ABC's This Week

Congratulations to ABC's This Week and moderator Jake Tapper for conducting one of the more interesting and well-balanced round table discussions I've seen in a while. The round table featured left wing, progressive ideologue Katrina vanden Heuval, the partisan Democrat Donna Brazile, and conservatives George Will and Tucker Carlson.

Now for the two dumbest things said on the show.

Katrina vanden Heuval said that "Medicare for all", i.e. socialized health care, was in our nation's "DNA". Really? You would think that if that was the case, that the people who created the nation may have mentioned it somewhere. Maybe they could have included the whole "health care is a right" thing, in, you know, the Bill of Rights.

And then Donna Brazile, in criticizing Republican Senatorial candidate Scott Brown, said: "Scott Brown doesn't even buy health care for his own employees". And I bet he doesn't provide groceries either, or a home or an apartment to live in, or a Netflix subscription. My bet is that his staff is provided with what is called a paycheck. The remarkable thing about a paycheck is that it can then be used to buy all kinds of things, including health care, food, shelter, clothing, iPhones, etc.

And good for Tucker Carlson for calling on vanden Heuval to stop constantly using the term "teabagger".

[Update]

This was the quote from Martha Coakley on the details of the Scott Brown campaign staff compensation packages: “We already knew that Scott Brown didn’t want to make health insurance more affordable for Massachusetts families and businesses. Now we learn that he won’t even make health insurance available for his own staff.."

That's right, he won't make it available. Somehow, he is going to prevent his staff from using their paycheck to buy health insurance.

The Scott Brown campaign's response: "This is a silly issue. The small group working on the Scott Brown campaign either has existing insurance or were compensated sufficiently to purchase it on their own."

Good for them.