Random Thoughts

Is it acceptable to holler “YOU LIE” at the President of the United States during a joint session of Congress?  No folks, it is not.  Not shouting like a jackass at people in the middle of their speech, especially when they’re the President, is simply part of being raised properly.

There’s a significant group that has discovered you can make fistfuls of cash by marketing outrage as a from of entertainment (read: Fox “News”).  These people, for the sake of padding their bank accounts, have chosen to identify themselves as Republicans and play on some very justified conservative disillusionment.  We should not make the mistake of believing that they have they best interest of this country at heart, and we certainly should not copy their behavior and bring it to our nation’s capital.

If the current health care plan passes it will have a significant negative impact, especially in the area of health care innovation.  We should not, however, make the mistake of believing that the significant portion of the country that is passionately advocating such are proposal is doing so in anything other than good faith.

I’ll close with a quote by C. S. Lewis from Mere Christianity:

Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that something turns up suggesting that the story might not be quite true, or not quite so bad as it was made out. Is one’s first feeling, ‘Thank God, even they aren’t quite so bad as that,’ or is it a feeling of disappointment, and even a determination to cling to the first story for the sheer pleasure of thinking your enemies are as bad as possible? If it is the second then it is, I am afraid, the first step in a process which, if followed to the end, will make us into devils.