Monday, April 07, 2014

Abysmally poor arguments in support of Obamacare

Regarding Obama declaring last Tuesday that in reference to Obamacare, "the debate over repealing this law is over." The Washington Post's liberal columnist E.J. Dionne reacted,
"Is there any cost to those who say things that turn out not to be true and then, when their fabrications or false predictions are exposed, calmly move on to concocting new claims as if they had never made the old ones?"
But Dionne wasn't referring to Obama! He was referring to GOP critics of Obamacare, whom Dionne believes have been proven wrong because Obama said 7 million people have signed up for Obamacare!

James Taranto quotes Dionne and the New York Times' Paul Krugman, then opines,
What's striking is that the quality of the pro-ObamaCare arguments is so abysmally poor. "Blah, blah, blah." "Feel free to ridicule right-wingers." "This thing is going to work."

Most of all: "The debate . . . is over." A demand for silence is not a sign of intellectual self-confidence. And this is not the only subject on which the left is demanding that its opponents just shut up. For years we've been hearing that the debate about global warming--or "climate change" or whatever they're calling it this week--is settled.

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