a bad moon on the rise
Mr. Grassley, who is facing the possibility of a Republican primary challenge next year, has gotten an earful in traveling around his home state. At one gathering last week, in a city park in the central Iowa town of Adel, a man rose from the crowd and urged him to “stand up and fight” the Democratic plans. If he does not, the man yelled, “we will vote you out!” http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/health/policy/19repubs.html?_r=1&hp Is healthcare reform going to be what finally completely divides this country? It seems 9-11 and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were just the start of the real in-fighting between progressives and conservatives in this country. The wars are still ongoing and have fallen out of the news a bit, but domestic issues are truly turning the country against itself. Now we have republican constituents so disillusioned about healthcare reform that they are actually threatening to “not vote” for their leaders if reform passes. You also have progressives saying the...