Joe Sonka November 19th, 2007

(crossposted at BlueGrassRoots and DailyKos)

I was just finished watching SiCKO at home last night, when I opened my email to find this story on Mitch’s speech to the Federalist Society. Here’s a line from the speech:

“The Senate is the place where legislation goes to die, and some would say you’re looking at the grim reaper,” he said to strong applause.

Yes, you read that correctly.

We live in a country where 18,000 people die every year simply because they do not have health insurance. Mitch McConnell and George W. Bush take great pride in the fact that they shot down the expansion of SCHIP to 10 million uninsured kids in America. Because that would be socialized medicine.

We have lost almost 4000 American soldiers in Iraq. A war that Bush and McConnell started by choice. A war that Mitch McConnell has blindly rubber stamped for over 4 years. Who knows how many more we’ll lose. But Mitch continues to block legislation to change course in Iraq. Because the terrorists will follow us home.

At least 430 veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan have committed suicide. In 2006 alone, over 900 tried to kill themselves. Mitch McConnell takes great pleasure in leading the 2 filibusters of Sen. Jim Webb’s amendments to restore proper troops rotations, giving the terribly strained troops an equal amount of time home with their families as they do in Iraq. But Mitch continues to block such legislation. Because that would be admitting defeat and surrendering to the Islamofascits.

Over 75,000 Iraq civilians have lost their life. 75,000. Because Sadam was making chemical and nuclear weapons, and we couldn’t let the smoking gun be in the shape of a mushroom cloud.

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I made a vow after I read that quote last night. I will devote every last second, every last amount of energy I have, every last drop of my blood, my very last breath, to making sure that Mitch McConnell does not serve another term in the US Senate.

Who’s with me?

• Health Care , Iraq War , Mitch McConnell , SCHIP , SiCKO
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