Shorter James Pethokoukis November 24, 2008
Posted by Evil Bender in News and politics, language and lit, wingnuts.trackback
Just in time for the War on Xmas holidays:
How Tom Daschle Might Kill Conservatism
- We need to keep people from having access to health care because those that get it will vote for Obama. Better they should die and “decrease the surplus population.”
Verbatim James Pethokoukis:
Recently, I stumbled across this analysis of how nationalized healthcare in Great Britain affected the political environment there. As Norman Markowitz in Political Affairs, a journal of “Marxist thought,” puts it: “After the Labor Party established the National Health Service after World War II, supposedly conservative workers and low-income people under religious and other influences who tended to support the Conservatives were much more likely to vote for the Labor Party when health care, social welfare, education and pro-working class policies were enacted by labor-supported governments.”
Passing Obamacare would be like performing exactly the opposite function of turning people into investors. Whereas the Investor Class is more conservative than the rest of America, creating the Obamacare Class would pull America to the left. Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute, who first found that wonderful Markowitz quote, puts it succinctly in a recent blog post: “Blocking Obama’s health plan is key to the GOP’s survival.”
And why worry if poor and middle class people survive, when you can instead worry about the Grand Old Party?
But while it might be tempting to say that the GOP has become the party of Scrooge, Scrooge at least would have been far more fiscally responsible in government than the Republicans have been.
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