I remember in High School we were
required to read Animal Farm by George Orwell.
I have to be honest, I never
understood why......it seemed like such a waste of a young teenagers’ time.
Tonight it all made sense......
As I was watching the news and on
every channel the Republican Pundits were all calling the repeal and
replacement of Obamacare a Repair bill.
HUH? I have been hearing them
say repeal..for years, then during the campaign they added replace.
But now that their attempts to
push the 'Replace' bill through on the eve of the anniversary of the Obamacare signing...( a Republican created and sponsored bill that stinks so bad that they cant get enough Republicans to actually vote
for it), they are now bandying around the term 'REPAIR"
"(animal
farm excerpt) It was about this time that the pigs suddenly moved into the
farmhouse and took up their residence there. Again the animals seemed to
remember that a resolution against this had been passed in the early days, and
again Squealer was able to convince them that this was not the case. It was
absolutely necessary, he said, that the pigs, who were the brains of the farm,
should have a quiet place to work in. It was also more suited to the dignity of
the Leader (for of late he had taken to speaking of Napoleon under the title of
"Leader") to live in a house than in a mere sty. Nevertheless, some
of the animals were disturbed when they heard that the pigs not only took their
meals in the kitchen and used the drawing-room as a recreation room, but also slept
in the beds. Boxer passed it off as usual with "Napoleon is always
right!", but Clover, who thought she remembered a definite ruling against
beds, went to the end of the barn and tried to puzzle out the Seven
Commandments which were inscribed there. Finding herself unable to read more
than individual letters, she fetched Muriel.
"Muriel,"
she said, "read me the Fourth Commandment. Does it not say something about
never sleeping in a bed?"
With
some difficulty Muriel spelt it out.
"It
says, 'No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets,'" she announced
finally.
Curiously
enough, Clover had not remembered that the Fourth Commandment mentioned sheets;
but as it was there on the wall, it must have been so.
Sound familiar? Repair bill?
