Frequent blind squirrel Dana Milbank done
found himself an acorn in today's
once great Washington Post Kaplan Daily:
Republican leaders had scheduled a vote in the chamber for Wednesday on a
plan to help people with preexisting health problems get insurance —
part of a broader scheme by Majority Leader Eric Cantor
(Va.) to make Republicans appear to care about the little guy. But the
conservatives lunching in the Rayburn House Office Building weren’t
biting. [Snip]
“We can talk about flex time, we can talk about bills on Obamacare
that are going nowhere,” Huelskamp said. “We can talk about messaging. . . .
But in August, we’re going to hit the debt ceiling and we can’t avoid
that. We’re running out of money, and as Republicans, we have to get
ready now and talk about the vision of what we have to do to get our
country on a 10-year plan to balance the budget.”
That budget-cutting theme, he said, “is the kind of message that gets lost in little things.”
So
helping workers and the sick are “little things”? Cantor can forget
warm and fuzzy for now; he has enough trouble just making his colleagues
sound humane.
Huelskamp is crackpot Randian social Darwinist
Rep. Tim Huelskamp of Kansas. If any of these peckerwoods does show any compassion towards another human being, as Milbank says, it's "to make Republicans
appear to care about the little guy" (our emphasis).
