In that sense, Douthat (and Luntz) are correct when they say: "That’s exactly what’s been happening now." Just as was true for the 1994 crime bill, the right-wing fury over health care reform is motivated by the fear that middle-class Americans will have their money taken away by Obama while -- all together now, euphemistically -- "having someone else benefit." And this "someone else" are, as always, the poor minorities and other undeserving deadbeats who, in right-wing lore, somehow (despite their sorry state) exert immensely powerful influence over the U.S. Government and are thus the beneficiaries of endless, undeserved largesse: people too lazy to work, illegal immigrants, those living below the poverty line.This is a fascination of mine. It's not only that wingnuts side with say, ExxonMobile over Greenpeace or Walmart over employees making minimum wage for philosphical reasons -- it's that they really think those immensely powerful organizations are helpless in the face of the evil greens or Big Labor.
It's really odd.
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