It's interesting that abortion has come up, because I think it's a useful analogy to look at abortion issues in the health care debate.

Abortion...there will never be any agreement on it, because the two sides are not ever discussing the same thing...one side wants to shove their religious beliefs down the throats of everyone else, the other side wants everyone else to leave them alone to live their lives how they see fit...there's no "issue" to discuss.

As long as the RWWJ's are distracting themselves with anger over health care reform because people who shouldn't be "entitled" to it, they will never be able to rationally discuss the actual issue, which is how to make it more affordable for everyone.

If done properly, "entitled" or not shouldn't even be a question...the question is "what's cheaper and more reasonable?"...and when the irrelevant red herring of "illegals" comes up, it shows that just as with the birthers and deathers, the "illegals drum beaters" don't care about the economics of it, they just want to make sure that those dirty Mexicans don't get it, 'cuz they're "not entitled"...

There is a racial overtone to it, and it exists in an irrelevant context, one that has no connection to the question of whether or not a public option will increase competition, lower costs, and cover more people...the only questions that matter.

Fish on...

Todd