Christian Leftist

Lou Dobbs has been hitting the crack pipe again.

“Isn’t the church all about saving souls? … We already have enough fools running around with their social programs, social engineering…”

Um, Lou? It’s called SOCIAL JUSTICE. You know — feeding the poor, healing the sick, fighting for the oppressed, like a certain Nazarene carpenter did.

Just because not all of us buy into every piece of jingoistic claptrap that spews from your mouth doesn’t mean that churches apart from the fundamentalist, bigoted, close-minded, gossiping congregations don’t exist.

Just for tonights extra-special hothead diatribe, I’m going to give you a present. Not, it’s not a cookie. It’s your own sub-category. Now whenever you say something stupid, you’ll be able to look it up under ‘national media,’ and it will be right there! Isn’t that special?

In the meantime, please refrain from speculating on people’s motives for believing in God. Mine are clearly not the same as yours. Kthnxbai.

The choice seems pretty obvious to me, but we all know what Bush does when a vast majority of Americans voice their opposition to his decisions: whatever the hell he wants. The Senate has enough votes to override his veto, but the House doesn’t, so the Democratic leadership has pushed back the deadline for an override for two weeks while they try to scrape together 15 more votes from Republicans. Good luck with that.

The only reason we have out of control spending is because the Bush administration spends it on ALL OF THE WRONG PROGRAMS. It is a sham and a travesty that we are the only developed country ON EARTH that doesn’t have government-funded national health care. Yes, Mr. Bush, these children are uninsured, even if they’re middle class citizens. Private health care is too expensive.

No, I don’t think that asking the nation to pay for everyone’s health care costs is a bad idea. We make taxpayers inhale the foul air of smokers, poison ourselves with pollution from selfish suburban families with inefficient SUVs, and pay for bombs and bullets in the Middle East. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect something back.

Reuters covers the Bush veto on health care