How many, and counting, in Congress who voted against the stimulus bill have gone to their home districts and crowed about getting money for some project or other with stimulus money?
And now we have Sarah Palin acknowledging -- while in Canada -- that she used to slip over the border into Canada to get medical treatment from their single payer system, which she now deplores.
According to Sam Stein on Huffington Post:
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin -- who has gone to great lengths to hype the supposed dangers of a big government takeover of American health care -- admitted over the weekend that she used to get her treatment in Canada's single-payer system.So there you have it. The realities of life and the benefits of government programs are as naught, if one can make political hay out of saying the opposite."We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada. And I think now, isn't that ironic?"
The irony, one guesses, is that Palin now views Canada's health care system as revolting: with its government-run administration and 'death-panel'-like rationing. Clearly, however, she and her family once found it more alluring than, at the very least, the coverage available in rural Alaska. Up to the age of six, Palin lived in a remote town near the closest Canadian city, Whitehorse.
That seems to define Republicanism these days.
Ralph
Another example: California State Senator, Roy
ReplyDeleteAshburn, a Republican, has been a fierce opponent of gay rights. Last week, he was arrested for drunk driving after leaving a gay nightclub.
He has now acknowledged that he is gay. He claims that his 15 year crusade against gay rights laws had been his effort to vote the way he thought his constituents wanted him to.