Today President Obama signs the new health care legislation into law. It's legislation Republicans and their supporters have lied about, made threats about, and predicted doom about. It's legislation that's long overdue.
There is no reason the richest country in the world shouldn't have health care for all its citizens. Health care should not be a profit-driven enterprise, but Republicans and their supporters believe in the "free market" for everything. They really like the "free market" when it means big profits from their wars. Death and destruction are the Republican way.
They really exposed their true colors in the run up to the vote in the House of Representatives. Taunting a man with Parkinson's disease, shouting racial slurs, and homophobic slurs show how cruel and out of touch these people are.
I hope the passage of this bill will be the beginning of a wave of new progressive legislation in the same spirit as the New Deal and Republicans can take their hatred and bigotry and mouth-foaming rhetoric off into some dark corner.
