Elephant Hunting (posted by DT)

I don't spend much time on Sarah Pailin, as criticizing her is like shooting fish in a barrel, but this is hard to pass up. During a speech in Alberta, Pailin is quoted saying:

We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in
Canada...and I think now, isn't that ironic.

Irony is when one says something, but actually means the opposite. Of course, Pailin is unintentionally ironic here, praising the Single Payor health care in Canada she used as a youngster while decrying a much less liberal plan being proposed for the US.

It just leads me to remember again that the health care plan being discussed now is essentially the same as the Massachusetts plan enthusiastically signed by Mitt Romney, with the addition of cost controls, and it is similar to the Republican alternative to Clintoncare in 1993. It's just not that radical, and if Republican party discipline was just a little less awesome there'd be plenty of Republicans voting for it. [Sigh]