Normally, I probably wouldn't link to a post entitled "I Hate George Bush." I mean, it's not exactly something most progressives haven't thought in their heart of hearts. But in her post about Bush's imminent veto of the expansion of the Children's Health Insurance Program, Melissa McEwan manages to get beyond the obvious to explain why she has her hate on:
Quite simply, I hate this president, I hate his administration, I hate his entire fucking political party and all their asshole supporters, and this story is perfectly exemplary of why.
His rationale for veto, see, is that if the program is expanded, greedy parents everywhere will throw off the shackles of private insurance and seek relief in the government-run program. Because heaven knows most people don't have enough bureaucracy in their lives and would gladly sign on for something that would, in effect, double the amount of crap they have to go through to help their family get medical care.
As McEwan says,
That’s the kind of thinking right there that makes me hate them. What person in his or her right fucking mind honestly believes that there are people just waiting for a government program to take advantage of so they can move their already insured kids onto a government-run program? And not just a few people here and there, but hordes of them—so many just waiting to bilk the government that we can’t afford to risk insuring kids who aren’t insured, because of all the horrible adults laying in wait to screw the taxpayers, including, presumably, themselves, since they obviously work (and pay taxes) if their kids are already insured.
Jebus. I hate these people. I hate them. They’re the reason sayings like “A thief always thinks someone is stealing from him” exist. They have such poor characters—so deeply devoid of the tiniest wee modicum of integrity, conscience, or honesty—that they can’t begin to imagine there are people who don’t grab whatever they can get their dirty little paws on, irrespective of whether they need it or whether it’s ethical to take.
I'd not heard that saying about the thief before, but if that doesn't perfectly sum up the ethics of this administration, I don't know what does. They are minutely concerned with "Welfare Queens" and potentially avaricious parents, and yet fraud and deception on a massive scale is completely ignored.
I hate that they call us the America-haters, as they wrap themselves in the flag and declare themselves the True Patriots while turning America into a nation where the natural and philosophical resources are raped and destroyed in the acquisition of more wealth, where philanthropy and empathy are relegated to little more than cute, clichéd memories, and where the barrel-chested barons of a new Gilded Age stand astride the bodies of those who have been condemned to less fortunate fates, singing the praises of social Darwinism and bellowing about the superfluity of a social safety net. “The government never gave me anything!” they declare, as they deposit their million-dollar checks from their latest no-bid Defense Department contract then head off to Tiffany’s to get the Little Woman a bauble with their fat tax return.
Yeah, what she said.