Kicked to the Curb

You Decide: The Washington Post’s Dumbest Op-Ed Writer or the Most Naïve?
Richard Cohen’s ditty yesterday was all about how ridiculous Speaker-to-be John Boehner is because he stated that the U.S. has the best health care system in the world.

No American, certainly not one about to occupy a leadership position in our government, could possibly call the American health-care system "the best health care system in the world." Boehner did just that last week.

Cohen then goes on to describe how infant mortality in Cuba is lower and that while life expectancy in the U.S. is higher than in Libya, it still ranks 49th in the world. These shibboleths of the Left have been effectively refuted in the past, but Cohen either never got the memo or thinks that everyone has forgotten. In this regard, he is much like moonbat director Michael Moore who marveled at Cuban health care while being herded around by government handlers. Note to Moore (and Cohen): they are showing you (and reporting) what they want to. It’s rigged, guys! Some countries, for example, don’t count in infant mortality statistics a baby who dies within a few days of birth. But then again, let’s say Cohen truly believes that health care is better elsewhere. In that case, we strongly encourage him to act on his beliefs. Chest pains? High blood pressure? Just feeling under-the-weather? Head overseas for treatment!

For the record, RedStateVT says: the U.S. has the best health care system in the world.

Knuckleball for a Knucklehead
RedStateVT caught a few minutes of Hardball yesterday with Tingle Boy Chris Matthews (yes, apparently it is still on the air). No doubt, getting dissed by Michele Bachmann on election night has put Matthews in a foul mood. But on top of that, President George Bush is out there promoting his new book and this has Matthews apoplectic once again about the whole WMD thing. Furious that Saddam Hussein is no longer in power, Matthews wants answers.

We suggest he start with those on the Democrat side who looked at the same intelligence that Bush did and concluded that Iraq had WMDs. Begin with Hillary Clinton. Never mind that Hussein had invaded his neighbors or that he had gassed his own people or that he had defied UN sanctions or that he had locked radar onto U.S. jets patrolling the Kurdish no-fly zone or that he harbored terrorists…. Condi Rice, among others, has enumerated the multiple reasons why Hussein had to go. But Matthews is still not happy because the U.S. never found a nuclear warhead.  RedStateVT says: get over it, Saddam's not coming back.