As a follow-on to the story about the Democrats and their lies in promotion of S-CHIP, which I posted here last night: [1]
Yes, the Frost children are victims, but not of conservatives. They look more like victims of a couple of mostly spoiled brats who became parents and never felt compelled to take responsibility for themselves when it came to the bottom line on that. There are poor people in America who need help, particularly as regards Health care. The point is, the family above shouldn’t be and simply aren’t among them. Call Dad next time you want some bucks FH. And kindly leave the rest of America’s collective wallet the hell alone.
Wake Up America: [3]
Democrats Use Terrorist Tactics: Hiding Behind Children
Limbaugh: [4]
This is Graeme Frost, the 12-year-old, and Frost’s father is self-employed. He owns the building in which he works. His father makes about $45,000 a year while his mother is employed at an unspecified salary by a medical publishing house that doesn’t provide health insurance coverage. Bottom line. This is from Mark Tapscott, who as an editorial page editor at the Washington Examiner, has been tracking all this on the blogs. “Two points. First, people make choices and it’s clear the Frosts have made a choice to invest in property and a business, but not in private health insurance. The Maryland-administered version of the federal SCHIP program, by the way, does not impose an asset test on applicants.” It’s one of the states where you have no asset test, so anybody can be part of the program! What the Democrats did: “President Bush used his regular Saturday radio address yesterday to explain and defend his veto of the massive expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) approved last week by Congress. … An hour later on national radio, the Democrats’ response to Bush was delivered by Baltimore private middle school student Graeme Frost, who, along with his sister, was seriously injured in an auto accident three years ago.
“His response to Bush was actually recorded earlier in the week and Matthew Hay Brown, a reporter from The Baltimore Sun, interviewed the young man after he did his recording. Frost said his parents work hard to provide for him and his sister, but one thing they can’t afford is private health insurance, so they have to depend upon the government program, Brown reported for The Sun. Perfect illustration of why the SCHIP program should be expanded, right? Actually, no, because the Sun only reported the Democratic version of the story and we can’t depend upon a mainstream media outlet like the Sun to get the rest of the story.” Well, the rest of the story is: “It turns out the Frost family sends its kids to one of Baltimore’s expensive private schools, owns a house in a neighborhood of homes valued in the $400,000-500,000 range and bought commercial property in 1999 for $160,000.” What’s the upshot of all this? This is nothing new. The Democrats lie! They have to in order to make their case. What was seductive to them was that this young man and his sister were severely injured in an auto accident, and they didn’t have private insurance. “That’s all we needed. That’s all. Just smear the president. That’s all we needed. We don’t need any other details, because we know that our buddies in the mainstream media are not going to uncover the details, and, if they do uncover ’em, they’re not going to report ’em — and when they do get uncovered a couple weeks later, a day later, the story is already ours. We already own it.”
So the bottom line for me is: They can’t rely on truth to make their case for their cause.
As if to prove that last point, I left a response to the issue over at one of the more rabid socialist sites, Firedog Lake, pointing out most of this. And what do you know… rather than let such ideas be freely discussed, they removed the response. Now at least we have some idea of why the tenor of the comments section at most leftist sites is of such monotonic quality. They KNOW they can’t handle the truth, and they REMOVE it from sight, first chance they get.