John Hinderaker Pwns The Babbling Brooks

In the liberal mind, a "conservative" is a liberal who espouses liberal ideas 90 percent of the time and moderate ideas ten percent of the time (anything less than 90 percent, and that person is dubbed a "right-winger"). New York Times columnist David Brooks fits that definition nicely, which is why he is the NYT's token "conservative" columnist.

The liberal alphabet television networks like to feature Brooks on their Sunday morning talk shows because he can be counted on to slam most anything that real conservatives say and do. Yesterday on the National Barack Channel's "Meet The Press" program, host David Gregory used Brooks to paint Sarah Palin and opposition in general to the president's plan to establish socialized medicine in the United States as "unreasonable":

MR. GREGORY: David, Sarah, Sarah Palin on Facebook, to the point of the opposition, this is what she writes: "The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's `death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide...whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil." There is the rhetoric; there's also the question of what's true and what's false in what people are arguing about this notion of a death panel.

MR. BROOKS: Yeah. Again, that's crazy. If--the, the, the crazies are attacking the plan because it'll cut off granny, and that--that's simply not true. That simply is not going to happen. The real reason for public skepticism is that Obama very eloquently and very truthfully said, "We've got to bring down healthcare costs."

Power Line's John Hinderaker, an attorney who has been writing on public policy issues for fifteen years, knocks down Brook's argument and validates Palin's:

Brooks is a conventionally "smart" guy who often seems like an idiot.

How, exactly, does he think that any government insurance plan is going to "bring down healthcare costs?" By the natural efficiency that results every time the federal government takes responsibility for something? Um, no. By rationing health care. And rationing means, precisely, "cutting off granny" and not "wasting" money on babies with Down syndrome.

It's possible to disagree with conservatives' critiques of Obamacare, although those critiques are generally, I think, on target. What is not possible is to casually characterize those critiques as "insane" and "crazy" and still call yourself a conservative.

Meanwhile, the Obamunist media calls any gathering of citizens who represent the majority of Americans opposed to ObamaCare an "angry mob" as union thugs beat up anyone who dares to publicly dissent. Welcome to the Democrat Party's Stalinist Amerika.

Update: This video from Naked Emperor News shows how Obama repeatedly lied about how open and transparent his health care reform process would be:



h/t: HotAirPundit

- JP