Posted on 02/22/2013 2:48:06 PM PST by Sir Napsalot
KRAUTHAMMER: First of all, Medicare is today looking after the poor. What Obamacare is doing is a huge expansion of it as a way to absorb people who aren't poor but above the line as a way to essentially have national coverage, almost universal coverage. You can argue yes or no on that, but that is what is being done. I think as a Republican conservative, who opposed Obamacare taking if as a governor, I think you can act honorably either way. ...... (watch the rest at link)
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I believe that is a very wise thing to do.
I think someone needs to Photoshop K-hammer jumping a shark on skis.
I think the level of vitriol directed at Krauthammer here is approaching insanity. He did not defend Obamacare or the Medicaid expansion [God forbid, though, he did misspeak and call it "Medicare". Why, he must be a CRETIN].
He defended the political decision by Scott and Kasich to approve it for their states. He also defended the decisions by other Republican governors to refuse it.
People here are looking desperately for signs of latent Marxism in Krauthammer and revel shamelessly when they think they've found one. It's always a sight to behold.
Krauthammer and Tokyo Rove should get a room.
@$$hole!
Kraut is off the res on this one.
I slammed Kraut in piece on Scott today that I submitted to AT —
It’s surprising that as a former psychiatrist Krauthammer seems not to recall and mention the diaster that befell America’s mentally ill back in the sixties and seventies when the federal governemnt put lots of seed money into opening “community mental health clinics” all over the place - these were supposed to pick up the care of the mentally ill especially after many big psychiaric hospitals were closed in an effort to “deinstitutionalize” patients back into less restrictive (and protective) environments closer to home - problem is after a time the feds started to withdraw their contributions and the states didn’t have enough funding to contiue the program except at a very ineffectual level - we could even suggest that, far from resulting from inadequate gun control, the recent wave of mass shootings reflect the lack of mental health facilities brought on by the government’s own policies -and just wait until they start cutting back on the ninety percent Medicaid bait-and-switch funding they’ve promised to suck the states into expanding their services for the poor.......
Sorry, I don't blame them/us.
It is like Peggy Noonan or Frum, once their masks slipped, everything they say AFTERWARDS is to be viewed with a magnifying glass.
Chuck Kraut must have hit his head again doing wheelies down the FNC halls
Caving in on Obamacare is not Krauthammer’s only foray into liberalism
The Harvard-trained, former Mondale speechwriter is hardly a conservative, other than on various economic and defense issues.
He is, by his own admission, “not religious.”
He is pro-choice. He cleverly disguises that by passionately arguing that Roe v. Wade was a bad decision because it didn’t leave abortion up to the states and the democratic process.
He is pro-gay marriage. He disguises that by saying liberal judges and bureaucrats should not force their views on conservatives. He says, ho-hum, let’s just wait for the libertine young Republicans to grow up.
He wrote a column endorsing the screaming of the f-word at other drivers when they cut you off.
During the 2008 Republican primaries he told social conservatives to “grow up” and vote for the guy with best chance to win — Rudy “Cross-dresser” Giuliani.
He is anti-death penalty.
Anything else?
Krauthammer is most definitely not like Noonan or Frum. I think the comparison is asinine. Noonan and Frum appear to have no root beliefs -- they both fell under Obama's spell and admitted it.
Krauthammer's very worst offense is to have occasionally complimented Obama's political successes all the while criticizing his policies. Yet there is a crowd here looking for reasons to pounce on him.
I'm pretty suspicious about the origins of the animosity.
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