The recent attacks by Republican leaders and their ideological fellow-travelers on the effort to reform the health-care system have been so misleading, so disingenuous, that they could only spring from a cynical effort to gain partisan political advantage. By poisoning the political well, they’ve given up any pretense of being the loyal opposition. They’ve become political terrorists, willing to say or do anything to prevent the country from reaching a consensus on one of its most serious domestic problems.
Under the previous administration every major policy initiative — and I mean every one, from tax cuts to Social Security privatization to the Iraq war — was sold on false pretenses; there was never any effort to resolve problems, as opposed to exploiting those problems to further an unrelated agenda. Terrorists attack America? Now we can have the war we always wanted!
Not to mention their racist, anti-Hispanic, anti-gay, anti-science overtones.