Wake up and Smell the Truth, Uber Libs

October 11, 2007 by Jet

Ezra Klein posts today about how the right sank to a new low in attacking a couple of sick kids. What, is he new? Sounds like SOP to me. Where are these so called Liberal Opiners coming from?

Attacking a child because the child’s family has a difference of opinion with the right on healthcare benefits is not an aberration for the right wing. It’s a Tuesday. This is what they do, this is how they operate, this is how they have attained power and wielded it like a sledgehammer for years now. This is not new. This is not a recent development. — Oliver Willis

Willis’ post is so great, I could quote the whole thing. Go and read it here. As a lib with her feet firmly on the ground, I couldn’t agree more. The quest for the Whitehouse isn’t a war of niceties, it’s just a war, and war is a dirty nasty business.

Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing. That’s the Republican mindset, and it’d better be ours. If they are willing to throw little injured kids under the bus to make us look bad, we’d better be prepared to make sure the whole nation knows that. There aren’t many voters comfortable with that kind of BS directed at kids. They aren’t making us look bad, but we can certainly mud up and unmask these unscrupulous bastards.

The higher road just took a detour.

Originally Posted at Bring It On!

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3 Responses to “Wake up and Smell the Truth, Uber Libs”

earl bockenfeld on October 11th, 2007 8:56 am

I posted about this family attack too. I found this means test that the Steyn wingnut supports:

Setting aside the total dishonesty of that — surely Steyn has been informed by now that the Frost kids go to private school on scholarship and the house was bought for 55,000 in 1990 — what has become crystal clear in this debate is one that I think needs to be discussed. The Republicans believe that people should be completely destitute, living in a one room shack and working two jobs before they “deserve” subsidized health insurance. The middle class who are one car accident or one cancer diagnosis away from losing their jobs, being unable to afford either the cadillac COBRA plans from their employers (my last one here in California was $1700.00 a month and I’m healthy) must not be allowed to keep ANY assets. They must be, as Steyn’s pal wrote, “dying on the streets with sores on their bodies” before they qualify for aid.

What a humanitian, and he must be a Christian too.
Jet on October 11th, 2007 9:04 am

I’m prety sure that’s supposed to be “dying on the streets with sores on their bodies” before they qualify for aid” on the third Tuesday of the month. We don’t want anyone getting a free ride, here.
Dizzy Dezzi on October 11th, 2007 12:21 pm

Those “compassionate conservatives”, never ones to let the facts get in the way of a good “story”. If they treated their criminal element (cough-cough*bush*cough-cough) the way they treat 12 year old kids, well, we might actually have a government that works…SOP, indeed.