LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Health care arguments should go beyond Dems good, GOP bad

By: Dear editor, | SCNOW
Published: November 05, 2009

I’m writing this letter in response to Kenneth Curran’s submission on Oct. 30, 2009. I got quite a kick out of the hyperbole-laden diatribe in which Mr. Curran accuses Republicans of being the scourge of the earth.

If it were not for those evil Republicans, our lives would be filled with sunshine and song and like manna, insurance cards would rain down from Heaven. It appears that Mr. Curran forgot to mention that Republicans hate children and puppy dogs, too.

Like all liberal myrmidons, Mr. Curran has learned well rule number one in the leftist playbook:

Blame Republicans!

That philosophy ignores a couple of important facts, though.

First, the number of people nationwide identifying themselves as Republicans is less than 30 percent, an all-time low. Yet, in poll after poll, greater than 50 percent of those polled are opposed to the public option. Those people are far from being all Republicans.

Second, and most important, the Democrats have the votes in the House and the Senate to do whatever they want. Let that sink in for a moment. Congressional Republicans can prevent no legislation from passing. Some might say that the GOP and Fox News have a svengali-like control over congressional Democrats. But, once the tin-foil hats are removed, it becomes obvious that the road block to the public option rests in the Democratic party, namely with reasonable Blue Dogs.

Mr. Curran, please save us the ad hominem attacks on Republicans. Every person with a modicum of objectivity knows that Washington politicians, save a small minority, are interested in “power, political gain and money,” regardless of party affiliation.

To operate under the assumption that congressional Democrats are magnanimous pillars of benevolence and altruism concerned only with the well being of the hoi polloi, while Republicans are pitchfork-carrying creatures from the underworld, red in color, with horns and bifurcated tails is laughable.

If it is converts that you want, I suggest logical arguments in favor of the public option instead of what is the intellectual equivalent of: Democrats good! Republicans bad!

I think the Morning News readers are a little smarter than that.

Justin Hardee
Florence