On Tuesday evening’s installment of her CNN show, Campbell Brown managed to sum up liberals’ ignorance regarding the health care debate in record time.
Republicans DO want to work with Congressional Democrats on health care reform. But Democrats have decided instead to partner, behind the scenes, with groups that unyieldingly support a “single payer†model where the federal government would be in charge of financing and administering the entire U.S. healthcare system. These groups typically sport altruistic-sounding names like Health Care for America Now
Republicans have largely been forced out of the legislative process in favor of partisan plotting.
What Republicans will not do is dimiss public opinion as mere partisan posturing, with the sort of arrogance flaunted by Democrats like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), when faced with the passionate dissent of the people — regular Americans — who want smart, responsible reform.
Brown’s loaded, misguided, question to Republican strategist Mary Matalin speaks to the widespread effort by liberals to paint Republicans as the enemies of reform — implying that Republicans are perfectly content with health care as it is, and suggesting a general conservative apathy toward the plight of the uninsured. It is intellectual dishonesty done the liberal way — without the intellect.
