Health Care BS

The Democrats really are utterly shameless. If they can think of a way—any way—to exploit Saturday’s horror show, they will not hesitate to do so. Nothing is too atrocious or just plain dumb.

They are using this event as a pretext to restrict free expression and propose wacky bills banning images from maps. Now, they are arrogating the right to name Republican-sponsored legislation.

Dem Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME) was not moved to call for a “more civil dialogue” whe the President referred to his political opponents as “enemies,” but now she wants the GOP to change the tone:

A good place to start a more civil dialog would be for my Republican colleagues in the House to change the name of the bill they have introduced to repeal health care reform. The bill, titled the “Repeal the Job Killing Health Care Law Act,” was set to come up for a vote this week, but in the wake of Gabby’s shooting, it has been postponed at least until next week.

How nice. She’s for civil discource. That’s why she condemned Alan Grayson for claiming that Republicans wanted patients dead. Oh, sorry, she was as silent as the grave on that. Oops! Did I just incite violence?

Is she suggesting that the phrase “job killing” incites violence? Nooooo … not at aaaaall. She would NEVER suggest such a thing. She just doesn’t think it’s “necessary” to tell the truth about ObamaCare:

Don’t get me wrong—I’m not suggesting that the name of that one piece of legislation somehow led to the horror of this weekend—but is it really necessary to put the word “killing” in the title of a major piece of legislation? I don’t think that word is in there by accident …

Here’s my suggestion for removing the phrase “job killing” from bills designed to roll back the legislative overreach of the past few years.  The Democrats should STOP killing jobs. That would do the trick.

[ht Michelle Malkin]