The House Republicans’ Ghoulish Defunding Rally [View all]

There was something ghoulish about the rally that House Republicans held today in the Rayburn Room after they voted to defund health care reform. The party atmosphere was so boisterous, the cheers and laughter so loud, that it was easy to forget everyone in the room had just voted to keep tens of millions of people from getting health insurance.

By keeping spending at its current levels through mid-December, they had also voted to continue the sequester, which is preventing millions of people from getting public housing subsidies, Head Start seats, and unemployment benefits. The sequester is also taking a serious toll on scientific research and investment in infrastructure, not to mention its infuriating drag on employment and the economic recovery. How about another round of applause?

This shouldn’t come as a surprise, of course, from a House that had voted the previous day to cut food stamps for 3.8 million low-income people, including many very young and very old recipients. But at least they didn’t have a party to celebrate that vote.

Today, though, everyone was in a great mood.

“When we acted, it wasn’t just a group of Republicans, but it was a bipartisan vote,” said Kevin McCarthy, the Majority Whip. (O.K., fine. Two Democrats voted for it, and 188 voted against.) “Let me state that again because I want to make sure you write it correctly. [Huge laughter.] It was a bipartisan vote because we’re Americans first! [Cheers, applause.]”

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I can't tell you loudly or strongly enough, how their joking, dismissive attitude offends me.

“Let me state that again because I want to make sure you write it correctly. [Huge laughter.] It was a bipartisan vote because we’re Americans first! [Cheers, applause.]”

You are Americans first!? Seriously? Your America? I want no part of that. You are elected officials to this nation, yet you laugh and slap yourselves on the back as you try to deny Americans a way to affordable health care. You! All of you that have a Cadillac Health Plan, paid for by the very people you wish to deny benefits. You have yours so screw the people! Yea, you are so American!

You vote to de-fund food stamp benefits to those suffering from hunger. The very people that you placed in this position from you ill gotten wars that you placed on a credit card. Who crashed the economy? That would be you guys, your policies and that of you beloved President Bush. Who are the real takers? That would be you.

You built this and you damn well own it. You have become an festering boil on the ass of this country.
May God forgive you, because I never will.