That's a Clown Statement, Bro!

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in his comments about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (health care act) called it "the single biggest step in the direction of Europeanizing America."  Excuse me, Senator, but the language you're speaking came straight from Europe.  Have you eaten any Italian food lately?  The neoclassical style of the building you're working in?  Straight from Europe.  The guy who built it?  French.  The individual rights we have as Americans were derived from the Magna Carta.  Senator, I'm sure you're praying every Sunday for an Obama defeat, but the church and the service you attend were patterned after European tradition.  Even the American legislature you work for came out of the English parliamentary style.  To suggest that American society is fundamentally different than Europe is a clown statement, bro.

American business and industry is supported by government subsidies and tax breaks which puts the United States more in line with the governments of China, Russia and most European countries.  You protect nearly all those subsidies, Senator. 

What would the G.O.P. do if they ever obtained a majority government again?  Force Americans to put their social security into the stock market.  Supporting American business and industry with Social Security money sounds like a lot like European style governance. 

What about auto insurance?  Requirements that drivers purchase private auto insurance sounds a lot like an individual mandate to me.  State auto insurance funds for individuals who cannot access the private auto insurance market sounds a lot like requirements under the health care law, but Senator, you don't object when it comes to transportation.

It is the health care law, of course, that Senator McConnell is talking about in the above quote and if one believes health statistics, Europeans rank above Americans in nearly every health category.  The Senator doesn't mention that.  Of course, Senator McConnell's home state of Kentucky ranks nearly last in state rankings of public health, but he's not keen on pointing that out, either. 

The Senator, himself, is in a pretty nice position.  He has his government health care plan to take care of him and his family, unlike the people he represents who, according to statistics, rank high in percentage of uninsured.  I haven't heard Senator McConnell offer to give up his government health plan or cut his cushy government pension in the face of budget cuts.  Cut everybody else, but not me.  That's a clown attitude, bro. 

I suggest that in the real world, people like the Cobra plan when they're laid off; they like having their kids remain on health plans after the age of twenty-one; they like the elimination of discrimination due to pre-existing conditions.  I also suggest that employers would like to be relieved of managing health insurance coverage for their employees.  Of course, Senator McConnell doesn't live in the real world.  He and his G.O.P. colleagues believe people go without health insurance by choice.  That is a clown belief, bro

I suggest Senator McConnell's number one legislative agenda in Washington "to make Obama a one term president" is a clown agenda.  He's completely devoid of new ideas about health care, tax policy, government debt or anything else.  His one idea, which he repeats often, is cut taxes.  What I'm saying is Senator McConnell sounds a lot like a clown, bro.