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AP Reports Democratic Talking Points in Health Care Debate

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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.

Comments

  1. 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.

  4. 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!

  6. 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…..

  9. 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.

  15. (continued) Man, that guy is smart:

    My Republican friends often seem to miss the point in this debate: The so-called “public option” is not Page 3,079, Section (f), Clause VII. The entire bill is a public option — because that’s where it leads, remorselessly. The so-called “death panel” is not Page 2,721, Paragraph 19, Sub-section (d), but again the entire bill — because it inserts the power of the state between you and your doctor, and in effect assumes jurisdiction over your body. As the savvier Dems have always known, once you’ve crossed the Rubicon, you can endlessly re-reform your health reform until the end of time, and all the stuff you didn’t get this go-round will fall into place, and very quickly.

    RTWT.