The War on Logic

There was the war on terror, now there's a war on logic. Congressional Republicans show that they have become unhinged from basic arithmetic. They include the costs that we will have to pay anyway in their argument about the true cost of health care reform. They ignore the fact that the Medicare doc fix contained in current law ($208 billion over 10 years) would still have to be paid if the law were repealed. There's another $115 billion of other similar on-going costs. So remember to subtract $323B from whatever the Republicans claim is the cost of the reform.

Paul's comment:

And it's not about the money. As I tried to explain in my last column, the modern G.O.P. has been taken over by an ideology in which the suffering of the unfortunate isn't a proper concern of government, and alleviating that suffering at taxpayer expense is immoral, never mind how little it costs.