Whatever one thinks of the Health Care Reform that just passed in the House, one thing is clear: you can’t possibly say anything about it more brain-chewingly stupid than what they’re saying over at Townhall.
Ben Shapiro, for instance. Over the years we have watched the Virgin Ben grow and mature: time was, he was just a twit, but now the Ivy League and Bitter Experience have turned him into a twerp. Why, Ben has pulled himself up by his own Garanimals! And the resulting wedgie has constricted his internal oxygen flow sufficiently so that he can claim that the big problem with healthcare reform is that it forces Americans at gunpoint to surrender their paychecks to obese women who make money by eating food on the internet. (No, he says that.) Because, remember, every single person who has ever gotten sick or hurt? It’s their own damn fault, and they should be mercilessly culled from the herd. For the herd should only be comprised of such impressive specimens as, uh, Ben Shapiro… ahem.
But Ben isn’t even as comical as Tony Blankley, who contends that Health Care Reform is exactly the same thing as the Nazi conquest of France. Which, you know, it’s not. But if conservatives can’t dig up Churchill’s corpse and fling it about, what fun can they have?
But then we have Dennis Prager, who reliably brings the crazy:
Thank God this civil war is non-violent. But the fact is that the left and the rest of the country share almost no values. The American value system and the leftist value system are irreconcilable. If the left wins, America’s values lose. If American values prevail, the left loses.
Those who throw around Civil War metaphors like that ought to remember that they are, as it happens, the Confederacy.
Anyhow, jeez, if these clowns are driven this goofy now, imagine if the legislation actually were, like, leftist. One shudders to imagine the reaction… ah, hell, it would be the same damn thing. They just like yelling.
