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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: koan who wrote (518271)10/5/2009 10:17:12 AM
From: i-node4 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 1586861
 
If Republicans think something might be good for the president, they’re against it — whether or not it’s good for America.

Right. Democrats never do this LOL.


The Republican campaign against health care reform, by contrast, has shown no such consistency. For the main G.O.P. line of attack is the claim — based mainly on lies about death panels and so on — that reform will undermine Medicare. And this line of attack is utterly at odds both with the party’s traditions and with what conservatives claim to believe.

This is a false statement. I don't know of ANYONE who has been concerned about it undermining MEDICARE. The concern, as clearly expressed by most on the right, is that the expansion of government's role wrt health care will result in more waste, fraud and inefficiency, AND if a public option is created, it will undermine PRIVATE insurance. Nobody's talking about Medicare being undermined.

WRT Medicare people ARE talking about the fact that Obama said the plan would not cut benefits for any person and at least some of the proposals DO just that by cutting the Medicare Advantage programs.

The key point is that ever since the Reagan years, the Republican Party has been dominated by radicals — ideologues and/or apparatchiks who, at a fundamental level, do not accept anyone else’s right to govern.

Another Krugman lie. The R. party has moved to the left substantially since the Reagan years. You hear much about the "Moral Majority" these days? Hell, the R. candidate last year was one of the most liberal R's in the Senate!!!

Krugman is so FOS he is literally not worth reading, other than to bobble heads who will automatically nod in agreement and march to his orders.
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