If you’re one of the four-or-so frequent readers of this here blog, chances are you also occasionally check out the New York Times op-ed page. You may even know the names: Thomas Friedman, Gail Collins, Nicholas Kristoff, &c. Well, I’ve decided to devote a daily feature to these folks, by daily pointing out one line that is either awesome, funny, insightful, intelligent, ridiculous, or utterly divorced from reality. I hope you enjoy.
Today\’s comes from Paul Krugman\’s excellent column entitled \”Fear Strikes Out,\” in which he compares the opposition to health care reform to its advocates.
Instead, the emotional core of opposition to reform was blatant fear-mongering, unconstrained either by the facts or by any sense of decency.
Just wait until some shadowy unelected body votes to kill your poor grandma. Then you\’ll see.
I haven’t read the full text of the bill, was the ‘grandma death panel’ provision included in the reconciliation package or no?