Shut the hell up, Stupid Tea Party.

Today is Palm Sunday. Today is also the day that our Representatives vote on Healthcare Reform. It has been said that most of our Representatives don't know what is in the Healthcare bill. And that is scary. But what we have now is also scary.

I have a cousin who is diabetic. He's young. He has a family. In this economy, he can't get a job. Because he has a pre-existing condition, he can't get health insurance, either.

Which is wrong.

But, get this.

Even if you have health insurance, a clerk being paid minimum wage can over ride a doctor's order and decline payment for a procedure that a doctor deems necessary. AND THEN that clerk will probably get paid a bonus to do so. Which makes sense because they are saving the company money in the long run. A company that has seen record profits in recent years. Thanks in no small part to the lobbyists that are sitting in our Representatives' pockets.

Our Health Care system is broken.

A woman finally mustered up the courage to leave her abusive husband. The final straw came when he beat the crap out of her in front of her daughter and sent her to the hospital. She started piecing her life back together, got an apartment, got a job and was denied health insurance at her new job. Why? Because "domestic violence" is counted as a pre-existing condition. That is wrong.

When a girl dies because a health insurance company decides it is too expensive to give her a liver transplant (and then the execs are given bonuses and raises) that is wrong.

When the bottom line of a company's profit margin takes precedence over my family's health...that is wrong. And it needs to be fixed.

Over the last few months, the Tea Party Movement has made headlines. They are supposed to be a non partisan activist group. The largely middle age white group (not that they shouldn't have a voice, I'm just pointing out they it's not an incredibly diverse group and there is an uncanny resemblance to the right wing of the Senate). Today, they lost any credibility they had (they sort of lost that when they had Sarah Palin has a keynote speaker, but I digress.)

These Christian Patriots (as they call themselves) felt it would be Christ-like to call Democratic legislators "niggers", "faggots" and actually spit at them. How is that progress? They don't like the bill that is being passed so they resort to name calling and insults. Nice.

Here's the thing in America that people don't like when it doesn't pertain to them (me included). Majority rules. That is the beautiful thing about a Democracy. It's supposed to be of the people, by the people and for the people. So if you're going to insult the Representatives that are voting for the millions of people that are literally one hospital visit away from financial ruin. How about this:

I know you are but what am I? Or my all time favorite: I'm rubber, you're glue. Whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks on to you. (Which really means the shit that spews forth out of your mouth says more about your character than the situation at hand.)