On Reaping & Sowing

This is the funniest headline I've read all summer:

Conservatives See Need for Serious Health Debate

The roiling debate over health care this summer has included a host of accusations from opponents of the plan that have been so specious that many in the mainstream news media have flatly labeled them false.

Far from embracing the attacks, many leading conservative health care policy experts said in recent interviews that the dynamic was precluding a more robust real-world debate while making it nearly impossible for them to inject their studied, free-market solutions into the discussions.

And they said the focus on what they consider misleading or secondary issues was getting in the way of real questions about the plan they believed worthy of consideration.

To which I say, (a) "Good" and (b) "Too fucking bad".

Go whine to the people who bring guns to "Town Halls" in an attempt to intimidate members of congress. Go whine to Michelle Bachmann as she leads a phalanx of your Republican bretheren in a mass ritual wrist-slitting protest. Go whine to the "Christian" pastor who prays for the president's death from brain cancer. They're all Conservatives and Republicans and they are your base. These degenerates were useful to you once and so you embraced them. Now, you own them. And when the country hears the words "Republican" they imagine a face like this screaming about "Death Panels". Oh, you're "Conservative" and not "Republican". Sorry: they're one and the same. You're upset because the Larouchies are dominating the "debate" on your side? Get over it. Shrieking from your people about Obama wanting to kill granny makes you cringe? Tough.

Get your base under control and maybe someone, somewhere, someday will take you even remotely seriously. Until then, get yourself a razor blade and go pay Michelle Bachmann a visit.

P.S. The NYT reporters ought not flatter themselves with tales about having labeled conservatives health care claims false. From what I can see, that happened exactly once.

P.P.S. "Studied free-market solutions"? BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!