The New Insanity

The Republicans in the House of Representatives have voted, by my count, 41 times to repeal, replace, defund or otherwise rid our country of a dreaded plague, destined to crash our economy, called the Patient Protection and Affordability Care Act, un-popularly and un-fondly known as Obamacare.

Einstein is credited with the verse: the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result. And the Republicans are blinded by the insanity, at this juncture, to think it would be overturned. How can it? They would need 67 votes in the Senate to have a shot of overriding President Obama's assured veto of the defund vote of his signature piece of legislation. Presently, they don't.

But, I found a better definition of insanity on Sunday, innocuously sent by an old friend, via an email cartoon.

It's amazing where the inspiration to write a commentary can come from, when one pours over the papers, the Internet and stares for hours on end at the TV news, to find an interesting and new topic.

But I digress, as is my want.

Anyway, another definition of insanity is as follows: fathom the hypocrisy of a government to require that every citizen  prove they have insurance, but not everyone has to prove they are a citizen. And now, if anyone refuses, or is unable, to prove they are citizens, they will have insurance provided for free by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens.

And the great philosopher who said that was none other than the some-time actor and great economist, Ben Stein. Can you say, "Bueller?"

That is pegging the health insurance, not health care, issue to its basic core: if u want it, here it is, come and get it, but you better hurry because its going fast. Everyone who pushed for it in 2009, and followed the President on this issue, the unions, the teachers, big businesses, and now even the Congress and the President himself, are exempted from the horror of this insanity.