Another Reason I Could Never Belong to the Republican Party: Mitch McConnell
Jonathan Cohn watches the intellectual and moral train wreck:
Mitch McConnell Makes the Dems Look Good: Ah, there's nothing like a Mitch McConnell interview to put everything into perspective. The Senate Minority Leader appeared on "Meet the Press" Sunday to discuss health reform. And he professed great concern for what President Obama and the Democrats had in mind.“If you're going to do something as comprehensive as the president wants to do,” McConnell said, “you ought to pay for it.”...
I don't recall McConnell being quite so insistent about fiscal responsibility when he voted for the Bush tax cuts. Nor do I recall him agitating for tax increases to pay for the war with Iraq. In fact, I'm pretty sure most Republicans had very little use for arguments about fiscal responsibility when it was their initiatives on the agenda. Gee, could it be that McConnell and the Republicans just don't care what happens to people when they can't pay for their medical care?...
[The] Democrats are being nearly as irresponsible about paying for their ideas as Republicans were during the early parts of the decade. The Democrats have said reform will not add to the deficit. And the plans emerging from Congress seem to be true to that, at least within the confines of the budgeting rules...
