SCHIP AND THE STILL-DUMB TOBACCO TAX

What is it about bad ideas that makes them so hard to kill? In a sane world, a tobacco tax to fund a health care program would be laughed out of existence. I mean, it creates a need for smokers. It’s an idea so dumb that only Congress could think of it:

If the above video doesn’t drive home the stupidity of thing, this one will:

If you still don’t get it, go to Michelle’s site and read her piece. It puts it in terms that even a congressman should be able to understand.

UPDATE:

It looks like the Trojan Horse has been pulled through the gate, with the help of forty Republicans. On health care in general, the two parties are definitely dumb and dumber. Sigh ….

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