The Legal Business of Health Insurance
President Barack Obama's obsessive, opportunistic demonization of insurance companies in his quest to pass his not-yet-written health care proposal is growing tiresome. Aren't you getting sick of a president attacking American citizens and businesses as if they -- not Obama's beloved government -- were the enemy? (David Limbaugh, Townhall.com, 3/5/10)
RedStateVT applauds the insurance company executives who recently met with the President. After months of demagoguery by President Obama, they could have easily said: the heck with you, Mr. President. Instead, they demonstrated dignity and class, took the meeting and acted entirely professional. The last time we looked, insurance was still a legal business. And as we have said before, if the President or Dems think that a health insurer is acting illegally, then by all means, indict them. That never happens, however, as it is much easier (and more cowardly) to lob insults at them. Let’s hope the execs reminded the president that he could go a long way towards fixing health care by reining in the trial lawyers and allowing inter-state competition.
Body Count
The ethical woes facing Democrats are piling up, with barely a day passing in recent weeks without headlines from Washington to New York and beyond filled with word of scandal or allegations of wrongdoing. The troubles of Gov. David A. Patterson of New York, followed by those of two of the state’s congressmen, Charles B. Rangel and Eric J. Massa, have added to the ranks of episodes involving prominent Democrats like Eliot Spitzer, Rod R. Blagojevich and John Edwards.
Taken together, the cases have opened the party to the same lines of criticism that Democrats, led by Representatives Nancy Pelosi, now the House speaker, and Rahm Emanuel, now White House chief of staff, used effectively against Republicans in winning control of the House and Senate four years ago. (NYT, 3/5/10)
You know things are bad when the New York Times writes about corrupt Dems!
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