People often joke that government-run health care will have the efficiency of the motor vehicle department, and the compassion of the Internal Revenue Service. This joke will become reality if present Democratic health restructuring proposals are enacted.
Under both the House and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee bills released...
Think Progress, the Democratic policy and media-watch group, has come up with an amazing discovery. Sarah Palin was in favor of voluntary, private counseling so that people could put their end-of-life affairs in order, before she was against government bureaucrats getting involved in a mandatory process as part of health care...
Camille Paglia, a supporter of Barack Obama, gets it (emphasis
mine):
As a libertarian and refugee from the authoritarian Roman Catholic church of my youth, I simply do not understand the drift...
FreedomWorks, which had the temerity and meanness of spirit to encourage people to attend town hall meetings, was subjected to an organized attempt to jam its phone lines, much like happened to the Republican National Committee. FreedomWorks has published the audio files of some of the phone calls it received (obligatory...
The notion of August being a time to debate the specifics of the Democratic and Obama health care restructuring plan is something of a misnomer, since there is no single plan. The illusion is being created of a true debate, but in fact we are debating a moving and ill-defined target....
So this is what it comes to. After eight years of protesters hanging George Bush in effigy, calling him a Nazi, disrupting conservative speeches on campuses by taking over stages or throwing pies, creating websites and movies that wished for Bush’s death, and a myriad of other indignities…. After all this...
Barack Obama’s penchant for creating
strawman arguments is trickling down, way down. The argument
now is that since government delivers water to our faucets,
maintains roads, and regulates the electric grid, anyone who
opposes a government take over of our health system
hates modern life:
...
Steve Benen tries to understand just why wingnuts are so angry about health care reform. He doesn’t make bad points, but its...
Sarah Palin has kicked off (another) firestorm
of criticism because of the statement
she released on her Facebook page:
The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out, government health care will not reduce the cost;...
One of the benefits of the current turmoil over health care restructuring is finding hypocrisy in the hyperbole being used against opponents of health care restructuring.
From John Marshall of Talking Points Memo, August 7, 2009:
Most significant here is not the right-wing liars and demagogues making this stuff up but the fact...
New low. The firefighter care is played, as in, people who do not support unsustainable public union contracts which are sinking state and municipal budgets, or who do not support health care restructuring which will sink the federal budget, must <...
“It’s War.”
So screams left-wing blogger Zandar feeding off of the frenzied writings of Washington Post columnist Steven Pearlstein, who declared health care protesters “political terrorists.” To make sure we didn’t miss the point, Z...
Washington Post business hysteria-generating columnist
Steven Pearlstein has
declared that opponents of Democratic health care restructuring
are “political terrorists, willing to say or do anything to prevent
the country from reaching a consensus on one of its most serious
domestic problems.” Oh, okay, next time we’ll be sure to shut
up...
While protests against Democractic plans to restructure the health care system are growing by the day, the campaign to malign such protesters has not caught on at all at the grassroots.
The...
The health care protesters are thugs and a mob and astroturf and terrorists and Birthers and harassers and manufactured and frightening and vicious and “Karl Rove’s wet dream.”
Did I mention a mob, terrorists and astroturf?
UPDATE: Now we know who operates the Victrola (h/t American Power)
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