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Gov't Health Care Just Fine for Kelly Ayotte

by: Dean Barker

Mon Oct 04, 2010 at 06:06:32 AM EDT
Kelly Ayotte wants to repeal the private health insurance reform law for you and me, but when it comes to getting health care from the government, she's down with that.

If it's for her, I mean:

Ayotte would vote to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law and replace it with free market insurance reforms such as letting insurers sell coverage across state lines, letting businesses pool their coverage and placing limits on damages from medical malpractice lawsuits.

But while working for the state as Gov. Craig Benson's legal counsel, Ayotte was on the taxpayer-subsidized New Hampshire health plan.
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Gov't Health Care Just Fine for Kelly Ayotte | 2 comments
Never really read all of a Landrigan thing before (0.00 / 0)
My goodness, everything has a Republican spin!  Any political reporter who takes Andy Smith without a shaker of salt is a shill, in my opinion.  
Being "objective," the conservative ideal, means (0.00 / 0)
discounting that the subject or agent even exists.  There is no selfishness, if the self never shows up.
So, how do they explain their actions, if there's no subject or agent?  All their actions are reactions, responsive to an external prompt.  In this case, for example, Ayotte would dismiss the question about her health care plan as something that came with the job and over which she had no control.  They gave it to her.

"Personal responsibility" in this ideology doesn't mean the individual person actually does anything.  It means that the person deserves whatever s/he gets or doesn't get, presumably by being obedient to direction, or not.  Being obedient is a responsible/responsive condition; obedience is not an initiative.  The obedient person does not decide on action or inaction.  The obedient person responds.  The responsible person is essentially and willingly subordinate.  A responsible person does not need to be subordinated or coerced because subordination is essential to that person's being.  
If men "yearn to be free and are everywhere in chains," it's because they have enchained themselves.

Conservatives put a lot of effort into constructing language which means something other than it seems.

Gov't Health Care Just Fine for Kelly Ayotte | 2 comments

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