Only from the mind of a liberal. Or what passes for it

Here's a copy of my letter to the editor published in the Rochester Post-Bulletin today, the original title of which was "Liberals Abuse, Misuse Children's Health Insurance Legislation."

A step toward socialized medicine

10/23/2007 7:49:57 AM

Letter writer Frank Hawthorne will be happy to know that, contrary to the misleading assertions of his recent letter to the editor, President Bush actually favors legislation offering health insurance to children who really need it.

However, the president opposes what has been appropriately dubbed "Hillarycare on the installment plan," Mr. Hawthorne's party's disingenuous attempt to socialize American health care on a gradual basis.

The Democratic Party has inflated the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) legislation by covering children who already have private health insurance and whose parents' income is three times above the poverty line, hence the presidential veto. Using CHIP as a stepping stone to undermine private insurance and build the kind of inefficient and expensive health care model that has been proven a failure in Canada and Great Britain defies common sense. Physicians and their patients, not politicians or government bureaucrats, should make health-care decisions.

The Democrats' Kennedyesque brand of intrusive liberalism has nothing to do with children's health coverage and everything to do with central government control of health-care delivery.

Mr. Hawthorne and his party have the right to promote and advance the tried-and-failed single-payer socialized medicine model as much as they please. However, it is intellectually dishonest to abuse and misuse the legitimate health insurance needs of truly needy children to do so.

Othelmo da Silva

Rochester

And here's Frank "Shaggy" Hawthorne's online comment:

Frank Hawthorne - 10/23/2007
Contrary to what Mr. da Silva thinks I think about George Bush, I don't doubt that the President (like Othelmo and many Republican friends) cares deeply for America's children. He/they just need to legislatively care as deeply for the born as they do for the unborn. Naturally, if we did have one of those "inefficient and expensive" [SEE current U.S.A. system, by the way] foreign-style single-payer systems which Othelmo carries on about, this argument would be unnecessary. --Frank Hawthorne

Only in a liberal's mind would a bloated federal program and the indiscriminate killing of unborn children come together in the same sentence. What is the morbid liberal fascination with and blind devotion to killing the most innocent and the most vulnerable among us?

Government should be about preserving our liberties, not limiting them. Liberals must be fought and defeated at every turn. Liberals are bullies. Every bully backs down when confronted forcefully and consistently. Charge!