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It’s Time for Republicans to Up Their Game

March 15, 2010 - 12:00 am - by Ruben Navarrette Jr.
Frank
2010-03-15 10:41:30

Goy, well said as usual. One problem not explained is that the liberals are getting away with the lie that if this bill doesn’t pass health care reform will die. No one I know from the right thinks the health care system is all hunky dory even though most agree the proposed fix will make it worse. The difference here is we think it needs a scalpel – - not a braodaxe like the statists propose. They need to emphasize that it is the COMPREHENSIVE part that is unacceptable and focus on the pragmatic achieveable components. The message should be that it needs to be tweaked not replaced. The very least the GOP should do is provide a short but revealing list of all their suggested tweaks ignored by Obamocrats. Making promises on malpractice reform and interstate competition offers an opportunity to disprove that lie on one hand but also exposes the Dem plan as the sheer power grab it really is. It’s re-form alright. It will re-form the relationship between government and citizens unlike any legislation since the New Deal. This is all well and good for BC trollers et. al. whose only concern is that someone else picks up the tab for their meds.