Sunday, April 08, 2012

It's so touching that CBS News runs an affirmative action program for microcephalics, which seems to explain Andrew Cohen

On Friday, March 30th, Andrew Cohen -- the so-called "chief analyst and legal editor for CBS Radio News" -- authored what could be the most preposterous excuse for analysis this side of Paul Krugman.

Cohen’s cheap shot... came in #7 of [his Atlantic article entitled] “13 Final Thoughts About the Health Care Arguments.”

Cohen, who back in 2005-2007 appeared occasionally on CBS News television newscasts but is now, thankfully, confined to a few brief soundbites on the radio side, asserted in the blog post:

7. Smug justice. I admit I lost my temper on Wednesday. The arguments in the Care Act cases may be funny to Justice Antonin Scalia, the bully that he is, but they aren't funny to the single father who will avoid bankruptcy because of the law, or to the millions of others who will benefit from the Medicaid expansion or from the provision that allows young people to stay longer on their parents’ health care plans. Justice Scalia gets his health insurance from the government. To him, the care act is just another statute. Fine. Let him be so dispassionate when his conservative fellow travelers ask him to endorse an act of Congress.
Let me repeat:

"The arguments in the Care Act cases may be funny to Justice Antonin Scalia, the bully that he is, but they aren’t funny to the single father who will avoid bankruptcy because of the law."

Really?

Avoid bankruptcy? As the country itself is drowning in a cesspool of debt and unfunded liabilities?

But don't believe me -- believe the Medicare Actuaries or the Trustees of the Social Security Administration.

Medicare: $24.8 trillion -- Obligation per household: $212,500

Social Security: $21.4 trillion -- Obligation per household: $183,400

Federal debt: $15 trillion -- Obligation per household $128,000

Hey, Cohen: where's all that "free health care" coming from in your pathetic excuse for an analysis?

From the taxpayers?

From a country headed into a cyclonic funnel of fiscal torment?

Cohen, the sad thing is you're too dim to realize the evil of the unfettered government spending you're espousing. Because you're a mathematic ignoramus, a chronic putz, whose religion is Statism. You're a walking, talking joke.


3 comments:

  1. The "free health care" is going to come from the rear end of that unicorn that the Petulant Boy-King Obama is riding over the rainbow.

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  2. Anonymous3:39 PM

    Did you see Maureen Dowd's hit piece on the Supreme Court?

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/04/opinion/dowd-men-in-black.html?_r=1&ref=maureendowd

    "It has squandered even the semi-illusion that it is the unbiased, honest guardian of the Constitution. It is run by hacks dressed up in black robes. "

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  3. Anonymous5:15 PM

    I don't think the question being decided is whether the law is "helpful" to some people.

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