Rachel Maddow smacks down Pat Buchanan over SCHIP
What's extraordinary about this is the way that Chris Mathews keeps asking how this programme, which removes 8 million kids's uninsured status, is to be paid for. Were people like Mathews concerned about how the Iraq war was to be paid for?
And Pat Buchanan has suddenly - after six years of Bush - discovered fiscal conservativism. They only care "how do we pay for this?" because they think this smacks of "socialised medicine", they care little about where the money comes from when they are talking of war. Buchanan admits that 72% of Americans favour this plan and, when he discovers that it's to be paid for by cigarette tax, he suddenly becomes a saviour of the working class, fighting for the rights of the poor working class smoker . Hysterically funny. Somebody sent him to the crease with a broken bat...
His best moment is when he declares that "it doesn't make something right because people want it and vote for it". Gee, and I thought that was the whole point of democracy...
Maddow nails the Republicans real objection to the programme:
Hat tip to Crooks and LiarsMADDOW: The reason that he‘s standing up against this program is because this is a phenomenally successful program that is socialized medicine, in the same way that Medicare is socialized medicine and Medicaid is socialized medicine, in the sense that the government helps out in a market that‘s broken.
That‘s incredibly dangerous to the Republican world view that government can never help.
BUCHANAN: Why don‘t you let…
MADDOW: So, they have got to shut down this working program, so they can continue to say that government is the problem.
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