Karl Rove has produced an excellent column describing Obama’s use of scare tactics and intimidation in his increasingly desperate campaign to get his health care plan – a misnomer if there ever was one – passed.
“Facing numbers like these, Mr. Obama is dropping his high-minded rhetoric and instead trying to scare voters. During last week’s news conference, for example, he said that doctors routinely perform unnecessary tonsillectomies on children simply to fatten their wallets. All that was missing was the suggestion that the operations were conducted without anesthesia.
This is not a healthy way to wage a policy debate. It also risks making the president look desperate at a time when his proposals are looking increasingly too expensive for Americans to accept. “
Rove’s perceptions are spot-on. Read it all here.
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