Bipartisanship And Compromise?

…Or Compromised By Corruption?

President Obama can talk all he wants about the spirit of compromise and civility on healthcare reform issues. He won’t get it.

"I expect us to move forward with a spirit of civility, a seriousness of purpose, and a willingness to compromise that characterizes our democratic process at its very best. If we do that, I am confident that we will pass reform this year," the President said.

Civility? That’s a laugh. The people President Obama is attempting to negotiate ‘bipartisanship and civility’ with are incapable of both. Watching and listening to any Tea Bag Patriot gathering with our President portrayed as Hitler and the outright lies proclaimed by attendees explains all we need to know about the healthcare ‘debate’ in the United States. It’s the progressive, educated, rational, intelligent people against the regressive, hateful right-wing, pro-corporate profits, noisy lunatic fringe.

There will never be any bipartisanship on healthcare—or seemingly any other issue for that matter— because the Republicans and the Republican-lite Blue Dogs refuse (or are incapable of) offering any meaningful plan for the average citizen—unless, of course, one considers healthcare and big pharmacy executives with multi-million dollar paychecks to be average citizens. They aren’t and neither are our elected officials.

It’s no coincidence the elected officials in Congress who oppose meaningful healthcare reform are the very ones who have taken enormous amounts of money from the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry lobby. In a fair and just world this would be called what it is: Bribery. In a nation of fair laws, the perpetrators of such activity would be brought to justice.

With 72% of the country and 75% of the medical doctors in America wanting both a public option and meaningful healthcare reform, it is a crime (or it should be) to allow lobbyists and corrupt politicians to kill it. But that is what’s happening right now.

The President is willing to compromise but he fails to realize that in this current political climate, the spirit of compromise is trumped by the obvious evil of greedy corruption.