I sometimes suspect that progressives possess a better sense of humor than we give them credit for. The claims they make for Obamacare certainly suggest that. I mean, how else can one explain their claim that is that it saved Medicare, a gag that can be can be found in the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review:
One of HWR’s contributors, […]
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DUMBEST REFORM POST OF THE WEEK (XV)
DUMBEST REFORM POST OF THE WEEK (XIII)
Jonathan Chait is the easy winner this week with this idiotic post, in which he suggests that gun owners should pay more for health coverage than people who do not own guns:
Of course, people who keep guns in their home are choosing to run the risk of incurring injury or death … But now those […]
MAGGIE MAHAR, JOURNOLIST & TRIG PALIN
Maggie Mahar is a good example of what passes these days for a progressive health care expert. She doesn’t understand how our medical delivery system works, nor does she grasp statistical analysis, but she’s good at networking.
This is presumably how she snagged an invitation to join Ezra Klein’s now-infamous JournoList, where we find Ms. Mahar discussing such esoteric and arcane health care issues as Sarah […]
VIDEO: CNN ANCHORS CALL FOR CRACKDOWN ON BLOGGERS
You’d think that broadcast news types would have enough sense to know that allowing the government to restrict the First Amendment rights of one group would be the first step toward a Soviet-style, state-controlled media. But these two CNN anchors don’t seem to get that. In this clip, Kyra Phillips and John Roberts agree that […]
VIDEO: JOURNOLIST FOUNDER EXPLAINS THE NEED TO BE “SNEAKY” ABOUT HEALTH REFORM
We have read about the deliberate and coordinated effort by JournoList members to misinform the public about Jeremiah Wright and Sarah Palin. And, as I pointed out yesterday, the listserv’s founder has been focused on health reform since he first hit big time blogging in 2007. So, it would be pretty odd if Klein and his accomplices […]
JOURNOLIST SCANDAL: WHY HASN’T EZRA KLEIN BEEN FIRED BY THE WASHINGTON POST?
Ezra Klein’s specialty when he began blogging at TAP back in 2007 was health care, and you will be hard put to find a more prolific writer of dumb reform posts. Nonetheless, that continued to be his primary focus after his ascent to the Washington Post. But stupidity is a kind of birth defect, and one should make allowances.
It is, however, harder to […]
POLLS: OBAMACARE GETTING LESS POPULAR
No matter how many whoppers our progressive friends tell about Obamacare’s popularity, the reality is that the public likes it less and less. The following chart from Pollster.com tells the tale:
And, if you pull out the numbers for likely voters, the picture gets decidedly worse. As Michael Cannon at Cato points out, polls of likely voters […]
VIDEO: OBAMA DOJ FREED THIS WHACKJOB?
A few weeks ago a progressive medblogger with whom I occasionally cross swords scoffed at my suggestion that the Justice Department was being used to impose Obama’s vision of health care on the country, calling it a paranoiac conspiracy theory. In reality, there is absolutely NOTHING the Obama DoJ would shrink from in its effort to transform the country into a banana republic.
That’s […]
AUDIO: ANDREW BREITBART EXPLAINS WHY THE “JOURNOLIST” COVER-UP MATTERS
A lot of ”progressive” bloggers and journalists are whining because Andrew Breitbart has offered $100K for the archives of “Journolist.” Why are they upset? Because they are terrified that hundreds of high-profile journalists will be outed as corrupt purveyers of Lefty propaganda.
Wapo blogger Ezra Klein, who founded the list, has taken it down in a Nixonian attempt to cover up the truth, but one of Journolist’s 400 members […]
VIDEO: KEEP YOUR FCC OFF MY INTERNET
As a blogger and constant user of the internet, the thought of a bunch of federal apparatchiks interferring with the internet sends cold chills down my spine. This video provides three good reasons for preventing the FCC from getting its incompetent bureaucratic tentacles on the web. Among other things, it disposes of the net neutrality scam for which so many naive […]
