I have to give it to Wolf Blitzer on this one. He managed to define Ron Paul, the Libertarian Party, the Tea Party and our new improved American Evangelical Christianity as the obscene scumbags they are.
This cheering was not only about how the NEW AND IMPROVED Republican Party feel about health care. Nor was it just a definition of how these obscene people feel about all entitlements: Let the sick die, the elderly fend for themselves, the poor starve, give the unemployed nothing but a bootstrap speech and give our educational system over to David Duke and Pat Robertson.
It was also the clearest sign we have had so far of the ugly and obscene character of the people in the Tea Party. Well, besides spitting on Black congressman anyway.
Yes OBSCENE, any of this sound familiar?
Taken as a whole does the Tea Party lack serious literary, artistic, political and scientific value?
Does the average person, applying contemporary community standards, find the Tea Party taken as a whole, appeal to the prurient interest?
Does it have any redeeming social value?
I know it when I see it!
Here is the transcript.
Blitzer: Let me ask you this hypothetical question. A healthy, 30-year-old man has a good job, makes a good living, but decides, "You know what, I’m not going to spend $200 or $300 a month for health insurance because I’m healthy, I don’t need it." Something terrible happens, all of a sudden he needs it. Who’s going to pay if he goes into a coma, for example?
Paul: In a society that you accept welfare-ism and socialism, he expects the government to take care of it.
Blitzer: Well, what do you want?
Paul: He should do whatever he wants to do, and assume responsibility for himself. My advice to him would be have a major medical policy. But not forced—
Blitzer: But he doesn’t have that. And he needs intensive care for six months. Who pays?
Paul: That’s what freedom is all about. Taking your own risks. This whole idea that you have to prepare to take care of everybody.
Blitzer: But congressman, are you saying that society should just let him die?
Crowd: [Yeah! Yeah! Laughs.]