Rove is a douche

Posted in response to this op-ed in the WSJ

Is Rove serious? Since when was putting more troops in Afganistan considered an anti-terror policy borrowed from George Bush? It is, in fact the opposite of Bush policy. Bush took troops *out* of Afghanistan to put the *in* to Iraq. Calling it a "surge" is semantic. Any troop deployment could be called a "surge" by that standard. His quote from the Washington Post is totally out of context. The full quote: ". It is difficult to imagine a truly level playing field that would simultaneously produce benefits from a government-run system. " the article goes on to say "Medicare keeps costs under control in part because of its 800-pound-gorilla capacity to dictate prices -- in effect, to force the private sector to subsidize it. Such power, if exercised in a public health option, eventually would produce a single-payer system; if that's where the country wants to go, it should do so explicitly, not by default. " I wouldn't call Medicare's negotiating power a "subsidy", since the private sector has the power to reject it's offers, but it is clear that the article does not dismiss public health care. I am not surprised that Rove is completely misleading in this article and I encourage others reading his editorials to challenge the "facts" he presents to support his case. I'm very disappointed in WSJ to continually have Rove editorials without sufficient editorials from an alternative viewpoint. Perhaps an editorial from John Stewart is in order.