gop logic

For those of you with no sense of history, which ironically enough includes almost the entire Tea Party movement, here is a reality check as seen in The Economist, March 27 issue.

About what we now affectionately call Obamacare: ."..closely resembles the approach the Republicans themselves offered up as an alternative to Hillarycare in 1993."

There is more:

"Despite the resemblance, the Republicans have been swift to denounce the legislation as an abomination and its centerpiece -an obligation on all citizens to buy health insurance on the pain of a fine-as a violation of the constitution."

Other similar parallels have been drawn, in particular to the healthcare solution proposed by Mitt Romney -now a staunch critic of any reform- in Massachusetts.

And that just goes to show you that the opposition to healthcare reform, probably the most needed reform in the country, is driven by nothing more than partisan politics and backed up by nothing more than threats and hot air.