10.14.07
Whatever happened to “compassionate conservatism”?
Yes, indeed. Remember back during the first election campaign for Dubya, when the Repubs were trying to prove that they could be at least as compassionate as Democrats, but more effectively so?
What happened to the ‘passion’ about their ‘compassion’? Was it never there at all? What I see is lies, vitriol, and death threats against children who have the audacity to recover from life-threatening injuries with the help of a government program intended to provide health insurance to children of working people who do not have employer-provided insurance.
And now the White House has come out in support of the blog that started this and still leads the way. Clearly they have no shame – not that George Bush has ever shown any sense of shame for any of the misdeeds of his life – but really, don’t they realize that the mere fact of trying to cement their relationship with hate-mongers on the right will drive away further the majority, which supports this program?
The only thing I can make of it is that they’ve convinced themselves that the parents decided to have an accident permanently disabling their children simply in order to collect benefits. I’ve always said that when a person imagines such a bizarre thing of someone else, it can only be that they have seriously considered something like that in their own heart.
Graeme Frost should be flattered and mortified that the President has decided he is an opponent and an equal. It says something about the mental age of our own dear Dubya, dropping all the time.
That brain damage from his years of drug and alcohol abuse—compounded with the anoxic episode with the pretzel—is clearly leading into a death spiral of idiocy.
No, it doesn’t make sense to make people with massive medical bills become homeless paupers to pay for only some of their massive medical expenses. Not only that, I’m sure that neocon crackpot pundits would be the first to claim that homeless people don’t deserve health care. If they did, they’d have jobs as neocon crackpot pundits, now wouldn’t they?
Of course, none of these have watched Sicko. It helps to be blissfully unaware that their own coverage is shot full of holes, and private insurance would probably deny all those same claims if such befell their own families.
