Showing posts with label healthcare reform. Show all posts
Showing posts with label healthcare reform. Show all posts

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Daily Broadside - Thursday Morning Edition


Garrison Kiellor, in the Chicago Tribune, writes:


When an entire major party has excused itself from meaningful debate and a thoughtful U.S. senator like Orrin Hatch no longer finds it important to make sense and an up-and-comer like Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty attacks the president for giving a speech telling schoolchildren to work hard in school and get good grades, one starts to wonder if the country wouldn't be better off without them and if Republicans should be cut out of the health-care system entirely and simply provided with aspirin and hand sanitizer. Thirty-two percent of the population identifies with the GOP, and if we cut off health care to them, we could probably pay off the deficit in short order.

Absolutely, Garrison. But you'd better figure out how to pay for all those expensive government programs once you've killed us all off.