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WOULD HE HAVE RECEIVED MILLIONS MORE VOTES FROM THE WHITE CONVERSATIVES WHO ARE UNKNOWINGLY RACIST?  WOULD THERE BE ANYONE DOUBTING HIS PLACE OF BIRTH?  WOULDN’T HEALTHCARE REFORM HAVE BEEN APPROVED THIS WEEK?-mackie

Posted on Jul 28, 2009

By Eugene Robinson

    If race were the only issue, there would be much less hyperventilation about Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.‘s unpleasant run-in with the criminal justice system. After all, it would hardly be the first time a black man had unjustly been hauled to jail by a white police officer. The debate—really more of a shouting match—is also about power and entitlement.

    This is a new twist. Since the triumph of the civil rights movement, minorities have been moving up the ladder in politics, business, academia, just about every field. Only in the past decade, however, has a sizable cohort of African-Americans and Latinos broken through to the tiny upper echelons where real power is exercised.

    I’m talking about President Obama, obviously, but also Citigroup Chairman Richard Parsons, entertainment mogul Oprah Winfrey, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor and many others—a growing number of minorities with the kind of serious power that used to be reserved for whites only. In academia, the list begins with “Skip” Gates.

    He’s a superstar, one of the best-known and most highly acclaimed faculty members at the nation’s most prestigious university. A few years ago, when he made noises about leaving, Harvard moved heaven and earth to keep him. The incident that led to his arrest occurred as he was coming home from the airport after a trip to China for his latest PBS documentary. Following the traumatic encounter, he repaired to Martha’s Vineyard to recuperate. This is how the man rolls.

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NOT ONLY IS GOP QUOTING MISLEADING NUMBERS FROM A POLLING CO. THAT IS FUNDED BY UNITEDHEALTHCARE (one of the most corrupt in the insurance industry) WHICH ALSO FUNDS THE GOP,  THE GOP IS CALLING THESE #S AS CREDIBLE AND FAIR AND BALANCED.

George Voinovich is retiring from Congress next year, and I guess that means he can feel free to let a few things slip out. In this clip from CNBC, he admits what we’ve known all along – that opposition to the President is driving opposition to health care reform. Republicans know that if a Democratic President expands access to health care more than any time since Medicare, and lowers individual costs for most people, he will reap rewards. So their strategy, as revealed previously by internal memos and Jim “Waterloo” DeMint, is to obstruct reform to deny the President a “win”, thusly turning the uninsured and the poor into pawns in a political game.

Most of Voinovich’s remarks are of the fiscal scold variety, claiming that we cannot afford the cost of government (something I forget hearing from Voinovich when he voted to authorize a war in Iraq that cost three trillion dollars), but here’s the key moment at around 4:25:

QUESTIONER: …on health care, how much of this disagreement with the Administration is about the policy of health care and how to fix it, and how much of it is Republicans’ obvious and understandable desire to declaw the President politically? How much of that does fit into the equation.

VOINOVICH: I think it’s about 50/50, but I will tell you this…

He then claims that some Republicans want to work “on a bipartisan basis” on health care, but that’s pretty much the death knell right there.

Democrats are right to jump all over this and expose the GOP as obstructionists. We’ve known this for some time with the record number of filibusters, but haven’t gotten it out to the public. On a high-profile issue like health care, it should be radioactive to obstruct for political reasons and deny millions of people the right to have quality, affordable care.

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