Health Care BS

Perusing the increasingly incoherent effusions of the Left, it’s hard to escape the conclusion that a facility for unintentional irony is the defining characteristic of the contemporary progressive.

One of Sullivan’s readers is kind enough to provide a textbook example of this phenomenon. He starts off with a refreshingly accurate assessment of the Massachusetts political environment:

Here in Massachusetts, the Democratic Party controls the Governor’s office and both houses of the Commonwealth Legislature, so we see on the state level what is happening in Washington. Gridlock, gridlock, political gridlock, and the Democrats can’t get their act together enough to solve it.

Now for the irony: Having accurately diagnosed the disease, what does this person suggest as a cure?

I want Martha to win, I desperately want her to win, for her victory represents the best chance the country has in moving health care and other needed change forward.

That’s right: One-party rule by the Dems in Massachusetts and in Washington is a pig’s breakfast, but this character thinks the way to move “forward” is to send yet another Democrat hack to the Senate.

This kind of reasoning is not at all unusual on the Left these days. The contemporary progressive is so blinded by ideology that he is utterly incapable of seeing that most of his arguments are self-refuting.

Fortunately for Massachusetts, and for the country in general, the voters are not so far out of touch with reality.  Next Tuesday, they will provide a remedy for the ills of one-party rule.