Friday Fish Wrap: August 21, 2009

If there is any sure takeaway message for the week, it’s this: Obama needs to understand once and for all time that the Republican party just isn’t that into him. They don’t want to play bipartisan any more than they want to date Fidel Castro. Well, perhaps we should excude Larry Craig from this. But, really, can Obama get over this?

Any hope of gaining bipartisan support for the health care reform bills circulating through Congress lies only in guaranteeing the right wingnuts that the current bills are actually ‘secret code’ for the complete abolishment of Medicare, Medicaid and the privatization of Social Security. With that kinda reform, Grasshole and his buddies will be all over it.

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