Sunday, September 06, 2009

Meet the Bullshit

Tom Friedman on Meet the Press:
You know, one, in terms of health care itself, to me, one way to frame it, it's a huge competition issue. Who needs health care more than American business today, taking the burden off business so they can compete globally? And that is, to me, an independent/Republican issue, you know, tends to be more than a Democratic/left issue.

I've wondered that myself - if small business are so delicately hanging on by a thread as Republicans want you to think they are when it comes to raising taxes even a single dollar, why wouldn't the same thinking apply to it being to their advantage to have some of the burden relieved when it comes to healthcare? If small business are "the backbone of America," as Republicans weep and cry in front of cameras during campaigns, and any dollar they can save is the difference between fueling the economy or going bankrupt, as Republicans weep and cry in front of cameras during campaigns, why wouldn't REPUBLICANS be the ones in favor of such reform?

Hmm. It's as if they're full of shit. But that can't be right.

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