| The faithful Twenty Eight percent on the Intertubes - those poor fools who Blog for Bush, no matter how odious or silly or muddle-headed a particular policy is -- have aimed their particular vile brand of attack rhetoric on the recent popular bipartisan CHIP legislation. The method: slime those that need it.
Enter the "Free Republic" -- which reveals that one recipient of CHIP in Maryland, a grade schooler seriously injured in a car accident - actually goes to a private school!
Cue the hyperbole from The Corner:
Bad things happen to good people, and they cause financial problems and tough choices. But, if this is the face of the "needy" in America, then no-one is not needy. And, if everyone needs assistance from the federal government, so be it. But I don't think I want to drive down the road where Bonnie Frost wants to take us - because at the end of it there are no free-born citizens, just a nation where everyone is a ward of the state.
First, this particular family has nothing to do with whether CHIP is a good program. We don't know 'nuthin' about the family. Anecdotal evidence proves f*ck-all.
Second, what the Kool Aid drinkers fail to realize is that health insurance costs are getting so high, that increasing numbers of middle-class families can't afford health insurance. You can pull this rhetorical bullsh*t, slime the folks getting CHIP as undeserving n'eer-do-wells sucking off the teat of government, but a lot of folks are suffering from high costs of health insurance, and want their kids to be covered, period, and think their kids' health is more important than a preserving a bunch of ideologues' pet theories.
That is, these freepers are just making themselves look like jerks. |
