One of the great strengths of western civilization has been a strong conceptual model of truth. What is happening to that strength? The health care debate has gone beyond the partisan, beyond the ideological, to the realm of the worthless.
The Republicans cling to the bizarre "death panel" fable, while the Democrats insist that they can wring big savings from Medicare, a program that is funded at 80 per cent of costs. What's really happening here? We are seeing the Democrats attempting to please their various constituencies, while the Republicans try, by any means possible, to head off a program that will almost certainly be the initial precursor of a single payer national health insurance system. The Democrats just want to get something in place, however impractical. When that's done, and the program is bleeding the country white, they figure they can "fix" it to get what they really want, whatever that is, because there will be no turning back.
So, what are we really seeing? You could say politics as usual, but in reality, you are seeing the complete moral bankruptcy of the press. Observation of the last three weeks of Sunday talking head shows suggests that the national press is more interested in taking sides than in clarifying the critical issues. It's not that the critical issues haven't been mentioned, but rather, that they are mentioned in passing, as the press returns to refereeing this national food fight. There's not all that much liberal bias here - just bad journalism.
I'm a big believer in the second amendment, but it's hardly worth keeping, given the service that we're getting from those that it "protects". Sad, very sad.
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