Karl Rove believes health care has no impact on the economy

[BirminghamExaminer]

Excerpt:

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed Thursday, 'turd blossom' as Rove was so lovingly called by President Bush, wrote:

"To start with, the president is focusing on health care when the economy and jobs are nearly everyone's top issue. Voters increasingly believe Mr. Obama took his eye off the ball."

The problem with Rove's statement is glaringly obvious to anybody who has studied the health care problem and the economy. The two are inextricably tied together. 14,000 people lose their health insurance in this country every single day.

A large majority of people who declared bankruptcy in the last year did so because of health care costs. 75% of those people who went bankrupt because of health care costs had private health insurance. Health insurance premiums, deductibles and co-payments have risen at much higher rates than inflation while income has actually gone down.

Mr. Rove, the consummate revisionist states,

"At the year's start, Democrats were cocky. At summer's end, concern is giving way to despair. A perfect political storm is amassing, and heading straight for Democrats."

It's almost laughable the way Rove ignores the problems that his own party faces. Record low numbers of people identify themselves as Republican. And it doesn't take a rocket scientist or even an architect to figure out that with Rush Limbaugh at their helm, and Republican governors and senators from the creepy religious C Street being caught in embarrassing affairs and lies trying to cover them up, that the Republican party is the one that is in trouble. Elected Republicans are supposed to be working for the American people but instead they are parroting the outright lies that their unlikely masters (Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck) are so adept at producing to frighten and anger people.

Wake up, Mr. Rove, your own party is in the eye of a political storm that may end by the time New Orleans recovers from Hurricane Katrina. There is no leader of the Republican party. And that is the reason that extremist conservative Fox TV and talk radio pundits are leading the GOP into the tragicomedy it has become.

[glowing]

1. This is why Republicans never propose any health care reform.

They don't believe they need to. They do believe it is for the privelleged. If you don't work hard enough or make enough money, you don't deserve it. That's the attitude by these rich fucks who continue to dismantle the middle class and make it harder for the working class and poor. They want a serfdom.. a slave system. They don't feel that all people deserve equality in America. They don't believe in a Democratic Republic. They try time and time again to dismantle the govt.. or fuck it up so badly, Americans won't believe in the govt. Think about Katrina. Most people looked at it as an inefficiency in a govt agency. In a time of need, the govt doesn't work. Its a big idiotic thing that sucks up your money and doesn't work. For some of us we realize its a triple assault. First on not being able to trust your govt, 2nd on a racial cleansing of prime real estate in New Orleans by poor black people who own their homes, and 3rd a loss of a Democratic stronghold that produced Dems time and time again.

Anyway, they don't believe everyone deserves equality and they don't want to share. They are Un-American... AND they use their wing-nut crazies to do the dirty work. They don't believe that the crazie wing of their party deserves the things that their rich business section of the party enjoys.

[BirminghamExaminer]

4. Except when the dismantled middle class is on the streets,

the upper classes will finally be affected. You're right, they don't care about anyone who isn't one of the "have mores." I'm getting really angry the more I think about all of this.

THey are saying now that Obama is going to give up on a public option to get Olympia Snowe. This is pure bullshit. I love Obama but if he gives into the minority when we could win this without them, I can no longer support him.

[elocs]

2. So 16% of our GDP goes to healthcare, but it has no impact of the economy?

Wow! :shrug:

[jimshoes]

3. KKKarl has argued that water

isn't wet I'm fairly certain. That's what some people say, anyway. I shouldn't take his word on anything.

[DFW]

5. Well, OK, let's turn that around

If health care has no effect on the economy, then all the wingnuts at these rallies have no case when
they scream the Fox/Rove mantra that health care reform is bad for the economy. It either has an impact
or it doesn't.

oops

I forgot -- it's the Republicans.

2 + 2 equals anywhere from three to seven, depending on what conclusion they are trying to reach at the time.