Night Fevers.... Obama's speech for the joint houses.

Was up late.... had one of my ashtma days... and then slept a few hours. And had a nightmare. It was totally odd, and I still have no idea where some of THAT came from...

So I woke up in a cold sweat, and turned on the interwebs, as it was 3 a.m., and thought, 'Ok, how did the speech go?'

It was already out there. So I watched. And wasn't so impressed. His speech two days before had more fire and conviction, and seemingly was a test run for last night's fun-fest.

Which gave me hot sweats... because... I have never seen members of Congress and an opposition act so childishly, rudely, and insultingly than the Republicans did last night to a president of the US, can't remember anything like it.

I would like to give an Oscar to Johann Boehner for being really sucky. (His family name is German, and the oe in it is prononced Ö which sounds almost like the word boner in English, so I call him the sun-tanned dick.) Runner-up for hypocrisy was Mitch McConnel, 'turtle man'. Fawning all over him when he entered the chamber, and then sitting on his hands. Orrin Hatch wins runner-up for playing 'conscience-stricken',but at least he looked like his conscience was bothering him. And special kudos to Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina for thinking he was in a town hall meeting and called Obama a liar, yelling.

(After Mark Sanford going Argentinian, and his lt. gov. Andre Bauer being outed... what the hell is going on in that state, I ask you? If the Rethugs there keep it up, they will be outta there... of their own doings... Meanwhile, That is one place I never want to visit....)

Wilson apologised for his outburst three hours later. (I can imagine he got some heat for that.) But it was a non-apology. He knew what he was doing, everyone got copies of the speech before they attended, as Keith Olberman on Coundown pointed out.

As to the content... have been going on long enough comparing what single-payer is, and so on and so forth for quite a while now. The way things look to me at the moment, that speech just wasn't enough, and gross misuse will be continued to be the burden on the back of the American taxpayer in order for health insurance companies and pharmaceutical combines to accrue tremendous profits at their expense, and break them.

I was angered at this pathetic attempt on Obama's part to want to reach out to hands that are biting him while holding big knives behind their backs, figuratively speaking. How MUCH is it going to take for him to realise that he can't go on like that? When is he going to face the fact that 20 per cent of the population will never accept anything he does because of who he is, and will stoop to any lie to defame him?

The disrespect shown was appalling. And at base, racist. At base...

And the media? To barf over.

All that I could think of was a 1972 song... Back Stabbers. The refrain fits. Sorry I couldn't find a better quality one.... Some people would stoop to anything to retain power....