-by NoahUnless you are completely brain dead or completely delusional, you know that Washington is a monument to corruption on a grand scale. It’s no secret that most people, regardless of party, who go into national politics do so to hop on board the gravy train of corporate graft. That makes the few that aren’t corrupt possibly qualified for some kind of minor sainthood and/or gluttons for punishment. They are lucky they aren’t burned at the stake out on the steps of the Capitol building.Money in politics is an evil thing but the efforts of McConnell and his accomplices to use it in the service of human misery on a huge scale break new ground. I wrote on Sunday that the Republican Party’s healthcare bill isn’t a healthcare bill at all. Rather, it is a bill designed to create a slush fund for future “campaign contributions”, ie, bribes.Republicans tell us that we can’t afford healthcare because of “the deficit” (Remember Cheney saying “Deficits don’t matter”?). If they really saw “the deficit” as a problem, Republicans would not be taking that 800 Billion out of our existing healthcare to pay for a handout to their wealthy and Big Pharma and insurance corporation benefactors who, in turn, will hand some of it back in the form of the previously mentioned “campaign contributions” at voting time. Obviously, it’s money being used to create a slush fund for that purpose. And, it’s all money that originally came from our tax dollars. If “the deficit” was really the issue and they hated Obamacare, they would just take the money out of our healthcare and put it back into the U.S. Treasury. Case closed.Really deserving of burning at the stake, of course, are the corrupt $enators and so-called Representatives who make up the vast majority of Congress and lie about just who they are there to represent. Unfortunately, burning this much larger group isn’t legal and would cause a nationwide shortage of lighter fluid during prime backyard grilling season.“I’m going to take care of everybody”, said Grifter-in-Chief Donald J. Trump. The gullible believed him. The insane still do. Sadly, none of them have enough critical thinking ability to ask themselves precisely what their psychotic Trumpanzee meant by “everybody” when he spoke of “Trumpcare.” By now, they should.Here’s a list of what each of the McConnell Slush Fund 13, some of the very worst or the worst swine of Washington, got for their efforts to take away “healthcare” from 22 Million Americans and tell them to just get sick and die. You should consider the amounts on this list to be only a down payment since much more will be coming their way; and still even more if the republican bill becomes law.
• Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT)- $471,560• Addison “Mitch” McConnell (R-KY)- $433,400• Rob Portman (R-OH)- $382,100• Patrick J. Toomey (R-PA)- $354,100• Andrew Lamar Alexander (R-TN)- $228,100• John Cornyn (R-TX)- $180.050• Cory Gardner (R-CO)- $151,850• John Barrasso (R-WY)- $149,750• Mike Enzi (R-WY)- $146,600• John Thune (R-SD)- $123,400• Mike Lee (R-UT)- $66,750• Ted Cruz (R-TX-) $58,895• Tom Cotton (R-AR)- $28,941
The total of the “campaign contributions” on the above list comes to $2,776,012. That’s an average take of $214,000 per slimeball. The amount is nearly double the average ($115,000) of what $enators not included in writing the bill got, so, I think we can see why head slimeball, Mitch McConnell, chose the ones he chose for his all male revue tasked with writing the bill (along with his K Street lobbyist buddies).As I write this, the U.S. and World Population Clock indicates that the population of the United States is 325,329,274 people. Dividing $214,000 by 325,329,274 gives us a total of $0.00065779509. There’s no coin or paper currency for that but, to the Slush Fund 13, this is what each of us is worth.Of course, if you want to factor in more $enators, the above figure will go down. And, then, you could add in some Hou$e of Rep$ devils, too, and why not Trump as well? That will reduce our individual value to Congress to the size of an average bacterium. That is what we are to them, folks.Taking healthcare away from 22 Million Americans is slam dunk evil. So is making healthcare unaffordable to millions more. It’s the ultimate nihilism, a nihilism that festers at the core of what it is to be a republican. The proper perspective to see the end result of Trump and his Republican Party’s dream is that it would deliberately cause a humanitarian catastrophe that would make Katrina look like a hangnail by comparison. How many would die? How many millions would go without chemo? How many preventable heart attacks? How many millions would be thrown out of nursing homes? How many children would be stillborn?There’s an insurance company out there that says we’re in good hands. I don’t think so.
