Health Care BS

Well, that didn’t take long, did it? U.S. District Judge E. Henry Hudson’s ruling against ObamaCare’s individual mandate came out about noon today, and the slime merchants over at Gawker were cranking up their shameless smear campaign before 2pm:

Henry E. Hudson, the federal judge in Virginia who just ruled health care reform unconstitutional, owns between $15,000 and $50,000 in a GOP political consulting firm that worked against health care reform.

First, there is no evidence that this firm, Campaign Solutions, ”worked against health care reform” unless merely being hired by Republicans is by definition working against health reform. Second, Hudson is obviously a passive stockholder:

The head of the firm, Rebecca Donatelli, has said that Hudson was a ‘passive investor’ who had owned stock for the past 13 years. She said the judge had no knowledge of the firm’s day-to-day operations.

I mean, think about it: This guy is a prosecutor who became a judge. Even if he tried to take an active part in the operations of this outfit, they would ignore him. But such things don’t matter to the slimers. This is what matters to these creatures:

Campaign Solutions was instrumental in the launching of Sarah Palin’s PAC (though Palin has since split with the firm) …

Odd that Gawker, like TPM and the rest of the bottom feeeders who will inevitably participate in the smear, doesn’t seem concerned that the President’s rationing Czar, Donald Berwick, has genuine conflicts of interest that deserve serious srutiny.

But brazen hypocrisy, not to say transparent mendacity, is par for the course for these people. The real problem with Hudson, to use Gawker’s own words, is that “He’s a Republican.” These people have no principles and even less shame.