Liberal Democrat Lies As Talking Points

Yesterday, as I was briefly channel surfing in the early afternoon, I came across one of those local access political interview programs.

Being New Jersey-centered, it had the hallmarks of a small-time affair. Among the pundits was an impossibly young woman who was representing the liberal Democratic position.

Although it was ostensibly a local political venue, the topic seemed to be national health care. One of the hosts was asking the young liberal woman what was going to happen with the health care bill now, and the guest dutifully assured the hostess that the House would now pass the Senate's bill, as is.

What came next from her mouth, however, was something for which I was totally unprepared. Two outright lies.

The Democrat's carefully worded remarks were, to paraphrase,

'We have to fix health care, because it's 16% of the economy. And we have to fix the economy, so, because health care is a big part of it, the economy won't be fixed until we fix health care.

And health care is all intertwined. So it can't be solved in small steps. It has to be one big bill, because it's so complex.'

These are two incredibly huge lies. But it shows you how determined the liberal Democrats in Washington are to have their party march in lockstep, even down to some piss ant 20-something liberal Democratic 'strategist' on a local NJ cable political hour.

First, government isn't, and can't, "fix" the economy. This pretty young thing's head is evidently all messed up on how a market economy actually works.

The US economy isn't "broken." It's been in a recession, which is a naturally-occurring phase of any market economy. And if "fixing" the economy involves, to judge by Wonderboy's actions, owning the domestic auto industry and handing it to the UAW, I don't think we need any more of that sort of "fixing." We simply can't afford it.

As to healthcare, it can be reformed. But in steps. It's an outright lie to contend that it's so complex that only a 2,000-3,000 page Congressional bill, which nobody will read in its entirety, and which conveniently rewrites the tax code and other key parts of American life, can provide said reform.

In this recent post, I echoed the GOP's Congressional leadership's call for action on several independent, but related health care points,

"The Congressional Republicans put forth alternative plans and amendments addressing the following aspects of health care reform:

1. Tort reform.
2. Interstate marketing of health insurance
3. Uniform pre- or after-tax treatment of health insurance premiums
4. Removal of mandates so that each buyer may purchase exactly what health insurance fits their needs.
5. Health savings accounts.
6. Federally-provided vouchers to the poor to buy health insurance, including, if necessary, for those with pre-existing conditions, federally-supplied health insurance of last resort.

Congressional Democrats ignored all of these ideas. So did Wonderboy."

Congress could pass legislation on each of these points irrespective of the others. True, together, they'll work much better. But each can stand on its own, contributing, over time, to the slowing in the growth of health care costs, providing equal cost-bases to all Americans for health insurance, and the ability of each person to buy just the health care they want, and no more.

To contend this is not possible is a lie.

Pure and simple.