On our way to hell.

The health care reform bill in the U.S. Senate is fast becoming laughable. It's been so diluted to please opponents. So that it's no longer reform. It's the same old same old. Playing right into the hands of the private insurance industry. This bill will allow private insurers to continue to make exorbitant profits. To screw the public. In true American capitalist fashion. Our senate has been bribed. By the big-money interests. It's a sell-out. A dirty rotten shame. Our senators don't represent us. Instead, they represent the people who finance their campaigns. They're all shills. With Joe Lieberman leading the pack. Democrats may still get a severely watered-down bill passed. But a bill so weakened that it might as well fail. I'd do as Democratic national committee chairman Howard Dean advocates. Scrap the whole damn thing. And start over. And Democrats had better recognize that Republicans won't cooperate. That the GOP is out to sabotage any and all change. It's a deplorable situation. A shame on the USA. Yes, we have a gawd-awful government. But it's probably what we deserve. Because we don't have the guts to take to the streets and ignite a progressive revolution. We just sit on our fat asses and do virtually nothing. Next thing we know, it'll be Sarah Palin and the lunatic fringe of the Republican Party that seizes power. And that'll be the wrong kind of revolution. Then it'll become official. America will have gone to hell. --Jim Broede