The Washington Post is writing about it today, but I wrote about the tendency of the Republican Party to place themselves and the rest of us under HIGHLY likely Darwinian consequences MONTHS ago (for those readers who are new to The Gun Toting Liberal™ — WELCOME, by the way)…

First, from The WaPo’s Christopher Lee and Marc Kaufman this morning (link provided above), to be followed by a “snippet” or two from my own piece from this February entitled “President Bush’s “healthcare plans” and Katrina ignorance fully demonstrate how Darwinism places the GOP at the bottom of the evolutionary scale“, then, YOU, the READER, can make your OWN determinations as to whether or not I’d gotten it correct:

Bush Aide Blocked Report
Global Health Draft In 2006 Rejected for Not Being Political

A surgeon general’s report in 2006 that called on Americans to help tackle global health problems has been kept from the public by a Bush political appointee without any background or expertise in medicine or public health, chiefly because the report did not promote the administration’s policy accomplishments, according to current and former public health officials.

The report described the link between poverty and poor health, urged the U.S. government to help combat widespread diseases as a key aim of its foreign policy, and called on corporations to help improve health conditions in the countries where they operate. A copy of the report was obtained by The Washington Post.

Three people directly involved in its preparation said its publication was blocked by William R. Steiger, a specialist in education and a scholar of Latin American history whose family has long ties to President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Since 2001, Steiger has run the Office of Global Health Affairs in the Department of Health and Human Services.

Richard H. Carmona, who commissioned the “Call to Action on Global Health” while serving as surgeon general from 2002 to 2006, recently cited its suppression as an example of the Bush administration’s frequent efforts during his tenure to give scientific documents a political twist. …”

(Snip!)

“… The draft report itself, in language linking public health problems with violence and other social ills, says “we cannot overstate . . . that problems in remote parts of the globe can no longer be ignored. Diseases that Americans once read about as affecting people in regions . . . most of us would never visit are now capable of reaching us directly. The hunger, disease, and death resulting from poor food and nutrition create social and political instability . . . and that instability may spread to other nations as people migrate to survive.”

In 65 pages, the report charts trends in infectious and chronic disease; reviews efforts to curb AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria; calls for the careful monitoring of public health to safeguard against bioterrorism; and explains the importance of proper nutrition, childhood immunizations and clean air and water, among other topics. Its underlying message is that disease and suffering do not respect political boundaries in an era of globalization and mass population movements. …”

(Snip!)

“… The report calls on the administration to consider spending more money on global health improvement, for instance. And it warns that “the environmental conditions that poison our water and contaminate our air are not contained within national boundaries. . . . The use of pesticides is also of concern to health officials, scientists and government leaders around the world.” …”

Okay. So. The Bush Administration reads the report and says “NOPE! We’re not going to release this, because, regardless of the fact we are not educated in these fields, or qualified to make any sound judgements on this report, the results make the GOP look bad and we can’t have any of that ‘bidness’ going on.”

And here’s what I said nearly a half a year ago about the Bush Administration’s policy on national health:

“… “Darwin claimed survival of the fittest, so how can the wealthy perish when we have the meek, and uninsured lurking amongst us?”

Glad you asked, and glad to educate. President Bush and his neoconservative buddies are finally beginning to cave in on the healthcare issue. The first “cave in” was when the President introduced “Health Saving Accounts”, a BRILLIANT plan which would encourage those who needed healthcare the most to save their money — money they didn’t have at their disposal, of course. Now, the President is urging Congress to raise taxes PLUS encourage those who can’t afford to pay attention to save yet more money they have ZERO access to in case they might become incapacitated.

“The poor can always go to emergency rooms if they’re that sick; get treated; no followup appointments; stick the ER’s with the bills; raise the costs of ER visits for the rest of us; no realistic relief available to them for Federal Bankruptcy protection. Sooner or later, they’ll grow tired of it and start saving money.” — this is the “solution” to the national healthcare CRISIS which places 47 MILLION Americans in this position… and the President is hoping a bunch of Democrats on Capitol Hill will buy into it. Yeah. Right.

Needless to say to anybody with a half a brain, this isn’t going to help one bit. Sorry to say, it’s just not going to work. It never has. This has been the so-called “solution” for decades and we STILL have a “problem”. It hasn’t gone away. It is not GOING to go away. (/speaking to children mode)

Folks, this is where Darwin’s theory enters into the equation. So far, the wealthy GOP’ers in our country have been making out okay in the evolutionary chain. They’ve largely survived while the “weak” amongst us continue to perish, just as Darwin had explained would happen. The problem is, the right doesn’t realize their “love of money” as being the HUGE “weakness” that it truly is, even though “God-duh” (/Limbaugh mode) Himself has warned them and warned them time and time again, that the “love of money” would “de-evolve” them in a New York minute.

They’re all comfy with themselves; they’ve got their money in the bank, they know their family doctors by name; all is good; to the rest — let them eat cake. Meanwhile, FORTY SEVEN MILLION Americans are running around, catching disease, spreading disease around, and the most severe conditions are mostly being caught in the ER’s of our country.

Sooner or later though, the suicidal right is going to learn the hard way, while taking many of us innocent bystanders along with them, that both “God-duh” and Darwin meant them, TOO, when he was talking about the “fittest versus the weakest”. The truthfulness of this fact will become more glarlingly apparent when they themselves begin to fall victim to a deadly disease with no cure due to lack of prevention and an evolved version of it winding its way into their OWN homes one day in the not-so-far off future. SNUFF!!! …”

(Snip!)

“… The way it REALLY works is, New Orleans is a FEMA trailer city… STILL. People are stacked on top of each other; ten, or fifteen to a three bedroom house. The air is often foul, and poisons are running into the soil and into our water table. Meanwhile, the greedy and wealthy right wing neoconservatives who have implemented the horrid, anti-Katrina policies believe they have this problem effectively “contained”, and it is safely tucked into a five hundred square mile area, far, far away from their homes and families. Here we go again — BZZTT!!!

For their love of money, they will pay, and pay DEARLY. Meanwhile, the so-called “weak”; the “victims” of this greed; are learning to survive the best they can with the crap they’ve been dealt. They’re growing more and more immune to the poisoned air and water; that same poisoned air and water that WILL make its way someday to Washington D.C., Washington State, and many points in between, and through the hallowed doors of the wealthy, greedy bastards who refused to take care of the “weakest” amongst us when they COULD have. …”

This was actually a very long post, and a very good one if I have to say so myself. The “snippets” above are only samples from an anti-GOP tirade I found myself on over the Katrina debacle, which is 100% alive and well today despite what some people with their heads in the sand may choose to believe. Click HERE to read it in its entirety if you haven’t already done so, because it contains my rebuttal to today’s “breaking news” out of the White House, and just what we can expect should we continue to allow Republican extremists to lead our country. I will stop just short of calling it an “educational masterpiece”.

While partisan Democrats present their own tremendous dangers to our society via their (so called) Liberal nanny state assaults upon our Constitutional civil liberties, it is the partisan neoconservative Republicans who are actively sending Americans to their death beds before our very eyes at this time…

Which is exactly why THEY must go first. They are our “weakest link”.

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