Alfred J. Lemire says:

Three additions to the list of name-calling from the left that I have compiled: “loonie right, “idiot flock,” and “guntoteing, morons and teabaggers.” As to the third, that should be “gun-toting.” And someone “toting” a gun in Arizona was a leftist, not a conservative. No comma should have been placed after “guntoteing,” since it was intended to define the following nouns. Moron is unprovable. I do not think much of what people on the left think and advocate on anything related to government, politics, or some cultural issues, but no moron would advocate as they do, just as no moron would be troubled to take part in a political demonstration, out of anger with governmental malfeasance, misfeasance, and nonfeasance. I believe “teabaggers” refers to some sexual practice with which some on the left may be familiar, but i doubt that as much as one demonstrator did.

A crossword puzzle answer in the New York Times of Sunday, 6 December had “liberal-minded” as the answer to a clue about someone tolerant of others’ views. That is demonstrably false. Roxsteady’s insults demonstrate the falseness. Why are so many liberals so unaware of their faults? Why do not see that they have come to resemble others who have supported government power to subjugate private citizens and tell them what they can and cannot do and say?

The Democrats’ schemes to ruin health care in this country include carving billions out of Medicare coverage. Either they will not do that, out of fear of having a block of votes from people aged 65 and more go to Republicans in elections, and thus force higher taxes to pay for their venture, or they will do that, and people like me will be denied needed medical care. I am 75 years old and have several serious cardiac problems; I was pulled out of an H1N1 vaccine line because I was older than 64, a likely foretaste of what the Democrats will do. Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a member of this Administration, has called for a reduction in “chances” for care among the elderly. Did his thinking influence the CDC? One has to ask that question.

The President railed yesterday about companies “arbitrarily” raising prices, though their costs surely will bloat, because of government diktat, but has no problem with people paying taxes four years before an alleged benefit will be provided. Yet he has no problem with Democrats front-loading financing for four years in anticipation of increased costs. One wonders whether anyone else will see the unreason in his argument.

Perhaps some on the left may have good intentions, wanting to provide and finance care for many who currently are ill-served. But good intentions do not justify bad methods: a good end does not justify bad means. The Democrats have entered the china shop and seek to fix chipped pieces with hammers and clubs.

Alfred J. Lemire says:

I should have written that “guntoteing” was intended to modify the following nouns, though define’s close.

Ginko [should be ginkgo] provides a fascinating account. However, it is otherworldly, i.e., ginko biloba described a reality other than the one that Americans have had to deal with and presently have to confront. E.g., when George W. Bush was President, Democrats strongly opposed his attempt to improve the wealth of Social Security’s contributors by allowing contributors to devote a portion of their contributions to equity investments. The proposal was never effectively argued, a major defect of Mr. Bush’s initiatives, domestic and foreign, nor did anyone effectively describe rules preventing people from investing in riskier equity packages.

Strenuous Democrat objections to the free market and private enterprise further prevented Republican market-oriented reforms in the provision and financing of health care. Again, however, Mr. Bush and other Republicans ought to have articulated their proposals and let the Democrats be tied to oppressive, inefficient, and costly government solutions, akin to the appalling monstrosity that ignorant fanatics like President Obama hail. The legislation will, among other bad results, increase the number of government workers and thereby boost slavish pro-Democrat vote totals. Why no one mentions that adverse result escapes this writer’s understanding.

Democrats demonstrate a total disregard for the public interest, if by public one means the citizens and residents of the United States of America. Perhaps some writers mistake pubic for public; Democrats do support the pubic interests of Americans.

People are not ready to take up arms against each other, but in my 75 years, I have never seen the political parties further apart.