Posted by: Billy Hollis on Sunday, September 30, 2007 If you're a Republican, like Tennessee's freshman Senator Bob Corker, a reliable way to get quoted in the New York Times is to go against your fellow Republicans and agree with the Democrats. Here's Corker, on SCHIP: Mr. Bush has said the bill would move toward “government-run health care for every American.”See, it doesn't even matter if what you say makes sense, as long as it fits the Times narrative. In this case, they want SCHIP. Furthermore, they want the version that redefines "poor children" way up into the middle class. Considering that, saying that SCHIP isn't a step towards socialized medicine looks ludicrous on its face to me. But no, Corker says that's not true. He says what will move us towards socialized medicine is lack of action. Let's be charitable. The only way that could make sense is to presume what he means is that lack of action will lead to a situation so bad that a real socialized medicine program is a lot more likely to pass. But if we grant that interpretation, then for the government-run health care proponents, it's "heads we win, tails you lose". They can get what they want a little at a time, or all at once. Corker is apparently saying that a little at a time is better. Why does it have to be either/or? Why can't "action" be defined as something that reforms the system in ways that don't lead towards government run healthcare? We've had programs that increased government involvment since Johnson's Great Society, and to hear Democratic wailing, healthcare has been getting worse the entire time. Many in Tennessee warned that Senator Corker was a mushy moderate, but Tennessee's Republican voters had the chance to choose someone more conservative and didn't do it. I'll give Corker some credit for standing firm during the immigration bill debate. But if we're up for six years of rationalizing why it's a good idea to give the statists in the Democratic Party what they want, Bob Corker could be on his way to being the next Chuck Hagel in the party. If that comes to pass, let me apologize in advance to freedom-loving people throughout the country. You have the right to expect better from Tennessee voters, and they've let you down by sending this man to the Senate. (found via Nashville City Paper's "Political Animals" blog) |
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