THOMAS WYATT
americanaffairs.suite101.com
“The Democrats are more like medicine men than health care experts. That the plan wouldn’t take full effect for some years appeals to them. Once people start complaining about rationing and high taxes, many of the Democrats, like medicine men who scoot to the next village before their ‘cures’ are exposed as frauds, will have left office and become health care lobbyists.
“ ‘Bipartisanship’ for President Obama consists of talking with Republicans who already agree with him. But even that bogus definition won’t hold up now that Olympia Snowe has distanced herself from Harry Reid’s plan.’’
GEORGE NEUMAYR
spectator.org
“In all of the excitement about Harry Reid’s inclusion of an opt-out public option in the Senate version of the health care reform bill, one question has been somewhat submerged: ‘Opt out of what exactly?’
“What the public option actually would provide to states that didn’t opt out has been left pretty much to the imagination of each person.’’
JOHN ARAVOSIS
huffingtonpost.com
“Joe Lieberman announced that he would support a filibuster against the health care bill that Harry Reid announced yesterday with the public option with the phony ‘opt-out’ provision. Thus, the 60-vote bluster bursts like a soap bubble. Only the most unprecedented brass would try to pass this on reconciliation, and I think that would require a fine razor, not just to scrape support together but to threaten a few necks.’’
LARRY PERRAULT
texasgopvote.com
“The news story noted two previous unrelated violent criminal incidents within the hospital in the past six years. For a large teaching hospital that helps to treat the city’s indigent population for health care problems, it could be a lot worse.’’
DR. JOHN GROHOL
psychcentral.com
“While this certainly qualifies as a ‘psychiatrist’s worst nightmare,’ it’s not the greatest thing in the world for the nanny-state antigun forces, either. Here we have a private citizen - and what difference does it make what they do for work if they’re not actually on the job at the time - using their lawfully owned and carried firearm in the defense of another. We have an actual, honest-to-goodness defensive gun use where the gun wasn’t taken away from the gun owner, where the wrong people didn’t get shot, where the private citizen stopped a deadly threat with the force necessary.’’
