Katrina Vanden Heuvel echos Ann Woolner's argument that the efforts to derail ObamaCare are political in nature.
Woolner was quoted:
“It’s about politics,” Woolner argues. “It’s so obviously about politics that most folks take that fact for granted. These cases are another way for Republicans to try to defeat a Democratic initiative and score points while doing it.”and Heuvel adds:
The frightening thing here is not that Republicans are so hell-bent on denying basic health care to fellow citizens. Rather, it’s that Woolner is able to write, matter-of-factly, that most people see the politicization of health care as something to take for granted.
Heuvel's surprise "that most people see the politicization of health care as something to take for granted," is odd considering that it is ObamaCare that inserts politics into heath-care. It is those who defend liberty that are attempting to remove the source of Heuvel's much lamented politicization.
And on the source of Heuvel's point, Woolner's argument that "these cases are another way for Republicans to try to defeat a Democratic initiative and score points while doing it," thus "it’s about politics," is an argument so far removed from reason that not only does Woolner ignore the source of the politicization of health-care...ObamaCare, but she ignores which way the political power flows when arguing for and against ObamaCare.
Those who argue in favor of ObamaCare argue for the consolidation of the power and influence of the health-care industry in the hands of the political elite, while those who oppose ObamaCare argue for the power of the health-care industry to remain in the private world of individual liberty. This argument to disperse the power of the health-care industry across the hundreds of millions of citizens who make up this country does not funnel power into the hands of the political elite and therefor these arguments are not political in nature. Arguments that funnel power toward the political elite are always political. Arguments that funnel power to the people and away from the elite are always based on liberty.
Woolner and Huevel are so far removed from reality as to not realize that they have become "The Man" (in 60's parlance), and as such, they now have in their corner not only the political elite they joined, but the renunciation of reason and liberty in a desire to grow "The Man"... currently known as ObamaCare.
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