Oh, wait…government won’t pay for private school…it’s the public school or nothing!

I would like to see a health care system that provides health care at the taxpayer’s expense, just like the public schools provide education, that does NOT outlaw private health care. Like public vs. private schools, one could choose the public health care with no out-of-pocket expense, or pay for private care outside the system. How long until the state of health care mirrored that of the public education vs. private school system? Is that, perhaps, why such public health care plans always outlaw private health care?

We’re still pretty excited around here about Baron Hill declaring that he would vote to override Bush’s veto on S-CHIP. I mean what self-respecting Democrat wouldn’t vote to override? Glad you asked. Now there are 4– 4 reactionary Bush Dogs: 2 tobacco industry whores from North Carolina (Bob Etheridge and Mike McIntyre), Gene Taylor from Mississippi and… the dependably execrable Jim Marshall from Macon, Georgia.

DWT readers have come to know ole Rep. Marshall as the absolute worst Democrat in the entire House of Representatives, especially on Iraq, on which he’s voted with Democrats exactly 15 times out of the 50 Iraq-related roll calls since he’s been in Congress. Some in South Georgia may admire his generally reactionary stands on issues. But when it comes to health care for sick, needy children… probably not– and certainly not Democrats. Gore won 47% of the vote in this district in 2000 and in 2004 Kerry took 10,000 more votes, although a slightly smaller percentage. The district is pretty Republican, but not prohibitively so. And now Marshall is getting what he’s earned: a primary.

I might add, that although the Insider Establishment always rallies round even their worst and most disgraceful members– just look at Nancy “Off the Table” Pelosi sucking up to corporate whore Al Wynn today– a couple of staffers from the DCCC called me, surreptitiously of course, and asked me to go after Jim Marshall. They really hate him. And yet… he’s still, inexplicably, on their Front Line page.

And they say this is not a coordinated campaign by the left with their faux rage, right I got all that.