AP Reports Democratic Talking Points in Health Care Debate
There are some headlines which just cause you to wonder at the bias of the “reporter” covering that news item or the editor who wrote that title. Today, the opening of a supposed “news’ article on the legislative process to overhaul our nation’s health care system reveals (yet again) the AP’s political inclinations:
Democrats are troubled by the inconsistency of Republican lawmakers who approved a major Medicare expansion six years ago that has added tens of billions of dollars to federal deficits, but oppose current health overhaul plans.
Oh, poor Democrats, they’re troubled by supposed Republican inconsistency. I mean, what does this mean? Why is this news? We all know political parties disagree. And accuse their rivals of inconsistency. Looks more like the AP reporting Democratic talking points as news.
First, do they even realize there’s a limit to growing the federal government? To some Republicans (and I’m not one of them) who supported the Medicare Part D (prescription drug benefit), maybe this was as far as (they believed) government should grow. And they didn’t want to further expand it. What’s the inconsistency there?
Couldn’t a family say go into debt to finance a house, but refuse to go into further debt to buy a mansion as well?
The opening of this article shows (once again) what we already know: the AP attempting to carry water for the Democratic Party. And despite their slanted coverage of the health care debate, Americans increasingly oppose the various plans the AP shills promoted for their guys on Capitol Hill.
Guess they just told hold the same sway over public opinion they once did–and would still like to have.
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I saw this headline last night and couldn’t be bothered to click through to see what talking points they were referring to. Thanks for checking it out.
Of course, even though the Medicare expansion was an expensive boondoggle, I don’t recall many Democrats up in arms over the increased costs. Furthermore, this article refers to tens of billions of increased costs (which is probably a conservative estimate), but that’s a FAR cry from the trillions which the health care deform monstrosity is going to add to the budget and the deficit.
Comment by Kurt — December 26, 2009 @ 12:28 pm - December 26, 2009
Hmm, should we not then be confused that the democrats opposed the Medicare d boondoggle but want to devistate the health care and health insurance industries?
Comment by The_Livewire — December 26, 2009 @ 1:08 pm - December 26, 2009
I highly recommend Mark Steyn’s column today. This is more than your ordinary boondoggle or pork bill. It’s a calamity; a nation-as-we-know-it ender.
http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/columncolumn-225898-mark-steyn.html
PS: read the comment by “grunt41″.
Comment by SoCalRobert — December 26, 2009 @ 1:36 pm - December 26, 2009
What I’m seeing is the American left wanting to have it both ways. They want credit for doing something the left considers monumental. At the same time they’re trying to cover themselves when it fails. Either making it to the Presidents desk an becoming law then crashing or dying in conference committee.
The fact of the matter, they, Democrats own this bill and some of them are all readying bailing!
Comment by Dave_62 — December 26, 2009 @ 1:50 pm - December 26, 2009
How dare the Republicans try to stonewall the Dems’ grossly unpopular healthcare plan.
Comment by Sharp_Right_Turn — December 26, 2009 @ 2:39 pm - December 26, 2009
The MSM and the “ordinary people” just don’t understand that the Guv’mint’s money is “our money”…not that of some amorphous and ambiguous pot of unlimited gold. “Taxing the rich” sounds good, but the math doesn’t work…it’s the middle class that pays, and they’rte doing the bitching.
Political education and awareness is at an all time low…..
Comment by Ted B. (Charging Rhino) — December 26, 2009 @ 2:42 pm - December 26, 2009
I think the best headline has to be Tim Cavanaugh’s over at Reason with "Health Care Bill That Is Hated by Liberals, Conservatives, Libertarians, Socialists, Christians, Feminists, the Media and the American People Passes Senate"
Best wishes,
-MFS
Comment by MFS — December 26, 2009 @ 5:43 pm - December 26, 2009
That’s okay, introducing law that has embedded clauses making them irrevokable by a subsequent congress doesn’t count as “shredding the constitution”, a lefty favorite.
Comment by Joe Noory — December 26, 2009 @ 6:54 pm - December 26, 2009
Well, shoot! Never had I considered that prescriptions for seniors was foreplay for Obamacare.
While I would flog Bush incessantly for his drugs for old cranks stupidity, I never, ever thought the democrats would claim that his stupidity enticed them to boldly bankrupt the country and destroy ourselves and our posterity.
Geez, is there no end to the “blame George Bush” excuse making?
Tano is beginning to look like some sort of brain dead Einstein.
Comment by heliotrope — December 26, 2009 @ 9:24 pm - December 26, 2009
How about we turn that headline around? “Democratic Inconsistency: Opposed expansion of Medicare under Bush, But Now Willing to Spend Trillions on Socialized Medicine”
Comment by John in Dublin CA — December 26, 2009 @ 11:06 pm - December 26, 2009
Honestly, I’m troubled by the inconsistency from both parties. Let’s begone with both of them.
Comment by DRH — December 26, 2009 @ 11:49 pm - December 26, 2009
DRH, yeah, but if we try to “bego” with the GOP right now, a split on the right gives up more of the DNC.
Comment by B. Daniel Blatt — December 27, 2009 @ 1:22 am - December 27, 2009
A propos of both the “health care debate” and Christmas: Jesus was not a socialist.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — December 27, 2009 @ 10:09 am - December 27, 2009
The incomparable Mark Steyn, on government run health-care – which turns out, surprise surprise, to be “all government and no health care”: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YjU5OTJmODE4MGM5YmNiZDEyZDU5ZWU3NThhYjdmNGY=
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — December 27, 2009 @ 5:38 pm - December 27, 2009
(continued) Man, that guy is smart:
RTWT.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — December 27, 2009 @ 5:42 pm - December 27, 2009