Posted by
Corthell on Friday, November 20, 2009 4:31:42 PM
''Why are privately owned homes cared for and public housing trashed? Why do government-controlled forests burn each year at tremendous costs to the people and property they abut, while privately managed forests are spared? Why did crops rot in the collective farms run by the old Soviet communist system, but not in capitalist, commercial farms?''
Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid is advancing on the country with an $848 billion health-care bill in hand, which he hopes to bring to the Senate floor before he and cohorts go on holiday.
Yet the swiftest arrow in the Republican punditocracy's Obamacare quiver remains this:
If the government can't pull off the Cash For Clunkers scam, how will it handle health care?
Or this:
If government can't manage the gallery of the grotesque – Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security – how will it run a sixth of the economy?
When all else fails to persuade, they galvanize the argument from Hitler. Taking their cues from Rush Limbaugh, it is not uncommon for Republican commentators to pair B. Hussein's health care with Hitler's hobby horses: smoking bans, abortions, euthanasia and eugenics.
Statism's illogic exposed for all to see in F.A. Hayek's "The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism"
Hitler and the mismanagement by government of Medicare and Medicaid (but not of the military) – this is the Republican commentariat's repertoire of riffs.
Anything but First Principles, with which the GOP has an oil-and-water relationship.
Republicans are clearly more exhausted than engaged. The same goes for the targets of their message. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=116597