Welcome to Good Friday on this beautiful spring day. While most of you are slaving away at work, I’m going to be enjoying a day at the spa (my Christmas present). So I hope you’re having fun! So, what’s on your mind besides intense jealousy? It’s time for an open thread.
Obama visited Maine yesterday and he’s still fired up about his health care bill. He was quite feisty with his critics.
OBAMA: You have to love some of the pundits in Washington. Every single day since I signed the reform law, there’s been another poll or headline that said, “Nation still divided on health care reform.” “Polls haven’t changed yet.” Well, yeah. It just happened last week! It’s only been a week!
Can you imagine if some of these reporters were working on a farm? You’d planted some seeds and they came out the next day and they looked. “Nothing’s happened! There’s no crop! We’re gonna starve! Oh no! It’s a disaster!”
It’s been a week, folks. So before we find out if people like health care reform, we should wait to see what happens when we actually put it into place! Just a thought.
This is pretty ridiculous, but at least he’s warning people that he’s a nut:
First,
do no harm, check their voter registration.A doctor who considers the national health-care overhaul to be bad medicine for the country posted a sign on his office door telling patients who voted for President Barack Obama to seek care “elsewhere.”
“I’m not turning anybody away — that would be unethical,” Dr. Jack Cassell, 56, a Mount Dora urologist and a registered Republican opposed to the health plan, told the Orlando Sentinel on Thursday. “But if they read the sign and turn the other way, so be it.”
The sign reads: “If you voted for Obama…seek urologic care elsewhere. Changes to your healthcare begin right now, not in four years.”
I’m not expert in medical ethics, but a practicing physician encouraging patients in need of care to go elsewhere based on their voting practices seems like anti-Obama hysteria gone horribly awry. Cassell has professional obligations that are supposed to supersede his bizarre Republican ideology.
When you’re in a service industry, it’s probably best to leave your political beliefs at home. I guess this guy just doesn’t have enough self-control to do this.