going to fight for its health care bill all the way to the Supreme Court. Did anyone think he wouldn't?

In the same way that people on the right fight for what they think is right, all the way to the Supreme Court as well.

With the end result that the lawyers get richer and the people get poorer.

There are two factions - people who think free health care is a right, and "not a privelege", and people who think people should be responsible for paying for their own health care, and not take money out of other people's pockets to do so. (In other words, they don't think health care should be a privelege, either, and if free health care "is" a right, then it "is" a privelege, also.)

Frankly, I think we've already reached the tipping point and there is no getting away from socialism in this country.

Republicans, over the last several decades, have let too much slide...have seen our education system destroyed, the morals of the country destroyed...

As an atheist, I'm not talking about religious morals, I'm talking about the morals of a free, independent society. A society where people stand on their own two feet, and don't, for example, have babies unless they can afford to pay for them. (So in my world view if a woman wants to be a single mother, that's her perogative - if she can afford to pay for the child's upbringing. If she needs government assistance to do so, then she has no right to have a kid, anymore than poor people have a right to have kids until they stop being poor (which is a lot easier to do if they work hard to get an education and a decent job, and don't have kid(s) who will suck all their money away before they can even earn any).

What welfare should be for is those people who were self-sufficient, then fell on hard times for some reason, and need assistance for a couple months or however long until they get back on their feet.

But paying people just to sit around and do nothing....

Is it the people who are to blame, or is it the government who has allowed them to do this for so long that is to blame? Frankly, I blame the government... Human nature is human nature, after all.