The Dallas Morning News editorial board weighs in on the health care reform debate. Not health care reform, but the debate. Only they don't call it a debate. They say,
"Health care reform is an enormously complex, vitally important issue, but it has become all but impossible to hold a civil discussion about it. These town halls have degenerated into ugly, obnoxious town hells."They got that right. Read the editorial, but stay away from the comments. There were 201 comments this afternoon. There are certainly more since then. Most of them by the irony-impaired, as "civil discussion" is rare and "ugly, obnoxious" is common. Here, for example, are the most recent few comments:
"Hitler had doctors working for him.""You can't spell liberal without l-i-e."
"No question as to where the DMN (Democrat Morning News) stands."
Perhaps the biggest irony in all this is that those "town hells" are making the politicians in Washington look thoughtful, dignified, even statesmanlike compared to the folks back home.
6 comments:
Americans landed on the moon, they helped fight fascism, and on and on and now we have degenerated to believing urban legends while the heat in Rome rises.
"Anonymous" at 8/13/2009 9:32 PM, thanks for the history lesson. I think believing in urban legends is as old as the story of George Washington and the cherry tree. Many Americans believe the moon landing was faked. Many believe FDR deliberately let Japan attack Pearl Harbor and "gave away" Eastern Europe for no good reason. Many probably blame Rome burning on Bill Clinton fiddling around in the White House. So, believing nonsense has a rich and long history in America.
"Perhaps the biggest irony in all this is that those "town hells" are making the politicians in Washington look thoughtful, dignified, even statesmanlike compared to the folks back home."
I don't know about that. I think the theme song for a lot of congress critters is "If I only had a brain".
Perhaps Occam's razor should be taught in school. Of course, those bitter bible and gun clinging neo-barbarians would still come up with kooky ideas.
Andy, it's all relative. In Washington, Pete Sessions can sound like a neo-barbarian. But I was at his town hell meeting. He let the shouters do his talking for him, leaving him looking like the sane one.
Interesting....
So if Pete says something, you can use it against him. And when Pete doesn't say something, he must have been thinking it.
Or perhaps he hired Cheney to use his mind control to get these neo-barbarians to do his dirty work.
Andy, if Pete Sessions says a falsehood, I'll hold it against him. And if he allows falseshoods to be said in his presence without correcting them, I'll hold that against him, too.
As for who is controlling whom, I think there's a little bit of both going on. Liars are provoking the kooks and the kooks are intimidating the reasonable, honest people.
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