The Tea Party rally at the US Capitol yesterday not only showed how looney these Republicans and conservatives are regarding the IRS, as this author commented on yesterday.
It also demonstrated the true hate and racism of those who gathered toward Florida Senator Marco Rubio, a Cuban American, who is trying to bring about an immigration reform bill, with no help from fellow Cuban American Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, who is out to destroy Rubio and make himself the GOP nominee in 2016, by hook or by crook, with emphasis on “crook’, as Cruz is the new Joseph McCarthy in many forms!
Rubio’s name was booed by the crowd, and the love affair that Rubio thought he had with the Tea Party when they helped elected him to the Senate in 2010 is clearly over!
Rubio needs to repudiate these hateful, poisonous characters and liberate himself, or else he will be consumed by their negativism, and he must denounce Allen West, former Florida Congressman and mentally ill wing nut, who now threatens to run against him in the GOP Senate primary of 2016!
A cancer such as West must be clearly excised by Rubio, and in so doing rhetorically, he will keep his dignity and his possible future in a cleansed Republican Party!
So you either agree with Rubio on this or you are a hateful racist? Where is the logic in that? Thanks Ron, I am a hateful racist according to you. Furthermore, as a cancer survivor and also as one whose father passed away due to cancer, I find it very distasteful, heartless, insensitive and hateful to call someone, Allen West, a cancer just because he doesn’t agree with the left. Just look at how hateful you are; a “cancer” that must be “excised”? Seriously? And I am supposed to be the hateful racist? May God have pity on your soul Ron.
Excellent post Professor!
Juan, you should be on the stage acting, as you are overly dramatic!
I am sorry that you had cancer, glad you recovered from it, and sorry that your dad died of cancer. I had a quadruple bypass nine years ago, and survived it.
So both you and I, while fortunate to have good health care insurance, should be supporting adequate health care for ALL in America, illegal immigrants included, and yet you are against national health care for all. I guess if others die of cancer or heart disease for lack of health care coverage, that is God’s way to punish those who are illegal or not successful, heh? May God have pity on your soul, Juan!
And I have NOT termed you a hateful racist, Juan! You have done that yourself!
Well I’m glad you recovered from the quadruple bypass. Quadruple! That must have been something. Anyway I would like to clarify that I didn’t have health insurance, I was living in Argentina at the time 22 yrs ago. There they have a “free” public health care system. The problem was I had to wait about 9 month to a year to be operated on. Fortunately I was able to pay a private Hospital and see a private doctor and I was operated within a week from discovering my condition. Then a month later I began with light radiation treatment for a month, and fortunately after 5 years of controls with included c-scans every 6 months then once a year, I was cleared. Of course those c-scans were practically impossible in the public hospitals due to the wait and the constant break down of the machine. That’s what happens when the government takes over a substantial part of the healthcare system, the majority of the working people, and the poor are stuck in the public system and those lucky few can go private. It’s not like in the US where so far the low income workers with employer provided health coverage can go to a good private hospital and have his private room and be treated like a King, of course always in comparison with countries that have a government run healthcare system.So when we begin to suffer the longer wait to see a doctor and treated only those who can pay with money up front will go to the front of the line. The rest of us mortals, even with health insurance will have to wait more or be rationed if you are over a certain age and if your useful life does not meet the minimum government criteria. And I feel pity for those who will get the government provided insurance at the exchanges because they will wait even more. And to top it off, all at higher premium! Way to go!
Juan, I had never had any health issues, and then seemed to have “indigestion” and did nothing for a month, then went for my annual physical, thank God, and mentioned it, and the doctor said have a stress test, but he was sure nothing was wrong. I had the stress test, and was told I needed an angioplasty, but then they discovered four blockages, almost one hundred percent clogged, and said IF I had not gone to the doctor, and had the stress test, I was a walking time bomb who would have died suddenly within a month, of a sudden myocardial infarction, or heart attack. I did not have a heart attack, nipped it in the bud, but was totally shocked, and my stubbornness made me say to myself, NO WAY am I checking out, as I have not lived yet, and have two sons to live for!
Since then, I have traveled extensively in the US and Canada, particularly to Presidential sites and major urban centers, as that is my passion! This year, I have already visited Bill Clinton site in Little Rock, Arkansas, and will visit Gerald Ford site in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and the FDR site in Hyde Park, NY, where I did research for my Ph. D. dissertation/book on the New Deal way back in 1970, so it is like a homecoming after 43 years
I have no intention of leaving this world anytime soon, and have told students I hope there is CNN, the NY TIMES, and the WASHINGTON POST in heaven, as I will want to know who wins each Presidential election for the long term future, and the battles in Congress! LOL hahaha
And you will notice I am not partisan about Presidential sites, as I am visiting the Ford site, and have plans in the future when in Los Angeles metropolitan area to visit the Nixon and Reagan sites!
Wow, what a story. You were really fortunate and I’m glad your story had a happy ending. Those limit situations really makes us put everything in perspective. It’s good you enjoy your life passion visiting those Presidential sites and being with your family. Coincidentally I always wanted to do that, ever since I was in Argentina. I would go to the American library in Buenos Aires, the Lincoln Center, and read all about the Presidents, way back in the 80’s and 90’s. Now I plan to visit them with my wife someday.
Juan, isn’t it nice when we can be friendly, and not confrontational? 🙂 It could get to be a habit! Thanks for your good wishes! 🙂