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Today’s bit of over-the-top hyperbole comes from Matt Singer:
Wow. Compassionate conservative apparently means kicking children in the teeth.
This is in response to the Bush administration putting constraints on states wanting to make eligibility for SCHIP to families making in excess of 2.5 times the federal poverty level.
I’m too tired to debate that neo-socialist child right at the moment, but 2.5 times the minimum poverty level is roughly $51,000. The mean household income is just over $55,000. If he wants to argue for some collectivist scheme to pay for health care, fine. But painting anyone as child abusers for trying to limit government is sanctimonious horseshit.
How much help is enough before one doesn’t get accused of “kicking children in the teeth”?
Anyone needing some blog space to argue with this sophist needs only send it to me. I’ll post it.
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Matt’s hyperbole seems to have gone over the top lately. But the sad thing is, that it works. Too many people are only too willing to believe what he is peddling, because if fits their Weltanschauung.
Kind of reminds me of the famous line: “Have you no shame Sir? Have you no shame? In the final analysis, have you no shame?”
Nope.
Perhaps it’s just that Singer spent too much time firmly affixed to the inside of Sirota’s colon.
The pap you quote seems eerily similar to something Sirota posted earlier in the day on Daily Kos:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/8/21/112523/749
Spend enough time around garbage, and you start to pick up the stink.
Sirota’s babble is incoherent nonsense. He never discusses the need for the program to exceed the 250% of poverty level either and positions the argument as if that fact doesn’t even figure into the equation. Then, he takes to task the Bush administration for not being federalist enough – not understanding that Bush et al have never been particularly federalist (think NCLB.)
I’m sure that if Bush said that federal highway funds were going to be withheld if states didn’t reduce their speed limits to 55 MPH – in the name of energy independence – he wouldn’t bring up federalism at all. What a putz. An inconsistent weak minded putz at that.
Budge, why do you waste your time reading Comrade Singerstein?
Yeah how do you like that. Kicking children in the teeth. Nice imagery. We’ve got another 15 months of that ahead.
What a load of self-righteous sh*t.
This is what passes for left-wing analysis: “If you don’t agree with me, you’re evil.”
Isn’t it amazing how he is willing to judge us, people he doesn’t even know, based on political beliefs. He doesn’t know what we do for kids in our communities. He doesn’t know if we work for or give to charities. He doesn’t know our backgrounds, or how we care for our own children.
Nope. If we disagree, we’re evil bastards who want to kick kids in the teeth. Someone tell me why I should take someone like this seriously.
Singer’s day has come and gone. He got his candidate elected (some credit there), and then promptly turned on him when he didn’t get a nice DC job. He’s really got nothing more to contribute, which is why I stopped reading LITW a long time ago.
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